Villa Korff

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Villa Korff

The Villa Korff is located in Bremen , Schwachhausen district, Bürgerpark district, Parkallee 79/81 at the corner of Wachmannstraße , directly on Am Stern . The house was built in 1903 based on plans by Friedrich Wellermann and Paul Frölich and garden architect Christian Roselius . It has been a listed building in Bremen since 1981 .

history

Parkallee was expanded in 1890. There are many listed buildings in the street (No. 30, 32, 39, 48, 107, 117, 133).

The two-storey, plastered, large villa with a basement, pitched roofs , four gables, one of which has a differentiated corner design, the veranda and an octagonal bay window, was built in 1903 at the turn of the century in the Neo-Renaissance style for the petroleum merchant Wilhelm August Korff (1845-1914 ) built.
The Korff family also lived in their summer residence, the Villa Agathe in Oslebshauser Park (formerly Korffs Park or Korff's Holz ).

The architects Wellermann and Frölich in Schwachhausen u. a. Villa Hoffmann, Villa Overbeck , Haus Lassmann , Villa Otto , Villa Pavenstedt .

The Bremen Regional Labor Court was located in the villa for a long time . In 2009 the house was extensively renovated.

Today (2018) the house is used by apartments, offices, a day care center and a housing project of the Buddhist Center Bremen.

literature

  • Ralf Habben: Hundred Years of Parkviertel , Bremen 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  2. ^ Anne Gerling: The summer residence of the petroleum king . In: Weser-Kurier from August 28, 2014.

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 34.5 ″  E