Villa Kaehne
The Villa Kaehne in Halle (Saale) , Mühlweg 15, is an upper-class house built in 1902 according to designs by the architects Albert and Ernst Giese in the style of historicism and one of the most original villa buildings of the turn of the century in the city. The villa is listed in the register of monuments of the city of Halle under registration number 094 04885.
location
The villa stands on a plot of land on the corner of Mühlweg and Karl-Liebknecht-Straße and belongs to the Giebichenstein district . The Mühlweg, which runs from east to west, was used as an access route to the stone mill in medieval times . While the eastern part is characterized by apartment buildings in perimeter block development, the western part was built on in the last third of the 19th century with spacious villas and apartment buildings, surrounded by enclosed gardens. The south facade of the villa borders on the Mühlweg; the east facade at the time of construction on Wettiner Strasse, renamed Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse after 1945.
Building history
Since the development of the Mühlweg was largely completed at the end of the 19th century, old houses had to give way for new buildings. This also applied to the villa that the city councilor and historiographer Carl Hugo Freiherr vom Hagen had built in the Italian Renaissance style around 1871. The lawyer, judiciary and notary Dr. jur. Hermann Kaehne bought this property and had the previous building demolished in June / July 1901.
This gave Hermann Kaehne a plot of land of around 1300 m² for his newly built house. Kaehne won the architecture office of the Giese brothers, who had proven themselves as a villa and department store specialist, for his building project. They planned a building with a floor area of 470 m², which was to stand gable to gable with the house to the west.
On September 20, 1901, the building application was approved. Two months later, the building shell was accepted and the final acceptance took place on July 27, 1902.
Building description
The three- to four-story corner building, dominating the street, rises like a small medieval castle on the property. It was made of solid construction, consisting of a granite base and rising masonry made of yellow clinker bricks . Originally, the design was planned to be simpler, such as the design of the gables in half-timbered houses . Today there is only a half-timbered fragment above the main portal.
In addition to features of regional Renaissance architecture , the building is also determined by the styles of neo-Gothic and brick Gothic . As with Villa Hoffmann , the tracery design of the large impressive gables, staggered one behind the other and one above the other, takes up the late Gothic shapes of the south facade of the lower castle Giebichenstein . With these staggered gables, varied bay windows and tower ends, Villa Kaehne shows the most impressive roof landscape among the Halle villas and is considered a masterpiece of “picturesque” building mass composition.
The high tower, crowned with a pointed helmet, forms the urban counterpart to the bell tower of the nearby neo-Gothic St. Stephen's Church . The entrance portal with seating niches on both sides under shells is located on the far left side of the south facade on Mühlweg. On the northwest corner, the villa has a small utility cellar with a basement above it in the basement .
Three halls on the mezzanine floor meet the upper-class need for representation and the social obligations of the freelance owner, whose style of living was in no way inferior to that of the bankers and manufacturers.
Due to the varied history of use, not much of the interior has been preserved. Only the main oak staircase, the door and window frames and the marble entrance staircase are still there.
Further development
Hermann Kaehne died in 1913; five years later his heirs converted the attic into new apartments. In July 1919 the new drainage system was built . In 1925 the villa and the caretaker were occupied by five tenants. The well-known architect Martin Knauthe was named as the tenant for the years 1920 to 1926 .
The innkeeper Emil Naumann, who had been running the main train station's gastronomy since 1900, bought the villa in 1926. Naumann died in 1933 and his heirs took over the property. There were further extensions and conversions, such as the construction of a garage in 1926, the conversion of the heating in 1935 and the expansion of the roof in 1938.
From 1945 to 1967 it was leased as a guest house by the heirs : initially to the state government; after dissolution of the federal states in 1952 to the council of the Halle district . During this time guests like Walter Ulbricht or Nikita Khrushchev were also accommodated.
In May 1967 the district council ceded the villa to the university as a tenant . The estimated value was given by the German Central Bank at 223,695.51 marks . The then sole heiress Elsa Martha Naumann finally sold the property to the university on December 14, 1973 for 128,000 GDR marks .
Today the villa, which was extensively renovated between 1999 and 2001, houses the University's Oriental Institute and the library of the German Oriental Society (DMG) .
literature
- André dealer: Villa Kaehne. In: Dieter Dolgner (Ed.): Historic villas in the city of Halle / Saale. Friends of Building and Art Monuments Saxony-Anhalt eV, Halle (Saale) 1998, ISBN 3-931919-04-8 , pp. 91–98.
- Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 , p. 117.
- Hendrik Leonhardt: Hall. (= Country houses and villas in Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 1) Aschenbeck Verlag, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3939401766 , pp. 50–51.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt / City of Halle. Fly Head Publishing, Halle 1996, ISBN 3-910147-62-3 . Pp. 334/335.
- ^ Address book for Halle ad S. and the surrounding area. Editions 1906–1926, digital copies at the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt, 2012.
- ↑ Halle address book. Issues 1946/47, 1950, digital copies at the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt 2013.
- ^ Working group downtown eV. Halle (Saale): Hallesche Blätter, March 2002: Renovation of university buildings in downtown Halle . Retrieved May 4, 2020.
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 37.8 " N , 11 ° 57 ′ 49.3" E