Villa de Freitas

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Villa de Freitas (2013, before renovation)

The Villa de Freitas is a villa in Hamburg-Othmarschen , Elbchaussee 239. Since April 26, 2011 it has been a listed building .

history

In August 1903 the businessman and shipowner Carlos Pedro de Freitas (1866–1909) acquired the property in Othmarschen from the heirs of Johannes Eduard Freiherr von Mutzenbecher, who died at the beginning of the same year . This property consisted of two pieces of land, the 27,801 m² on the Elbe side of the Elbchaussee and one on the north side with an area of ​​9,024 m². De Freitas had the villa on the Elbe side demolished immediately. Then the current house was built on the same place according to the plans of the architects Lundt & Kallmorgen . To the west of the house were farm buildings, a coach house and two greenhouses . The de Freitas family was able to move into the new building as early as March 1904.

Villa de Freitas during renovation work in March 2015

In the following years, Carlos Pedro de Freitas tried in vain to expand the shipping company and the foreign trade business AC de Freitas & Co. , which he had taken over from his father in early 1903, with new initiatives and investments. After his untimely death in St. Moritz in January 1909, it became clear that the business was too heavily indebted to be able to save it. As heiress of business and fortune, the widow Helene de Freitas was forced to sell the large house to the Paul Wichmanns in December 1910.

The Wichmanns later sold the property, and after further changes of ownership, the house was divided into several apartments around 1927. The villa was sold to Hamburg-based investor Harm Müller-Spreer in 2011 for 20 million euros . Since then, the building has been refurbished for a further 10 million euros. The buyer wants to use the house himself. Before that, the villa had been empty for several years.

literature

  • Gottfried Lintzer: AC de Freitas & Co. merchant shipowner . Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-5759-6 .
  • Paul Th. Hoffmann: The Elbchaussee. Their country estates, people and fates. Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-7672-0496-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OFFICIAL DISPLAY PART II OF THE HAMBURG LAW AND REGULATION SHEET of May 17, 2011, page 1235 - Klein Flottbek land register sheet 931, Klein Flottbek parcel 316, monument list number 1868 (PDF; 1.7 MB)
  2. ^ Photograph by Carlos Pedro de Freitas , part of the portfolio “Hamburg Men and Women at the Beginning of the XX. Century - camera portraits - recorded, etched in copper and printed by Rudolph Dührkoop Hamburg 1905 “, MKG Hamburg
  3. ↑ Klein Flottbek land register, Volume 2, Sheet No. 73.
  4. ↑ End of the drama about Elbchaussee Castle . In: Hamburger Könschnack magazine , May 31, 2015.
  5. ↑ The thriller on Hamburg's Elbchaussee . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , June 22, 2013.

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '45.7 "  N , 9 ° 53' 0.2"  E