Villa Seligmann

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The Villa Seligmann , seen from Hohenzollernstrasse on the Eilenriede

The Villa Seligmann is a former upper-class residential building in Hanover , it is on the Eilenriede in the Hanover-Oststadt district , Hohenzollernstrasse 39. The villa was built in 1903–1906 based on a design by the architect Hermann Schaedtler for Siegmund Seligmann , the Jewish director of Continental AG , and built his family. The listed building is now used as a venue for concerts and other events.

Building description

Lord Mayor Stefan Schostok speaks to guests in the “great hall” of Villa Seligmann

Hermann Schaedtler designed the strongly articulated, two-story building made of sandstone - blocks in neo-baroque shapes under a high mansard roof . Today the building is also of great importance due to its rich, almost completely preserved interior. There is a picture postcard from the period around 1910 showing the furnishings in the master's room .

The free-standing villa "on one of the largest plots of the otherwise dense villa development on the Eilenriede" was also decorated with a park-like garden based on plans by the Hanoverian gardening director Julius Trip . The area was filled with "beautiful groups of trees"; a "quality full well whose side with at the superior semicircular driveway was found Moorish and Art Nouveau - ornaments sat up decked pool on five pillars".

history

Andor Izsák (left) in front of the bust of Siegmund Seligmann in the “youth room” with Ernst August Prince of Hanover

Shortly after the completion of the villa, the Belgian heir to the throne Prince Albert was quartered in the Villa Seligmann during the imperial maneuver in 1907 . But even after Siegmund Seligmann's death, the building remained the residence of the family until 1931, who then donated the property to the city of Hanover because of high maintenance costs and tax burdens .

The now urban villa was initially used as a depot for exhibits from what was then the Kestner Museum . 1939, the year of the beginning of by the Nazis evoked World War II , the building was for services of the Armed Forces vice uses and additional barracks erected. The bombing of Hannover survived the Villa Seligmann virtually unscathed and American US after the invasion and British troops in Hanover in 1945 the seat of the country's food office .

From 1962 the Villa Seligmann served cultural, especially musical purposes, initially as a branch of the Lower Saxony University of Music and Theater and around twelve years later, from 1974, as an administration, teaching and concert building for the city's music school in the state capital of Hanover .

After the musician and professor Andor Izsák wrote his story History and Vision in 2006 . 100 years Villa Seligmann had issued, which acquired Siegmund Seligmann Foundation the property on 17 January 2012. Since then, it serves as the seat of the Hannover University of Music affiliated European Center for Jewish Music and is used for concerts and exhibitions.

Exhibitions

Harmen Thies in front of display boards with reproductions from the Hanover City Archives on Edwin Oppler's former New Synagogue in Hanover;
At the beginning of 2014 in the Villa Seligmann for the traveling exhibition Synagoge and Temple - 200 Years of the Jewish Reform Movement and its Architecture

Media coverage (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Villa Seligmann (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Peter Schulze: Villa Seligmann In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. From the beginning to the present. 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 644.
  2. ^ A b c Gerd Weiß: Hohenzollernstrasse In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, Volume 10.1. ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 167 ff.
  3. ↑ a b c d Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Hohenzollernstrasse 39 In: Hanover. Art and culture lexicon. P. 152.
  4. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Seligmann, Siegmund. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 331 f.
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 694 f.
  6. ^ Andor Izsák (ed.): History and vision. 100 years of Villa Seligmann. Hanover 2006.
  7. ↑ Deviating from the website of the Siegmund-Seligmann-Stiftung, the City Lexicon of Hanover names 2008 (instead of 2006) as the year of the change of ownership.
  8. ^ Andor Izsak: Siegmund Seligmann Foundation ( villa-seligmann.de ).
  9. ↑ Jochen Litterst (Chairman): Welcome! Welcome! on the website bet-tfila.org , last accessed on January 27, 2014.

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 4.3 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 17.5"  E