Villa XAIPE
The Villa XAIPE is a building from the end of the 18th century, which is located in Vienna on Grünbergstrasse and at the Meidlinger Tor of the Schönbrunn Palace Park .
Surname
The name of the castle, which is attached to the front of the building, comes from the Greek and means "Greetings" ( Greek χαίρε , pronunciation : [ ˈçɛ.ɾɛ ]). The common Viennese pronunciation corresponds to the Latin sound value of the letters.
history
In the 18th century, aristocratic families settled near the imperial summer residence Schönbrunn Palace in the Vienna suburb of Meidling , which at that time developed into a popular resort and spa (see Tivoli and Theresienbad ).
In the area called Neuried , near the Steyrermühle , which was demolished in 1756 , the villa XAIPE was built at the end of the 18th century, the architect of which is no longer known today. However, it is associated with the French architect Jean Nicolas Jadot de Ville-Issey , who came to Vienna in 1745 and built the Old University here.
owner
The first known owner was Raimund Wetzlar, Baron von Plankenstern in 1793 . He came from the family of Karl Abraham Wetzlar von Plankenstern , an enormously wealthy moneylender and financier who converted from Judaism to Catholicism and was elevated to the baron status in 1777 with the predicate "von Plankenstern". Raimund Wetzlar actually ran a hospitable house in which there was a musical competition between Ludwig van Beethoven and the pianist Joseph Wölfl in 1800 .
Since 1810 the Villa XAIPE and the adjoining “Schubert-Stöckl” used as a farm building have been in one hand. In 1812 Raimund Wetzlar bequeathed his castle to his four sons in equal parts. From 1826 the Hungarian wholesaler Ignaz Mayer von Alssó-Ruszbach was co-owner, who invited artists and scholars to his house, especially during the revolutionary year of 1848, which made the villa a meeting place for freedom-minded people.
In 1861, Raimund Wolfgang Reichsritter von Manner , who was married to Laura Weigl, owned the building. This was the daughter of the tenant of "Weigls Dreherpark", a widely famous (until the late 1950s) located directly opposite today's Grünbergstrasse, from Schönbrunner Strasse (today: ON 297-307) to commit amusement establishment. Among the residents of the house from 1906 to 1916 was the Minister of Education, Richard Graf von Bienerth-Schmerling .
From 1916 Erwein Graf Nostitz-Rieneck , the adjutant of the last Emperor Karl , was the owner of the house.
Café Schlößl
This was placed under monument protection in 1927 and leased by the owner to the couple Julius and Maria Bokor, who opened the famous “Café Schlössl” here. With its cultivated ambience and the large and beautiful outdoor dining area, it became a meeting place for well-known artists. The actors Richard Eybner and Vilma Degischer , who were active in the not far away Reinhardt Seminar , frequented this place, as did Max Reinhardt himself, the director Paul Kalbeck , the composer Richard Strauss and especially Arthur Schnitzler . The architect Josef Hoffmann was also one of the regulars.
After Austria was annexed to the German Empire, the café was closed because Julius Bokor was of Jewish descent and his wife did not want to separate from him. During and after the war, the villa was badly damaged, so that the beautiful interior was completely lost.
post war period
In 1951, the entrepreneurial couple Ludmilla and Boris Zenoff-Stoynoff acquired the villa, which they lived in until his death (1996 and 2002 respectively). The top floor of the villa was occupied by Mounier Joukhadar and Ute Fuchs from 1993 to 2007. In 1968 the building that had always belonged to Meidling was added to the Hietzing district. It was refurbished and renovated in 2007/08.
In June 2011 it was announced that the People's Republic of China had acquired the villa from a Romanian entrepreneur couple with 2,200 square meters of parkland for more than 3 million euros and that the neighboring property was also secured for 1.6 million euros. In autumn 2011 renovation work on the facade and property wall and the erection of a flagpole took place. The villa is used as the residence of the Chinese ambassador.
Building description
The Villa XAIPE is located at Schönbrunner Strasse 309 or Grünbergstrasse 2 in the extreme northeast of Vienna's 13th district Hietzing .
The building has a typical French facade design and is a remarkable building from the Baroque Classicism period of the second half of the 18th century. Its most striking feature is the concave, curved central projectile with windows, which is deepened in a niche and crowned by a triangular gable. The hipped roof emphasizes the risalit underneath with a dome-like extension. The villa is connected to the farm building by a brick portal. In the garden is the so-called Schubert-Stöckl, a two-story garden house, the facades of which date from the third quarter of the 19th century.
The villa was completely renovated and the building services modernized, whereby the roof was also raised in order to be able to use the top floor adequately. The building is partially basement and has three floors. The ground floor has a floor area of 225 m² with a ceiling height of 3.25 m. Here you will find the salon with a circular area behind the risalit as well as four further living rooms, kitchen and bathrooms, a central main entrance and two servant entrances to the garden and the sides. In the main floor with about 250 m² and a ceiling height of 4.25 meters of the representative staircase and the 8 m high room with a domed roof and balcony, along with four rooms, kitchen, bathrooms. A small balcony also leads to the garden. The interior design impresses with three open chimneys, restored parquet floors and stucco , double-leaf wooden doors with classically decorated door frames and stylish bathroom furnishings. The approximately 190 m² top floor has five living rooms, a kitchen, and bathrooms with a ceiling height of approximately 2.80 m. Noteworthy are two narrow spiral staircases that lead from the ground floor to the first floor and the top floor.
The park-like garden of 2,300 m² includes old trees, a pool and parking spaces. In autumn 2011, a 5 meter high noise barrier was erected on the busy Grünbergstrasse .
literature
- Hertha Bren: Villa XAIPE. Backdrop of current affairs . In: Blätter des Bezirksmuseum Meidling , Issue 16/1986, ZDB -ID 512656-3 . Association for the preservation and promotion of the Meidlinger Heimatmuseum, Vienna 1986.
- Wolfgang Czerny (edit.): Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Dehio manual . Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X .
Web links
- hietzing.at - Villa XAIPE
- Villa XAIPE on the website of wien.at
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Stadtbildverluste Wien. A look back over five decades . Third edition. LIT-Verlag, Vienna 2005, pp. 279 and 348.
- ^ Prize (magazine) : Wiener Metternich-Schlössl goes to China (OTS report June 27, 2011), accessed on October 29, 2011
- ↑ Schönbrunn: “May not be photographed”. In: Kurier.at. May 31, 2012, accessed June 1, 2012 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 0.7 ″ N , 16 ° 19 ′ 8 ″ E