Villa stork's nest

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The Stork's Nest Villa

The Villa Storchennest is a building erected in 1912/13 in the Saxon town of Radeberg . Together with an outbuilding (a farm building, which was later called the Spatzenhof ), the villa is on the city's list of cultural monuments. Originally built as a manufacturer's villa for the Radeberg glass industry of the Hirsch family dynasty , it has served as a meeting place for the deaf-blind service since 1993 . The Radeberg Botanical Blind Garden is located around the building .

building

The Villa Storchennest is a three-storey building. The facade design is based on Art Nouveau . The type of design is reminiscent of the work of the architect Hans Erlwein , who designed numerous houses in Dresden . In front of the main entrance (in the direction of Pillnitzer Straße ) there is an outside staircase that leads into the building via a terrace . The upper and ground floor are separated by a clearly recognizable cornice . Bay windows , wall panels , smooth plastered areas and balconies complement the appearance of the facade. The hipped roof is equipped with dormers and a small tower.

The Spatzenhof

Spatzenhof

The facade of the farm building corresponds to the architectural style of the 1920s. Similarities to the design of the houses in the garden city of Hellerau , built from 1909 on, can be clearly seen. Due to their solitary placement and the park-like surroundings of the villa, the stork's nest and the Spatzenhof form a structural unit.

history

Factory owner's villa

In order to shorten the commute to work, the members of the Hirsch family of glassmakers in Radeberg built several residential buildings in the immediate vicinity of their factories. Max Bedrich, the son of Carl August Bedrich (co-founder of the Tafelglashüttenwerk Wilh. Hirsch & Bedrich ), had the villa, later known as the Stork's Nest , built. Max Bedrich was also the husband of Elsa Hirsch, the daughter of the glass manufacturer Wilhelm Ernst Hirsch. From October 1912 to July 1913, the villa was built by the construction business of Walter Wilhelm Hirsch, a brother of Elsa Bedrich-Hirsch. The explicit naming of an architect is not known. Regional historians assume that (as was often the case at the time) the master builder was also the architect of the building. Max Bedrich died in 1924, his wife Elsa stayed with the children on the upper floor of the villa until the early 1940s. The living rooms in the basement were rented.

At the end of 1920 , the construction of the farm building on the parcel next to the villa began, also on behalf of the Hirsch & Bedrich glassworks . Construction management was carried out by Ulbricht & Richter . Garages and living rooms were set up in the building.

The villa remained in the possession of the Bedrich-Hirsch family until 1941 (other sources: 1942). Together with the farm building, it was sold to a spice wholesaler from Dresden, who moved upstairs with his family. After the end of the Second World War , the residents left the villa and the entire property became public property .

Maternity hospital

In 1956 the Radeberg maternity ward was opened in the former factory owner's villa. Since, according to a widespread European legend, the stork brings the babies , the facility was named stork's nest among the population . This name for the villa was retained and became the official name of the building. In 1973 it was no longer used as a maternity hospital. The villa was left to decay, the surrounding park overgrown. Construction work and measures to control pests (cockroaches) led between 1973 and 1985 to occasional and temporary outsourcing of wards of the city hospital "Dr. Paul Kirchner" to the former maternity hospital. There was no further use of the facility until the late 1980s.

Deaf blind service

In 1987 the Deafblind Service, a working group in the Diakonisches Werk - Innere Mission and Hilfswerk - of the Evangelical Churches in the GDR (short: AG Deafblind Service ) was founded. In 1988, the working group decided to restore the Villa Storchennest, which had now fallen into ruins, and to use it for the deaf-blind service. After the East German authorities had issued the user agreement, the renovation work began on November 1, 1989 under the direction of Ruth Zacharias . The facade was renewed in the historical style. The formerly large rooms of the villa were divided into several smaller ones and tailored to the needs of deaf-blind people. In June 1990, the Radeberg City Council officially decided to sell the villa to the deaf-blind service. In July 1993, the deaf-blind service was registered in the land register of Radeberg as the property owner. On September 12, 1993, the Villa Storchennest opened as a meeting place for the Deafblind Service eV

The deaf-blind service received the right to use the Spatzenhof in 2005 . Work on converting this building into a kitchen and community building began in 2012. The costs were borne in part by the Diakonisches Werk , the Free State of Saxony and Aktion Mensch .

Web links

Commons : Villa Storchennest  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Large district town of Radeberg in collaboration with the urban history working group (ed.): Radeberger Blätter zur Stadtgeschichte , Volumes 3, 10 and 14, Radeberg, 2005, 2012, 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives and building archives of the city ​​of Radeberg : building documents and correspondence on the industrial villas of the city
  2. ↑ List of cultural monuments of the city of Radeberg, section Radeberg - Pillnitzer Straße 71. (PDF; 113 kB) Retrieved on August 5, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b c Peter Schmutzler: Industrial villas in the town of Radeberg . Radeberg, 2005
  4. ^ Dietrich Mauerhoff: The Kommerzienräte Wilhelm and Max Hirsch, the most important representatives of the Hirsch family in Radeberg. (PDF; 3.0 MB) in: Pressed Glass Correspondence 2007-3, August 2007
  5. ↑ Madalina Diaconu: Sensory Space City: A multisensory anthropology. Lit Verlag Münster, 2012, ISBN 3-643-50432-2 , p. 92
  6. ↑ City council resolution 51/90 of June 7th, 1990. Retrieved September 3, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Gärtner: "I am now hearing through you". Pastor Ruth Zacharias, head of the EKD's deaf-blind service, is 70 years old. In: Dresdner Latest News , August 7, 2010 edition.
  8. ↑ Bernd Lichtenberger: Chestnuts have to give way to "Spatzenhof". In: Dresdner Latest News , edition September 1, 2012.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 18.7 ″  N , 13 ° 55 ′ 21.9 ″  E