Petershall Villa
The Petershall Villa was built in 1877 as a residence for the textile manufacturer David Peters III. built on the outskirts of Neviges near the road to Elberfeld and across from his factory. After being converted into an office building in the 1990s, it is now used exclusively for residential purposes again.
Location and surroundings
The Villa Petershall is located on the outskirts of Neviges in the direction of Wuppertal at the level of the roundabout on Elberfelder Straße. The private Lucasstraße (named after Gustav Lucas , the co-founder of David Peters & Co. and brother-in-law of David Peters II.) Leads directly to the villa . At the time of construction of the property (1877), the building was the first development there at the beginning of a private park of the client that expanded to the west. In 1882 David Peters had another building built as a shed (now known as the coach house) at an angle of 90 degrees to the kitchen wing.
As in the times of David Peters, the traffic connection to Wuppertal -Elberfeld as well as Velbert and via the connection of the A535 and the A46 to the surrounding larger cities is still very short and ideal.
architecture
The Petershall Villa was designed and built by Julius Carl Raschdorff . The reason for the entry in the list of monuments contains the following statement and thus a reference to the idea of the architecture: "Two-storey villa in Swiss country house style, brick facade with sandstone walls and half-timbering with brick infills, balconies and floating gables ".
For his building project for a rural property at the foot of the slope leading to the Chaussee to Elberfeld, the architect created a plateau by erecting retaining walls in order to "present" the building on one level. The client, Carl David Peters III. spent some time studying the textile industry in England, where the David Peters & Co. company had trade relations. Some details of the execution are probably due to this influence. Particularly noteworthy here is the name Peters “hall” - in relation to the large salon on the ground floor - or the multi-part, vertical sliding windows. Particularly noticeable is the exact north and south orientation of the main building as well as the flooding of light in this main axis through generous window areas.
Reconstruction and current use
In 2008, after years of use as an office building, the property was converted back into a residential building. The main building was divided into three residential units while preserving the listed building. The division of the rooms, especially on the ground floor and the first floor, almost corresponds to the division originally planned by the architect Raschdorff, even if the individual uses are partly different. A fourth residential unit was built in the so-called, former coach house, in which the coach room was converted into a living room. The outbuilding was originally built in accordance with the information in the original plan documents to store garden furniture and equipment, and as an area for wintering plants.
Construction and data
Constructively, the main building is a massive brick building. With the partial basement, the surrounding walls are made of quarry stone and the inner walls are made of bricks . The basement ceiling is a cap ceiling , all other ceilings are wooden beam ceilings, in the salon with the support of steel girders due to the large spans. The building is completely clinkered. On the ground floor and the first floor almost all the windows are expensive with sandstone jambs dressed. In keeping with the country house style, numerous wooden panels were placed on the facade as decorative elements. The steep roof truss, with its strong overhangs, is particularly striking. The roof skin consists entirely of natural slate . The coach house is a two-storey building with no basement. The ground floor and the tower on the upper floor were built from solid stone, the rest of the building is a half-timbered construction with brick infill.
Heating technology
Originally the main house was heated with warm air heating. The various supply and exhaust air ducts in the supporting central walls of the building are evidence of this. The associated boiler and the air distribution in the boiler room have unfortunately been lost. The approximate position can, however, be understood on the basis of the structural arrangement of a fresh air tunnel under the basement of the building and the former openings in the basement area. Presumably, the output was not sufficient to heat the volume of the individual rooms, so that the switch was made to gravity heating with cast iron ribbed radiators with floral decorations, which is still in operation today with its piping system, albeit with pump support.
literature
- Klaus Peters: Life and work of the architect Julius Carl Raschdorff (1823–1914) . Hanover 2004.
- Julius Carl Raschdorff : Notes from the life and work of the architect Professor JC Raschdorff . Patriotic Publishing House, Berlin 1903
- Wolfgang Brönner : The bourgeois villa in Germany 1830–1890 with special consideration of the Rhineland . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1987
- Axel Kirchhoff: The architect Heinrich Plange (1857–1942) A builder of entrepreneurship in the Bergisch region . Inaugural dissertation, Bergische Universität, Wuppertal 2004
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '22 " N , 7 ° 5' 11.2" E