Ludwig House . Property built in the 1930s by Ernesto Ludwig, a member of one of the first groups of settlers in the area who gave rise to the town of Puyuhuapi .
Summary
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- 1 Location
- 2 History
- 3 Arquitectura
- 4 National Monument
- 5 Present
- 6 See also
- 7 Image Gallery
- 8 Fountains
Location
Located at Avenida Otto Uebel No. 202, Puyuhuapi town, Cisnes commune , Aysén province , Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo region , Chile .
History
The origin of Puyuhuapi begins around 1930 in the town of Rossbach (currently called Hranice and located in the Karlovy Vary region of the Czech Republic ) in the former Czechoslovak Sudetenland region, then populated by inhabitants of German origin . The businessman Robert Uebel decided to finance an emigration project to Chile, in which Otto Uebel, Karl Ludwig, Walter Hopperdietzel and Ernesto Ludwig participated. Motivated by the adventurous spirit and the fear of war , these four young men left for Chile. Here they met the explorer Augusto Grosse who helped them found Puyuhuapi in 1935 .
Casa Ludwig was built by Ernesto Ludwig, a member of the first groups of German settlers in the town of Puyuhuapi. The building was designed based on the local adaptation of the so-called fachwerk, a typical construction system of Bohemia , the place of origin of the Ludwig family.
Architecture
The building has a total area of 2,270.14 m², with five levels of wood . The infrastructure was built in the 1930s with an American Ballon Frame system using pieces of sawn wood as material as a shed .
National Monument
On August 6, 2011, it was declared a National Monument in the category of Historical Monument through Decree No. 314 of the Ministry of Education .
Present
Currently it belongs to Alicia Ludwig as a private monument.
