Villa Lauser
| Villa Lauser | |
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 Villa Lauser, view from Lieblstrasse |
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| place | Lieblstrasse 2, Regensburg |
| builder | Joseph Sorg |
| Client | Georg Friedrich von Dittmer |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| Construction year | 1795 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 1 '24.7 " N , 12 ° 5' 29.1" E |
The building known today as Villa Lauser , the former Dittmer'scher Garden Palace, is a garden villa on the Danube island of Oberer Wöhrd in Regensburg ( Bavaria ), commissioned by Georg Friedrich von Dittmer at the end of the 18th century and built according to plans by the architect Joseph Sorg .
Location and surroundings
The villa with today's address Lieblstraße 2 was built in 1795 on the large western Danube Island, the Oberer Wöhrd . Building sites on the Danube Island were very popular, because nature and proximity to the city could be brought into harmony there. For the banker and very wealthy merchant Georg Friedrich von Dittmer , this location was a main reason for setting up a second home there. In addition, the villa was only a short carriage ride over the Stone Bridge from his house on Haidplatz , which he built in 1785 and which he had expanded into today's Thon-Dittmer-Palais by 1809 . The villa should also be suitable for organizing lush garden parties close to nature.
The location was particularly attractive for garden parties because a small Danube island lies in front of the villa in the north, which is only separated from the Upper Wöhrd by a narrow ditch. Dittmer had this island and its surroundings transformed into a tree-lined English landscape garden, where idyllic views of the northern arm of the Danube and the bank development were possible from a balustrade. At the garden festivals, guests were able to glide out on the northern arm of the Danube in gondolas based on the Venetian model.
In the west of the small Danube Island there was a romantic garden pavilion in the shape of an octagon. The interior was decorated with chinoiserie popular at the time and offered space for a small company. The pavilion, which fell into disrepair in 1955, was probably removed in the 1960s. A pagoda-like wooden structure at the eastern end of the small island has been preserved.
Building history
Sources of the construction of the villa are not known. According to an inscription on the north plinth of the building, the spacious and comfortable garden palace was built between 1795 and 1797, when the builder Georg Friedrich von Dittmer had reached the height of his economic success. The first setbacks in his business did not begin until 1798. The Regensburg master builder and later royal building director Joseph Sorg was hired as the architect. After its completion, the early Classicist villa often served its owner, who was single after the death of his wife († 1788), as a place for lavish parties. After he was raised to the nobility in 1781, Dittmer wanted to use the building and a self-confident lifestyle to demonstrate that he could find recognition in the world of the aristocracy even with a bourgeois background. After Dittmer withdrew from the trading company he had founded in 1803 in favor of his two sons-in-law, he could well imagine living in Regensburg as a private citizen only in his garden palace.
In 1830 the property passed into the possession of the Princely Higher Justice Councilor Johann Baptist Liebl. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Dittmer'sche Gartenpalais came into the possession of the Lauser family, from whom the current name of the villa comes. At this time, the first renovation work was carried out, with some of Joseph Zacharias' pictures being painted over.
The renovation work in the 1970s saved the villa from impending deterioration. Concrete foundations were used as part of the maintenance work. The oak piles from the 18th century had become unstable as a result of repeated Danube floods. The roof of the villa was also renewed. The paintings in the ballroom and stairwell that were applied at the beginning of the 20th century were removed and the paintings underneath were restored to their original state. In the 1980s, the remaining Chinese pavilion was secured by emergency scaffolding and then restored. The villa, which has been privately owned again since 2002, is not open to the public.
architecture
The elongated, elegant-looking villa, built in the style of early classicism , consists of a three-story central building with a triangular gable, with five window axes and two two-story side wings, each with six window axes. The characteristic of the basement is its low height; it served as a functional floor. The square central building with vestibule and representative, double-barreled, sweeping staircase faces south towards the street. A rear exit to the north leads to the English landscape garden.
In the eastern side wing, the large ballroom extends over the entire floor area on the first floor. The western wing contains living quarters and servants' rooms. The original classicist tiled stoves and the ceiling pictures designed by the painter Joseph Zacharias based on models from Greek mythology and partly with Masonic motifs, as well as the four life-size wooden figures from Greek mythology in the oval vestibule of the central building are striking .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Beate Reinhold: The dittmer'sche garden palace. In: Preservation of monuments in Regensburg. 7, Regensburg 2000, pp. 58f, 60, 68.
- ^ A b Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 457-460 .
- ↑ a b Werner Chrobak: The Thon Dittmer-Palais . In: City of Regensburg, Kulturreferat (Hrsg.): Kulturführer . tape 25 . City of Regensburg, Regensburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-943222-55-5 , p. 46 ff .
- ^ Richard Strobel: Old town renovation and community house research. In: Richard Strobel (Ed.): Regensburg The old town as a monument, old town renovation, urban design, monument preservation. Munich 1978, p. 61.
- ↑ Hubert Bauch: "Classic" preservation of monuments over the last 15 years. In: Richard Strobel (Ed.): Regensburg The old town as a monument, old town renovation, urban design, monument preservation. Munich 1978, p. 128.