Villa Thorwald

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The Villa Thorwald on the upper slope on a photograph by August Kotzsch around 1875. The top of the obelisk can be seen in the middle on the right edge of the picture.

The Villa Thorwald , called Villa Herrmann until 1893 , is a villa on Schillerstraße 12 in the Dresden district of Loschwitz , which is a listed building.

history

A plaster cast of Thorwaldsen's The Dance of the Muses on Helikon (here the original) adorns the staircase of Villa Thorwald

The Villa Thorwald was built in 1841 by Heinrich Hermann Bothen (1814–1878) in the Loschwitz vineyards. From 1851 to 1852 there was a fundamental renovation and expansion by Theodor Lehnert (1825-1910). The sculptor Joseph Herrmann (1800–1869), who moved into the villa in 1852, commissioned the structural changes . The building was named "Villa Herrmann" after him. Herrmann was considered one of the most gifted students of Bertel Thorwaldsen , with whom he worked in Rome for ten years before moving to Loschwitz. Herrmann acquired his fortune by "working on the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg ."

In 1877 , an extension was added to the east of the building by the new owner Adolph Heymel, Alfred Walter Heymel's adoptive father . It is also registered as a cultural monument and was extensively renovated in 2001. The dentist and inventor of the fired porcelain filling Newell Sill Jenkins (1840–1919), who has been the owner of the building since 1893, named the villa “Villa Thorwald”, who was appointed Royal Saxon Privy Councilor . The name was given to plaster casts of works by Thorwaldssen inside the building.

From 1926 to 1935 Wilhelm Kreis lived in the Villa Thorwald, which was expropriated in 1945. Until 1992 the Villa Thorwald was a student residence and is now used again as a residential building.

construction

View of the villa 2011
Joseph Herrmann's obelisk at its current location above Villa Thorwald

The originally two-story vineyard house was redesigned in a classical style by Theodor Lehnert . “The elaborate designs in the style of Italian Renaissance villas were only implemented in reduced form.” A planned tower in the western part of the building was shortened. The villa and the surrounding park are still "clearly marked by the enthusiasm for Italy of the early 19th century ..."

Herrmann dedicated the villa to his teacher Thorwald. Several rectangular and oval plaster casts of reliefs by Thorwaldsen adorn the stairwell. A scaled down plaster copy of Thorwaldsen's Alexanderzug , which he created in 1811 as a “homage to Napoleon I ”, is particularly valuable . Today it is in the garden parlor of Villa Thorwald.

The original vineyard, which is still indicated by the remains of a wall on the property today, has been converted into a park. To beautify the property, Joseph Herrmann created an obelisk in memory of King Friedrich August II, who died in 1854 , which was later moved to the "Friedensblick" viewing platform located directly above the villa on Collenbuschstrasse.

The park has seen numerous downsizing over the years. For example, earlier parts of the park are today " disfigured by the functional buildings of a research institute ."

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cultural monument: Villa Thorwald (Schillerstraße 12)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / stadtplan.dresden.de  
  2. ^ A b c Volker Helas: Villa architecture Dresden . Taschen, Cologne 1999, p. 89.
  3. ↑ See dresdner-stadtteile.de
  4. ↑ Georg Dehio (ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments . Dresden. Updated edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2005, pp. 185f.
  5. ^ Julia Franke, Clemens Niedenthal: Country houses & villas in Dresden. Volume 1: White Deer . Aschenbeck & Holstein, Delmenhorst and Berlin 2006, p. 57.
  6. ↑ See schwarzaufweiss.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 39.7 ″  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 50.5 ″  E