Villa Kollmann
The Villa Kollmann is located in the incoherently built-up part of Elisabethstrasse in the Geidorf district of Graz and is at number 61. It was built under master builder Eduard Ertl and master mason Josef Hönigmann in the years 1886–1887.
description
The villa is a representative, two-storey, free-standing, five-axis, late historical villa with a mansard roof , side risers , balcony, terrace and richly structured, neo-baroque facade, which includes two apartments. The facade has grooves over both floors. The front of the house, which is oriented towards Elisabethstrasse, is structured by side elevations framed by pilaster strips . The first floor is accentuated by the window frame with blown segment gables, stucco vases and blind balustrades on the risalits and the balcony on stuccoed consoles as piano nobile .
The surrounding park is u. a. adorned by a fountain and swimming pool statue by the sculptor Wilhelm Gösser .
meaning
The initials "K / K" are on both wings of the entrance door. These initials mean "Kollmann" because the builder Katharina Markbreiter was called Kollmann by birth and was the half-sister of Bernhard Kollmann, the first horse-tramway operator in Graz.
Bernhard Kollmann (born October 10, 1833 Temesvár , died January 26, 1885 Vienna ), director of the Prager Tramway and owner of the Brno Tramway, signed a contract with the City of Graz on February 25, 1878 for the construction and operation of a horse-drawn tramway which he operated until his death. The unmarried and childless Bernhard Kollmann bequeathed his then 71-year-old widowed mother Regina Kollmann and his then 58-year-old half-sister Katharina Markbreiter, who was married to the director of the Graz Tramway , Jakob Markbreiter, as heirs, who was then 71 years old and incapacitated for old age .
Katharina Markbreiter decreed that this villa should be called “Villa Kollmann” forever in memory of her brother, Bernhard Kollmann.
timeline
After the builder died, the villa was inherited in 1909 to Armin Kollmann, acquired in 1916 by a foreclosure auction by Alfred Pick, sold to Hans Stolzer in 1930, bought back by Alfred Pick in 1931 for breach of contract, expropriated by the Nazi regime in 1939 and expropriated by the Reich Forestry Administration for Styria used as a law firm, returned to the heirs of Alfred Pick by the Restitution Commission in 1949 , sold to Stefan Greif in 1951 and finally given away to his daughter in 1982.
literature
- Hans Sternhart: Tram in Graz . Slezak, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-900134-54-5 .
- Herbert Wöber: The Graz horse tramway 1878–1899 . Self-published, Vienna 1978.
- Karl Albrecht Kubinzky : Graz street names - origin and meaning . Leykam, Graz 1998, ISBN 3-7011-7382-6 .
- Walter Brunner : History of the City of Graz . Self-published by the City of Graz, Graz 2003, ISBN 3-902234-02-4 (4 volumes).
- Horst Schweigert: Dehio - Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 .
- Address books of the city of Graz - years: 1882; 1890; 1901; 1910; 1915; 1920; 1930; 1942; 1949/50; 1960; 1971 .
- Karl A. Kubinzky; Rudolf Watzinger; Herbert Wöber: 130 years of trams in Graz . Grazer Stadtwerke AG / Verkehrsbetriebe, Graz 2008.
- Bundesdenkmalamt Vienna: Austrian art topography . Volume LX The art monuments of the city of Graz - The profane buildings II., III. and VI. District . Berger, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85028-603-9 .
Web links
- Elisabethstraße 61. AGIS Old Town Graz information system
- Article about Villa Kollmann (PDF; 10.7 MB) Journal of the Grazer Tramway Museum , issue 63, pp. 24–29
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 36 ″ N , 15 ° 27 ′ 25 ″ E