Villa Haenel, Heritage villa in Blasewitz district, Dresden, Germany.
Villa Haenel is a two-storey Neo-Renaissance villa built in 1889 at Tauscherstraße 44 in Blasewitz. Its sandstone basement has round-arched windows with sculpted frames, while the upper floors are brick with some timber-framed sections. A tower with a tall spire stands to the left of the main entrance, and the street facade features a cornice of Posta sandstone.
The building was constructed in 1889 by architect Karl Emil Scherz for businessman Theodor Eduard Haenel and represents the Neo-Renaissance style. It emerged during a period when Dresden was expanding its residential areas into the Blasewitz district.
From 1953 to 2020 the villa housed the Evangelische Erwachsenenbildung Sachsen, the adult education body of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony, together with its church women's work. After the 1945 requisition it had first sheltered displaced persons, bombed-out families and resettlers. Since March 2021 the marketing and design agency Ö GRAFIK has used the building, and the Hochparterre floor shows exhibitions, currently sculptures by Ulrich Eißner under the title "Figuren – machen".
The ground floor currently hosts an exhibition space managed by a design agency that regularly features art presentations and events. It is worth checking ahead about what is currently on display.
The tower beside the main entrance lost most of its tall pointed spire during roof repairs in the 1950s. On the gable facing Tolkewitzer Straße, a painted mural by Hans Koberstein once covered the wall.
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