Villa Schönberg

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Villa Schönberg (2008)

The Villa Schönberg is a listed building at Gablerstrasse 14 in the Enge district of the city of Zurich .

History and architecture

The original building was erected in 1850 and was a modest timber frame house. In 1856 it was acquired by Otto Wesendonck and converted by Leonhard Zeugheer for Wesendonck's guest Richard Wagner . Wagner lived in this so-called "Asyl" from April 1857 to July 1858, where he composed large parts of Tristan and Isolde as well as the Wesendonck songs .

In 1872 the Wesendonck family sold their entire property to the industrialist Adolf Rieter-Rothpletz. His son Fritz Rieter had the architect Adolph Brunner build a two-story neo - Gothic extension in 1883 , as did the utility building in Swiss wood style and the orangery in neo -Renaissance style . In 1888 Elise Henriette Bodmer-Pestalozzi had the house converted into her widow's residence by the architect Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli ; at the same time, Wagner's "Asylum" was canceled. From a hillside perspective, the castle-like villa in the style of an English country estate has a lavish interior in German neo-renaissance.

In 1923, the officer Ulrich Wille junior invited Adolf Hitler to give a lecture at Villa Schönberg.

The city of Zurich acquired the Villa Wesendonck and the Rieterpark in 1945 , while the Villa Schönberg remained in private ownership. It was only when a community of heirs sold the building to a general contractor in 1970 and there was a threat of demolition that Villa Schönberg was acquired by the city and placed under protection. It has been part of the Rietberg Museum since 1978 .

literature

  • Arthur Rüegg: Further building in 1888: Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli's Villa Schönberg in Zurich. In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen 90, 2003, 10, pp. 12-19.
  • Building culture in Zurich: Enge, Wollishofen, Leimbach (= buildings worthy of protection and good architecture of recent years [without volume number]). Edited by the Building Department of the City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2006, p. 53.
  • Christine Barraud Wiener, Regula Crottet, Karl Grunder, Verena Rothenbühler: The City of Zurich V. The «Ausgemeinden» of the City of Zurich until 1860 (= The Art Monuments of the Canton of Zurich. New Edition Volume V). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History . GSK, Bern 2012, pp. 179–181.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Huber: Hitler's speech in Zurich reverberates. In: Tages-Anzeiger, October 26, 2015, accessed on March 30, 2017.

Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '34.4 "  N , 8 ° 31' 48.8"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-two thousand four hundred sixty-five  /  two hundred forty-five thousand nine hundred eighty-four