Lanz-Villa, Residential palace in Oststadt district, Mannheim, Germany
Lanz-Villa is a four-story residential palace in the Oststadt district of Mannheim, Germany, built from light yellow sandstone in a French architectural style. The structure displays porticos, cornices, and pilasters on its facade and contains around 4,100 square meters of space with ceiling heights ranging from four to seven meters.
Industrialist Karl Lanz commissioned French architect Eugène Saint-Ange to design the residence between 1907 and 1913, during the German Empire period. The choice of French style drew criticism at the time because of tense German-French relations in the early 20th century.
The name recalls industrialist Karl Lanz, whose family lived here until 1954 before converting the building into corporate offices that preserved much of its original character. Today it serves as a business location with reception rooms that still display their early 20th-century design, offering glimpses of upper-class residential life from that era.
The building now functions as office space and can be viewed from the outside, though the interior rooms are generally not open to the public. The facade is best seen from the street during daylight, when the light sandstone details show clearly.
The entrance hall with its marble columns and ground floor ceremonial rooms still preserve original wood carvings and stucco work in neoclassical style. These details represent some of the few surviving examples of French-influenced interior decoration in Mannheim private buildings from that period.
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