La facture s'élevait à environ trois cent mille marks-or, soit l'équivalent de plusieurs millions d'euros aujourd'hui, ce qui a fait bruisser les commérages locaux. Plus tard, des articles de journaux ont raconté que Fribourg spéculait énormément sur la fortune de la famille Colombi, ce qui a donné à la maison une aura mythique dès le début. Chaque ville aime avoir une famille riche dont elle peut discuter à une distance prudente.
À l'intérieur, la comtesse a laissé de nombreuses preuves de ses moyens: un grand hall d'escalier, des parquets d'origine incrustés - du bois assemblé selon des motifs décoratifs - et un dôme en verre lumineux au-dessus. La photo de l'intérieur dans l'application vous donne un aperçu de ce monde raffiné.
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After the family, the story kept changing. Factory owner Johann Georg Thoma bought the estate, sold off part of the land for development, and gave Freiburg Colombistraße and Rosastraße, named for his wife Rosa. Then the city bought the villa in eighteen ninety-nine. It served as the municipal art museum from nineteen oh-nine to nineteen twenty-three, then as an administrative building, then from nineteen forty-seven to nineteen fifty-two as the state chancellery of Baden under Leo Wohleb. For a house built as a widow’s retreat, it developed a surprisingly public career.
One person worth remembering here is Georg Kraft, the scholar who helped Freiburg’s prehistoric collection stand on its own as a museum. He died in the bombing of nineteen forty-four, and after the war the collection drifted through provisional quarters for years. Only in nineteen seventy-eight did the city council decide to bring it back here, and in nineteen eighty-three the archaeological museum reopened in this villa.
Even the park around it joins the act: laid out in the style of an English landscape garden with exotic trees and a large fountain, it turned a former edge of defense into a place for strolling and looking. That is very Freiburg.
Reinvention here is not hidden in back streets; it sits right out in the open, wearing a turret as if it had always belonged. When you’re ready, head on to Freiburg Theatre, about seven minutes away. If you want to return later, the museum is closed on Mondays and otherwise usually opens from ten to five, with a later closing at seven on Wednesdays.
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