Villa Racher (Heilbronn)

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Villa Racher at Villmatstrasse 17 in Heilbronn

The Villa Racher at Villmatstrasse 17 in Heilbronn was built in an expressionist style and is a listed building .

location

The building was erected in Gewann Villmat , which, together with the Gewannen bei der Lehmgrube , Steinweg , Scheerweg and Mönchsee, formed an extension area for a new residential area. This new residential district was part of the general construction plan drawn up by Reinhard Baumeister in 1872 .

description

The villa was built in 1925 according to plans by the Lauffen architect E. Müller for the director Ms. Racher. The secular building, along with the Augustinus Church and the arcade house, is one of the few structures in the Expressionist style that have been preserved in Heilbronn.

“Built in 1925 [...] according to designs by the architect E. Müller from Lauffen, it documents in an exemplary, highly original way the villa architecture of the 1920s in its expression influenced by expressionism [...] The detail formation with its expressionistic décor creates a particularly on the ground floor lively relief effect [...] "

- Monument topography Baden-Württemberg Volume I.5 Stadtkreis Heilbronn

The building is symmetrical and rectangular and has a hipped roof in the Baroque style of the home style of the Stuttgart school, which was influenced by Paul Schmitthenner . The decor on the ground floor shows, determined by reliefs with jagged and lozenges, the formal language of Expressionism. The diamond shape is repeated in the reliefs on the balustrade of the balcony on the first floor and in the bars of the windows and the garden fence.

history

In 1950 the villa belonged to the businessman Hermann Rauch. The district inspector Rudolf Habermaier was also registered there. In 1961 two generations of the Rauch family lived in the house.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Monument topography Baden-Württemberg. Volume I.5: Heilbronn district . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pages 133-134.
  2. ^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim J. Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 61
  3. ^ City of Heilbronn (ed.): Address book of the city of Heilbronn 1950 , Heilbronn 1950.
  4. ^ City of Heilbronn (ed.): Address book of the city of Heilbronn 1961 , Heilbronn 1961.

Web links

Commons : Villa Racher  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 57 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 48.5 ″  E