Villa Vopelius
The Villa Vopelius is a neoclassical city villa in Sulzbach / Saar . The building has been a listed building as a single monument since 1982.
history
The young widow Charlotte Sophie Braun, b. In 1837 Vopelius (1795–1864) commissioned an Italian architect to build a family villa on the stately home of her father, the glass manufacturer Carl Philipp Vopelius (1764–1828). In 1864, Charlotte's son Carl Vopelius (1830–1881) inherited the property and had two projecting side wings with flat roofs added, which together with the core building at the front formed a courtyard of honor .
From 1918 onwards, the Villa Vopelius was rented out privately, and in 1945 it was bought by the city of Sulzbach, which offered affordable accommodation there after the war damage had been repaired. By changing the traffic routing, the original access area was destroyed and the side wings that were originally projected towards the street were reduced to extensions. From 1980 the building was initially empty and in 1982 it was sold to a Frankfurt real estate company. The western annex was demolished, as well as parts of the gardens. After a long legal battle, in the course of which the villa fell into disrepair, the house was sold again in 1996 and converted into condominiums until 1998.
architecture
The square building with a flat tent roof is kept in neoclassical forms and laid out over a base on two floors. The roof, which was once covered with slate, has two small dormers on the front and back .
The street facade is axially symmetrical and triaxial. The middle of the three window axes is emphasized by a portal architecture. On the ground floor, the entrance door with a pyramid staircase is framed by pilasters of Tuscan order and a door canopy, which consists of an architrave and, in contrast to the window cornice , the encircling belt cornice . Above the front door there is a small balcony with a wrought iron railing and a French window. While the lattice windows on the ground floor are unadorned, the door and windows on the upper floor have an architraved frame and a roof with a strong profile.
The entire facade was originally ocher-colored and is structured horizontally by cornices and ribbons . Only the upper floor is smoothly plastered, but is structured by a surrounding window cornice and closed by a surrounding eaves cornice with a tooth cut . While the western side facade resembles the street facade, the three-story garden side of the villa is dominated by a two-story loggia made of sandstone . This is elaborately designed. The basement, which is fully visible on the garden side, is preceded by five arcades . On the ground floor, the loggia opens up to a flat-roofed columned hall with six Tuscan columns on which an architrave and a cornice lie, which is continued in the cornice leading around the villa. On the back wall of the house, the architrave rests on two wall templates with a Tuscan capital. Modern wrought iron railings are mounted between the columns. Like the front, the rear is also divided into three axes. All floors are symmetrically structured here with a middle door and tall rectangular windows to the left and right of it. In contrast to the front, the door and window on the ground floor are framed on the back.
The extension that has been preserved adjoins the eastern side. On the street side, it is one-story above a base with a base cornice and ends up at the height of the cornice of the central building. The unadorned extension has two windows on the front. The garden side is two-storey and slightly recedes compared to the core building. The basement is designed with arcades and horizontal ribbons. The also rusticated ground floor of the extension has three window axes. At the height of the upper floor there is a roof terrace, which is secured by a parapet made of artistically bricked bricks. Since the front of the extension used to stand in front of the core building and had to be shortened due to the widening of the Sulzbachtalstraße, only the splendid rear gives an idea of what the building on the front might have looked like.
After extensive renovations in the 1980s, not much has been preserved of the once representative interior. On the ground floor, high rooms were previously grouped around an entrance hall, which provided a view from the entrance into the park-like garden, and a larger hall. While the ground floor was used for representation purposes, the bedrooms were located on the upper floor. The staff rooms were in the attic, the kitchen and pantries were in the basement.
Old postcards show a park-like garden behind the house, none of which has survived today. The house itself only has a very small strip of green behind the house, followed by a driveway to the parking lot of the neighboring shopping center. This is followed by the city park.
literature
- Anja Schönhofen: Villa Vopelius in Sulzbach saved . In: Zeitrisse: Communications on regional culture and history . No. 4, 1997, p. 18
- Peter M. Lupp, Karin M. Reif: The Villa Vopelius in Sulzbach . City Association Saarbrücken, Lower Monument Protection Authority, Saarbrücken 1999
- Brigitte Quack: The Villa Vopelius . Sulzbach, 1999
- Herbert Schmitz: Villa Vopelius is a stone witness to a dynasty. Part I . Saarbrücker Zeitung , May 22, 2000
- Herbert Schmitz: Proud villas testified to fame and fortune. Part II . Saarbrücker Zeitung, May 29, 2000
- Miriam Bilke-Perkams: Saarland entrepreneur villas between 1830 and 1914 - with a special focus on the region of the Saar coal forest . Dissertation, Universaar, Saarbrücken 2014, pp. 126–129
Remarks
- ↑ The name of the architect has not been passed down, cf. on this, Miriam Bilke-Perkams (2014), p. 126, footnote 382
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sub-monument list of the Saarbrücken Regional Association ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , List of monuments of the Saarland, Landesdenkmalamt Saar, p. 35 (PDF)
- ↑ a b c Miriam Bilke-Perkams (2014)
- ↑ a b Brigitte Quack: The Villa Vopelius , saarlandbilder.net, accessed on September 8, 2015
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 52 ″ N , 7 ° 3 ′ 30 ″ E