Villa Messmer
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The Villa Messmer is a Villa of historicism in Alzenau in Aschaffenburg in Bavaria .
It was built between 1902 and 1904 as a conversion of an existing building as well as additions of music rooms, guest rooms, a lookout tower and farm buildings according to plans by the architect Claus Mehs . The client was the tea merchant Otto Meßmer, who ran the Messmer tea trading company in Frankfurt .
The quarry stone and half-timbered building , located above the city's train station on a spacious plot of land with old trees, gives the impression that it was the result of multiple reconstructions of a late medieval hilltop castle. The house is characterized by the observation tower, which is modeled on the Sinwell Tower of Nuremberg Castle .
After the sale by the Messmer family, the villa became the property of the Catholic Church, which used it as a rectory for a long time. Today it houses a restaurant.
As part of the Bavarian garden exhibition in 2015, the park around the villa was redesigned.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 20.4 ″ N , 9 ° 4 ′ 0.5 ″ E