Villa Wiener Straße 36 – Wikipedia
The Villa Wiener Strasse 36 (Earlier No. Unknown), too Meentzen-Villa named, in Dresden was built in 1875. The listed building is the only surviving example of a historical villa on Wiener Strasse. [first] The villa became known for the company’s headquarters and as a production facility of natural cosmetics of the sisters Charlotte Meentzen and Gertrude Seltmann-Meentzen (1942–2002).
The villa was privately owned until 1939 and was mainly used for residential purposes. From 1940 to 1942 the Dresden Chamber of Commerce and Industry was owner. [2] In 1942 the “Charlotte Meentzen Prager Straße 24” ( Institute for Natural Cosmetics and Laboratory for natural cosmetics ) acquired the villa. The company belonged to the sisters Charlotte Meentzen and Gertrude Seltmann-Meentzen and now went as Meentzen-Villa in the language. [3] During the air strikes on Dresden on February 13, 1945, the headquarters of the institute, the school and the laboratory were completely destroyed as a production facility on Prague Strasse. The rear part of Villa Wiener Straße 36 was also badly damaged by a bomb hit, the rear building was completely destroyed.
At the end of the Second World War, the company’s own villa was repaired again in stages, and a flat building was later built on the foundation of the rear building. This enabled production to be resumed gradually in the villa. In 1946 a small manufactory operation was created, in 1947 the company was founded as a limited partnership (KG) with production on Wiener Strasse. [3] The “School for Natural Cosmetics” was temporarily founded here.
After the forced appropriation in 1972, the company was continued as a state -owned company at the same location until the turning point and reprivatized in 1991. At the Wiener Strasse location, the company remained until the move to Radeberg in 2002. [4]
In the 2002 century flood, the villa was badly damaged in the course of the flooding of the Dresden Central Station and the water masses that drove off on Wiener Strasse on August 12, 2002.
On February 26, 2020, Charlotte Meentzen’s 80th anniversary, a commemorative plaque was inaugurated at the former Meentzen-Villa Wiener Straße 36 as part of a solemn memorial event for the sisters and entrepreneurs Charlotte Meentzen and Gertrude Seltmann-Meentzen. Members of the families Meentzen and Seltmann as well as representatives of the Charlotte Meentzen Kosmetik Radeberg GmbH took part. This plaque was initiated by State Women’s Council Saxony e. V. As part of the Frauenorte Sachsen town project.
The two -storey building is built over a base floor and has a hipped roof as an upper end. The facade of the building shows horizontally attached cornices that separate the floors. The cornices and walls located in the reserve are less trained than the cornices and walls attached to the protruding risalites. On the five axes of wide scooping facade there is a weakly emerging risalite in the middle that occupies three axes. The risalite, which is attached in the middle, has been designed particularly richly. Before the risalites on the Schauerassade, a terrace with a semicircular exit, open stairs and the oldan was created. The upper floor of the Middle Risalit shows an submitted half -column order.
Otherwise, the middle risalite shows round arch windows. The three -axle side facade has a strong single -axle side risalite, whereby the entrance is on the risalite of the side facade, to which a simple staircase leads.
The building was extensively renovated from 2015 to 2016. All cornices and the walls of the windows were made again.
On the southwestern side of the courtyard there was a two -storey rear building with commercial use and apartment on the upper floor. This was destroyed in 1945 and, after the rubble clearance, was only built a simple low building on its foundations.
- ↑ Helas, p. 169 (Wiener Straße 36 [old No. not known.] Around 1875)
- ↑ SLUB Dresden: Historical address books Dresden 1940/1942. Online resource
- ↑ a b Renate Schönfuß-Krause: Charlotte Meentzen and Gertrude Seltmann – two Saxon power women and entrepreneurs from Dresden
Had a vision – its successful legacy has been continued in Radeberg since 2002 . In: The Radeberger. Independent home newspaper. Year 30, expenditure 08 (part 1) of February 28, 2020 and 09 (part 2) of March 6, 2020. Online resource part 1 ; Online resource part 2 - ↑ Official company website . Accessed on April 29, 2022
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