Villa Kahn (Stuttgart)
The Villa Kahn is a residential building in the Feuerbacher Heide 56, a street in the north of Stuttgart , located on the Killesberg .
The under monument protection standing two-storey villa was 1922/1923 from 1918 as professor appointed (Professor) at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart architect Paul Schmitthenner serving as an important representative of the Stuttgart School applies for the Jewish banker Richard Kahn built. Although the Kahn family sold the house again in 1934, it still bears the name in their memory to this day.
With its three wings arranged at right angles to one another, the building surrounds a small court of honor reminiscent of the baroque palace , which is closed off on the street side by a half-height wall with a gate. An axially laid out path leads to the centrally located house entrance. The (additional) fencing of the property today by means of a half-height hedge with a second gate emphasizes the delimitation of the house from the public street space. All three wings of the building have a high hipped roof , typical of Schmitthenner's work , which is set off from the brightly plastered masonry by a strong cornice . The lower depth of the side wings results in a lower ridge height of these roof sections.
On the garden side, the facade of which is framed by strong, rounded corner cuboids on both building edges, two symmetrically arranged stairs lead down from a wide terrace at the level of the ground floor to a lower meadow terrace.
To the side of the house are walled courtyards, on the northeast side a " chauffeur yard " and a "breakfast yard", on the southwest side a "kitchen yard".
Overall, the building appears simple and calm. In addition to historicizing forms, some expressionistically influenced details can also be recognized. This includes delicate wrought iron work as bars on the windows, parapets and railings, on the garden gate and as outdoor lights. The pointed arches in the entrance hall and the stucco ceilings, reminiscent of net vaults, which originally adorned the garden hall and the cabinet in the north wing, clearly demonstrate the resumption of Gothic forms in Expressionism.
The building owes its maintenance of substance over the decades to its utility value and the high quality standards set for the house.
During the Nazi era, the property changed hands several times. After the war ended in 1945, it served as the residence of the US site commander. In the 1950s, it returned to private ownership. Since multiple changes of ownership continued, the building was adapted to the respective requirements of the owners. From the end of 2006, the villa was extensively renovated by the Stuttgart architect Sandro Graf von Einsiedel.
In 2008, the client Wilhelm Rall was awarded the Baden-Württemberg State Monument Protection Prize for the renovation.
In 1925/1926 Schmitthenner built the Villa Zerweck , also under monument protection , at Feuerbacher Heide 67 on the same street .
literature
- Werner Skrentny, Rolf Schwenker, Sybille Weitz, Ulrich Weitz: Stuttgart on foot. 4th edition, Silberburg-Verlag , Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-87407-813-9 .
- Christine Breig: The construction of villas and country houses in Stuttgart 1830–1930. Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-89850-964-8 , pp. 142f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ (1922) -Villa Kahn in Stuttgart on: baufachinformation.de
- ^ The winners of the 2008 Monument Protection Prize [1]
Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 27 ″ N , 9 ° 9 ′ 24 ″ E