Villa Clementine
Villa Clementine stands in Wiesbaden as a historicist villa with Roman-Pompeian elements. Georg Friedrich Fürstchen built it between 1878 and 1882 for Mainz entrepreneur Ernst Meyer.
Meyer bought the property in 1877 for his wife, Clementine, who died shortly before construction ended. The villa attracted international attention in 1888 through the Wiesbaden Prince Robbery. Meyer sold the house in 1890, and Wiesbaden acquired it in 1960. Plans to demolish it, including a 1965 proposal for an underground station, were eventually abandoned. The city chose cultural use by 1973, and parts of Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks were filmed here in 1978.
Since the early twenty-first century, this setting has hosted events as a house of literature and the Wiesbaden Press Club’s headquarters. The café occupies the upper floor, while public bookcases stand in the Blue Salon and garden. Founded in 2001, the literary house brings together readings, workshops, literary associations and initiatives. Its programme includes Wiesbaden Reads and the Wiesbadener Literaturtage, leaving books and filmed history side by side.
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