Villa Schroedel

Villa Schroedel

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The Villa Schroedel in Halle (Saale) , Reichardtstrasse 21, is an upper-class residential and commercial building built in the neo-Gothic style in 1895/1896 for the publisher Hermann Ludwig Schroedel (1864–1943) . Schroedel was the founder of the Schroedel Verlag . The villa is listed in the monument register of the city of Halle under registration number 094 07300.

location

The house was built in the then still independent community of Giebichenstein in the north of Halle. In the street named after Johann Friedrich Reichardt , which was newly laid out in 1893, only seven of a total of 22 houses were completed and inhabited in 1895. The villa with no. 21 is an effective head building at the east end of the north side of the road to the already completed houses no. 19 and 20. Gottfried Riehm's family had lived in the immediate vicinity in the house at Reichardtstrasse 19 on the ground floor since 1895 . Today the residential street , which is planted with linden trees on both sides , is characterized by mansion-like, stately townhouses with enclosed front gardens in different styles of historicism and art nouveau .

History and architecture

The builder of the villa was the publisher and commercial advisor Hermann Ludwig (called Louis) Schroedel - from 1918 von Schroedel-Siemau - his father Friedrich Ludwig (called Louis) Schroedel (1823-1884) in 1850 a partner and in 1863 sole owner of the one founded in 1792 Kümmelschen assortment and publishing bookstore became. 1885 Hermann Louis Schroedel took over the publishing division of his father's business and was laying under his name the roots of one of the most prestigious, existing until 2003 publisher , who was known for his textbooks.

After the end of the Second World War , his son Joachim von Schroedel-Siemau (1901–1963) moved the publishing house from Halle to Wolfenbüttel and in 1949 to Hanover .

Schroedel won over Halle-born Friedrich Fahro as the architect , who had already made a name for himself through numerous church buildings and was particularly influenced by the architecture of his teacher Conrad Wilhelm Hase , who preferred the neo-Gothic style. Since the middle of the 19th century, Hase propagated the so-called Hanover School , which included building "from the inside out". Then, in contrast to the block-like arrangements of classicism , the rooms were appropriately arranged according to the argument of comfort, so that a picturesque, nested structure resulted.

Based on these principles, Friedrich Fahro created a two-storey brick building lavishly framed with red sandstone above a high basement with arbor , box and triangular bay window and a round corner tower with a high pointed helmet. The entrance portal is crowned by a rose window made according to a Gothic model . But the partially coupled pointed arch windows, the windows on the upper floor of the corner tower, reminiscent of loopholes, and the sculptural facade decorations can be identified as essential elements of neo-Gothic architecture. A picturesque, asymmetrical structure dominating the street was created, which also has significance in the ensemble with Wettiner Platz, which was laid out in 1895 - today Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

According to the address book, Hermann Louis Schroedel had lived in his new house since March 1, 1896. After von Schroedels left Halle in 1945, the building changed hands several times. Today the renovated building is again in the possession of the client's descendants and is partly rented out. a. to a dental office.

literature

• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt / City of Halle. Fly Head Publishing, Halle 1996, ISBN 3-910147-62-3 , p. 384.
• Hendrik Leonhardt: Hall. (= Country houses and villas in Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 1) Aschenbeck Verlag, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3939401766 , p. 43.
• Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 , p. 112.

Web links

Commons : Villa Schroedel (Halle)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 50.1 ″  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 43.7 ″  E

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 .
2. ^ Address book for the city of Halle ad Saale. Issues 1892–1904, digital copies at the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt 2012.
3. ^ CA Kümmel's range bookstore GC Knapp, Halle, Saale (1838–1848). In: CERL Thesaurus. Retrieved July 27, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Schroedel-Siemau, Joachim von. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen , 2002, p. 323 , accessed on May 19, 2020 . 
5. ^ History of the Westermann Group. Retrieved May 19, 2020