Villa Oechsler
The Villa Oechsler (formerly: Haus Berthold ) is a monument of the spa architecture in the Baltic Sea resort of Heringsdorf on the island of Usedom in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Because of its valuable mosaic on the gable facing the lake, it is considered one of the most important buildings in Heringsdorf in terms of art history. The villa belonged as the Oppenheim Villa to Heringsdorfer buildings Lyonel Feininger used as a motive.
history
The villa was built in 1883 in the center of the seaside resort on today's Delbrückstraße in the style of late classicism . The client was the Kommerzienrat Hermann Berthold , master mechanic and founder of Berthold Messing AG from Berlin. Like other representative buildings of the Heringsdorf resort architecture, it is located on a hill when viewed from the beach promenade. The facades are each provided with a portico with a triangular gable. The portico facing the sea is adorned with columns made of Swedish porphyry with Ionic capitals . The gable bears the mosaic picture Bathing Graces by the Italian Antonio Salviati , from whom the dome mosaics of Aachen Cathedral come in Germany . In 1905 the Berlin banker Hans von Bleichröder , son of the Bismarckian banker Gerson von Bleichröder , bought the villa. Gerson von Bleichröder was the second Jew to be ennobled in Prussia in 1872 and was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the richest men in the world. In 1919 the villa became the property of the Berlin banker Hermann Kaphan, who sold it to Elise Oechsler just three years later. She was the wife of Otto Oechsler , a manufacturer from Nuremberg. From 1941 the villa belonged to the photographer master Erwin Bock from Anklam . After the end of the Second World War , the villa was the headquarters of the Soviet occupation forces.
During the GDR era, the Heringsdorf community library was housed in the building that had leased the building. After the fall of the Wall , the building belonged to a “transit owner” from Berlin for three years and in 1997 to a housing and real estate company from Mallentin . In 1997 Hermann Hornung, a businessman from Neumünster , bought the villa and had it renovated from September 1997 to March 1999. An earlier white paint was replaced by the original paint in Prussian yellow. The renovation, rated as very successful, was awarded the Federal Prize for Crafts in Monument Preservation in 1999.
The Villa Oechsler is used today as a fashion store.
literature
- Hans-Ulrich Bauer: Bathers in suits and vests - from spa treatments to architecture . Igel Verlag, Heringsdorf 2006, ISBN 3-9810371-2-X , pp. 68-69.
Web links
- Literature about Villa Oechsler in the state bibliography MV
- The Villa Oechsler on the site Bäderarchitektur.de
Coordinates: 53 ° 57 ′ 18 ″ N , 14 ° 10 ′ 8 ″ E