Sufficient seating is provided.

If you buy Villa ter Meer, you get the furnishings of the dining room as well.

With an offered offer of almost 15 million euros, calculating a discount for the chairs would probably be a bit petty.

Especially since you couldn't get rid of them individually, because they are listed as monuments just like the entire villa.

The number of chairs gives an idea of ​​why prospective real estate buyers shouldn't think in terms of a mid-terrace house.

There are 40 pieces, for which there is enough space in the dining room.

Bernhard Biener

Correspondent for the Rhein-Main-Zeitung for the Hochtaunus district.

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Eight years after the foreclosure auction, the ensemble on Königsteiner Strasse in Kronberg, which includes a three-and-a-half hectare park, is for sale.

It is better known under the name of a later resident than under the official name entered in the register of monuments.

In 1953 the banker Hermann Josef Abs bought the property.

He died in 1994. 20 years later, the subsequent owner could no longer keep the villa, and the real estate company of the Königstein lawyer Michael Perlick was awarded the contract at the auction.

"I enjoy objects like this," says the successful bidder to this day.

But the initial considerations of moving in yourself have been shattered.

“We put about a million euros into the park”

After all, 15 rooms and nine bathrooms want to be used.

Although that says little about the dimensions, if the garden hall alone is 18 meters long.

There would even be room for the table at which Vladimir Putin receives Western heads of state without a Russian PCR test.

There is a dance hall, a library and a billiard room.

Staff in managing the budget would therefore be an advantage.

According to the lawyer, the unfriendly reception of some neighbors also played a role in the decision to sell.

The first thing they did was to set up an interest group to prevent the park from being built on.

"At that time things were claimed that were not true," says Perlick about the circulating sketch with several houses in the garden.

It came from the previous owner and had no basis in planning law.

There were other reasons why gardeners turned up with chainsaws and excavators.

It wasn't just the lush rhododendrons that banker Abs had planted that sprouted up.

In many places the original layout had been lost, and a number of trees were rotten inside.

The basis for the work was a care work.

"We put about one million euros into the park," the current owner estimates.

Good coordination with preservationists

Eight years of vacancy are usually fatal for a house.

In this case, however, the villa is in better condition today than it was in 2014, because Perlick started renovation work.

In agreement with the preservation of historical monuments, which, for example, demanded a different color for the windows than the intended paint.

"It cost 200,000 euros to sand all the windows down to the wood and then paint them." But Perlick does not complain about the requirements of the preservationists.

"In principle, we got along with each other." Which may also be due to his weakness for historical buildings.

"You can experience history with them." Ultimately, the commitment was an expensive pleasure.

The owner keeps a strip of land on Königsteiner Strasse.

A push for development on the outskirts three years ago met with resistance from local politicians.

In his opinion, perspectives for the park property need time.

"But I don't want to wait another ten to 15 years." He got the bid for 4.7 million euros, the villa didn't even reach the estimated market value of 6.7 million euros.

In Perlick's opinion, whether she now finds a buyer does not depend solely on the price of 14.8 million euros.

"In Kampen they run into people with such a sum."

With its dimensions and exclusively private use, the property is a special case in the Vordertaunus, which is rich in villas.

The Stuttgart architects Paul Bonatz and Kurt Dübbers designed it in 1935 for IG Farben board member Fritz ter Meer.

He had acquired part of the Villa Guaita park for this, which in turn was demolished in 1961.

If you want to look around inside, you can do so with the help of a video from the brokerage firm.

And see if the chairs meet your own taste.