Villa Wolf (Guben)

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Villa Wolf in Gubin , 1926

The Villa Wolf is considered the “modern first work” of the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe . From 1926 to 1945 it stood between two gardens parallel to the Neisse at Teichbornstrasse 13 in what is now Gubin , which at the time still belonged to Guben , but is now in the Polish part of Niederlausitz .

history

Erich and Elisabeth Wolf

The building was commissioned by the cloth and textile manufacturer Erich Wolf in 1925 . He increased his prosperity by marrying Elisabeth Wilke, who in turn had inherited a hat factory from her grandmother, in 1922. As a building plot, he had chosen an elevation in Guben, from which one had an overview of the industrial companies running along the Lusatian Neisse . The narrow hillside property ran along Teichbornstrasse (today Ulica Krolewska ) and the green meadow (today Ulica Piastowska ). At that time the property included a small, steep hill on which a vineyard was planted.

With the advance of the Red Army , the family fled in 1945; the building burned down and was not rebuilt. The remaining building materials were used to rebuild buildings in Gubin. In the 1960s, the property is said to have been leveled; On the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1977 it was greened and integrated into the newly created Waszkiewicz Park .

Remains of the villa in Waszkiewicz Park

From 2001 onwards, on the initiative of the International Building Exhibition Fürst-Pückler-Land, under the direction of Lars Scharnholz from the BTU Cottbus, the foundations were excavated and measured by the Museum of Modern Art . Further investigations with a ground penetrating radar are planned to determine the structure of the building in more detail. In 2006, a “bad memory box” in Gubin provided information about the building with historical photos and broken pieces from Wolf's porcelain collection. The mobile cube consisted of a semi-transparent composite material and had an edge length of approx. Three meters. It was subsequently shown in Breslau , Berlin , Dessau and Stuttgart . Today a floor monument in the park reminds of the villa.

Based on the idea of ​​urban planner Florian Mausbach , a German-Polish initiative aims to reconstruct the building.

architecture

Interior of the villa

The plans for the building envisaged a simple, cubic clinker brick building clad in red and black with an asymmetrical design of flat blocks of different sizes. The facade and interior walls were clad with flat stone . The front of the house was oriented to the west, the entrance was on the east side. The building had a “treasure chamber” to hold Wolf's works of art and paintings as well as his collection of sculptures . The interior, on the other hand, was dissolved outwards through large glass surfaces. Generous terraces took up the feeling of space, which in later buildings as "floating space" was to become a characteristic of the architect. Mies van der Rohe not only designed the building envelope, but also objects for the interior decoration. It is said that the wife did not take up all of the architect's suggestions. So she planted wisteria along the facade to soften the sharp architecture of the building.

Web links

Commons : Villa Wolf  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Exhibition on Wolf von Mies an der Rohe house in Gubin , BauNetz website, accessed on July 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Fließender Raum , Zeit Online website, accessed on July 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ The Mies-Memory-Box , website of Deutschlandradio, accessed on July 4, 2013.
  4. ↑ Bad memory box opened . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , December 28, 2006, accessed on July 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ Bad Memory Box ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Bauhaus Archive, accessed on July 5, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bauhaus.de
  6. ↑ Ronald Berg The function follows the form , taz March 14, 2016, accessed on March 14, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '23.9 "  N , 14 ° 43' 18.3"  E