Von Stritzky Villa in disrepair, courtyard view, in central Riga, Latvia. March 8, 2023
Stritzky's House, also known as K. K. von Stritzky Villa, is a mansion at 9 Aristida Briāna Street in Riga. On the entrance gate, there are images of Hermes and Dionysus by sculptor August Volz. In 1883, the brewery "Bier- und Porterbrauerei und Malzfabrik C. Stritzky" (administration building) was built by the merchant and businessman Carl Christopher von Stritzky on his own brewery land, according to a design by the architect Karl Felsko. In 1889, he also commissioned the architect Felsko to design a residential building. In 1891, a stone fence and an ornately decorated gate connected the newly built mansion and the factory administration building. After the First World War, when the brewery equipment was taken to Russia, the owner's house housed Anna Asmane's school of music and rhythmic gymnastics, later the boarding school for students of the Young Women's Christian Union of Latvia, a representative office of the German news agency Ullstein-Nachrichtendienst and the Royal Romanian Embassy. Before the repatriation of the German Balts, K.K. Stritzky's son sold the land to the Latvian Credit Bank in 1939.
Von Stritzky Villa in disrepair, courtyard view, in central Riga, Latvia. March 8, 2023
Stritzky's House, also known as K. K. von Stritzky Villa, is a mansion at 9 Aristida Briāna Street in Riga. On the entrance gate, there are images of Hermes and Dionysus by sculptor August Volz. In 1883, the brewery "Bier- und Porterbrauerei und Malzfabrik C. Stritzky" (administration building) was built by the merchant and businessman Carl Christopher von Stritzky on his own brewery land, according to a design by the architect Karl Felsko. In 1889, he also commissioned the architect Felsko to design a residential building. In 1891, a stone fence and an ornately decorated gate connected the newly built mansion and the factory administration building. After the First World War, when the brewery equipment was taken to Russia, the owner's house housed Anna Asmane's school of music and rhythmic gymnastics, later the boarding school for students of the Young Women's Christian Union of Latvia, a representative office of the German news agency Ullstein-Nachrichtendienst and the Royal Romanian Embassy. Before the repatriation of the German Balts, K.K. Stritzky's son sold the land to the Latvian Credit Bank in 1939.