Why are most city villas square?

Elongated city villas with gabled roofs are called Schloss, Palais, Palazzo. If there are golden lion heads in front, it is a Bavarian castle; if two eagles, Prussian; if two fish heads, then Schleswig-Holstein. Karsten

Elongated city villas with gable roofs are called castle, palace, palazzo. If there are golden lion heads in front, it is a Bavarian castle, if two eagles, Prussian, if two fish heads, then Schleswig-Holstein. Karsten

But I can hardly search for castle on Pinterest or Google now.

Is there then a term for houses with a classic hipped roof?

In the era of city villas, they were even seen with hipped roofs as the more typical ones, and today in the era of substitute villas, there is no special term for them either.

I just tried a definition. Based on my impressions of this house type. I don't build such houses myself,

That’s how I had perceived it too: how your understanding of the term is shaped—not necessarily that you yourself build that way.

I can imagine that it always has to do with the time when the villas were built. Perhaps square villas also seem a bit more impressive the bigger they are... they are beautiful after all..

For me, a city villa is a house with two full stories without knee walls and a relatively flat pyramid roof.

That makes you exactly part of the majority that markets follow.

I see it the same way as Alex85, although I want to emphasize that the term was introduced from the seller’s side.

The houses that are geometrically similar to today's so-called city villas, which mainly appeared all over Germany in the 1930s, I generally only knew as "single- or two-family houses." At most, someone sometimes called it a coffee grinder. The flat pyramid roofs didn’t exist back then; widespread were hip roofs and mansard roofs.

Of course, there were villas too, which were called manor houses (in the countryside) or villas, industrialist villas (in urban areas). Really villas or palazzos in my opinion only south of the Alps. Castles are older and practically do not occur in the bourgeois building tradition IMHO (exceptions prove the rule).

We were then looking for a house with two full stories and no sloping walls. The sellers always answered, "So a city villa." Fine by me ... In the building permit, however, it says "single-family house."

By the way, the footprint of our house is square. We like it, and a free architectural design was not possible anyway due to the property developer constellation.

Extremely wide and nearly square landscapes (or crosswise and nearly square portraits

Hello ,

can you explain what you mean? I’m at a loss here.

We built on a plot that would have allowed a maximum house width of 10 meters – but then the garage could have only been 3 meters wide. In the end, we built in the format 9x15 meters. So I can speak as a homeowner directly affected by a very un-square floor plan on the subject. We designed our house "back then," about a year ago, ourselves. One advantage is that the long north side offers enough space to place the front door and stairs side by side in the middle. On the south side, we like that the dining area, living area, and guest room can be accommodated on the ground floor. The upper floor we divided symmetrically into 4 fairly large rooms, which follows our desire for large bedrooms and kids’ rooms and a bathroom with a sauna. I’m sure that wouldn’t please everyone.

Today, I would consider the excessively large roof area in relation to the enclosed space a disadvantage. We have a 43° half-hipped roof with 60 cm eaves. Also, our living area is logically relatively small due to the unfavorable ratio of perimeter to area of the floor plan, especially with the wall construction of about 54 cm (brick construction).