Villa Körbling
The Villa Körbling is an upper-class residential building in Speyer , Bahnhofstrasse 15, which was built between 1910 and 1911 and is a listed building. The Speyer ophthalmologist Eberhard Körbling and his wife Anna Körbling had the villa built according to plans by the Landau architect Karl Barth .
description
Villa Körbling is characterized by the arched, closed dormer windows , the semicircular protruding bay window on the facade facing Bahnhofstrasse on the ground floor and the segmented gable emphasizing the middle group of windows on the upper floor . The wall surfaces are structured by wavy vertical strips with an ornament made of pearl strings. The art historian Clemens Jöckle describes the entrance door on Untere Langgasse : “Twin columns with pearl decor frame the simple, arched opening, above which an architrave rests over a short piece of entablature . Above that, without any additional framework architecture, there is an oval over port , which surrounds a festoon-like ornament. It thickens into fruit ears at the ends. This element is a typical decorative ornament of the architect and can also be found in other buildings in his oeuvre. ”Jöckle assigns the Villa Körbling stylistically to the Neo-Baroque . However, this assessment is contradicted by Martin Körbling, the client's grandson - the Villa Körbling is rather an Art Nouveau building .
Usage history
The builder's four children, two daughters and two sons, grew up in this villa. The son Richard Körbling practiced in the villa as a specialist in laboratory medicine until 1987. Most recently, one of the client's two daughters lived in the house until the 1980s and the other son, Pastor Eberhard Körbling, almost 30 years after he retired in 1981 shortly before his death on October 21, 2010.
Redevelopment and conversion
In 2011 the Volksbank Kur- und Rheinpfalz acquired the building. After a renovation in line with the historic monuments , for which numerous original parts were restored or reconstructed in detail (for example the wooden doors on the ground floor, which were replaced by replicas that were true to the original for fire protection reasons), Villa Körbling was reopened in September 2015. The Private Banking / Wealth Management division of Volksbank Kur- und Rheinpfalz has been located there ever since. There are four meeting rooms on the first floor, offices and a conference room on the three floors above.
Trivia
The Villa Körbling has a prominent counterpart in Munich's Bogenhausen district : the villa of the writer Thomas Mann was built there by the Munich architects Alois Ludwig and Gustav Ludwig from 1913–1914 . The building, which is similar in many design elements, was demolished in 1952 due to war damage, but has now been rebuilt almost identically.
literature
- Clemens Jöckle: District capital Speyer. Buildings from the Bavarian past. (Ed. by the historical association, Speyer district group) Pilger-Druckerei, Speyer 1984, DNB 850009715 ISSN 0175-6583 ; Chapter: 62. The “Landhaus Körbling” in Bahnhofstrasse , pp. 119–121.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Clemens Jöckle: district capital Speyer. Buildings from the Bavarian past. (Ed. by the historical association, Speyer district group) Pilger-Druckerei GmbH, Speyer 1984, DNB 850009715 ISSN 0175-6583 ; Chapter: 62. The “Landhaus Körbling” in Bahnhofstrasse , pp. 119–121.
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Kauer, RHEINPFALZ, No. 67 (March 20, 2015), counterpart in Munich's posh district. The Villa Körbling is a representative part of the Volksbank building ensemble.
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 7.6 " N , 8 ° 25 ′ 51.4" E