Villa Maria, Cultural heritage monument in Oberloschwitz, Dresden, Germany
Villa Maria is a two-storey villa built around 1879 in a neoclassical country-house style on Bergbahnstraße 1 in Oberloschwitz. Its light beige stucco facade has corner quoins, a dark blue roof with a small central spire and a gabled section on the left, and a blue-framed bay with white-mullioned windows on the upper floor. A tower at the rear bears the villa's name.
The building was constructed around 1879 originally under the name Villa Dora. It was later renamed after becoming associated with Maria Rink, a person connected to the Saxon court.
The villa was originally called Villa Dora and was later named after Maria Rink, who owned it shortly after 1900 and was rumoured to be an illegitimate daughter of King Friedrich August III. In 1988 the film Die Weihnachtsgans Auguste was shot in the house.
The building stands near the Dresden funicular railway and can be explored on foot. The surrounding area is hilly and offers various walking paths to view the property and its surroundings.
The plaque on the property wall reads "Hier geschah im Jahre 1875 absolut nichts" — "Absolutely nothing happened here in 1875." It is the kind of detail visitors walk past without stopping, and the source gives no origin for it.
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