Villa Gröbe in Prague is a two-storey neo-Renaissance building located on a plateau above the Botiče valley in the Gröbe gardens. She belonged to the Jewish entrepreneur Moritz Gröbe. Among the decorations of the building, the frescoes on the facade of the villa and plastic decorations in the interior are noteworthy.
In the park, where the villa stands today, in the past there were vineyards founded by Charles IV. Villa Gröbe was built in the years 1870-1874 in cooperation with Antonin Barvitia, Josef Schulz and František Havel. The creator of the frescoes on the facade is the painter Kugler, while the sculptor Detema is responsible for the interior decorations.
In the interwar period, the Forestry College was located here, during World War II the villa belonged to Hitlerjugend. After the war, it was the seat of the Main House of Pioneers, there was a Dance Conservatory and a Music Conservatory. The building has also been adapted for a lawyer training center, research center and library.
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