Villa Schomburgk

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Schomburgk Villa, east side (2015)

The Villa Schomburgk is a former upper-class residential house in the Leipzig district of Connewitz , Prinz-Eugen-Straße 13. The villa was built in 1899 in the style of historicism , but also shows echoes of youth and country house style . Today it houses an outpatient rehabilitation center . It is a listed building .

history

In 1899 the merchant and commercial judge Heinrich Georg Schomburgk (1843–1928) had a villa built on the Connewitz Schulberg according to plans by the Leipzig architect Theodor Kösser (1854–1929). Schomburgk was the son-in-law of the Leipzig entrepreneur Karl Heine (1819–1888) and in 1902 took over the management of the Leipzig Westend construction company founded by Heine . The Schulberg is part of the northeast slope of the Pleißenaue and has been the first Connewitz school since 1852, which is now a residential building. In addition to the villa, stable buildings, coach house and coachman and gardener's apartment were built, and a spacious English-style park was created, the trees of which are largely still there today.

Schomburgk Villa (1931)

Schomburgk's youngest son, also Heinrich Georg Schomburgk (1885–1965), lived in the villa from 1918 to 1936. In 1906 he was German football champion with VfB Leipzig and in 1912 the first Leipzig Olympic champion in tennis (mixed doubles).

In 1936 the property was sold to the then Evangelical Methodist Hamburg Bethanien Foundation, which converted the house into a clinic, largely changing the formerly magnificent interior. The Bethanien Clinic was the first clinic in Saxony. Since it was mainly used by gynecologists , the house developed into a maternity ward and later remained an independent clinic, in which almost 50,000 children saw the light of day over the next few decades. “Bethanien”, as it was called for short, survived the Second World War unscathed. In 1962 a nursing school was set up under Christian sponsorship, which was only recognized by the GDR authorities in 1976 and operated until 1994.

With the strong decline in the birth rate after the fall of the Wall, the house became an occupational clinic again, with the specializations of ophthalmology and ENT. In 2004 the last child was born in the Bethanien Clinic and the facility moved to a new building in the deaconess hospital in Lindenau . Four years of unused vacancy followed. The St. Elisabeth Hospital acquired the property in 2009 and began extensive renovations in 2011. The house has been used as an outpatient rehabilitation center for musculoskeletal patients since 2014.

architecture

  • Art Nouveau entrance
    (2020)

  • West side with terrace and exercise pool below (2020)

  • Outbuilding , today Elifant Kindergarten (2020)

The Villa Schomburgk is a two-storey, yellow clinker building set off with sandstone elements on a sandstone-embossed basement . On all four sides pilaster strips , bay windows and balconies give the fronts a lively appearance. The main entrance on the east side has Art Nouveau elements. The gables and mid-houses facing the park side are indebted to the country house style with their exposed framework . A large terrace is located in front of the entire west side, which is connected to the bistro of the house and under which the therapeutic exercise pool is located. The slate-covered roof areas of the converted attic end in a rectangular flat roof.

The country house-style annex, formerly a servant's apartment, was a nurses' home during Bethany's days and is now, supplemented by a new building, the company kindergarten of the St. Elisabeth Hospital.

literature

Web links

Commons : Villa Schomburgk  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List entry. In: Cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Information board at the house

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 8 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 39 ″  E