Villa Lynen
The Villa Lynen is a building in Stolberg (Rhld.) , Aachen city region . It was designed between 1911 and 1913 by the architect Carl Wilhelm Schleicher and built for the industrialist Robert Lynen . The Lynen family belonged to an old Stolberg copper master family and used the building for prestigious events.
history
After Robert Lynen's death in 1922, the building was owned by his son Oskar Lynen, managing director and partner of Stolberger Metallwerke , who bequeathed it to the city of Stolberg in 1943. This first used it as a police station, later the city library was housed there. Today the villa is the seat of the "Office for School, Culture, Sport and Tourism" and the equal opportunities officer of the copper city of Stolberg as well as the city marketing and the Turkish middle class association "SIDE".
architecture
General
It is a richly structured villa made of shell limestone with a copper-covered mansard roof and dormer windows, the architectural style of which corresponds to Art Nouveau - classicism with restrained decorative forms. The representative purpose is emphasized by a spacious staircase and reception room as well as by stuccoing , mosaic floors , remarkable Art Nouveau windows and a fountain in the park.
Layout
The house is accessed via the entrance on the side and leads to an anteroom and a vestibule . A glass wall that still exists today divides it into two areas. The front part gave access to the kitchen, a side kitchen and the cloakroom. The rear part led to a master, reception and dining room. This led to the winter garden .
On the side opposite the master bedroom, the architect Carl Wilhelm Schleicher created the staircase, which provided access to the bedroom and bathroom on the upper floor. Both rooms were oriented to the street side. On the right side there was another bedroom and the living room. A guest room was planned above the kitchen and a cupboard room above the side kitchen.
The mansard area was only used as a utility room.
House facade
The facade of Villa Lynen has almost no ornamental decoration. Most of this side of the building is characterized by a corner risalit . There are three individual windows on the first floor and three on the upper floor, with those on the upper floor interrupted by narrow Doric pillars . A simple cornice closes off towards the roof, another is at the bottom of the windows on the upper floor. As a result, Carl Wilhelm Schleicher succeeded in structuring and loosening up the façade, which was characterized by the risalit.
The middle double window on the upper floor has a richly structured balcony and is emphasized by a coat of arms. This characterizes the floor as a representative bel étage with ennoblement in the manner of a balcony. The facade area outside the risalit has only one window per floor, the design of which corresponds to the windows in the risalit.
The mansard roof over the risalit has three dormers . While the two outer ones only have a single window, the middle one contains a triple window with a segmented gable. All other dormers received a roof in the form of a dirty corner gable.
Left side front
This side of the house is characterized by several risalits. A narrow but less deep second risalit borders a corner risalit on the left side of the house. It contains the stairwell that was intended for the servants. A third risalit, through which the main entrance of the house leads, differs in structure from the others. It does not reach the roof like the other two building elements, but has a balcony at the level of the upper floor. Only in the last fifth of the left side front can the facade of the house front belonging to the main body be recognized.
Right side front
The part of this side facade facing the street has no windows. Only the following risalit has three windows on the first and second floors, one on each narrow side and another large rectangular window on the broad side. The windows of the individual levels differ. The rectangular window on the ground floor takes up almost the entire width of the risalit. At the top it is closed by a cornice. In addition, its central part has a small triangular gable. On the upper floor there is a triple window between the two windows attached to the narrow side of the risalit.
A balcony rests on the risalit, which can be accessed through the attic windowless on this side.
A small oriel in the shape of a hexagon decorates the facade surface of the ground floor of this side front.
Garden side
The garden side of Villa Lynen is characterized by several striking structural elements. This includes the winter garden, which is located on the left side of the house. It rests on nine Doric columns and at the same time creates the basis for a balcony, which was laid out on its flat roof . Access is through the middle opening of a triplet window that extends to the floor. The architect laid out a terrace to the right of the winter garden. It is accessible from the garden via an outside staircase .
Three cornices structure a niche created by the façade that is set back next to the terrace. A round arch framed by an archivolt closes the niche at the top. A large glass window with floral motifs fills the arch. A door that provides access to the garden and a small window by Carl Wilhelm Schleicher were installed directly next to the arch. A small risalit adjoins these two elements, which extends up to the level of the upper floor and ends just before the edge of the side front. On top of it rests another small balcony, which is accessible through double windows reaching down to the floor.
Above the left terrace, above the arch as well as the door to the garden and the small balcony, there are alternating single and triple windows with triangular gables in the mansard area.
Web links
literature
- Thomas Roeb: Carl Wilhelm Schleicher (1857-1938). Life and work of an architect of historicism. Mainz, 2006, ISBN 3-86130818-5 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 18.5 ″ N , 6 ° 13 ′ 38.4 ″ E