House Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 77 (Leipzig)
The residential building Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 77 (formerly Weststraße 38, then renumbered Weststraße 77) is a listed building in Leipzig's Bachviertel , driving from Westplatz towards Waldplatz behind the re-exposed Elstermühlgraben or on Carl-Maria-von- Weber-Straße called the promenade on the left side of the street. The building was built by Arwed Roßbach and, at the time of construction or in the 19th century, was incorrectly referred to as Villa d'Avignon because the owner was the merchant Louis Davignon .
description
In 1863, the acquired Gohliser Anton Schauer the property and left it there since 1864 a two-story house built. As early as 1880 it went to the wealthy Leipzig merchant August Louis Davignon. Davignon commissioned the Leipzig architect Arwed Roßbach to convert the house into a villa . In fact, however, it was not a matter of renovation, but of demolishing the Schauer house with the subsequent construction of a new building.
Roßbach designed a historicist villa with fine stucco decor in neo-renaissance forms . The dormers are flanked by dolphins. Because of the adjacent Elstermühlgraben , which flowed behind a 4-meter-high bank wall, and the high groundwater level, the building was not built with a basement, but only given a "base". In 1881 the street-side facade was changed.
From November 5, 1926 the villa was used as a liaison house for the ALV! Agronomia Lipsiensis used, but the active federal government had to be suspended again on July 1, 1936 due to the political conditions at the time.
The building survived the bombing raids in World War II without damage. In the following years, however, the villa fell into disrepair, so that in 1961 the building supervision had to intervene.
Since September 2003 the city association of the hearing impaired Leipzig e. V. Owner of the building. By 2005, the association renovated the villa in accordance with the preservation of historical monuments and then moved from its previous headquarters at Leipzig Huygensstrasse 1 to Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 77.
Today the building houses the house without barriers meeting center , in which the hearing impaired city association and the social association Germany e. V. Maintain offices. The Mobile Disabled Service Leipzig e. V. runs the integration café caféBARlokal "Davignon" .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Sachsen II. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 543.
- Hans-Uwe Feige: The Roßbach-Villa becomes a house without barriers. In: Neue Ufer , Heft 7 (2004), p. 38 f.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 25.3 " N , 12 ° 21 ′ 36.9" E