Villa Steckner
The Villa Steckner in Halle (Saale) , Neuwerk 7, is an upper-class house built in 1902/1903 according to designs by the architects Reinhold Knoch and Friedrich Kallmeyer in a style mix of Renaissance , Late Gothic and Art Nouveau elements. The villa is listed in the monument register of the city of Halle under registration number 094 04892.
location
The villa is located in the northern inner city district on an elevation above the Mühlgraben. Until 1914, the villa had the address Am Kirchtor 6, because the construction of the Ringstrasse Neuwerk was still in planning at the time of construction. The Villa Steckner was the first villa building to line the future street. The scenic street with the character of an avenue and on a hillside, named after the medieval Neuwerk monastery , is today primarily characterized by mansions and houses built up to the end of the 1920s.
Building history
The client, Emil Steckner, was the son of Reinhold Steckner, born in Merseburg in 1824 , who founded the Steckner bank in Halle in 1855 and became one of the city's leading bankers. His son Emil, born in 1847, followed him in 1888 and, like his father, also took over the chairmanship of the Halle Chamber of Commerce .
In order to adequately fulfill his representative duties, he decided to build his own family residence. As architects, he selected Reinhold Knoch and Friedrich Kallmeyer from the renowned “Atelier for Architecture”, who were responsible for the Steckner bank on the market / corner of Kleinschmieden as early as 1888.
The first plans for the construction date from 1901. The shell was completed by June 1903; the final acceptance took place on March 22, 1904. In addition to the main building, a gardener's house, a greenhouse and a coach house were built. But in the following years, too, there were repeated building changes and additions, including the construction of a cold house in 1909, a massive enclosure to the street and the neighboring property in 1912/13, and in 1925 the conversion of the car depot to a car garage.
Building description
It is an elongated two-storey solid building with natural stone cladding and a floor area of 680 m², which is located on a 23,050 m² plot of land designed as a landscaped park. The asymmetrical, picturesque building is provided on the outside with numerous projections, bay windows, gables, balconies and a high observation tower, which gives it a "picturesque effect". In addition to pure Renaissance forms, late Gothic elements can be found in the Steckner Villa, among other things on the framework of the main portal or the tracery of the north gable. Art Nouveau motifs can be found on the door and window grilles and the enclosure.
The spatial arrangement can be read on the exterior and creates a moving outline. All rooms, such as the dining room, salon, music room, living room, master's room, are connected to one another by doors and bordered on a spacious terrace that stretched around the building to the south and west. Particular attention was paid to the design of the windows. Diversity was achieved through lead glass windows and the use of structured and cut glasses. Noteworthy is a rose motif that occurs repeatedly in various lead-glazed windows.
In the converted attic there were guest rooms and chambers for the staff. The basement with huge storage rooms and a wine cellar testified to an elaborate housekeeping.
A wooden staircase placed in the tower led to a viewing platform that opened up a wide panoramic view. A footbridge led over the Mühlgraben and connected the park with the Ziegelwiese .
Usage history
After Emil Steckner's death in 1934, the villa was given various uses, including public uses. Initially, the Central German Dairy Association had its seat here. In 1938 the city of Halle acquired the property and the Central German Municipal Administration and Savings Bank School and the Saxony and Anhalt Provincial Office of the German Municipal Association moved into the residential building .
The garden was made available to the university as a sports field.
In 1947 it was decided to set up the first industrial seminar for company officials in Halle, for which the villa was selected. From the beginning of the 1950s the Dessau Administration School, an institute for business design and the VEB business school were located here.
With the different uses, there were constant structural changes. Dining rooms were set up in the basement and lecture halls on the ground floor. The construction management was Hermann Frede held. The State Institute for Organic Chemistry had been housed in the villa since 1951, and a two-story, elongated extension was built as a result.
The grounds and villa have been used by today's Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle since 1975 . In addition to the headquarters of the administration, the Design Campus, one of the university's three locations, is located here. From 2003 onwards, extensive renovation work was carried out on the campus, so a new library was built in 2015.
literature
- Angela Dolgner : Villa Steckner. In: Dieter Dolgner (Ed.): Historic villas in the city of Halle / Saale. Friends of the Buildings and Art Monuments Saxony-Anhalt eV, Halle (Saale) 1998, ISBN 3-931919-04-8 , pp. 99–110.
- Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 , p. 120.
- Hendrik Leonhardt: Hall. (= Country houses and villas in Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 1) Aschenbeck Verlag, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3939401766 , pp. 33–35.
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. 340.
- ^ Address book for Halle ad S. and the surrounding area. Editions 1906–1926, digital copies at the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt, 2012.
- ^ Hallesches address book. Issues 1927–1938, digital copies at the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt 2012.
- ↑ Halle address book. Issues 1946/47, 1950, digital copies at the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt 2013.
- ↑ The castle's new media library opens. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Halle. November 16, 2015, accessed April 27, 2020 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 29.2 ″ N , 11 ° 57 ′ 27.3 ″ E