Mansion

A country house is a rural stylized, detached house situated in the countryside, surrounded by a garden area. It was mostly built on the corridor of villages in the area major cities for a wealthy family with their servants, who lived there in the early 19th century, usually only in the summer.

With the urbanization of the border communities, the country house to the villa with its higher representative claim, and the possibility for year-round living further developed. Beginning of the 20th century emerged as an alternative to historicism with the garden city movement, the reform of architecture as well as the homeland security architecture for a return to the simpler, some " painterly irregularly shaped " country house, which was replaced in the 1920s by the single-family home.

Architekturstilistisch and monument preservation can be between, often belonging to the classicism, then find country houses of the early 19th century and the more likely attributable to historicism or the Art Nouveau, later villas, as well as influenced by thoughts on the reform architecture country houses of the early 20th century, a variety of intermediate forms. These are then often described as villas magnificent country house or cottage -like villa.