Villa Victoria (Coburg)
The Villa Victoria is located at Ketschendorfer Straße 2 in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg . It is a Biedermeier house that was built in 1835 and is registered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
history
The beginning of the road leading from the Ketschentor to the southern Ketschendorf was built between 1827 and 1840. In 1835, Peter Gieck had the free-standing two-storey building erected on the corner of Ketschendorfer Strasse and Casimirstrasse. At the end of the 19th century, the original flat hipped roof was raised for a loft extension and the risalit was expanded to include a dwelling with a triangular gable. In addition, a winter garden with colored glazing on the street side was added.
In 1919 the owner had two dormers built in on the street side and a roof bay window and two dormers on the back. In 1918 a cellar was laid out next to the house and in 1919 the basement of the house was built.
Abraham Friedmann , Jewish commissioner and general director of the Coburg meat products company Großmann, moved into the house in 1919. Already in the early 1920s he was the target of defamation and assaults by the Coburg NSDAP under the leadership of Franz Schwede . On March 25, 1933 Friedmann was dismissed without notice and his share assets were blocked. With no income he could no longer pay the interest on the mortgage on his house. In the spring of 1935, Dresdner Bank applied for a foreclosure auction and the Coburg entrepreneur Max Brose bought the property together with his business partner Ernst Jühling. The building was subsequently used for company apartments. A reimbursement procedure that the daughters of Friedmann, who died in Paris in 1935, had applied for was ended in 1953 with a settlement. In 1956 the Brose company sold the property.
In 1963 the facade was renovated, in 1996/97 the facade and roof were renovated. The house, which had been vacant for almost three years, was acquired by the Sommer family at the end of 2012. In 2013/2014, the owners arranged for the building to be refurbished and converted into the “Villa Victoria” hotel with eight double rooms and two suites. Among other things, the profile cornice between the first and second floors and the wrought-iron railing on the porch were restored. The triangular gable above the dwelling was replaced by a balustrade .
The exemplary renovation of the historic building by the city of Coburg was awarded a certificate and medal in 2015. In 2017 the owners received the Medal of the Free State of Bavaria for the exemplary renovation of the monument.
architecture
The building, which is part of the ensemble of three other Biedermeier houses, looks almost classical on the street side due to its blocky nature . The facade has seven window axes and is loosened up by a three-axis risalit and a ground-floor porch with an arbor divided by pilasters . A tooth cut moves the eaves.
The stairwell with its paneling, the banisters and posts, some apartment doors with skylights and corridor windows with old glazing have been preserved as historical details. There are also stucco ceilings and historic parquet floors.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments. Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , p. 165.
- ↑ Hubert Fromm: The Coburg Jews. Tolerated - Outlawed - Destroyed . Evangelisches Bildungswerk Coburg eV and Initiative Stadtmuseum Coburg eV, 3rd revised and expanded edition, Coburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-938536-01-8 , p. 226 f.
- ^ Coburger Tageblatt, June 14, 2017
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 18 ″ N , 10 ° 57 ′ 51 ″ E