Villa Leonhardi
The Villa Leonhardi is the reconstruction of a classicist garden villa built around 1806 that originally stood on the Bockenheim complex in Frankfurt am Main . The historic house was demolished in 1905 and reopened in 1988, largely true to the original and using some spoilage on the edge of the palm garden in Zeppelinallee in Frankfurt am Main. The Villa Leonhardi is a café and event location in the palm garden .
history
The Villa Leonhardi was built in 1806 as a garden villa by Johann Peter von Leonhardi (1747-1830), a Frankfurt banker, businessman, politician and Freemason . The Leonhardi family originally came from Waldeck. Johann Peter represented the second generation in Frankfurt. As a respected banker and councilor of the city, he was elevated to the status of baron by Emperor Leopold II , son of Empress Maria Theresa, in his last year of reign.
The architect was Nicolas Alexandre Salins de Montfort , who also built the Schönhof in Bockenheim . The first order that Salins received in Frankfurt in the early 1790s was from Johann Peter von Leonhardi: the construction of a residential and commercial building on the Zeil . The new garden villa was built on the previously leveled, former ramparts near the Eschenheimer Tor .
Johann Peter's son and business successor, Karl Ludwig, was considered less enterprising. As a result, the summer house was sold in 1825 and then operated as the Rosenbachischer Wirthsgarten . From then on, the family used a house in Groß-Karben , which they had acquired in 1790 , the Leonhard Castle . The Rosenbachische Wirthsgarten existed as a "place of entertainment for the better bourgeois society" until 1833 and in 1835 it became the property of the merchant WF Jäger.
From 1842 the building belonged to the banker Raphael Freiherr von Erlanger (1806–1878), who made numerous structural changes; including the addition of a large orangery . In 1905 the building in the Bockenheim facility was demolished. The portico with the sandstone pillared hall was rebuilt in 1912 as an entrance gate in the new building of the tennis club house in the palm garden, it is a listed building.
After the tennis courts had been relocated from the Palmengarten and the tennis club house was demolished, the City of Frankfurt decided in 1987 to rebuild Villa Leonhardi according to historical construction plans. The remaining components of the historic building were also used in the new building. The reconstruction of the copy cost the city 6.8 million Deutschmarks . In addition, there were 1.2 million Deutschmarks for the interior.
The villa is used as a café and event location.
See also
literature
- Heinz Schomann, Volker Rödel, Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main . Revised 2nd edition, limited special edition on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt am Main. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7973-0576-1 , p. 371
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (ed.): Portikus of the former Villa Leonhardi In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Individual evidence
- ^ Where Paris and Frankfurt met; in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 14, 1989, p. 43
- ↑ The second birth of a summer house; in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 29, 1989, p. 33
- ↑ Villa Leonhardi in the palm garden. In: www.facebook.com. Retrieved May 31, 2016 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '24.8 " N , 8 ° 39' 13.2" E