Villa Ilgen

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Villa Ilgen

The Villa Ilgen , formerly Villa Tusculum , is a building on Loschwitzer Straße  37 in the Dresden district of Blasewitz . The villa and the adjoining garden are under monument protection.

history

Memorial plaque on the outside wall of the property

Villa Ilgen was built from 1890 to 1891 according to plans by the architect Martin Pietzsch for the lieutenant and later officer Neumann on Residenzstrasse, today's Loschwitzer Strasse. The owner soon got into debt and took out several mortgages on the house he called Tusculum , which the pharmacist Hermann Ilgen finally bought in 1899 . Ilgen had made his fortune in the 1880s through the production of mouse poison in his pharmacy at Kötzschenbroda and had numerous buildings built in Dresden since the 1890s, such as the Imperial Palace and the Ilgen-Kampfbahn stadium, which was later named after him, at the Great Garden . He had the interior of the neoclassical villa rebuilt several times and preferred to use the building as a retirement home in later years. As early as the 1930s he kept his coffin in the villa and partially converted the building into a museum. Ilgen died in the villa that today bears his name.

After the end of the Second World War , the villa became the headquarters of a construction company before it was returned to the Ilgen heirs in 1991. Renovated in the 1990s, it is now the headquarters of the Hermann Ilgen Foundation . Since 2007 a plaque on the outer wall has been commemorating the former resident of Ilgen.

Building description

Prellerstrasse gable

The Villa Ilgen "is one of the most splendid Blasewitz villas". It is laid out on one floor and has a neoclassical design on the outside . The seven-axis main front facing Loschwitzer Strasse is modeled on a Greek temple with Corinthian columns in the form of a vestibule ; a large flight of stairs leads into the garden. The five-axis facade facing Prellerstraße is also provided with columns, but designed in the form of a veranda.

Above the front facing Loschwitzer Strasse is a large gable field with depictions of Demeter and Merkur , the gable facing Prellerstrasse shows, among other things, a depiction of Saxonia's secular patroness .

The interior was redesigned several times under Ilgen and has largely been preserved to this day. The design shows both neo-baroque and art nouveau features . The entrance hall was laid out in the form of an atrium with a skylight, to which the other rooms are connected.

literature

  • Hermann Ilgen . In: AR Lux, Dieter Prskawetz: Blasewitz in the historic Elbbogen . B-Edition, Dresden 1994, pp. 198-201.
  • Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1997, p. 160.
  • Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Dresden. Updated edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, pp. 148–149.

Web links

Commons : Villa Ilgen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cultural monument: Villa "Ilgen" with garden, back building and enclosure (Loschwitzer Straße 37)
  2. ↑ Some sources give Richard Uebe as an architect. According to Martin Pietzsch's biography, he did not work independently in Blasewitz until 1895.
  3. ↑ AR Lux, Dieter Prskawetz: Blasewitz in the historic Elbbogen . B-Edition, Dresden 1994, p. 200.
  4. ^ Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments. Dresden . Updated edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2005, p. 148.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 11.4 "  N , 13 ° 47 ′ 58.6"  E