Villa Tiberius

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Villa Tiberius (2010)

The Villa Tiberius is a listed double villa on Hermann-Prell-Straße 5/7 in the Loschwitz district of Dresden .

history

The villa was built in 1905 by architect Karl Weichardt (1846–1906) on the Loschwitz Elbe slope and was initially named after the parcel of land Villa Waldwinkel . Weichardt, who was professor of ornament design , figure drawing, colored decorations and applied perspective at what was then the Dresden University of Technology and who himself lived in the villa, died a year later. It remained the only building that he realized in Dresden.

At first his widow Klara Reichardt lived in the house; In the 1930s, a higher daughter's home used the building, which in turn served as refugee accommodation in 1945. In the 1970s, offices of the Reichsbahn repair shop moved into the villa. In 2000 it was acquired by a lawyer who made it the meeting place for the International Forum for Culture and Business. After 2006, apartments were finally set up in the villa.

Building description

Villa Tiberius, side view
Villas Tiberius (left) and Schau ins Land (right), view from the Blue Wonder northwards
Villa Tiberius

The villa is “one of the most striking buildings in the [Loschwitz] district” and, together with the Villa Schau ins Land and the Villa Meßmacher on the same street, “one of the most impressive of the villa colony”. It is a late work by Weichardt in the style of Italian neoclassicism, which was "based on Roman and Tuscan models". Weichardt had undertaken study trips to Rome during his studies in 1874 and 1886 , which shaped him. His publications include The Castle of Tiberius and other Roman buildings on Capri , which appeared in 1900. Own reconstruction drafts for the Villa Jovis of the Emperor Tiberius on Capri flowed into the design of the Villa Tiberius.

The villa is structured and nested in many ways and has five floors of different ground and outline with round and semicircular windows, a spiral staircase, terraces, loggias and two towers. The villa's unusual floor plan is partly due to the granite floor on which the villa was built.

The interior of the villa is eclectic in design and shows, among other things, influences from reform architecture . In the entrance hall there is a restored coffered ceiling with constellations. Architect Weichardt painted the open inner hall himself in "Pompeian style ...". Originally preserved, painted leaded glass windows show, among other things, the Roman goddess of the dawn Aurora. The interior has not changed much since the villa was built.

literature

  • Villas Meßmacher, look into the country, Tiberius . In: Julia Franke, Clemens Niedenthal: Country houses and villas in Dresden. Volume 1: White Deer . Aschenbeck & Holstein, Delmenhorst / Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-939401-16-2 , pp. 55-56.
  • Villa Tiberius (formerly Waldfrieden) . In: Siegfried Thiele: 99 Dresden villas and their residents . HochlandVerlag, Pappritz 2009, ISBN 978-3-934047-58-7 , pp. 88-89.
  • Peter Bäumler: Capri flair on the Elbe slope . In: Dresden University Journal . No. 12, 2007, p. 10.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Peter Bäumler: Capri flair on the Elbhang . In: Dresden University Journal . No. 12, 2007, p. 10.
  2. ↑ See dresdner-stadtteile.de
  3. ↑ Villas Meßmacher, Look into the Land, Tiberius . In: Julia Franke, Clemens Niedenthal: Country houses and villas in Dresden. Volume 1: White Deer . Aschenbeck & Holstein, Delmenhorst / Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-939401-16-2 , p. 55.
  4. ↑ Weichardt, Karl . In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 1019.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 46.7 "  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 46.2"  E