Schloss Teutschenthal, 19th-century villa in Teutschenthal, Germany.
Schloss Teutschenthal is a two-winged factory owner's villa in western Teutschenthal, built 1883–1885 by architect Hugo Wrede and given a neo-baroque form by Josef Kleesattel after a fire around 1910. Each side looks different: the south garden front resembles a neo-baroque manor with Jugendstil elements, while the northwest corner is dominated by a tower that recalls a castle. A second, lower tower stands at the southwest, and the stepped building parts on the northeast differ in height, roof shape and window form.
The estate was owned by the von Schauburg family until 1860, when Carl Emil Wentzel acquired the manor. From 1883 to 1885 he built a historicist villa with architect Hugo Wrede of Halle, intended as the administrative seat of his holdings. Shortly before World War I, around 1910, the villa burned; Josef Kleesattel of Düsseldorf then gave it a neo-baroque form and added the cavalier wing.
The name "Schloss" is misleading: the building is a factory owner's villa, not a castle. Its south side reads as a neo-baroque manor house with Jugendstil elements, while the northwest corner tower gives it a castle-like look. The estate belonged to Carl Wentzel, a large landowner in Teutschenthal.
The villa stands at Carl-Wentzel-Straße 30 in western Teutschenthal, on the street renamed from Hauptstraße in 2010. Visitors approach from the village centre; the building sits on the slope of the Schloßberg. The grounds include a park laid out for the owner's wife, with a garden level and an outdoor staircase leading down from the terrace.
The building has four distinct sections side by side, visible from the east or from the air: the wing with the northwest tower, the narrow two-axis main building fused with the southwest tower, an upper terrace projection serving as a loggia, and a lower terrace projection with a staircase in front. Each section has different heights, roof shapes and window forms.
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