Villa Wilhelma (Wuppertal)

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Villa Wilhelma

The Villa Wilhelma is an upper-class residential building in Wuppertal , Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 43 in the zoo district . The two-story building is built into a closed row of houses and is a listed building .

The building was erected in 1904 by the architects Hermanns & Riemann , who planned numerous buildings in the Zooviertel. The villa has a structured plastered facade with elements of Art Nouveau and a high basement level with ashlar plaster. Seen from the street front on the right, the house has a risalit - like two-storey porch with a brick tower top, with a circular floor plan and a conical helmet in the area of ​​the top floor. The entrance to the house on the left has a round arched loggia . The loggia has a walled parapet on the right , to which a curved flight of stairs with a wrought iron banister leads up from a terrace . At the rear of the building there is a winter garden with an adjoining terrace, from which the building can also be accessed with another open staircase made of sandstone.

On April 26, 1988, the villa was entered as a monument in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal.

literature

  • Markus Arndt: The zoo district in Wuppertal as an example of the planning and development of a Wilhelminian style villa district. Dissertation, University of Wuppertal, 1999, p. 223 f. (online as PDF document; 21.9 MB)

Web links

Commons : Villa Wilhelma  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the Wuppertal monument list

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Architects, civil engineers, builders, property developers and their buildings in Wuppertal. Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-928441-52-3 , S. #.

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 32.8 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 27.1"  E