“The last four months,” says Anton Plager, “have been a crazy journey through time.” The 44-year-old is the nephew of Karl Floßmann, who died in 2019.
His tower-crowned Villa Anna in the Tölz bathing area is probably the last guest house from the early days of the Tölz cure that has been preserved fairly true to the original.
Bad Tölz - Anton Plager from Regensburg, who was often here as a child and who remembers a lively Tölz spa life, was the confidante and advisor of the single uncle in the last years of his life.
The 44-year-old now manages the house for the family.
“I have the feeling that my uncle has given me a mandate,” says the lawyer with a smile.
"And that's what you assume."
Of course, everyone will say, everyone would like to manage an old house in the best warehouse in the Tölzer bathing area.
But it's not that easy.
Whoever walked through the villa built in 1890 at the beginning of the year could not stop shaking his head and being amazed.
The house was last rebuilt and renovated around 1959, with a bathroom being installed for the first time (!).
Otherwise, the guests had to make do with the eight rooms with shared toilets.
At that time, an overnight stay with breakfast in the "Villa Anna" cost 20 marks, says Plager.
Replete with memories of the old days
Incidentally, Willy Sachs, the father of noble playboy Gunter Sachs, already lived there in the 1920s, remembers Karl Floßmann's sister Annemarie Plager, who lives in Lower Bavaria.
Even the Sachs father was an illustrious, but also quite extravagant guest.
By the way, there were boarders until the early 1990s.
When Karl Floßmann's mother Marie died, Karl Floßmann lived alone in the big house.
“He was enough of himself,” describes his nephew.
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Pension room charm from 1959: Nice view from the balcony, but only one washbasin, no toilet or bathroom.
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The teacher and local historian Karl Floßmann loved books.
Thousands of them were scattered across the house in themed depots;
Hundreds of them alone in the difficult-to-reach turret, which Floßmann climbed by ladder when he was over 80.
Furniture, tools, clothes, around 2000 hangers, old and new shoes, dishes, bills, calendars dating back to the 1920s, correspondents, photos and stacks of specialist newspapers - everything was kept by the thrifty homeowner.
To sort out the important things, otherwise clear the building and make it presentable, Plager took four months to do this and, as mentioned, experienced a “crazy journey through time”.
“But it was also nice” and: Now the house is presentable.
Under no circumstances should Villa Anna be sold
Brief review: It was built in 1891 by the then Fischbacher Mayor Josef Floßmann, who, according to the family tradition, sold his farm for it.
After only a year, the country man had grown tired of city life and he sold Villa Anna to his nephew Balthasar Floßmann, an accountant at Jod AG, who moved in with his family.
Three generations on, Karl was the last raftman to own the house.
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The furniture of four generations was kept in the basement of Villa Anna.
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Anton Plager wants to do all he can to ensure that the family history does not end there.
The villa is not to be sold and, like so many guest houses and sanatoriums in Tölz, will be converted into apartments.
There were plenty of inquiries, reports Plager.
“We don't want that.” At least some of the villa should be reopened to the public according to the family's ideas.
"In Annastrasse and near the pedestrian zone - after a renovation - life should return."
Looking for ideas for a venerable house
And for this Anton Plager is now looking for an association, a museum or an institution that has ideas on how to revive and use the old Villa Anna with its charm.
“I'm open to everything.” After four months of clearing and rearranging, the 44-year-old has the feeling that “the house is looking for a purpose”.
The family has no time pressure and will allow the “venerable house” this “discovery phase”.
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Contact:
If you have
ideas
for
using
the house, please send an email to
anton.plager@g-mailbox.de.
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