Garten-, Land- und Schweizerhaus – Ein alpines Kleinod auf der Stuttgarter Karlshöhe

Lecture by Simon Otto Volk (strebewerk. Architekten)

Built in 1852/53, the Swiss house with antique echoes on Stuttgart's Reinsburg is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a bourgeois garden and country house in Stuttgart. Remarkably, even large parts of the original interior have been preserved. The Stuttgart publisher Carl Hoffmann (1802-1883), a formative figure in the early Stuttgart book trade, had the stately garden house built at the beginning of the 1850s. According to current knowledge, he commissioned the architect Gustav Adolph Breymann (1807-1859), who worked at the local polytechnic and trained at the Berlin Bauakademie, and who later emerged as the architect of the Stuttgart Synagogue.

The lecture reconstructs the building history of the Schweizerhaus and places the building both in the supra-regional development of the Schweizerhaus as a building type and in the urban development of Stuttgart in the 19th century.

On this evening, a small presentation of drawings and models from the work will be shown in the foyer of the Stuttgart City Archive.

Simon Otto Volk was a research assistant at the Institute for Architectural History at the University of Stuttgart and currently works for strebewerk. Architekten GmbH. His research on the Schweizerhaus on Karlshöhe was carried out as part of his Master's thesis.