Weinberg House, Historic villa in Waren (Müritz), Germany.
The Weinberg House is a villa built in 1875 in Waren with historicist architectural style and prominent decorative details across its facade. Large windows and ornamental embellishments give the structure its distinctive appearance from the street.
Architect Gustav Werner designed and built the villa in 1875 for Hermann von Maltzan, initially housing a natural history museum collection. The property changed hands in 1877 when it became a railway administration center.
Folklorist Richard Wossidlo kept several flats in the villa between 1911 and 1939, storing his records, library and a private folk museum there. In 1912, when the collection outgrew the rooms, he sold about 3,400 exhibits to the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; the collection went to Schwerin in 1922 and opened in 1936 as the Mecklenburg Peasant Museum "Wossidlo Collection" in Schwerin Castle.
The villa sits on Bahnhofstraße near Waren's train station, making it easy to find and approach from the town center. The building can be appreciated from the street, and nearby attractions are within walking distance.
The name Weinberg refers to the hill, not to a person; no botanist namesake exists. The house's scientific link is instead the Malzaneum natural history museum, which moved in at Michaelmas 1875 and left after the 1876 sale.
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