Villa Lien
The Villa Lien is a listed villa in Bad König . It was built from 1896 to 1900 for the manufacturer Georg Lien and is now used as a health clinic.
history
The villa was built from 1896 to 1900 according to plans by Arthur Wienkoop for the manufacturer Georg Lien. Lien came from an old Mümling-Grumbach miller family and was the founder of the hoe factory in the former Morasch mill in Etzen-Gesäß . Tombs of the Lien family have been preserved in the Bad König cemetery.
The building has recently been converted into a health clinic, although the original interior has been lost.
description
The plastered building , which is dimensioned for a large city, has structure and decor made of sandstone . At the left corner of the building there is a castle-like corner tower with a half-timbered structure, in front of which a risalit crowned by a tail gable protrudes from the facade. The right end is a polygonal corner tower with a Welscher hood . In front is a porch with a resulting from the balcony of the risalit Altan . The southwest gable side has another tail gable. The park-like garden and the enclosure with a neo-baroque entrance gate date from the construction period. The villa is an outstanding example of representative historicist architecture in the Odenwald.
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Odenwaldkreis. ( Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse ). Wiesbaden 1998, pp. 60-62.
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Villa Lien In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 41.7 ″ N , 9 ° 0 ′ 15.9 ″ E