Villa Pellet, Villa and architectural heritage monument in Berg, Germany
Villa Pellet is a country house at Münchner Straße 57 in Kempfenhausen, on the eastern shore of Lake Starnberg. Andreas Pellet built it in 1855 with lake terraces, a large park, a nursery and an orchard. From 1898 Prince Alexander Bariatinsky had it rebuilt and extended, and in 1907 the princely couple added a guesthouse.
Andreas Pellet, a royal postmaster and innkeeper from Starnberg, built the country house in 1855 with lake terraces, a park, a nursery and an orchard. In summer 1864 King Ludwig II rented it for Richard Wagner, who travelled daily by carriage to Munich or Berg Castle. After Pellet died in 1866, his widow sold the estate to the Russian prince Alexander Bariatinsky, who had it rebuilt and extended from 1898.
The name comes from Andreas Pellet, the Starnberg postmaster and innkeeper who built the house in 1855. From 1938 the educator Elisabeth Hunaeus ran a "Seminar für Frauenbildung" here, and since 1967 the Zweckverband Bayerische Landschulheime has continued the site as Landschulheim Kempfenhausen.
Since 1967 the estate, with its roughly 30,000-square-metre grounds, has belonged to the Zweckverband Bayerische Landschulheime, which runs it as Landschulheim Kempfenhausen. The villa itself is a school building, so the interiors are not open to casual visitors; the address is Münchner Straße 57 in Kempfenhausen. Access to the grounds follows the school's own arrangements rather than any public opening.
The library's Neo-Empire fittings date from 1907, the year the princely couple added a guesthouse to the estate. The former salon kept its furnishings from around 1905, so two rooms show interiors from the Bariatinsky period.
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