Villa Josef Thyssen

The Villa Josef Thyssen is a neo-baroque building in the city of Mülheim. It is located in the landscaped Thyssenpark directly on the towpath of the Ruhr. In the park there are old trees and a pond, which at that time served as a water supply for a local cotton mill. This park used to be the home garden of the Josef Thyssen family. It is open to the public, but unfortunately the premises of the villa are not.

The neo-baroque villa was built in 1898 by Josef Thyssen (1844-1915), August Thyssen's younger brother, as a representative family residence on the site of the Troost cotton factory that had previously been located there. The still existing factory building bordered on the new building and served as an outbuilding. In 1877, Josef Thyssen moved to Mülheim to join his brother August's company in Mülheim. As early as 1880 he married, like his brother before him, a Mülheim entrepreneur's daughter: Klara Bagel (1856-1918), sister of the print shop owner Julius Bagel and also the builder of a representative entrepreneur's villa.

While the entrance side of the villa, built according to plans by the renowned Berlin architects Kayser & von Grossheim, is on Dohne Street, the slope of the land towards the Ruhr and the mill pond made it possible for the factory to build a terrace with impressive substructures. However, the belvedere on the roof surrounded by a balustrade is only an illusion. Each facade of the villa is individually designed. The floor plan is laid out schematically over a square grid. The former representation rooms were arranged around a central hall. The utility rooms were in the basement.

The villa is now used as an office building, the park has been part of the public Ruhr park since the Mülheim State Garden Show, but mostly still contains its old stock of plants.

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great park Beautifully laid out flower fields in magnificent colors, especially in spring. Various species of birds and sometimes coypu and turtles can be observed at the lake.

"...But the real showpiece is the Villa Josef Thyssen from 1900. Built in neo-baroque style, it served as a residential building for the industrialist Josef Thyssen..."
You can find more information about this and our bike tour at: netreisetagebuch.de/muelheim-sehenswuerdigungen