Villa Wiener Strasse 36
The Villa Wiener Straße 36 (former number unknown) in Dresden was built in 1875. The listed building is the only surviving example of a historic villa on Wiener Strasse .
description
The two-storey building is built over a basement and has a hipped roof at the top . The facade of the building shows horizontally mounted cornices that separate the floors from each other. The cornices and located in the reserve jambs are less strongly developed than that at the protruding projections mounted cornices and jamb. In the middle of the five-axis-wide façade there is a slightly protruding risalit that occupies three axes. The risalit in the middle has been designed particularly richly. For example, a terrace with a semicircular exit, open staircase and arbor was created in front of the risalits on the façade . The upper floor of the central risalit shows an arrangement of semi-columns .
Otherwise the central projection shows arched windows . The three-axis side facade has a strong, single-axis side elevation, with the entrance on the elevation of the side facade, to which a simple outside staircase leads.
The building was extensively renovated between 2015 and 2016. All the cornices and the window frames were restored.
On the south-western side of the courtyard there was a two-story rear building with commercial use and an apartment on the upper floor.
history
The villa was privately owned until 1939 and was mainly used for residential purposes. From 1940 to 1942 the Dresden Chamber of Commerce and Industry was the owner. In 1942 the "Charlotte Meentzen Prager Strasse 24" company ( Institute for Natural Cosmetics and Laboratory for Natural Cosmetics ) acquired the villa. The company belonged to the sisters Charlotte Meentzen and Gertrude Seltmann-Meentzen and has now been used as the Meentzen Villa . During the air raids on Dresden on February 13, 1945, the headquarters of the institute, the school and the laboratory as a production facility on Prager Strasse were completely destroyed. The rear part of Villa Wiener Straße 36 was also badly damaged by bombs, the rear building was completely destroyed.
After the end of the Second World War, the company's own villa was restored in stages, and a low-rise building was later built on the foundations of the rear building. This enabled production in the villa to be resumed step by step. In 1946 a small manufacturing company was established, and in 1947 the company was re-established as a limited partnership (KG) with production on Wiener Straße. The "School for Natural Cosmetics" was also temporarily re-established here. After the expropriation in 1972, the company continued to operate on the same site as a state-owned company until the fall of the Berlin Wall and was reprivatised in 1991 . The company remained at the Wiener Strasse location until it was relocated to Radeberg in 2002.
During the flood of the century in 2002 , the villa was severely damaged in the course of the flooding of the Dresden main train station from the Weißeritz on August 12, 2002 and the masses of water that also ran off via Wiener Straße.
On February 26, 2020, the 80th anniversary of Charlotte Meentzen's death, a memorial plaque was inaugurated at the former Meentzen-Villa Wiener Straße 36 as part of a ceremonial commemoration for the sisters and entrepreneurs Charlotte Meentzen and Gertrude Seltmann-Meentzen. Members of the Meentzen and Seltmann families as well as representatives of Charlotte Meentzen KRÄUTERVITAL KOSMETIK Radeberg GmbH took part. This memorial plaque was initiated by the Landesfrauenrat Sachsen e. V. as part of the project Frauenorte Sachsen .
literature
- Volker Helas : Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900 . Verlag der Kunst Dresden GmbH, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helas, p. 169 (Wiener Straße 36 [old number not known.] Around 1875)
- ^ SLUB Dresden: Historic address books Dresden 1940/1942. Online resource
- ↑ a b Renate Schönfuß-Krause: Charlotte Meentzen and Gertrude Seltmann - two Saxon power women and entrepreneurs from Dresden had a vision - their successful legacy has been continued in Radeberg since 2002 . In: the Radeberger. Independent local newspaper. Volume 30, edition 08. Radeberg February 28, 2020. Online resource
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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 12 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 44.1" E