Villa Marie (Dresden)
The Villa Marie is a listed building on Fährgäßchen 1 in the Dresden district of Blasewitz , right next to the Elbe bridge Blaues Wunder . In addition to the Villa Ilgen and the Villa St. Petersburg, it is one of the most famous villas in Blasewitz and gained national fame through its use in the 1980s.
history
The Villa Marie was built around 1860 for the architect Friedrich Pötzsch directly on the Elbe . It was created in the Italian style with an echo of the country house style and was realized in half-timbered with a bay window and characteristic tower. August Kotzsch took the earliest known photos of the villa ; they date from 1863. From 1891 to 1893, the Blue Wonder was created directly between the Schillergarten and Villa Marie .
After 1900 Villa Marie was first known as Monbijou (dt. My treasure ) and was possibly named Villa Marie after the owner Marie Hortenbach, who was expropriated in 1944. The residents of the villa included members of the bourgeois nobility, including a Hungarian count family, a merchant and a medical council. In the 1930s, the painter Hans Grundig was one of the guests in the villa.
The Villa Marie survived the Second World War without major damage. In the GDR era, the last owner of the villa was expropriated. It became part of the municipal housing administration , but was only moderately attractive to potential tenants because of its location in the flood zone of the Elbe . The building fell into disrepair until the 1980s and was classified as uninhabitable by the building authorities in the early 1980s .
As early as 1980, the building had served as the backdrop for the GDR television film My Father's Tram , in which Arno Wyzniewski played the leading role. In 1982 the villa was rediscovered as an illegal gallery by Blasewitz artists around Claudia Reichardt, known as "Wanda", and operated for several years - from 1988 to 1990 under the name "photogenic". Numerous artists immortalized the villa in their drawings at this time. After they had prevented its demolition together with monument preservers in 1988 , the squatters left the villa two years later.
In the 1990s, the Villa Marie was renovated in accordance with a listed building. Today it is an Italian restaurant .
literature
- Villa Marie . In: AR Lux, Dieter Prskawetz: Blasewitz in the historic Elbbogen . B-Edition, Dresden 1994, pp. 56-59.
- Villa Marie . In: Siegfried Thiele: 99 Dresden villas and their residents . HochlandVerlag, Pappritz 2009, ISBN 978-3-934047-58-7 , pp. 40-41.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural monument: Villa Marie, Mon Bijou, villa with enclosure (Fährgäßchen 1)
- ^ Villa Marie . In: AR Lux, Dieter Prskawetz: Blasewitz in the historic Elbbogen . B-Edition, Dresden 1994, p. 56.
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 10.97 ″ N , 13 ° 48 ′ 30.1 ″ E