The house at Hirzbodenweg 95, built in 1901, is of much more modern design that the villa at Hirzbodenweg 103. In contrast to its neighbour, it was considerably set back from its frontage and those of the adjacent terraced houses, numbers 81-91, in the garden that extended as far as Wartenbergstrasse. The two-storey villa with its fully-developed attic is, according to the description of the Öffentlichen Basler Denkmalpflege (conservation of Basle historic monuments publication), one of its architect’s boldest, most independent creations, which uses the traditional forms that have their origin in historicism in a completely new, highly individual way.
Following the wishes of the owner, he was less keen to create a representative structure, but he was rather more concerned with building a house “with a friendly-looking local character” (Schweizerische Bauzeitung 1909). The already mentioned close relationship of the building to the surrounding gardens contributes markedly to this impression. The house is thus arranged “from the inside to the outside”. Characteristic for this is the asymmetrically-designed centre part of the street façade, which hides the stairwell, whose shape can be guessed from the outside architectural form. The stair tower, with its widely collared round arch of carved stone, its balcony, the stepped triple windows rising from left to right and the cambered roof tower risalit rising above the eaves is particularly impressive. The hewn stone steps running from one risalit edge to another and the curved arch bricks fixed above the windows lend the building a decorative outline. The two side facades, on the other hand, which have also been structured in an original way, are of lesser importance.
Former personalities
Carl Füglistaller-Frey (1872-1956), Building owner
Otto Burckhardt-Boeringer (1872-1952), Architect
Paul Simonius (1881-1958), Resident
Emma Simonius-Vischer (1893-1976), Resident
