Villa Niederwaldstrasse 2
The Villa Niederwaldstraße 2 is a listed building in the Striesen district of Dresden . The villa , which was probably built between 1887 and 1888, is currently used as a day care center. The garden surrounding the villa is also a listed building.
building
The two-storey building in neoclassical style has a square floor plan with four window axes on each side. The two central window axes form a bay-like central riser on all sides .
The house has an embossed sandstone plinth , a console eaves cornice made of sandstone , ornate wooden windows and doors in a classical structure. The window openings of the ground floor are of on consoles dormant triangular and segmental arch - Verdachungen crowned. These elements are also made of sandstone. The roof is slated.
history
The client was Emil Gerhard Liebig, owner of an “art and commercial gardening”. On the site, which originally extended to Pohlandstrasse, there were probably greenhouses and a boiler house that belonged to the nursery from 1893. After the incorporation of Striesen in 1893, the entire area was parceled out and built up until 1914 with the "coffee mills" rental villas typical of Striesen . From 1898 onwards, parts of the property belonging to the villa were also used to build apartment houses, and the greenhouses were demolished.
The villa itself was still inhabited and in 1894 belonged to Emil Gerhard Liebig's widow, Sidonie. In the address book of the same year, the government councilor Koettig is named as the resident and suspected tenant of the first floor. Paul Koettig (1856–1933) had been employed as a trainee lawyer at the Dresden Police Headquarters since 1883 and was later entrusted with various police duties. Before he became police president of Dresden, he was a member of the board of the Dresden criminal police. It was Paul Koettig's authority that was the first German police authority to introduce fingerprints to identify criminals in 1903 .
Gertrud Hildegard Koettig, Paul Koettig's wife, has been named as the owner of the house since 1903. Sidonie Liebig also still lived in the house, as did the Koettig's daughters later, who were listed in the address book from 1926/27 as residents of the first floor: “Koettig, Alice u. Leonore, dance teachers. "
In the address book from 1934, the owners are listed as "Köttig's heirs" and the residents of the house are Alice Koettig (dance teacher), Agnes and Erna Schumann (Erna is also listed as a dance teacher) and a tenant on the 1st floor, widow Elisabeth Sinz. A few years later, Alice Koettig, who had meanwhile moved to Bürgerwiese 18 together with Erna Schumann , is only mentioned as the owner of the villa in Niederwaldstrasse. In the house itself, Agnes Schumann and the merchant Alfred Staeding lived on the ground floor, a general practitioner had his apartment on the first floor.
Like the villa, the existing garden is also a listed building and has only been carefully adapted to use as a play area for the day-care center. Play equipment was largely made of wood and a poisonous plant was removed after documentation of the location. The woods used for the planting were selected in accordance with the preservation order and correspond to the type of vegetation from the Wilhelminian era. Rhododendrons , lilacs , pipe bushes and hydrangeas are complemented by conifers to “serve the blue-green color aspect.” The pine population preserved in the rear part of the garden is considered to be one of the last remains of the Blasewitzer Tännicht , of which there are still some pines in the nearby and also on Hermann Seidel Park , located on the grounds of the former nursery of Hermann Seidel .
In the interior design, too, emphasis was placed on reconciling the issues of monument protection with the function of a daycare center. After a complete inventory, the components classified as particularly worth keeping - including original doors, wall cabinets, stucco and fittings - were stored for future use, as they had to be removed for the current use of the house.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Claudia Posselt, Dirk Schumann (Office for Culture and Monument Protection Dresden): Contrast to Striesener country houses . In: Dresdner Latest News . December 29, 2010, p. 12 .
- ^ Housing and business handbook of the royal residence and capital Dresden 1894. P. 1205.
- ↑ Who was Paul Koettig? Short text on polizei.sachsen.de.
- ↑ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs 1903. Part II, p. 373.
- ↑ Address book for Dresden and suburbs 1926/1927. Part III, p. 483.
- ^ Address book for Dresden and suburbs 1934. Part IV, p. 508.
- ^ Address book of the state capital Dresden 1939. Part V, p. 565.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '58.2 " N , 13 ° 47' 50.3" E