Villa Klinga, Heritage villa in Parthenstein, Germany
Villa Klinga is a three-storey plastered manor house on a stone basement, with nine window bays on the long side and three on the gable end. A square tower with an octagonal cupola and lantern stands beside the covered entrance, and the hipped roof has bat dormers. A linden avenue leads to the house, and a single-storey outbuilding with a mansard roof stands about 70 metres away.
Paul von Bleichert, who with his brother Max led the Leipzig cable-car firm Adolf Bleichert & Co., had the country house built on the Senfberg in 1923 to plans by Leipzig architect Richard Welz. He moved in with his wife Berthe and their five children. After Berthe died in a car accident in 1927, he moved to Switzerland and sold the estate to the city of Leipzig.
Paul von Bleichert was an art collector who owned paintings by Carl Spitzweg, Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt, and a statue by Max Klinger stood in the garden. The wooden Swiss-style forest house on the grounds was called the Luis-Trenker-Haus. After 1927 the city of Leipzig used the manor as a children's recreation home and the outbuilding as a youth hostel.
The estate lies at the end of Krankenhausstraße in Klinga, on the Senfberg about twenty metres above the village centre, reached by a linden avenue. The grounds now house the Bionethos Innovation GmbH company and a private clinic, so access is not open to the public; the buildings are best viewed from the street and the linden avenue.
The wooden Forsthaus in Swiss chalet style in the park was nicknamed the Luis-Trenker-Haus, after the mountaineer and filmmaker. The name recalls the villa's owner Paul von Bleichert, who collected paintings by Carl Spitzweg, Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt and kept a statue by Max Klinger in the garden.
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