Villa Zeltnerheim
The Villa Zeltnerheim is a stately home in Bozen-Gries . It bears the name of the Nuremberg entrepreneur family Zeltner, who built a holiday home in what was then the spa town of Gries . Johannes Zeltner co-founded Bavaria's first ultramarine factory in 1838. He filed the first German patent in 1877 (for a "process for the production of a red ultramarine color") and, together with his brother-in-law Thomas Leykauf (1815–1871), pioneered the paint and chemical industry in Germany.
The four-storey villa was built in 1893 in a historicist style based on plans by Adam Dietz and has a large park. After the First World War , all Reich Germans in South Tyrol were expropriated and so the house came into Italian hands, initially to the Venetian hotelier family Bauer-Grünwald (which is why the house is also known as Villa Grünwald or Italianized Villa Boscoverde ). In 1949 the last Italian king Umberto II inherited the villa, who - since he was no longer allowed to enter Italian territory after the referendum on the abolition of the monarchy in 1946 - gave it to his daughter Maria Beatrice (born February 2, 1943). In the 1950s and 1960s, the Villa Zeltnerheim developed into an Italian cultural center (two floors were made available to a Circolo cittadino free of charge).
Web links
- Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Zeltner Group
- ^ Johannes Zeltner - ultramarine manufacturer, entrepreneur, patron .
- ^ I Savoia e le due ville storiche di Bolzano. I misteri di Villa Boscoverde .
Coordinates: 46 ° 30 '25.7 " N , 11 ° 20' 5.7" E