Villa master

The villa master from the train bridge West seen from

The Villa Meister , built as Villa Lindenhaus , is a listed property on a hill on the Main in Frankfurt-Sindlingen .

According to a testamentary disposition of the last sole owner, a daughter of Herbert Meister, from the year 1982, the corresponding is Park with ice house and the old trees of the public make it accessible to any time for walkers to open.

history

In 1740 the brothers Andreas and Franz Vacano (also Vacani or Vaccani) from Augsburg, who immigrated from Italy , set up a gold and silver braid factory in Sindlingen, which only existed until 1744. The silk merchant Karl Franz Allesina (around 1704–1765, unmarried), who immigrated from Northern Italy , acquired this estate in Sindling in 1760 for 11,200 guilders . Allesina had a mansion [on a lime tree avenue , today Allesinastraße 1], two court rides , 16 acres of vineyards , further fields and meadows , a total of about 156 acres "built on a bricked-up terrace on the banks of the Main ." On the occasion of the golden wedding of Johannes Maria Allesina (* 1692) and his wife Franciska Clara (1705–1778), née Brentano , the young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe stayed at the manor house on May 30, 1774 after the party.

In 1902 Herbert von Meister (1866-1919), the son of the founder of Hoechst AG , acquired the land on which the mansion of the Allesina family (later called von Schweitzer) stood until 1799. From 1903 to 1904 he had a castle-like complex built in the neo-baroque style based on plans by Franz von Hoven (1842–1924) . The property consisted of a villa ("Lindenhaus") built 200 meters south of the former Allesina mansion with a walled park, orangery , stables , coachman and gardener's house and riding arena . The stables, separated from the park by a gate, offered space for six driving and two riding horses. In addition, two garages were built for the emerging means of transport, the car . After Herbert von Meister's death in 1919, his widow Else († 1967) and daughter Elisabeth († 1986) lived alone in the villa.

After the Second World War , the property was confiscated by the American military administration . In 1945 Else von Meister and her daughter Elisabeth had to move into the coach house, where they lived after the property was returned in 1953. After the death of Elisabeth von Meister, the property was managed by a community of heirs .

Until 1980, the villa was the seat of the Institute for Applied Geodesy . Since 1982, it houses a rehabilitation clinic of addiction care of now, first the "Phoenix House", the "Villa unter den Linden" headed Teutonic Order . The coach house and stables are used by the Sindlinger Reitverein. There is a café in the orangery . According to a report by the hessenschau and other press reports, the property was sold in 2019 to the CAIROS Group in Frankfurt-Westend , which wants to renovate it and build apartments.

Web links

Commons : Villa Meister - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Villa Meister and Park. State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, accessed on October 1, 2019 .

Individual evidence

^ City of Frankfurt: Villa Meister: A mansion on the banks of the Main. frankfurt.de: The official city portal, accessed on August 5, 2020 : "Public access to the property and the spacious park is decreed by will."
↑ Mario Gesiarz: And above all: far away from the city! In: Susanne Konrad (Hrsg.): Frankfurt invitation: stories, secrets and recipes . Megalomania Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95771-103-8 , pp. Without : “The park is wonderful - and always open to the public - except when films are being made. Sindlingen owes this to the last daughter of the family. […] In her will […] Fräulein von Meister decreed that the park must always be open to the Sindlingen population. "
^ Villa Meister: Rumors of real estate agents are making the rounds. Frankfurter Neue Presse , October 16, 2018, accessed on August 5, 2020 : “The magistrate is however reluctant. On the one hand, monument protection and nature protection as well as testamentary provisions restrict possible uses. The last sole owner, Elisabeth von Meister, had decreed that the park should always remain open to the public. After her death, the complex came into the possession of a community of heirs. She does not live in the Rhine-Main area and would like to sell the property. In addition to the restrictions mentioned, the magistrate sees economic problems. The Meister Park alone, with an area of around two hectares, has a property value of around 8.6 million euros. The buildings are not yet included. Such an investment can be justified if economic follow-up use is ensured. For this, however, a comprehensive project development must take place. At best, urban development companies could provide that. “In addition, an acquisition would basically come into consideration because of the city's interest in maintaining the green space and the historic buildings,” the report concludes; however, this requires a corresponding budget for the purchase, renovation and operation of the plant. Such is not yet available. "
^ ^A ^b Heide Noll and Michael Forst: Frankfurt: Villa Meister is sold. Frankfurter Neue Presse , September 2, 2019, accessed on August 5, 2020 : “He [the chairman of the Sindlinger Reiterverein Dieter Baumann] hopes that a clause from Elisabeth Meister's will is still valid. She not only decreed that the park should be open to the public. The horse lover who lived above the riding stables also wanted the riding arena and stables to be preserved and horses to always be there. […] Already on August 14th there was an on-site meeting and a preliminary meeting with representatives of the investors and employees of the Lower Nature Conservation Authority. The officials had shown the buyers what is taboo in the park. This includes the Kastanienallee as well as the old hanging beech. "Structural changes" are planned in the park, said Monika Kustusch, an employee in the authority's tree protection department. Specifically: A development along Weinbergstrasse and possibly one or two buildings on the left, seen from the main entrance. According to her information, no structural changes are planned for the main building, i.e. the villa itself. "
↑ Miriam Keilbach: Court life in the city. Frankfurter Rundschau , January 11, 2019, accessed on August 25, 2020 : “The ponies of the pony dwarfs also live in the immediate vicinity, the riding stables of the Villa Meister, which is used by the Sindlingen riding club, are located a little north of the Main. Until the 1980s, Christa von Meister lived above the stable. In her will she decreed that her parents' house should be a rehabilitation center for drug addicts and that the park and orangery should be open to the public. "
↑ Carlo Francesco Allesina (Karl Franz Allesina). GENEANET, accessed October 1, 2019 .
^ Josefine Rumpf-Fleck: Italian culture in Frankfurt am Main in the 18th century . Petrarch House, 1936, p. 29 .
^ Frankfurt Association for History and Regional Studies, Association for History and Antiquity in Frankfurt a. M. (Ed.): Archive for Frankfurt's history and art . No. 69 , 2003, p. 159 .
↑ Villa Meister sold to investor: Uncertain future of Wilhelminian style villa and park in Frankfurt. Hessischer Rundfunk , August 31, 2019, accessed on August 5, 2020 : “The real estate specialist Cairos Group has bought the villa with all the buildings and the park. This ends a long-standing debate about the future owner. "We are now in talks with the city. Of course we want to renovate the ensemble according to the guidelines of the monument protection", says the managing director of the Cairos Group Frankfurt, Marcus Bube. In order to refinance the costs, exclusive apartments are to be created on the site - inside and outside the villa. It is not yet clear whether to buy or rent. The purchase is still too fresh. The community of heirs is still officially the owner. "

