Villa Lucia (Bad Breisig)
The Villa Lucia in Bad Breisig , a spa town in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate , is a villa built in 1908/09 at Koblenzer Straße 55 ( Bundesstraße 9 ). The building with the associated coach house and park is a protected cultural monument .
In 1908/09 the villa was built for the Aachen cloth manufacturer Hugo Knops († 1920 in Aachen) according to the plans of the Cologne architect Franz Brantzky (1871-1945). Knops was married to Clemence Antoinette Lucy Talbot († 1943 in Niederbreisig), who also came from a wealthy entrepreneurial family. In addition to the villa, tennis courts, a pavilion , an orchard and a gardener's house were built on the 24,000 square meter site . The jetty on the Rhine and the greenhouses are no longer preserved today.
The villa, which was listed as a historical monument in 1981, is of great art historical importance. The building, assigned to Art Nouveau , consists of local tufa blocks .
literature
- Caro Schmitz-Avila: The Art Nouveau villa Lucia in Bad Breisig. In: Landkreis Ahrweiler (Ed.): Heimat-Jahrbuch Kreis Ahrweiler 2013. ( ISSN 0342-5827 ) Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 2012, pp. 108–111.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 19.5 ″ N , 7 ° 18 ′ 16.5 ″ E