Villa Seckendorff
The Villa Seckendorff is an upper-class residential building in Halle (Saale) , North District, Burgstrasse 37a. The villa , which was built in the late classicism style in 1859–1860 and later changed, is one of the oldest surviving villa buildings in Halle and is listed in the register of monuments of the city of Halle under registration number 094 07986.
location
The villa is not far from the Mühlweg and thus on the southern border of the then still independent community of Giebichenstein , east of the bank of the Saale and north of the city of Halle. It is set back from the street in a charming park. The address of the villa was Mühlweg 1 at the time of its construction and in the years thereafter. Seven years later, the Diakoniekrankenhaus was built on the property on Mühlweg to the west, at that time Mühlweg 1b.
Building history and description
The villa was originally built for the Prussian major general Wilhelm Adolf Freiherr von Seckendorff (1801–1866) by the Halle architect Ernst Süvern in the simple style of late classicism as a one to two-storey plastered building with a medium risalit above a high basement ; a villa type that was often found in the middle of the 19th century. As with the Villa Heine , one encounters the elegant-looking triple group of arched windows in the “Hellenic Renaissance” style.
In order to upgrade the rather modest house, the next owner, a wealthy merchant, had a massive Belvedere tower in neo-renaissance forms added to the north-west corner of the villa in 1896 . The asymmetry created in this way made it possible to transform the simple residential building into a picturesque ensemble, as expected from Italian-style villas. At the same time, a farm building with a coach house was built , partly in half-timbered houses .
The architects Theodor Lehmann and Gustav Wolff finally added an elegant bay window to the central project in 1900 , giving the villa an Art Nouveau accent.
With its lively history of change, the villa, which is now used privately, documents the development of villa construction in the 19th century, combined with the epoch-typical increase in the representational urge of its respective owners.
literature
- Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 , p. 121.
- Hendrik Leonhardt: Hall. (= Country houses and villas in Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 1.). Aschenbeck Verlag, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3939401766 , pp. 36–37.
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 , p. 89/90
- ↑ Housing gazette and address book for the entire city of Halle ad S: on the year Halle, S: Berner, 1864 - 1866. 1866 online edition of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt.
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 38.9 ″ N , 11 ° 57 ′ 28.3 ″ E