Villa Meyer
Villa Meyer is the abbreviated term for two representative residential buildings in the immediate vicinity, built 12 years apart for the publisher and bookseller Herrmann Julius Meyer (1826–1909), son of the founder of the Bibliographical Institute , on Leipzig's Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße:
- Villa Hermann Julius Meyer I - Plagwitzer Straße 44 (today Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße 82), built in 1873 according to plans by Gustav Müller (1827–1904)
- Villa Hermann Julius Meyer II - Plagwitzer Straße 45 (today Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße 115), built in 1885/86 according to plans by Max Pommer (1847–1915)
The later villa is located in the Bachviertel in Leipzig . The former villa is not far away, but no longer belongs to the Bachviertel. Both are under monument protection .
Villa Hermann Julius Meyer I (Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse 82)
HJ Meyer had his first villa built in 1873 on the right-hand side of Plagwitzer Strasse 44 (today Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse 82) leading into the new "industrial district" of Plagwitz. The property is the penultimate building in front of the bridge over the Elster flood basin and has direct access to the Elstermühlgraben in the northwest.
The architect responsible for the construction of the first Villa Meyer was the architect and Saxon building officer Gustav Müller, in whose office Max Pommer, who was important for Leipzig's architectural history, also worked at the time. Pommer received the construction management for the first Villa Meyer from Müller. This is how Meyer and Pommer got to know each other and marked the beginning of a long friendship and fruitful collaboration. Pommer not only built the second Meyer Villa, directly opposite the first, also at Plagwitzer Strasse 55 (today Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse at the corner of Ferdinand-Lassalle-Strasse), but also numerous other buildings by the publisher family, and in particular the Meyer houses, Hermann Julius Meyer's affair of the heart in social housing. Meyer also commissioned the architect Max Pommer for the extension of the Meyersche Verlag, the Bibliographical Institute .
Villa Hermann Julius Meyer II (Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße 115), also called the Red Villa
Of a publisher, the two-storey villa settled Herrmann Julius Meyer , 1885/86 in the style of an Italian palazzo of the High Renaissance in the former Plagwitzer Street 55 corner Bismarck Street (today Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße 115 corner Ferdinand-Lassalle-Straße) directly on the Elster flood build - and almost opposite the first Villa Meyer at Plagwitzer Strasse 44 (today Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse 82), which was built in 1873 according to plans by the Leipzig architect Gustav Müller. The construction was the work of Max Pommer and the first of a large number of city villas that the architect subsequently built for wealthy Leipzig citizens.
Meyer moved into the house in October 1886, but Meyer sold it to Christian Alexander Frege (1851–1931) in 1893. Apparently the house was damaged in the Kapp Putsch in 1920, as indicated by a building application from March 1920 for restoration after a fire.
The red clinker brick facade has a yellow sandstone structure with heavy rustication, cornices, window frames, portals and columns. The windows on the first floor have an aedicular frame . An antique portico leads to a porch paneled in neo-renaissance style and further to a two-storey central hall inside, around which the other rooms are lined up. In the entrance two Ionic columns dominate on pedestals that the with stucco decorated architrave carrying the upper floor. A two-armed staircase with a wrought-iron neo-baroque parapet leads to the upper floor. An extension with a loggia on the ground floor and a balcony on the upper floor extends into the garden. Both in terms of its architecture and its color design, the stairwell is an example of the upper-class living culture in Leipzig before 1900. When the Kulturbund der DDR had its seat in the house, the original paintings were painted several times with latex paints, which in particular made the stone imitation paintings in beer glaze technique have been well preserved in their original version and colors.
In the course of the general renovation of the villa, which was completed in 2004, many details of the original structure were restored. Both the restoration and the restoration planning, tendering and construction supervision were carried out by the restorers Roland Mrugalla (Leipzig) and Dr. Rüdiger B. Richter (Berlin / Abu Dhabi). They were able to uncover valuable figurative and ornamental paintings from the time of construction, which could be restored true to the original with the support of the city of Leipzig and the Leipzig regional council at the time. These are wall mounts that are remarkable for their relatively good preservation, but even more for their self-contained overall appearance. The design of the stairwell is representative of middle-class living in Leipzig at the end of the 19th century. Particularly noteworthy is the sgraffito frieze running all around the mezzanine floor . As one of the few examples of its kind, this was completed in the course of the restoration work using the original technique. The Leipzig Cultural Foundation awarded the Hieronymus Lotter Prize for the Preservation of Monuments in 2004 for the exemplary restoration of the house .
literature
- Stefan W. Krieg, Dieter Pommer: Max Pommer. Architect and concrete pioneer. Edited by the Saxon Economic Archives, Sax-Verlag, Markkleeberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86729-148-4 , pp. 22-24.
- Rüdiger Richter, Roland Mrugalla: The Meyer Villa in Leipzig. Restoration of polychrome wall and ceiling paintings. In: Restauro , vol. 110 (2004), issue 7, p. 437 f. ISSN 0933-4017 ,
- Georg Dehio (first name): Saxony, Vol. 2: Government districts Leipzig and Chemnitz ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 542.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The information on the year of construction, client, architect (Gustav Müller) and the employee responsible for the execution (Max Pommer) are based on Stefan W. Krieg and Dieter Pommer: Max Pommer: Architect and Concrete Pioneer . Sax-Verlag, Markkleeberg 2015, pp. 15–16 and 148. On p. 15 there is also the note that Hermann Julius Meyer became a "fatherly friend" for Max Pommer.
- ↑ The Meyer Villa in Leipzig. Restoration of polychrome wall and ceiling paintings (unabridged original version); [1]
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 10 ″ E