Messerschmitt Villa
The Villa Messschnitt is a commercial building in Bad Kissingen , in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . It belongs to the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-114-2 in the Bavarian list of monuments .
location
The Villa Messerschmitt is located not far south of the old town, on the northern edge of the spa garden, with the address Am Kurgarten 2.
history
The Villa Messerschmitt was built in the historicist style in 1893/94 by the Würzburg architect Karl Weinschenk . The building has Corinthian-style columns on the facade. At the top of the facade of Villa Messerschmitt there are two female stone figures as aedicule motif . The opulence of the decor, which is untypical for Bad Kissingen, can be found next to the Villa Messerschmitt in the property Marktplatz 18 and Kurhausstraße 27 , which were also built by Karl Weinschenk.
Local historian Edi Hahn named the left female stone figure on the gable as Franconia and the right stone figure as Bavaria . The figure on the left is holding a drawing pad, square and ruler, the insignia of the architectural profession. According to Hahn, on the lap of the figure on the right is Hygieia , the Greek goddess of health.
The property housed the Messerschmitt café, which was run by confectioner Johann Baptist Messerschmitt from 1894 until the outbreak of the First World War . The Messerschmitt family can be traced back to Adam Messerschmitt for the year 1848 in the Kissinger address book; Johann Baptist Messerschmitt ran a pastry shop at Kurhausstrasse 106c as early as May 30th, 1863 , as an advertisement in the intelligence paper shows. The overnight stay in one of the 18 rooms of the hotel, which was operated together with the Café Messerschmitt , cost 18 gold marks per night, with breakfast 19 gold marks and with full board 27 gold marks. Opposite Villa Messerschmitt , next to the former Steigenberger Kurhaushotel , there was the café terrace belonging to Café Messerschmitt .
In addition to the Kissing bakers Memmel and Zoll , the writer Theodor Fontane also mentioned confectioner Messerschmitt in a poem that he entered in the city's Golden Book in 1890 .
After the end of the grand café and hotel, the property was converted into a tenement house. For decades, the classy Faßhauer fashion store was located on the ground floor . In 1970, the administrative building of the Bad Kissingen state spa administration was built on the site of the former café terrace.
literature
- Peter Ziegler: Memmel, Zoll and Messerschmitt ... - The Kissinger Feinbäcker , Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (ed.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen, 801–2001, facets of a city's history . Festschrift for the anniversary year and accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name. Special publication of the Bad Kissingen city archive. Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-929278-16-2 , pp. 373-378
- Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 12 .
- The Messerschmitt House and its Neighbors , in: Edi Hahn: A tour through the spa facilities , Bad Kissingen, 1989, ISBN 3-925722-03-3 , pp. 11–15
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The Messerschmitt House and its Neighbors , in: Edi Hahn: A tour through the spa facilities , Bad Kissingen, 1989, p. 12
- ↑ Peter Ziegler: Theodor Fontane , in: Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (ed.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen, 801-2001, facets of a city history. Festschrift for the anniversary year and accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name. Special publication of the Bad Kissingen city archive. Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001, p. 122f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 54.31 " N , 10 ° 4 ′ 34.46" E