Orlando villa

Orlando villa

The Villa Orlando is a villa on Schillerstraße 4 in the Loschwitz district of Dresden , which is a listed building. It is one of the few Gothic buildings in Dresden.

history

The Orlando Villa on an engraving from 1856

Villa Orlando around 1875 on a photograph by August Kotzsch

The Villa Orlando was built between 1848 and 1853 by Hugo Erhard (1810-1859) on a vineyard "on an exposed hillside". It got its name after the Italian Count Orlando, who stayed at the Saxon court in the middle of the 19th century and commissioned the construction of the villa. It replaced the old and partly dilapidated residential buildings on the property, some of which were incorporated into the foundation walls of the new villa.

In its time, the villa was considered "one of the most beautiful of those properties that recently emerged in the beautiful surroundings of Dresden" and is still one of the "most magnificent Loschwitz villas".

After Count Orlando's death, the villa was owned by various wealthy citizens before it was converted into a boarding school for children of Greek partisans after 1945. After being used by the concert and guest performance management, the rooms of Villa Orlando are now used as studio apartments.

construction

Section through the villa showing the terraced layout of the rooms, as it was in 1856

Miramare Castle

According to Orlando's request, the villa was built in sandstone from the Elbe Sandstone Mountains "with forms of the Gothic ... in free conception" and provided with Byzantine and Arabic style elements. The architectural model was Miramare Castle near Trieste . The floor of the wing of the original building was retained, as was the floor plan of the main square building. The tower structure, which is located to the north-west of the building and which gives the villa the appearance of a fort thanks to the surrounding battlement, was completely redesigned . It serves as a viewing platform and takes up the stairwell inside.

The interior of the villa deviates from the Gothic style. The rooms of the villa rise in terraces according to the sloping slope. The main rooms are only slightly above the level of the property, while further rooms descend and ascend.

The villa's originally large park has been reduced in size over the years through parcelling .

literature

• Ludwig Förster : The villa of Mr. v. Orlando in Loschwitz near Dresden . In: » Allgemeine Bauzeitung «, year 1856, p. 221 f.
• Volker Helas : Villa architecture in Dresden . Taschen, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-8228-9755-8 , pp. 86f.
• Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments: Dresden . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03-110-3 , p. 185.

Web links

Commons : Villa Orlando (Loschwitz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cultural monument: Schillerstraße 4  ( 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.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dehio, p. 185.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} "Allgemeine Bauzeitung", p. 221.
4. ↑ See dresdner-stadtteile.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 23.3 "  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 57.8"  E