Villa Reverchon, Villa in Trier, Germany
Villa Reverchon is a neoclassical mansion built in Trier between 1909 and 1912 for the banker Adrian Reverchon. The design came from a competition won by Rudolf Tillessen of Mannheim, who carried it out with the local architect Peter Marx. Reverchon had an additional access path, the Reverchonweg, laid out to the property in 1909.
Banker Adrian Reverchon had the villa built from 1909 to 1912 after an architectural competition won by Rudolf Tillessen of Mannheim, who worked with local architect Peter Marx. After World War I it served as headquarters of the 178th Infantry Brigade, 89th Division, US Army, under Brigadier General George Columbus Barnhardt. From 1948 it housed the railway workers' spa home "Moselland", and from 1970 to 1978 the Bundesbahn school.
The villa is the setting of Stefan Andres's novel Die Hochzeit der Feinde, though only the location of the house is recognisable in the book; the building itself is described differently. The name Reverchonweg, the access road laid out in 1909, recalls the banker Adrian Reverchon who commissioned the house.
Villa Reverchon stands in Trier, and since mid-2016 it has served as the company headquarters of its owner, the Trier real-estate firm TRIWO AG. It is a private office building, not a museum, so the interior is not open to visitors; the neoclassical facade and the park, where a two-classroom building was added for the Bundesbahn school, can be seen from the street.
The interior fittings from 1912 remain in place and have not undergone major alterations across its many changes in function. This makes the interior a window into residential design from that specific building period.
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