Villa Tolkewitzer Strasse 57

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Villa Tolkewitzer Strasse 57 in Dresden before the destruction

The Villa Tolkewitzer Straße 57 , also called Villa Romana , is a cultural monument in the Dresden district of Blasewitz . The illegal demolition of the building after several fires at the instigation of the owner and the reconstruction ordered by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments are considered a "unique process in the history of Saxon monument protection".

The Villa

The property at Tolkewitzer Strasse 57 is considered to be historical, as it is said to have been the home of Adolf Magnus von Hoym's country estate .

Originally the property had the address Tolkewitzer Straße 15. As early as 1902, the villa was mentioned as Villa Romana in the address books of the city of Dresden. The owner was the secret accountant Wilhelm Kostrzewski. In the course of renumbering around 1914, the villa was given the new address Tolkewitzer Strasse 57. It was set back from the street and built on a large garden plot. The north-eastern side of the villa faces the nearby Elbe .

The villa is a rather rare example of architecture between Neo-Baroque , Art Deco and New Objectivity and has been a listed building since the early 1990s. It has a floor area of ​​approx. 15 by 15 meters and three storeys, whereby the mansard storey was covered with slate. She had a typical for Elbvillen time classical piano nobile . In the salon-like living room there was a fireplace with a wall that could be lowered onto the Elbe. A curved living room staircase had a sandstone balustrade. In the stairwell of the villa there was a marble relief by Robert Diez ; Inside the building, stucco work from the time it was built had also been preserved. Lead glass windows were also preserved at the time of the demolition in 2014.

In a press release, the city of Dresden called the villa a "document of Dresden building culture that is protected for urban planning, settlement history, architectural history and artistic reasons." Plan and photo documentation of the villa have been preserved, which enable a "detailed replica of essential design elements".

Newspaper publisher Fritz Schettler lived in the villa from the late 1920s until his internment after the end of the Second World War .

History and demolition of the building

The owner, who in the 1960s as chief engineer of PGH Elektrobau "Karl Steglich" was significantly involved in the construction of the floodlights ("giraffes") of the Dynamo stadium , lived in the villa with his family and the family of the brother at the latest since 1970s. Both brothers tried to flee the GDR in the 1970s and were later ransomed by the Federal Republic. Shortly before leaving the GDR in 1977, the Catholic owner sold the villa to the Catholic Church, which at that time had already used individual rooms in the building. The property and villa were finally used by Caritas and housed a support workshop for disabled young people. The villa was used as living space for employees of the Catholic diocese of Dresden-Meißen and the head of Caritas (including Dieter Grande ).

Shortly after the fall of the Wall , the previous owner reached an agreement with the Catholic Church to buy back the villa and property, which finally took place in 1997. The ownership was divided between a couple and their daughter. The intact villa was not moved into or renovated. As early as the end of 1996, the owner asked about the possibility of demolishing the villa, but the monument protection authorities refused to demolish it. A demolition of the villa requested by the owner in 1998 was rejected, and legal action by several instances (most recently Dresden Administrative Court ) and a call from the petitions committee of the Saxon state parliament did not lead to a demolition permit. The owner refused to sell the property.

In October 2012 a series of fires began in the building. Initially, two basement rooms in the villa burned, which caused "considerable soot in the entire building". The main electricity distribution board of the villa was destroyed and the windows burst. In November 2013, the mansard floor and the roof structure in particular were badly damaged in a major fire. The investigators assumed arson. At the beginning of 2014, the owner of the villa inquired to what extent a new building on the property at Tolkewitzer Strasse 57 was possible. At the end of March 2014 there was another fire in the villa, with neighbors seeing a person fleeing from the property shortly before the fire. The fire spread on the ground floor, but caused little damage.

In mid-May 2014 an employee of the monument protection authority accidentally noticed the demolition of the building while driving by and alerted the police. The city of Dresden ordered an immediate demolition stop, but the owner ignored it. On the day of the demolition stop, the largely preserved Elbe-side villa facade was torn down. The remains of the ground floor and a side wall were ultimately preserved. In mid-June, the owner continued the illegal demolition of the villa, contrary to the requirements of the city of Dresden. Only fragments of the building have survived, including remains of the wall. The Dresden Mayor of Culture described the handling of the cultural monument as "barbaric".

Legal consequences

The State Office for Monument Preservation of Saxony ordered the reconstruction of the villa at the owner's expense in September 2014. This is a coercive measure that is rarely used. "For extreme cases of this kind, the monument protection authority is given the legal option of ordering the reconstruction of a removed cultural monument by means of a notice and thereby vividly preserving its testimony value by reconstructing the same material and appearance," said the City of Dresden in a press release.

The public prosecutor's office began investigating the case after a criminal complaint from the city of Dresden for violating the Saxon Monument Protection Act .

In March 2016, the State Office of Saxony rejected the owner's objection to the reconstruction order imposed by the state capital in September 2014. The owner then moved to the Dresden Administrative Court .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Tobias Wolf: Demolition at any price . In: Sächsische Zeitung , September 23, 2014, p. 3.
  2. ↑ See entry in address book for Dresden and its suburbs . Dresden 1902, p. 539 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Assemble again immediately! In: Saxon newspaper. September 22, 2014, accessed on December 17, 2016 (With an aerial photo ("bird's eye view") from the map service Bing .).
  4. ↑ a b c Catrin Steinbach: City orders the reconstruction of a demolished monument villa in Blasewitz . In: Dresdner Latest News , September 19, 2014, p. 13.
  5. ↑ a b Tobias Wolf: Police stop further demolition of historic villa . In: Sächsische Zeitung , June 13, 2014, p. 20.
  6. ↑ a b Building at Tolkewitzer Strasse 57 has to be rebuilt. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, September 18, 2014, accessed on December 17, 2016 (press release).
  7. ^ State capital Dresden (ed.): Culture in retrospect 2014 . Annual report of the Office for Culture and Monument Protection. May 2015, p. 23 ( online as PDF ; 2.1 MB).
  8. ^ First entry in the address book for Dresden and suburbs 1929, p. 691.
  9. ^ Rudolf Harbig Stadium. Progressive architecture for FC “Dynamo Dresden” . das-neue-dresden.de, accessed on October 16, 2014.
  10. ↑ a b c Tobias Wolf: City hall reports criminal charges after the villa was demolished . Sächsische Zeitung , June 6, 2014, p. 10.
  11. ↑ a b Tobias Wolf: Historic villa demolished after two fires . In: Sächsische Zeitung , May 27, 2014, p. 17.
  12. ↑ (lex): Arsonists set fire to two cellars - one resident injured . In: Sächsische Zeitung , October 25, 2012, p. 17.
  13. ^ A b Alexander Schneider: Empty villa on Tolkewitzer Strasse burned out . In: Sächsische Zeitung , November 19, 2013, p. 16.
  14. ↑ Police report: Villa set on fire for the second time . In: Sächsische Zeitung , April 1, 2014, p. 15.
  15. ↑ First judgment on the demolition of a villa in Dresden-Blasewitz , in: zeilenverbindungen.net. Author: Damian Kaufmann. 29th September 2017
  16. ↑ The demolition of the monument continues . In: Sächsische Zeitung , June 13, 2014, p. 1.
  17. ↑ Quoted from Tobias Wolf: Demolition at any price . In: Sächsische Zeitung , September 23, 2014, p. 3.
  18. ↑ Domink Brüggemann: Two years after the villa was demolished: No decision to rebuild. In: Dresdner Morgenpost . May 30, 2016. Retrieved December 17, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 39 ″  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 55.9 ″  E