Villa Pflugensberg

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The Eichel-Streiber family villa on the Pflugensberg

The villa on the Pflugensberg is a listed villa in the center of the independent city of Eisenach in Thuringia . Until 2008 it was the seat of the regional church office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia .

location

The villa is in an exposed location above the Eisenach city ​​park on the south-eastern edge of the Eisenach city center in the Dr.- Moritz-Mitzenheim- Strasse, which branches off from Wartburgallee .

history

The ridge, known as the Pflugensberg after the owner at the time, from 1725 onwards, with the garden house and gardens of the Eisenach master hunter Otto von Pflug, was acquired by the Eisenach industrial family von Eichel-Streiber in the early 1840s. She had the garden redesigned into a landscape garden from 1841 to 1844 by Eduard Petzold , who had previously created the palace gardens of Neuenhof Palace in the region . The park was constantly being expanded through additional acquisitions.

In the middle of the park was Friedrich Eduard von Eichel-Streiber 1889 by the architect Ludwig Neher and Aage of Kauffmann from Frankfurt am Main , a castle-like villa style building historicism plan, which until April 1892 construction management of Eisenacher architect Christian Hermann Friedrich Hahn was built . The villa, designed with half-timbered elements, has a living space of 3000 square meters, spread over 90 rooms. From 1890 to around 1900, the Dresden garden artist Max Bertram was responsible for the park design ; the period around 1900 is considered the heyday of the landscape park. In addition to the existing large trees, Bertram created a combination of carpet beds and an irrigation system. A tennis court and a rose garden were created. From the park, lookout points offered a panoramic view of the Wartburg , the Mariental or the Hörsel valley with the northern urban area.

In 1921 the city of Eisenach acquired the building and rented it to the Thuringian regional church, which later bought it. The building became the regional church office and seat of the regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Thuringia. The regional church had the house completely renovated from 1990, had the roof covered, the facade cleaned and created new office space by expanding the attic. In 2005, the park in the immediate vicinity of the villa was restored according to templates from 1900, a fountain and the visual axes to the Wartburg and the city center, which Max Bertram had planned, were exposed again. On January 1, 2009, the Thuringian Regional Church and the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony merged to form the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . The regional church office in Eisenach was given up for this reason, the regional church office has had its seat in the Collegium Maius in Erfurt since May 2011 ; Magdeburg became the bishopric .

The villa has been empty since the state church office moved out. The Evangelical Church in Central Germany offered the house for sale since 2011. In 2013, the sale to the TU Ilmenau and the Fraunhofer Society, who were planning to set up an education center here, failed .

According to the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM), a non-profit culture and monument foundation acquired the historic building in March 2017. According to its own statements, it is dedicated to the promotion and preservation of art and culture as well as the preservation of monuments. According to the church, the purchase price was 1.9 million euros. The foundation wants to use the building as its own headquarters, but also take on tenants. There should already be some interested parties. A hotel cannot currently be implemented in the building.

Web links

Commons : Villa Pflugensberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Blecken: History of the park "Pflugensberg". December 10, 2013, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Der Pflugensberg, private website ( Memento from October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Villa district , accessed on August 22, 2014
  4. ↑ The sale of the former Eisenach bishop's seat failed , Thüringische Landeszeitung , accessed on August 22, 2014
  5. ↑ a b Former seat of the Thuringian regional church sold. EKM press release of March 16, 2017. Accessed July 11, 2018 .
  6. ^ History of the Foundation. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
  7. ^ Eisenach: Hotel idea for Villa "Pflugensberg" is off the table. Thüringer Allgemeine , March 17, 2018, accessed on June 2, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 23.3 "  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 41.5"  E