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Villa Meister
In September 1890, Dr. Wilhelm Meister, the son of a Frankfurt manufacturer, acquired the villa built in 1880s from Georg Victor Schick to be used as a summer retreat. The lawyer started a career in the Prussian civil service and was appointed state councilor of the Obertaunus district in July 1895. In January 1900, von Meister got married a second time, this time to Leila Trapmann, whose 1963 memoir published in English provides a colorful picture of the “better society” of Bad Homburg during the Wilhelmine period. When Wilhelm von Meister was named district president in Wiesbaden in 1906, he had the villa expanded on a large scale by combining the villa on the neighboring property (no. 107), which had also been owned by von Meister since 1892, with the Villa von Meister, creating the double house seen today.
Building History
- Construction
- vor 1889
- Conversion
- 1905-1907
Location
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References
Rowedder, Denkmaltopographie, S. 242f.
Leila von Meister, Erinnerungen an Gestern, S. 13-69
Leila von Meister, Gathered Yesterdays
Walsh, Bad Homburger Fassaden, S. 87-89
Walsh, Bad Homburg kurios, S. 81-83
Walsh, Große Namen, S. 32f.
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Recommended Citation
„Villa Meister“, in: Orte der Kur <https://www.lagis-hessen.de/en/odk/record/id/1381> (aufgerufen am 06.05.2026)