Villa Maund

Villa Maund is a villa in Brand, Vorarlberg Hopfreben in which Sir John Oakley Maund († June 10, 1902 ) was built in the early 1890s.

The German Crown Prince Wilhelm of the house of Hohenzollern took advantage of the villa in 1908 as a hunting lodge. The current owner rents the building for events.

History

The Villa Maund was built as a hunting villa from English banker and mountaineer Sir John Oakley Maund, on the foothills of the Ünschenberg Alp. After his assassination in 1902 - he was killed in a side street with a sandbag - it passed into the possession of his daughter Zoe Désirée Maund that the whole estate, against the wishes of her mother Zoe Gertraud Maund, on 17 November 1931, the Englishman Martin Holt for 750, - pounds sold. Many hunting parties took advantage of the villa, including the German Crown Prince Wilhelm, who in 1908 was the first motorized in the Bregenz Forest traveled all. From 1995 to 2007, the Vorarlberg artist and campaigner Paul Renner lived in the Villa Maund. His guests included, inter alia, Ferran Adrià, Günter Brus, Franzobel, Zaha Hadid, Heinz D. Heisl, Daniel Spoerri and Eckart Witzigmann.

Architectural History

The architect was the Englishman William Morris. He was a British painter, architect, poet, craftsman, engineer and printer. For John Oakley Maund he has before 1888 already two similar-looking as in Hopfreben style homes built in Weggis on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland in the Anglo- Scottish cottage. His pattern books ( plans, elevations, etc.) can still be seen in the Kunsthaus Zurich today.

As a builder of master carpenter Johann Anton Strolz from Schröcken responsible. Also instrumental in the construction was Pius Bishop, Schiffwirt in Au, room and master carpenter. The topping-out ceremony ( topping ) was in 1892, completed the Villa in the English country house style in 1895. The interior of the villa dates entirely from Bregenzerwald craftsmen.

The Zoe Gertraud Maund widow left in 1923 to build a small power plant with reservoir whose generator for 47 years provided the DC for the villa.

Villa Maund, exterior view 2008

Villa Maund, Interior 2008

" Crown Room " Villa Maund, 2008

Hunting

Demonstrably, there was to the 14th century in the Bregenz Forest bears and ibex. The original Maund - hunting ground covered the area Schoppernau, Hopfreben and Schröcken. The entire area were 25 Gamsböcke be killed. Goats were fully protected. Today the former area is divided into many different sizes.

Hunting parties

After the first hunt in 1895 (Alexander Kennedy, James Fairholm, B. Montgomery, Zoe Gertraud Maund and Lady Carolina Hamilton) leased Crown Princess Cecilie with her husband Crown Prince Wilhelm, regularly from 1908 to hunt Villa Maund until the end of the Second World War.

In Cecilie's stay in 1943 she confided to the chief hunter Theodor Hammerle that they " tidy lot of jewelry with them, which should be hidden here " have. After Hammerle, who gave a detailed description of the nature of the hiding place ( paved chute, protection against theft, fire and humidity) and also of the secret return transportation of the treasure over areas of the occupied Austria in 1946, it is, this is part of the " Kronschatzes the Hohenzollern " have acted.

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