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Villa Simson in Suhl

The Villa Simson is an upper -class residential building in the Thuringian city ​​of Suhl , Dombergweg 7. The villa , built between 1911 and 1912, is stylistically part of the reform architecture and is a listed building .

history

The house with 953 square meters of living space on a 7644 square meter plot was built according to plans by the architect Hermann Muthesius . It served as the widow's residence for Jeanette Simson (1847–1926), the widow of the entrepreneur Gerson Simson (1845–1904). In the years 1935/1936 "Aryanised" the Nazis the Simson works and property of the family of the flight via Switzerland to the USA succeeded.

After the Second World War , the SED district administration used the building as a guest house. This was followed briefly as a hotel. After the villa was transferred back to the Simson heirs in the 1990s, it was acquired by a financial service provider in Suhl in 2001/2002 and wanted to use it as a representative residential and commercial building. In 2007 there was a plan approved by the city of Suhl that included the renovation and installation of eleven apartments and an underground car park with 19 parking spaces. The cost was estimated at two million euros.

After this project had failed, the villa in need of renovation was for sale from April 2015 for 200,000 euros. In December 2016, an investor bought the building and wanted to repair it comprehensively. In January 2020 the house, which has since been gutted , was up for sale again on an internet portal for 707,000 euros.

architecture

The villa is in an exposed location on the southern slope of the Domberg above the city center of Suhl. A small park, which merges into the forest at the rear, frames the building, some less than ten meters wide, whose residential functions are spread over five floors. The facade is characterized by using limestone blinded basement , followed by a terrace , and two recessed plastered upper floors. The mansard and the attic form the upper end after a passage. On the first floor there was a representative two-story hall and the dining room. The second floor was the living room floor. A passenger elevator was used to access the floors .

literature

  • Eike Küstner: Jewish culture in Thuringia. A search for clues. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-083-8 , p. 17.

Web links

Commons : Villa Simson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Free Word of February 6, 2007
  2. ↑ a b New Press Coburg from February 1, 2020
  3. ↑ The Simsons' dream villa costs 199,000 euros (accessed on May 31, 2015)
  4. ↑ http://www.insuedthueringen.de/region/suhl_zellamehlis/suhl/Simson-Villa-am-Domberg-an-Investor-verkauf;art83456,5355271
  5. ↑ Jens Lönnecker: Renovation • Extension • Reconstruction of the individual monument “Villa Simson” in Suhl, Dombergweg 7. Projektscheune Planungsgesellschaft, St. Kilian 2007.

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 45 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 23"  E