Villa Toepffer
The Villa Toepffer is a two-storey half - timbered villa in Magdeburg 's Stadtfeld Ost district .
The representative building was built between 1885 and 1891 as a residence for the industrialist Richard Toepffer according to plans by the architect Rudolf Vogt . The construction work was in the hands of the Magdeburg contractors Emil Jaehn and Heinrich Cornelius .
The construction of the building in half-timbered construction was conditioned by the definition of the district of the Magdeburg fortress, which was still in existence at the time of construction . According to this, buildings in the fortress front had to be demolished in the shortest possible time in order to ensure a free field of fire in the event of war. A few years later, both the fortress and the rayon regulations were lifted. Today only a few of the rayon houses in Magdeburg are preserved.
The road front of villas facade is formed by two risalits bounded at the sides. The other facades are loosened up by various bay windows . At the back of the building is a wooden porch that leads to the garden. The main room of the villa is a formerly lavishly furnished hall, in which the colored glazing is still preserved today. A large staircase with a figurative railing leads to a gallery on the upper floor. The wooden roof structure is open on the inside. There is a marble fireplace in the building.
There were originally small towers on the roof, but they are no longer there. The half-timbering of the house is lined with orange-yellow bricks. The framework itself is decorated with the so-called Wild Man and the St. Andrew's Cross .
The villa was originally assigned to the street Sachsenring No. 6, but today it has the address Liebknechtstraße No. 14. Initially the villa was located in the so-called Toepffers Park, which was laid out in 1884 by Paul Viktor Niemeyer . This park was later largely built over. The name Toepfferspark of a street near the villa still reminds of the complex.
After Toepffer's death in 1919, the villa was used as the seat of Masonic lodges in the 1920s . Later offices were housed here.
The villa, which is now a listed building, is used for events and lectures.
literature
- Heinz Gerling : Monuments of the City of Magdeburg , Magdeburg 1991, p. 100, ISBN 3-910173-13-6
- Sabine Ullrich: Magdeburg - Architektur und Städtebau , Halle an der Saale 2001, ISBN 3-929330-33-4
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 25.7 ″ N , 11 ° 36 ′ 58 ″ E