Villa Obenauer
The Villa Obenauer is a bourgeois villa in Saarbrücken , Trillerweg 58 , built between 1905 and 1907 according to a design by Peter Behrens . It is located in the Saarbrücken residential area Triller on the southeast slope above the street, the hillside characterizes the architecture. As a significant testimony to the development history of modern architecture in the 20th century , the building is a listed building .
History of construction and use
At the German Horticultural and Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1904 , the Saarbrücken-based food wholesaler Gustav Obenauer met the architect Peter Behrens . He was so enthusiastic about the exhibition pavilion designed by Behrens that he commissioned the architect to build him a villa. Construction began in 1905 and was completed in the summer of 1907. Behrens also designed the furnishings for the master's room , the dining room and the hall. In 1910, Behrens expanded the villa to include a study and a library.
In 1940 the Obenauer family sold the villa to the Reichsautobahnverwaltung . The house, which was damaged in the war, was used as a youth home after 1945 until the federal property management moved in in 1962 . Since 2001 the house has been privately owned again.
architecture
The two-story villa is a cubic structure with a tent roof and a high base. The facade is divided into rectangular plaster fields. In front of the house is a terrace with a pergola on mighty supports, with which Behrens used the location of the house on the slope above street level for a concise design. The architecture of the house anticipated numerous elements of modern architecture.
“The Villa Obenauer is a milestone in the building history of the 20th century. At a time that is still essentially committed to historicism and Art Nouveau, a private house is being built in Saarbrücken that, in its addition of cubic structures, its space-conscious layers and stacking, in the balance of horizontal and vertical, in the geometric arrangement of the surfaces and with its flat roof means a radical rejection of everything that has come before. Behrens works here with design principles that only became formative in the architecture of De Stijl and Bauhaus in the 1920s. "
The architecture historian Jürgen Tietz also described the building as a “milestone of modernity”.
In the course of the changing uses after 1940, several structural adjustments were made that impaired the architecture of the house and its architectural historical testimony value. So falsified z. B. reduced windows and walled up doors the original lighting conditions.
Refurbishment / reconstruction
In autumn 2000, the Federal Property Administration moved out of the building. At first there was no new use and the state of preservation deteriorated. The villa finally came into private ownership in 2001 and has been extensively renovated. While various of the structural changes were reversed in the sense of a reconstruction , extensive modernization was carried out in large areas of the house according to today's taste and today's living needs. As a result, there was a controversial discussion about this handling of a high-ranking architectural monument. While the head of the State Monuments Office, Josef Baulig, thought the renovation was a success, the Monuments Council expressed severe criticism.
literature
- German Werkbund Saarland e. V. (Ed.), Marlen Dittmann: The Villa Obenauer. A work by Peter Behrens 1905–1907. Saarbrücken 2000.
- Georg Skalecki : Villa Obenauer in Saarbrücken. (Leaflet) State Conservatory Office, Saarbrücken no year (around 2000). ( online as PDF document; 690 kB)
- Miriam Bilke-Perkams: Saarland entrepreneur villas between 1830 and 1914. With special consideration of the region of the Saar coal forest. Dissertation, Saarland University , Saarbrücken 2014, pp. 213–219.
Web links
- Literature on Villa Obenauer in the Saarland Bibliography
- Villa Obenauer. In: arch INFORM .
- Renovation of the Villa Obenauer , Wolfgang Rost, architect
Individual evidence
- ↑ Villa Obenauer in the list of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments of the state capital Saarbrücken (Landesdenkmalamt Saarland; PDF file; 1.9 MB)
- ↑ a b The Villa Obenauer , German Werkbund Saarland
- ↑ a b c Miriam Bilke-Perkams (2014)
- ↑ Jürgen Tietz: Milestone of Modernity. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of April 9, 2001 ( online )
- ↑ Christoph Schreiner: Operation Abnickverein? What's the point of the old garbage anyway? In: Saarbrücker Zeitung of September 24, 2010 ( online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 41.2 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 19.9 ″ E