Villa Selter (Leipzig)
The Villa Selter is an upper-class residential building in the Springer Straße 6 in Leipzig district center-north. The house, built in 1909, is a listed building .
history
The villa was built for the fur trader Alfred Selter according to plans by the Leipzig architect Otto Paul Burghardt in what was then a new residential area on Kickerlingsberg behind the Leipzig zoo . Since Alfred Selter was an imperial Japanese consul , it also acted as a consulate .
1945 was one of the building to the area between Kickerlingsberg and Gohliser road, from the SMAD for accommodating rods of the Red Army was confiscated.
After the fall of the Wall , the villa was used as the French consulate general for the federal states of Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt from 1990 to 2002. Once again privately owned, it is used as a residential building again after thorough renovation .
description
The villa is built in the reform style and has a varied articulated stone facade. The gable of the central risalit , towering between two gable gables, has architectural decorations somewhere between Neo-Baroque and Art Nouveau . Bay windows and balconies enliven the overall picture in all four directions .
Web links
- Villa Selter. In: Leipzig Days. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
- A villa with history. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
- Villa Selter in Leipzig is for sale. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of cultural monuments in Leipzig-Zentrum-Nord , ID number 09293090
- ^ Peter Schwarz: The millennial Leipzig . From the beginning of the 20th century to the present. 1st edition. tape 3 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-945027-13-4 , pp. 209 .
- ↑ List of monuments
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 12.6 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 11 ″ E