Villa Riedel
The Villa Riedel in Halle (Saale) , Advokatenweg 36, is an upper - class house built between 1896 and 1898 in the neo-renaissance style. The owner was the mechanical engineering entrepreneur Richard Riedel. The villa is listed in the register of monuments of the city of Halle under registration number 094 12533.
location
The villa was originally number 13 and stands on a hillside with a park at the back on the corner property between Advokatenweg and Reichardtstraße in the Mühlwegviertel of the Giebichenstein district . The Advokatenweg, located in the north of Halle, led to the southern border of the then still independent village of Giebichenstein when the villa was being built. Between 1890 and 1900 it was built with representative villas and sophisticated townhouses in the style of historicism , with corner plots being particularly popular, as the buildings here could freely unfold on several sides.
Builder and building history
Richard Riedel (1838–1916), who was born in Berlin and owed his rise to the sugar industry , founded a technical office in Halle in 1864 with his partner G. Kemnitz and later a small machine factory that initially only manufactured machines for the sugar industry. A few years later, at his new location on Merseburger Strasse, he combined his factory with an iron foundry he had bought . In 1872 he converted his company into a stock corporation with the company Hallesche Maschinenfabrik und Eisengießerei . Around 1900 the company already had around 900 employees. In addition to his work as an entrepreneur, he was a. a. also city councilor , president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Province of Saxony and chairman of the supervisory board of the Hallescher Bankverein von Kulisch, Kaempf & Co. KGaA bank, founded in 1866 . Riedel carried the honorary title of a secret councilor of commerce .
He commissioned the nationally renowned Berlin architecture firm Grisebach & Dinklage , which had built the Villa Weise (Handelstrasse 16), which is now also a listed building, to design his house .
The building application was submitted in March 1895 and approved about four weeks later. However, more than a year passed before the excavation was excavated. The first work on the construction site took place in August 1896. Nevertheless, the shell was finished just five months later . The building application for the barn and farm building adjacent to the north was submitted in the summer of 1897 and approved in October. Numerous companies and artisans were involved in the construction, including a. Caspar Winterhelt's stonemasonry in Miltenberg , the sculptor Paul Reiling in Halle and the glass painter Karl Ule in Munich. The final acceptance took place on March 3, 1898.
In 1911 the no longer existing wintering house for plants was built, which was about 10 meters long and 5 meters wide.
The "estimated value" of the building for calculating the building police fees was determined to be 90,062 marks , which would have meant an insurance value of around 2 million marks in the mid-1990s.
Building description
The building with a living space of 711 m², which rises above a retaining wall, comprises a basement, two full floors and a loft. Outside, light plastered surfaces contrast with red sandstone structures . In its irregular, painterly overall appearance and with its rich decor, the building corresponds to the characteristic of German Renaissance architecture of staggering buildings in order to achieve the desired variety in structure and structure.
Artful bay windows , ornate balconies - parapets , picturesque towers with tail hoods as well as the steep roof with numerous high chimneys ensure a rich grouping and lively silhouette of the building.
The farm and coach house wing adjoining to the north , on the other hand, is clearly graded to the main house in a rustic Franconian half-timbered construction with curved St. Andrew's crosses . The upper floor accommodated the coachman and gardener's apartment.
A richly decorated entrance area dominates the west and street sides of the main house, through which one enters a spacious barrel-vaulted staircase via an internal staircase. A three-part gable, crowned by an obelisk, rises above the rounded arched portal, which is richly decorated and profiled with lion heads, hermen pilasters and grotesque heads . The middle field of the gable used to have the ornate initial "R" for Riedel. This can still be found on the north side of the economic wing in an upturned square.
To the right of the entrance area is a heraldic plaque with an aedicular frame , in which the Halle salt-working stars as well as a lion and a tournament helmet with eagle wings are located. Presumably these elements should replace a family coat of arms.
To the left of the entrance between the porch of the portal and the stair tower, there is a large, three-meter-wide and four-meter-high multi-part lead glass window that illuminates the stairwell and the upper corridor. In the lead glazing, the Riedel couple presumably had themselves portrayed in portraits by the Munich glass painter Ule.
On the south side, the salon is extended by a box bay window with an attached balcony. A winter garden was added to the east ; above a balcony and in front of it a terrace , both with balustrade . In 1905 the balcony was converted into a loggia with a roof .
The villa after the owner's death
Richard Riedel, who was also the owner of the apartment building Advokatenweg 37 opposite, lived in the villa for 18 years until his death in 1916. In 1925, according to the address book of the city of Halle, his widow Juliane Riedel nee. Eine and Felix Riedel , whose job is “Pastor i. R. "is specified. At that time, the house was still owned by the Riedel heirs. In 1926, General Manager Adolf Wagner, residing at Kurallee 7, is given as the owner; from 1927 he also lives in the house.
After the Second World War, the special school for music of the Leipzig University of Music "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" was housed in the villa .
Since 2001, the villa has been the seat of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology , through which the villa was renovated in accordance with historical monuments . In the rear area, the house was connected to a modern extension made of steel, glass and concrete. Due to the glass facade, in which the trees are reflected, the new building has little impact on the effect of the imposing old building.
literature
- Kathrin Müller: Villa Riedel. In: Dieter Dolgner , Angela Dolgner (ed.): Historic villas in the city of Halle / Saale. Friends of the architectural and art monuments Saxony-Anhalt eV, Halle (Saale) 1998, ISBN 3-931919-04-8 , pp. 75–82.
- Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 , p. 116.
- Hendrik Leonhardt: Hall. (= Country houses and villas in Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 1.) Aschenbeck Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3939401766 , pp. 40–42.
Web links
- Immobilienzeitung Online, 72nd edition, April 2018, pp. 4–5: Old villa and new splendor - the Villa Riedel
- Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt / City of Halle. Fly Head Publishing, Halle 1996, ISBN 3-910147-62-3 , p. 32.
- ↑ a b c d e address book for Halle ad S. and the surrounding area. Editions 1906–1926, digital copies at the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt, 2012.
- ↑ Müller 1998, p. 76 (see literature ).
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 48.8 " N , 11 ° 57 ′ 34" E