Wofrumova vila, Cultural monument in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
Wolfrumova vila is a four-storey historicist palace villa on a terrace in a steep garden slope above Ústí nad Labem's centre, with neo-Renaissance elements. Its sandstone façade is laid with fields imitating exposed brickwork in diamond patterns, holding the builder's initials "CW" in a laurel wreath. Terraces with a conical balustrade link to the lower garden by a double spiral staircase; the main entrance is a door in a cylindrical tower at the rear.
Carl Friedrich Wolfrum, eldest son of industrialist Carl Georg Wolfrum, and his wife Hermine had the villa built as a family residence; the Viennese firm of Hans Miksch and Julian Niedzielski designed it, and construction ran from 1887 to 1910. The same architects also designed Ludwig Wolfrum's villa, the family factory in Předlice and the family tomb at Krásné Březno. The family lived here until the German population was expelled in 1945, after which Czech Radio took over the building.
The villa was built for Carl Friedrich Wolfrum, eldest son of industrialist and politician Carl Georg Wolfrum, and his wife Hermína Eckelmannová. The family lived here until the German population was expelled in 1945, after which Czech Radio took over the building and still has its seat there. The sandstone facade carries the builder's initials "CW" in a laurel wreath, repeated on the two benches by the oval pool.
The building is located on Na Schodech street at number 10 in central Ústí nad Labem and is easily reached on foot. As a protected cultural monument, the exterior can be viewed freely at any time of day.
The garden holds a bronze group by Munich sculptor Carl Weinberger (1885–1953) showing Dionysus as a boy riding a panther and holding two bunches of grapes. Nearby survive the torso of an oval pool and a cement grotto with wall niches, reached by a concrete stair edged with five- to six-sided basalt stones.
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