Villa Robert Boesch
The house at Rheinstrasse 4 in Lustenau in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg is also called Villa Robert Bösch after its owner . The characteristic Art Nouveau building is a memorial to the upper-class building and living culture of the time around 1900, which was based on the increasing prosperity from the flourishing embroidery industry of this period, and is therefore a listed building.
location
Villa Robert Bösch is surrounded by a park-like garden at the intersection of Rheinstrasse and Sandstrasse, in the Rheindorf district of Lustenau. At the beginning of the 20th century, when the building was erected, Rheinstrasse was a prominent location: the Dornbirn – Lustenau tram , which went into operation in 1902 , drove right past the villa, and there are two houses on the same street, Reichsstrasse 58 and Dammstrasse 1 other now listed villas from the same period.
background
Client
In 1869 the brothers Johann and Josef Hofer set up the first satin stitch hand embroidery machines in Vorarlberg, which later turned out to be the starting signal for a rapid development of the embroidery industry in Lustenau.
As early as 1875 they brought Johann Hofer's father-in-law, Johann Bösch, on board as an investor and founded the company, which later operated as Hofer, Bösch and Cie, one of the largest embroidery factories in Lustenau. Robert Bösch, the son of Johann Bösch, was also an embroidery manufacturer when he had his villa built in 1906 directly opposite his father's factory.
Construction company
The construction company H & R Bösch was founded in 1905 by Hermann and Rudolf Bösch. Neither of them are related to the client Robert Bösch.
In its almost 100-year existence, the company has made a significant contribution to the appearance of Lustenau. The villas at Reichsstrasse 58 and Dammstrasse 1, the Schützengarten care home and the Erlöserkirche , all four of which are listed today, were also built by H & R Bösch.
architecture
Exterior description
The villa is on two floors with an irregular floor plan. The base and corners of the house are rusticated . The flat mansard roof is covered with cement tiles. The facades are richly structured, decorated with lavish plait decoration and finished off at the top with a surrounding cornice and a grooved roof soffit. All windows are designed as cross-frame windows and have strong sills , gothic sandstone frames and highlighted apex stones .
The south-east facade, which faces the Sandstrasse, has three axes. The two outer axes each have a window on each floor, above which are stucco garlands and wreaths. The middle axis is accentuated on the ground floor by the elaborately designed, two-arched portal porch with a hipped roof . An ornamental tiled floor has been preserved on the pedestal in front of the carved entrance door .
A three-part, flat-arched window frame is visible on the upper floor, although only the right part is actually designed as a window. In the middle field is an elaborate plait decoration with the initials of the builder "RB". On the right edge of the south-east facade, a round bay window connects to the ground floor, which forms a balcony with a wrought-iron railing on the upper floor.
The south-west facade facing Rheinstrasse is biaxial and equipped with three-part, flat-arched windows, over which a plait decoration is also attached. A Söller in the right axis also creates the asymmetry typical of Art Nouveau on this facade.
The other two facades, which do not face any street, have a simpler design. The northwest facade has an axis with a protruding and a recessed risalit . The plait decor over the windows is kept simpler here. Finally, two tall, rectangular leaded glass windows with floral Art Nouveau painting have been preserved on the southwest facade.
Inside description
The center of the house is dominated by a two-storey hallway, in which the two floors are connected by a wooden staircase with a banister from the construction period. Also in terms of construction time and in an exceptionally good state of preservation are wooden panel doors with coffered walls , box windows with drive rod locks and wooden shutters, wall paneling in the hallway and in the bay window , ornate cast iron radiators, the herringbone parquet floor in the living room and Art Nouveau tiles in the kitchen and bathroom. A two-part sideboard with Art Nouveau glass doors is installed in the bay room.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Gabriele Tschallener: Official expert opinion . In: Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Notification GZ: BDA-59627.obj / 0001-RECHT / 2016 on Gst. No. 1178, EZ 1173, KG 92005 Lustenau . Vienna April 28, 2016.
- ^ Vorarlberg - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ( Memento of July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )] in September 2017). Federal Monuments Office , as of June 8, 2017.
- ↑ Wolfgang Scheffknecht: 100 years market town Lustenau . Lustenau 2003, ISBN 3-900954-06-2 , pp. 35-50 .
- ↑ Barbara Motter, Barbara Grabherr-Schneider: Places - Factories - Stories. 188 historic industrial buildings in Vorarlberg . 2nd Edition. Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7099-7097-3 , pp. 135 f .