Bought a house and learned about its brown history

[SirFrancis]

My wife and I bought an old house this week. It was build 1776. The seller told us, that this house once belonged Sepp Hilz. Hilz was Hitlers most favorite artist  

Most of his paintings are in private property. And if you want to buy one, you have to pay up to 10000 €. One of his famous painting is this one:




here is a pic of it while painting it


it was painted in this room:



Not, that I admire his connection to the Nazis. But it is somehow interesting to see, what an old house can bring up.

Here are some more pictures of the house:





You can read about Hilz here: http://www.galleria.thule-italia.com/Arte/hilz/Sepp%20Hilz%20inglese.pdf

Regards
SF

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[druski85]

Beautiful house, congrats!  You may or may not want to take off that very first pic...but we'll see what skuzzy may think of it.

Either way, there's obviously a very interesting history with that place.    

[trax1]

Yeah I'd get rid of those first 2 pics or your whole post will likely disappear.

Other then that very cool house.

[DREDIOCK]

My wife and I bought an old house this week. It was build 1776. The seller told us, that this house once belonged Sepp Hilz. Hilz was Hitlers most favorite artist 


it was painted in this room:

If it was. that room has had some remolding work done to it.


Gorgeous house though.

Bring it over to the states and I'll paint it for ya. LOL
I love painting old houses

[SirFrancis]

If it was. that room has had some remolding work done to it.

Hilz build that room to his atelier. After he died, the next owner did some remolding to it. So, thats what he told us. But most of his paintings were done in his atelier.

[SirFrancis]

Bring it over to the states and I'll paint it for ya. LOL
I love painting old houses

Ok, how much do you charge? 

[Denholm]

Always nice to see history alive. I am curious, though. How many times has that house been hit with foundation, termite, or other problems requiring expensive repairs?

[Masherbrum]

Beautiful house SF! 

[SirFrancis]

the owner we bought the house from, was member of the German Winter Olympic team 1956 in Cortina d’Ampezzo.

I dont know what you mean by "foundation" Denholm. But we had an expert/valuator (?) and his statement was, that the house is in good shape. The only things that we are going to modify is the roof and 2 of the 3 bathrooms. My wife wants these bathrooms to be rebuild (?) and I can understand her.
Right now they have this 70s look.



SF

[SirFrancis]

Beautiful house SF! 

  thank you!

[SFRT - Frenchy]

  Fantastic having a lil piece of history. Enjoy ur new beauty.

My dad's house in France is from the 1600s. It became at one point a brothel. One day an old man was looking at it as I opened the door. He confided that he used to be a resistance HQ during WW2. An historian who organizes tours, rumored there used to be a tunel in the basement linking to the "other" side of town going under the river.

I love old houses in Europe  

[Denholm]

Pulling this out of a English-German dictionary (in my hands, not online)

Foundation - der Grund, die Grundlage, Grundmauer, der Unterbau, Fundierung, and more..

Basically what the house sits on, what the house is supported by.

[SirFrancis]

Pulling this out of a English-German dictionary (in my hands, not online)

Foundation - der Grund, die Grundlage, Grundmauer, der Unterbau, Fundierung, and more..

Basically what the house sits on, what the house is supported by.

solid ground. And termite is not a problem here in Bavaria

[SirFrancis]

Fantastic having a lil piece of history. Enjoy ur new beauty.

My dad's house in France is from the 1600s. It became at one point a brothel. One day an old man was looking at it as I opened the door. He confided that he used to be a resistance HQ during WW2. An historian who organizes tours, rumored there used to be a tunel in the basement linking to the "other" side of town going under the river.

I love old houses in Europe  

There are so many of old houses here. And everyone has his own history. I mean our house is not the oldest one. Houses in the neighborhood are from 1400...

SF

[68ZooM]

foundation is usally concrete or in that time period probally stone block, the house sits on top of it so you have clearence underneath to acess the underside of the home in case of plumbing or heating repairs, or wiring (depends on the home and year built), theres alot of older homes in my town that sit on blocks under the beams and there tilting badly from the years, judging from the year on your home does it have a basement?

edit... id love to get my hands on that home as far as drawning the Cad work for the remodel, that homes a beauty, i just bought a home built in 1936 it was an old millwrights home, outer walls are 10" interior are 8 inch, all the wood is demensional, glass doorknobs, old doors, sweet little home i love it