Villa Wolf (Heilbronn)
The Villa Wolf is a villa on Parkstrasse 33 in the Heilbronn district of Sontheim . The villa, built in 1903/04, is an example of a typical two-family house in Art Nouveau style and represents the taste of the time. It is also one of the few remaining buildings in Heilbronn that were built by citizens of the Jewish faith and “Aryanized” during the Nazi era .
The Villa Wolf is a listed building . The Hermann Wolf Road in Sontheim that passes also at the Villa Wolf is named after the former owners.
description
The villa was built in 1903/1904 in Art Nouveau style by the architects Kappler & Beckmann as a two-family house above the St. Matthew Church in Sontheim, which was built just a few years earlier, for the shoe manufacturer Hermann Wolf ( Wolko shoe factory ). The three-storey building is a building with a plastered facade with a hipped roof and dormers . A central projection rises towards Parkstrasse , which has a baroque curved ornamental gable at the top. A two-storey loggia is attached to the central risalit , which has been designed as an entrance loggia with a segment-arched entrance portal. Above the entrance loggia there is another loggia, which in turn is crowned by a balcony. A hipped roof in the shape of a pyramid rises behind the central projectile and the two-storey loggia . On the right side of the loggia there is a polygonal corner tower with a green patinated copper hood . The villa has details such as oculi , console figures and relief figures of the window reveal in sandstone.
history
The building was built for the shoe manufacturer Hermann Wolf (Schuhfabrik Wolko). It was the residence of the Wolko owners, the Israel and Wolf families. The Sontheim rabbi Kulb and later the Wolko directors also lived there. In 1970, with the decline of the shoe factory, the factory property including the villa was acquired by the city of Heilbronn. While the factory was being dismantled, the local council decided in a closed session to sell the house to the Heilbronn architect Gerhard P. Lichy, who was to maintain the exterior of the villa and modernize the interior.
literature
- Julius Fekete , Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Heilbronn district . (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I.5.). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 260 .
- Siegfried Schilling: The last piece of Wolko changes hands. In: Heilbronner Voice of October 21, 1978, No. 244, p. 21.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 24 ″ E