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The Villa Jahr is a villa in the north of the Gera district of Heinrichsgrün , near the left bank of the White Elster .
history
The villa was built between 1905 and 1907 in the historicism style for the Gera industrialist Moritz Rudolf Jahr, son and heir of the mechanical engineering entrepreneur Ernst Moritz Jahr (1816–1899), by the Gera architect Rudolf Schmidt .
In 1945 the Jahr family was expropriated. The villa was initially used as the apartment of the Soviet city commandant, later as a children's home and as a boarding school for the current Goethe-Gymnasium .
Federal Garden Show 2007
For the 2007 Federal Horticultural Show , the Villa Jahr was located within the Hofwiesenpark exhibition area . It was connected to the actual park by a newly built pedestrian bridge, the Textimasteg . The park belonging to the villa, designed in the style of an English landscape garden, served as an exhibition space on the theme of grave design , the villa itself was renovated and was used as an exhibition building for the Association of German Cemetery Gardeners.
literature
- Sabine Schellenberg, Ulla Dittmann, Susanne Spindler u. a .: Villa year , in: Villas and villa gardens in Gera. published by the Lower Monument Protection Authority Gera, 1999
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Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 37.7 ″ N , 12 ° 4 ′ 4 ″ E