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Villa Lehmann, Renaissance villa in Burgstraße, Halle (Saale), Germany.

Villa Lehmann is a free-standing building of brick and ashlar masonry on the Lehmannsfelsen, a porphyry rock between the Saale and Burgstraße. It has two basement levels, a ground floor and an upper floor, and a tall corner tower serving as a belvedere. The irregular ground plan prevents symmetrical Renaissance axes, giving it the dimensions of a castle but the proportions of a country house.

Built from 1890 to 1892, the house was designed by architects Reinhold Knoch and Friedrich Kallmeyer for banker Heinrich Franz Lehmann II. The site had previously belonged to poet August Gottlob Eberhard before passing to the Lehmann family.

The interior spaces blend baroque and rococo decoration across rooms like the festival hall and library, reflecting the wealth and taste of the family who lived there. Walking through these rooms shows how affluent merchants displayed their status during that era.

The villa has stood empty since 2002 and was bought by a Frankfurt businessman in 2006; its future use remains open, so the interior is not visitable. The building sits on the Lehmannsfelsen, a porphyry rock between the Saale and Burgstraße 46, near where the Mühlgraben meets the river. Lehmann's former landscape park was opened to Halle residents in 1945.

During the revolutionary unrest of 1919, unknown perpetrators set off a bomb that blew away part of the Saale terrace on the villa's west side. The building was otherwise barely altered, and since 2002 it has stood empty; a Frankfurt businessman bought it from the state of Saxony-Anhalt in 2006, and its future use remains open.

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