Villa Krehl

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The Villa Krehl in the Heidelberg district of Handschuhsheim is a stately building that was built in 1909 as the residence of Ludolf von Krehl and has been used in various ways since then. From 1989 to 2012 the villa was the German seat of the Schiller International University .

history

The villa on the corner of Bergstrasse and Hainsbachweg was built in 1909 according to plans by Friedrich Osterdorf for the internist Prof. Ludolf von Krehl (1861–1937) and his wife Elisabeth, who came from Russia. The couple lived a stately lifestyle. The Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden was one of the guests of the house , for whom a private petrol station was set up in the entrance hall. With the First World War , the Krehl owners got into economic difficulties, so that they moved into the garden house in 1919, while the main building came into the possession of the Protestant regional church, which built a student dormitory in it, which was named after the reigning Grand Duke Friedrichstift . The home was accommodation for evangelical students from abroad during their school days in Heidelberg. During the Second World War , the villa was expropriated and used by the Air Force as a world aviation institute. The installation of laboratories resulted in massive interventions in the building fabric. After the end of the war, the Americans confiscated the building and initially kept it free as a possible seat of government for the Middle Rhine-Saar region . After the establishment of the French occupation zone as far as the Rhine, the planned administrative purpose no longer existed, so that a ruling chamber was set up in the villa, which carried out the denazification in Heidelberg and the surrounding area. After completion of the arbitration chamber proceedings , the villa came back into the possession of the Protestant church, which maintained the Friedrichstift student dormitory there again before the monastery moved to Leimen and the villa came to the Schiller International University in 1989 , which had its German campus there until 2012. After a renovation in 2012, the European Study Center (ESC) and the language school iH Heidelberg / Collegium Palatinum moved into the building.

literature

  • Ernst Gund: Villa Krehl, a second Handschuhsheimer Schlößchen , in: District Association Handschuhsheim e. V. Yearbook 1995 , Heidelberg 1995, pp. 69-71.