Zeeck's villa
The Zeecksche Villa is the former home of the Zeeck family in Rostock in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is designed in a late historical style in the style of a baroque country house, was sold to the arcona group after several changes of ownership and is used as the headquarters of this hotel group in Rostock.
history
The building was built in 1909 by the building contractor Heinrich Quade for the family of the department store entrepreneur Gustav Zeeck as a two-storey plastered building with a high hipped roof on today's property at August-Bebel-Straße 55 in the immediate vicinity of the ramparts southwest of Rostock's old town, based on designs by Paul Korff . It served as the residence of the Zeeck family from 1910 to 1945. In 1945 a Russian officer was quartered in this house, but the Zeeck family continued to use the basement and attic rooms. In 1949 the district court was housed in the house. The Zeeck family was expropriated in 1953 and moved from Rostock.
In 1957/58 the building was rebuilt inside for use by the Institute for Radiation Research at the University of Rostock . From 1958 to 2015 the building was used by the Physics Section at the University of Rostock. After 1996, the Zeeck family received the building back and sold it to the building contractor Wieben, who partially renovated it from 1998, while it was used by the University's Institute of Physics until 2015. In 2018, the hotel group arcona bought the building, which had it renovated inside and which has been using it as the company's headquarters since the end of October 2019.
architecture
The two-storey house with basement and expanded hipped roof is built as a plaster-exposed structure in reinforced concrete and decorated with plant-based ornaments in cast concrete. The building was architecturally groundbreaking for the style in the first decades of the 20th century, which was followed by several buildings by Paul Korff in the city center of Rostock.
At the front of August-Bebel-Straße is the portal, which is framed with figurative and ornamental decor. A wall fountain is located east of it. The eastern narrow side is designed with a bay window and loggia and accentuated by a polygonal winter garden. The fence on the street side also dates from the construction period.
The interior is grouped around the dominant staircase with carved ornamental decor and a segmented coffered ceiling. The usual room layout of an upper-class villa is carefully accommodated in a compact space. The interior is characterized by an expressive color scheme. It is particularly noteworthy that the building was very modern for its time with hot water preparation and a vacuum cleaner system.
literature
- Gerd Baier, Horst Ende, Brigitte Oltmanns: The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00523-3 , p. 418 .
- Jörg Schröder: Poster presentation of the restorer on the Open Monument Day (September 8, 2019)
Web links
- Official website of the Arcona Group
- Rostock's most beautiful villa is available for 2.5 million. Report of the Ostsee-Zeitung (June 1, 2015)
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 10.3 ″ N , 12 ° 7 ′ 46.6 ″ E