Exterior construction

The Schöller country house, built in 1911, still stands on a generous plot of land and has been preserved in its original form, apart from a few structural changes.

It is a stately, two-storey building. The corner bay window on the ground floor has the lattice baskets typical of Zell in front of the windows. On the first floor, the balcony runs over three sides, the balcony parapet is worked in a sawing technique and colourfully designed. The main entrance area on the north side shows how Zell plays with different window shapes.

The decorative painting of the window surrounds and the chosen colour scheme for the shutters, balcony parapet, façade painting and underside of the roof overhang are impressive here.

Zell adopts the form of the typical Upper Bavarian one-roof farm. He reduces its width, emphasises the height and thus creates an elegant impression. He succeeds in reinterpreting it by adding bay windows, round-arched niches, finely designed lattice baskets on windows and the coherence of the colour scheme: the country house for an urban audience.

Zell’s "Terofal" and "Schöller" country houses are discussed in detail with the title "Landhausbauten im Gebirgsstil" (Country house buildings in mountain style) in the contemporary press, the "Neudeutsche Bauzeitung" from 1913: "Professor Zell can probably be considered one of the best experts on the Bavarian-Swabian mountain house. [...] What he found in his studies and photographs, he uses in his designs in a thoroughly free style."

Michaela Thomas