Villa Ross
The Villa Ross , also Villa Roß, is a listed late classicist villa built in Halle (Saale) in 1853/1854 , which is located within the northern inner city of Halle , at Am Kirchtor 29, and is one of the most important testimonies to the early Halle villa construction. The villa is listed in the register of monuments of the city of Halle under registration number 094 04555.
location
The villa is located in the Neumarktviertel, north of the old Halle city limits. The suburb of Neumarkt was incorporated in 1817 and was still very rural when the house was built. This, but also the proximity to the Botanical Garden and Moritzburg , made it attractive as a residential area for the wealthy. The villa was built on a corner plot at the intersection of Grosse Wallstrasse and Breiten Strasse. It was not until 1855 that the street that continues the Breite Straße in a westerly direction was given the name “Am Kirchtor” after the church gate of the Laurentiuskirche located here . From this point on, the official address was Am Kirchtor 1. In 1893 the number was renumbered and the villa was given the number 29.
history
The owner of the villa is the archeology professor and philologist Ludwig Ross, who was born in 1806 on his father’s estate Altekoppel in Bornhöved (Holstein) . After more than 13 years as an archaeologist in Greece , Ludwig Ross received the chair of archeology at the University of Halle in 1845 through the intercession of Alexander von Humboldt . After living in rent for several years, he was able to afford his own household from 1853 and built an idyllic rural house not far from the Laurentius Church in the Neumarktviertel.
He was able to win over the city architect Hermann Weise , born in Wanzleben in 1813 , who held this position from 1845 to 1857. The Villa Ross was built between 1853 and 1854. Hermann Weise himself put the drawings for the villa to be built on paper and they were handed over to the municipal building authority on August 17, 1853. On September 30, 1854, the proper completion was noted.
Ludwig Ross could only spend 5 years in his new house. Incurable from a spinal cord disease since 1840, he committed suicide in 1859. A year later, the widow Emma Ross, née Schwetschke, the house that changed hands several times in the following years. There were modifications, both to the house itself and to the arrangement of the rooms. The division of Germany also separated the existing community of heirs .
After the death of the partial heir, who remained in the GDR, the villa remained in the hands of the state authorities and fell into disrepair, so that it was threatened with demolition. This could be prevented through private engagement. Since 1990 the villa has been in the possession of the descendants of the last owner, a master painter. A subsequent restoration took place, so that today the villa shines again in its old splendor despite changes in the structure.
Architecture and equipment
The villa is a two-storey, classically- inspired plastered building on an irregular floor plan with a two-storey side wing on the north side, facing east. Originally, however, there was only a mezzanine with a flat gable roof and a narrow cornice . The architect Hermann Weise applied Schinkel's villa theory, according to which different heights of buildings that are related to each other should create a painterly, random impression. This villa style was mainly to be found in the Berlin area in the 1850s. In 1871, however, the owner Auguste Schaaf added one floor to the side wing, which meant that the intended building idea was lost. There is no elaborate architectural decoration on the villa, which gives it a light, almost cheerful impression. The different profiles of the window crowns indicate the different values of the floors .
Inside, however, there are no staggered floors and the access to the individual rooms cannot be described as classicist-modern; rather , the so-called enfilades , which were popular in the baroque and rococo periods, predominate here. Paintings from 1915 can be found in the stairwell.
The previously suburban Villa Ross, with its simple but elegant design, is unique in the art of villa architecture in Halle in that it establishes the connection between Berlin and Halle in the mid-19th century and is one of the oldest buildings north of the old town before the Wilhelminian expansion of the city.
literature
- Tobias Frommelt: Villa Ross. In: Dieter Dolgner (Ed.): Historic villas in the city of Halle / Saale. Friends of the Buildings and Art Monuments Saxony-Anhalt eV, Halle (Saale) 1998, ISBN 3-931919-04-8 , pages 33-40.
- Hendrik Leonhardt: Halle (= country houses and villas in Saxony-Anhalt , volume 1). Aschenbeck Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3939401766 . Pages 27–29.
Web links
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 , page 42
- ^ Hendrik Leonhardt: Halle (= country houses and villas in Saxony-Anhalt , volume 1). Aschenbeck Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3939401766 . Page 28.
- ↑ Tobias Frommelt: Villa Roß In: Dieter Dolgner (Ed.): Historical villas in the city of Halle / Saale. Friends of the Buildings and Art Monuments Saxony-Anhalt eV, Halle (Saale) 1998, ISBN 3-931919-04-8 , pages 39-40
- ↑ Tobias Frommelt: Villa Roß In: Dieter Dolgner (Ed.): Historical villas in the city of Halle / Saale. Friends of the Buildings and Art Monuments Saxony-Anhalt eV, Halle (Saale) 1998, ISBN 3-931919-04-8 , page 37
- ^ Hendrik Leonhardt: Halle (= country houses and villas in Saxony-Anhalt , volume 1). Aschenbeck Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3939401766 . Page 29.
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 23.4 " N , 11 ° 57 ′ 45.2" E