Slavíčkova 92/10

Original owners

The married couple Victor and Marie Posselt bought a plot of land for the construction of a family villa in 1889¹ in, then, Mánesova Street from  the widow of the Libeň brewery Karel Knobloch, Mrs. Marie Knoblochová. The street, which is also sometimes called painted, is actually called Slavíčkova today, although during the World War II was briefly named, after another Czech painter, Mařák Street (Mařák Strasse). It owes its current name after the leading Czech impressionist and pupil of Julius Mařák, Antonín Slavíček².

The Posselts built a villa on the property, which they sold to factory owner Hans Otto Busse and his wife Maria³ after six years. Mrs. Maria Busse inherited the villa from her husband in 1912, completed the attic and after two years sold it to a chemical engineer and to the Prague factory owner Ing. Dr. Hans Reisers. The last owner before World War II was Hans Reisers wife Eliška (Elza, Lisa) Reisers, born name Goldmann⁴, on the basis of the market contract, when she bought the villa from her husband.

The owner of the land, Victor Posselt, together with the builder from Prague, František (Franz) Hulán, designed two storey Neo-Renaissance villa in 1889. The plans were assessed by a commission on 13^th August 1889, and the construction was completed in the same year.

In 1914, the new owner Mrs. Marie Busse set up an attic above the main facade and a porch on the back facade modified by the builder Karel Geisselreiter. The one storey willa was two aisled layout and is covered by a mansard hip. In the small aedicule (niche) on the right side facade there is a table with the designation year 1889⁵.