Villa Weisdorff
The Villa Weisdorff (also: director's house of the Burbacher Hütte ) is a listed villa in the Saarbrücker Waldstraße 46 / 46a.
history
The builder of the villa was Kommerzienrat Edmund Weisdorff (1852-1921), who from 1902 to 1918 was general director and commercial board member of ARBED GmbH (Acieries Reuniers de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange). Between 1911 and 1913 the architects Alfred Salinger and Eugen Schmohl built a representative villa for Weisdorff. From 1918 the villa was the official seat of the French mine administration, from 1935 the Burbacher Hütte used the villa.
After the Second World War, the building was sold and served as a consulate in nearby Luxembourg . In 1958, the gatehouse and the coach house were converted into a residential building. In 1977 the greenhouse was demolished and parts of the park area were sold. The villa has been privately owned since the early 1980s.
architecture
The neo-baroque villa was built over an approximately rectangular floor plan and is closed off by a mansard roof. It stands in the back of a spacious park with a representative gatehouse and a coach house. The garden side of the villa is defined by a five-axis, two-storey middle section, which is flanked by a two-storey, three-axis projections each with a single-storey, two-axis extension with a flat roof. The ground floor rises above a low plinth with a surrounding cornice. The middle part of the villa is defined on the ground floor by a five-axis arched arcade that forms a small hall. An arched window door leads into the large dining room. Two arched windows flank the door. Window and door frames, parapets, sills and cornices are made of gray-brown sandstone. The two outer axes accommodate two blind arched openings.
The hall is closed at the top by a circumferential cornice and forms a terrace in front of the upper floor, which is secured by a balustrade with sculptures. The risalites have arched windows on the ground floor with a wedge-shaped accentuated keystone, which is cranked with the cornice above. The windows on the upper floor are rectangular. The structure closes with a cornice. The attic has eye-catching roof houses with oval windows that are decorated with volutes and topped by a carnation arch with a keystone. The central part is illuminated by five, the risalites by two roof houses. The rear of the villa only has a two-axis risalit in the west, but otherwise takes up the design elements of the more elaborately designed south side to the park.
While on the ground floor you reach a large vestibule , which leads into the representative rooms with salon, master bedroom and dining room, the upper floor is designed as a private living room with bedrooms and dressing rooms. Guest rooms and staff rooms were housed in the attic.
literature
- 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. 256–260
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments LHS Saarbrücken , List of monuments of the Saarland, Landesdenkmalamt Saarland, 2011, p. 27 (PDF)
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 47.4 " N , 6 ° 57 ′ 39.4" E