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Villa Haas is a historical villa in the small city of Sinn, Hesse located at the western edge of the Hörre in
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Germany
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( Lahn-Dill-Kreis). The villa, the park, the surrounding streets "Hansastrasse / Rudolfstrasse" are Renaissance Revival architecture
Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th-century Revivalism (architecture), architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival architecture, Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival ar ...
cultural monuments.Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen (Hrsg.): Lahn-Dill-Kreis I. S. 352.
History
Themanor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal mea ...
, the outbuildings, and the garden are designed by the Herborner architect Ludwig Hofmann (1862–1933), who in 1892 was appointed by Privy Councillor of Commerce Rudolf Haas, owner of the opposite located "Neuhoffnungshütte".Ingrid Bauert-Keetman, Helmut Prawitz: Geschichte des Eisenwerkes Neuhoffnungshütte und der Firma W. Ernst Haas & Sohn, Sinn, Dillkreis. Sinn 1963. He was co-founder of the association of German “Eisenhüttenleute”, called today Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon that demonstrates improved mechanical properties compared to the pure form of iron. Due to steel's high Young's modulus, elastic modulus, Yield (engineering), yield strength, Fracture, fracture strength a ...
Institute VDEh, and a member of the renominated Nassau Association of natural history. The “Neuhoffnungshütte” with its iron mines had from its Nassautic beginnings until the Second World War a high strategic importance; it was the economic basis for the metallic prosperity of this area. In 1978 Dr. Klaus F. Müller acquired the villa and park as a co-founder of German and European oral implantology; he used parts of the estate for practical laboratory and advanced training.Fritz Cunz: Herborner Tageblatt, 04-11-1978: Aus der alten Villa Haas wurde eine Zahnarztpraxis.
Architecture
To the style elements of the two-story, high-volume estate belong rich carved stone formations above the basement level, and window and gable motifs framed withsandstone
Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...
, in German Renaissance Revival architecture
Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th-century Revivalism (architecture), architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival architecture, Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival ar ...
style. The roof and gable formations with the bell tower
A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell to ...
look very picturesque. This total impression is strengthened by the superior stairtower with roof helmet, the mining symbol, and the stained glass
Stained glass refers to coloured glass as a material or art and architectural works created from it. Although it is traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensio ...
with motifs of Rhine romanticism from Johann Heinrich Schilbach as well as the detailed facades. The artistic interior décor consists of beautiful stucco
Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and ...
and woodwork of different historical styles.
Also worth protecting components are the small Chinese pavilion (tea house) and the wrought iron main gate.W. Bauer: Von Türbeschlägen, Fensterkörben, Wetterfahnen und anderem Eisenzeug. In: Heimatjahrbuch für den Dillkreis, Band 14 (1971). Weidenbach, Dillenburg 1970, S. 53–96
Technical unusual features
These include adumbwaiter
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(elevator), electrical night storage heaters, and a lobster tank with, at this time, new air supply.
The old mechanical tower clock
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was developed and constructed by Perrot (Calw). Later the clock gets a rare electro-mechanical addition. It combines chime works and winches with two electric motors. The mechanical circuit is steered by a mercury switch
A mercury switch is an electricity, electrical switch that opens and closes a electrical circuit, circuit when a small amount of the liquid metal mercury (element), mercury connects metal electrodes to close the circuit. There are several differ ...
. The power transmission is made by a vee belt and is still working today.
Garden
The Grade II listed garden area contains, besides rare plants, shrubs, and trees, many stylistic elements of the historicalpark
A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside t ...
, like the ruin with the ice-house, the cave, the arcades, the pond, the rondell, the fountains, the cherubs, etc. The Chinese pavilion teahouse and the former pavilion which was located at the Dill (river)
The Dill () is a long river, flowing through central Hesse in Germany. It is a tributary to the Lahn, joining it on the right bank at the town of Wetzlar.
Course
The Dill flows exclusively through the Lahn-Dill-Kreis district in Hesse. The ri ...
cliffs is going back to an idea of the German former colonial officer Retzlaff http://archiv.preussische-allgemeine.de/1957/1957_07_20_29.pdf S. 10 in Qingdao
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. The allusions to a horse path closed in the English style landscape garden
The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (, , , , ), is a style of "Landscape architecture, landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, r ...
are only rudimentarily available.
The park is one of the few preserved recreations of historicism (art) and contains over one hundred different plant species. It is part of the territory Beilstein / Hörre, which was described by Johann Daniel Leers in his book "Flora Herbornensis" Johann Daniel Leers: Flora Herbornensis. Exibens plantas circa herbornam nassoviorum crescentes. 1775. (lateinisch) in the biodiversity
Biodiversity is the variability of life, life on Earth. It can be measured on various levels. There is for example genetic variability, species diversity, ecosystem diversity and Phylogenetics, phylogenetic diversity. Diversity is not distribut ...
with exact locations in 1775. These listings are according to Karl Löber "of unsurpassed precision and enable still today an effortless verification" (Quote translated from German).Karl Löber: Johann Daniel Leers und seine Flora Herbornensis. In: Heimatjahrbuch für den Dillkreis 1962, S. 37.Karl Löber: Wanderungen durch die Heimatnatur, Frühsommerleben im Sinner „Beilstein“., S. 48–52.
Literature
* Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen (Hrsg.): Lahn-Dill-Kreis I. (Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen.) Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1986, . * Friedhelm Gerecke: Historismus, Jugendstil, Heimatstil in Hessen und im Rheinland. Die Bauten des Architekten und Denkmalpflegers Ludwig Hofmann (1862–1933) aus Herborn. Verlag Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2010, . * Otto Renkhoff: Nassauische Biographie, Seite 262, . * Rolf Georg, Rainer Haus, Karsten Porezag: Eisenerzbergbau in Hessen, Seite 329 und 415, . * Gerd Andriessen:, 100 Jahre W. Ernst Haas und Sohn, Sonderdruck Dillzeitung 26-05-1954. * Klaus F. Müller: Park und Villa Haas - Historismus Kunst und Lebensstil. E-Book , 2013References
External links
Official website of Villa Haas
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