50.077693 8.520443Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 39.7 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 13.6 ″ E

[1] City of Frankfurt: Villa Meister: A mansion on the banks of the Main. frankfurt.de: The official city portal, accessed on August 5, 2020 : "Public access to the property and the spacious park is decreed by will."

[2] Mario Gesiarz: And above all: far away from the city! In: Susanne Konrad (Hrsg.): Frankfurt invitation: stories, secrets and recipes . Megalomania Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95771-103-8 , pp. Without : “The park is wonderful - and always open to the public - except when films are being made. Sindlingen owes this to the last daughter of the family. […] In her will […] Fräulein von Meister decreed that the park must always be open to the Sindlingen population. "

[3] Villa Meister: Rumors of real estate agents are making the rounds. Frankfurter Neue Presse , October 16, 2018, accessed on August 5, 2020 : “The magistrate is however reluctant. On the one hand, monument protection and nature protection as well as testamentary provisions restrict possible uses. The last sole owner, Elisabeth von Meister, had decreed that the park should always remain open to the public. After her death, the complex came into the possession of a community of heirs. She does not live in the Rhine-Main area and would like to sell the property. In addition to the restrictions mentioned, the magistrate sees economic problems. The Meister Park alone, with an area of around two hectares, has a property value of around 8.6 million euros. The buildings are not yet included. Such an investment can be justified if economic follow-up use is ensured. For this, however, a comprehensive project development must take place. At best, urban development companies could provide that. “In addition, an acquisition would basically come into consideration because of the city's interest in maintaining the green space and the historic buildings,” the report concludes; however, this requires a corresponding budget for the purchase, renovation and operation of the plant. Such is not yet available. "

[FNP-4] A ^b Heide Noll and Michael Forst: Frankfurt: Villa Meister is sold. Frankfurter Neue Presse , September 2, 2019, accessed on August 5, 2020 : “He [the chairman of the Sindlinger Reiterverein Dieter Baumann] hopes that a clause from Elisabeth Meister's will is still valid. She not only decreed that the park should be open to the public. The horse lover who lived above the riding stables also wanted the riding arena and stables to be preserved and horses to always be there. […] Already on August 14th there was an on-site meeting and a preliminary meeting with representatives of the investors and employees of the Lower Nature Conservation Authority. The officials had shown the buyers what is taboo in the park. This includes the Kastanienallee as well as the old hanging beech. "Structural changes" are planned in the park, said Monika Kustusch, an employee in the authority's tree protection department. Specifically: A development along Weinbergstrasse and possibly one or two buildings on the left, seen from the main entrance. According to her information, no structural changes are planned for the main building, i.e. the villa itself. "

[5] Miriam Keilbach: Court life in the city. Frankfurter Rundschau , January 11, 2019, accessed on August 25, 2020 : “The ponies of the pony dwarfs also live in the immediate vicinity, the riding stables of the Villa Meister, which is used by the Sindlingen riding club, are located a little north of the Main. Until the 1980s, Christa von Meister lived above the stable. In her will she decreed that her parents' house should be a rehabilitation center for drug addicts and that the park and orangery should be open to the public. "

[6] Carlo Francesco Allesina (Karl Franz Allesina). GENEANET, accessed October 1, 2019 .

[7] Josefine Rumpf-Fleck: Italian culture in Frankfurt am Main in the 18th century . Petrarch House, 1936, p. 29 .

[8] Frankfurt Association for History and Regional Studies, Association for History and Antiquity in Frankfurt a. M. (Ed.): Archive for Frankfurt's history and art . No. 69 , 2003, p. 159 .

[9] Villa Meister sold to investor: Uncertain future of Wilhelminian style villa and park in Frankfurt. Hessischer Rundfunk , August 31, 2019, accessed on August 5, 2020 : “The real estate specialist Cairos Group has bought the villa with all the buildings and the park. This ends a long-standing debate about the future owner. "We are now in talks with the city. Of course we want to renovate the ensemble according to the guidelines of the monument protection", says the managing director of the Cairos Group Frankfurt, Marcus Bube. In order to refinance the costs, exclusive apartments are to be created on the site - inside and outside the villa. It is not yet clear whether to buy or rent. The purchase is still too fresh. The community of heirs is still officially the owner. "