About the site
The former Hornyho Street (Hornygasse, after 1918 Erasmus Kreuzinger Street, now Heydukova Street) was newly laid out in 1905 in connection with the development of the villa district on Kylešovský Hill, which expanded from Kopečná Street (Berggasse, now Tyršova). The area beyond Kopečná Street had already been earmarked for development, including the regulation of street alignments, in 1902. Three years later, Hornyho Street was created, linking Hradecká Street with the extended Kopečná Street. Construction along the street began in 1911, when the newly established Workers’ Building and Housing Cooperative (Arbeiter-Bau-und Wohnungsgenossenschaft) erected a uniform series of semi-detached houses on both sides of the street, each containing relatively comfortable three-room apartments with full facilities.
The villa for the Hawerlands was built in the late 1930s at the edge of the villa district on Kylešovský Hill, where Erasmus Kreuzinger Street meets Hradecká Street. The Opava builder Swedek designed the house, situated on a gentle slope, as a two-storey structure with a raised basement in the front section. Entry is from the west side, through an entrance marked by a prominent canopy. The cubic building in the style of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) features a dining room facing south with a strip window, projecting from the mass of the house and forming the base for an upstairs terrace, shaded by the overhanging mono-pitch roof. The interior follows a two-tract layout: on the north side is the staircase hall that leads to rooms on the south side as well as service areas. The villa stands as a remarkable example of the persistence of New Objectivity forms in a setting already influenced by the rise of Nazism.
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