Villa Späthe
The Villa Späthe , today Villa Adelheid , belongs to the ensemble of listed villas that characterize the cityscape of Gera . It was built in 1910. It is located at Berliner Straße 1 (formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße) and is framed by the Villa Meyer and the Villa Schellig-Lubold .
history
The villa was built in 1910 by the architect Carl Zaenker for the Gera manufacturer Paul Späthe . The purveyor to the court Wilhelm Spaethe sen. founded a company in Gera, which was initially dedicated to the construction of harmonica , later also manufactured grand pianos and pianos and achieved international success with the production of bandoneonswould have. After the death of its founder on September 22, 1878, the company was initially run by his son Otto and later by his grandson Paul. In 1909, Paul Späthe commissioned the architect Carl Zaenker to build a villa as a family residence in what was then Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 1. The architect Carl Zaenker was very well known in Gera at the time. He is the builder of numerous, now also listed, villas in Gera, including the Villa Maurer , Villa Ramminger , Villa Jäger , Villa Rothe and Villa Meyer .
After Paul Späthe's death, his daughter Erna, who was married to the tool manufacturer Perthel , inherited the villa. They separated in 1933, the main floor of the other rooms, and built in 1938, the villa in an apartment building with three apartments for rent to. The architect MW Schmidt was responsible for the renovation. The large villa garden, which reached as far as Zabelstrasse, was separated in the GDR era and is now built on with a kindergarten and another house.
The villa was repaired in 1974 and 1993. During this time it was used by the Office of Statistics, and after reunification it served as the seat of a tax consultancy firm.
Between the end of 2011 and the middle of 2014, the villa was extensively renovated and restored by its current owners. The entire facade was renewed, including the stucco elements , which were remolded using the original stucco that was still there. Inside the building, Erna Späthe's division into apartments across the entire floor was restored. The original parquet and pitch pine flooring, which Paul Späthe imported from the USA in 1910, was exposed and restored. The sliding and wing doors, which were still provided with the original lead glass, were freed from their plasterboard cladding and restored in accordance with the listed building standards , as were the wooden panels and stucco decorations on the ceilings on the first floor and the first floor. The wells in the winter garden has been activated, the metal parapets of balconies and staircases were reconstructed to original plans, the entire staircase, including the steps of wood, refurbished and re-applied, the outer surfaces.
Today the villa bears the name of the city's founder, Adelheid , who was originally remembered by Adelheidstrasse (now Clara Zetkin- Strasse) and Adelheidplatz (now Johannisplatz). Adelheid became the land of Gera with all rights on April 26th, 999 by her brother Emperor Otto III. made available.
architecture
The villa stands on a square base with a side length of approx. 15 m each. The building is almost cubic, well-proportioned and clearly structured, and ends with an extended mansard roof .
The building protrudes from a high basement made of granite facing and consists of four representative stucco facades. The rectangular windows are framed by stucco ornaments, some of which are designed across floors.
On the north side is the main entrance, which is protected by an open porch made of sandstone and can be reached via a single flight of stairs. The vestibule is decorated with arched windows. A large arched window can be seen behind it, which takes up the entire height of the building and illuminates the stairwell behind. A bay protrudes to the west and serves as a balcony for the first floor.
The west facade originally provided access to the spacious villa garden. It therefore consists of two porches with a semicircular terrace in front, which in turn leads to an outside staircase to the garden. The south facade is structured by a three-axis central risalit with a bay window. The east facade facing the street is characterized by a three-axis old building over which a gable field protrudes.
The historicist , neo-baroque villa has isolated Art Nouveau elements , which can also be found on the sliding doors on the piano nobile and the stucco in the interior. On the first floor, the living room extends over the entire length of the house and offers a clear view from the garden to the street. The room is paneled with wood, and the ceiling is partially decorated with wooden panels. The dining room, guest room, kitchen and winter garden are paneled with wood. There is a fountain in the winter garden. The wall panels and doors are decorated with inlays , some with the original lead glass .
The garden pavilion, which was initially set up in the south-east corner, was moved to the south-west corner during one of the numerous site redesigns. In the course of the restoration of the villa in 2013, it was completely rebuilt, using the original wooden parts as far as possible, and positioned so that it again forms a counterpoint to the structure of the villa.
literature
- Anja Löffler: Cultural monuments in Thuringia. City of Gera. (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3). Sandstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-937940-33-5 .
- Karin Lange, Bernd Germar: Villas in Gera. Rhivo Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-932081-15-3 .
- Sabine Schellenberg among others: Villas and villa gardens in Gera. Wicher, Gera 1999, OCLC 247623269 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '54.2 " N , 12 ° 4' 59.6" E