Villa Korn
The Villa Korn is a listed building at Talstrasse 49 in Saarbrücken .
history
The builder of the villa was the merchant Wilhelm Korn (1838–1898). As early as 1860, Korn had parts of the factory premises in Talstrasse redesigned. In 1880, Korn applied for the demolition of the office building called “Comptoir” and had a villa built in the “Roman style”. In 1908 his widow Sophie Korn had the house redesigned by the architect Hans Peter Weszkalnys . At the end of the First World War , she finally sold the property, which has since been used as an administration building. In 1923 the villa was rebuilt again. In 1930 the building was expanded to include a mezzanine floor.
Today the villa with the neighboring buildings is an official seat of the Saarland Ministry of the Interior and Sport.
architecture
The two-storey villa with a gable roof and mezzanine was built in the Italian Neo-Renaissance style. While the front part of the house is covered with a flat roof, the rear part has a hipped roof. The street side has four axes and is very varied. Each storey of the facade has its own design. About the narrow base rises rusticated ground floor with three segmental arched windows with Hood Mold . The windows close above with a console frieze that extends into the door portal and below with a window cornice. All windows in the building are framed with yellowish sandstone. The wall is covered between the window parapets with two rectangular red sandstone slabs. The end of the ground floor is formed by a narrow, profiled cornice followed by an architrave with triglyphs , which in turn supports a projecting cornice.
The entrance portal is lavishly designed. The southernmost window axis is formed by the entrance door on the ground floor, above which a segmental arch emblazoned with a keystone. The door is framed by two Tuscan columns with fluting on pedestals . The first floor has four windows, the framing of which corresponds to that of the entrance door. Below the windows, a continuous window cornice runs through the facade, above a cantilevered roof closes off the windows. A mezzanine floor with four rectangular windows with a profiled sandstone frame follows over a final cornice. The bottom of the window is formed by a continuous window cornice with two brackets each below the window. A frieze consisting of two rectangular and one square cassette fields runs underneath . The storey is closed with an eaves cornice.
While the front of the building is flush with the adjacent buildings, the back protrudes from the row of houses. The five-axis garden side of the building rises on a narrow base. The ground floor is framed by rusticated corner pilasters and closed off by an architrave and a cornice. The segmented arched windows are separated from each other by rusticated Tuscan columns. A window cornice forms the bottom of the window. While the window parapets are made of red sandstone, the areas between the parapets are decorated with yellow sandstone slabs. The wall surfaces between the windows are also broken up by two yellow sandstone slabs, which continue as a decorative ribbon on the south side of the building. The first floor is completed by an architrave made of yellow sandstone, a red sandstone frieze and a cantilevered yellow sandstone cornice.
The mezzanine floor is illuminated through five narrow windows. These are decorated with a wide yellow sandstone frame, which runs as a meandering band down to the cornice and then parallel to it to the next window, where it rises again to this. A protruding eaves cornice forms the end of the roof.
The interior of the house reflects the wealth of its former residents. The rooms are equipped with elaborate wall and ceiling paneling. In the hallway on the first floor there is an ancient statue in a wall niche. A small reception room leads to the large entrance hall. A skylight illuminates the hall in which a large staircase leads to the first floor. On the street side there is another room next to the reception room, which originally served as a sewing room. Towards the garden, an office and two utility rooms are connected to the hall, of which the middle one forms the access to an open columned hall, which is in front of the rooms to the garden and was previously open to the garden. On the first floor there is a salon and the representative “leather room”, which got its name from the leather wallpaper . On the garden side there is a large dance hall and a dining room, which are separated by two sliding doors.
To get to the mezzanine floor, you have to use the stairwell in the neighboring house at Talstrasse 51. Here there are guest rooms and a dry storage facility. A small staircase leads from the guest rooms to the roof terrace, which is protected by a sandstone balustrade and on which there was originally a small roof house. In the basement there is a Roman bath next to the storage rooms and the heating system.
The garden of the house once had its own children's playground and a hill that probably served as a lookout point. Instead of the garden there is now a car park for the Ministry of the Interior.
literature
- Anton Korn, Peter Werth: Family history Korn. The Saarbrücker Familienzweig (= Working Group for Saarland Family Studies: Communications of the Working Group for Saarland Family Studies eV special volume. 48). Working Group for Saarland Family Studies , Saarbrücken 2004, ISBN 3-931519-40-6 .
- Miriam Bilke-Perkams: Saarland entrepreneur villas between 1830 and 1914. With special consideration of the region of the Saar coal forest. Universaar, Saarbrücken 2014, ISBN 978-3-86223-115-7 , pp. 126–129, (also: Saarbrücken, University, dissertation, 2012).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Saarbrücken sub-monument list ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , List of monuments of the Saarland, Landesdenkmalamt Saar, p. 28 (PDF)
- ↑ Miriam Bilke-Perkams: Saarländische Unternehmervillen between 1830 and 1914. 2014, p. 160 f.
- ↑ Miriam Bilke-Perkams: Saarländische Unternehmervillen between 1830 and 1914. 2014, p. 128 f.
- ↑ Miriam Bilke-Perkams: Saarländische Unternehmervillen between 1830 and 1914. 2014, p. 115.
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 34.2 " N , 6 ° 59 ′ 56.6" E