Gottfried Knoche was born in 1813 in Halbers Tadten, Germany a. In 1837 s and graduated as a surgeon at the University of Freiburg. In 1840 arrived in La Guaira on the invitation of the large German colony resident in the Central Coast. Once seated, bring your wife. Practicing as a doctor in the city and earns a reputation for charity, to serve poor patients at no charge. In 1845 he received the renewal of its title, by the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Co-founder of San Juan de Dios Hospital during the government of General Juan Crisostomo Falcon. Knoche was also appointed director of the hospital of La Guaira between 1854 and 1856 and, along with other doctors, combating the cholera epidemic that ravaged the region during those years.
"Nature Lover, during his early days in La Guaira Dr. Knoche used to make long excursions on horseback into the mountains of Galipán. Fascinating perspective offered by the Coast from the top of the peak, and its cool climate due to carry on strong attraction. Perhaps that was how was your idea of \u200b\u200bgetting a hold in the vicinity. Not far from small farms existed since colonial times for the cultivation of coffee and fruit. Knoche focused its attention on a preferential basis and bought a low price, in order to pass it on weekends. Later, with the pretext that his wife did not pay the heat of La Guaira, moved permanently to such a picturesque place (...) He had a daughter named Anna (1840-1879) who married Heinrich Müller ( 1812-1881), and a son later that year came from Germany. Doctor like his father, moved to Puerto Cabello. No further details are known of their fate. "
"He then ordered to build a house like the Black Forest, which has a great room or hall, lined with wood, with its fireplace and grandstand from rustic to entry. Almost all the material was transported from La Guaira on the backs of mules. The rooms were equipped with large windows overlooking the sea. People who had the luck or the privilege of knowing that possession in the late nineteenth century {}, praised the good taste with which he was decorated. (...) Rooswaag Eduardo, who was visiting Buena Vista in the middle of the year 1925 with a group of hikers, we had an interesting description of the beautiful plantings around the house, orange blossom, grapefruit, avocados, tamarind and cattleyas variety in the greenhouse, roses and carnations. (...) To the rear was Dr. Knoche his laboratory for experimentation, well ventilated and spacious. " «(...) worked on it extensively in the preparation of a liquid of their own invention to be injected into the bodies and preserve them from decay, without removing the viscera. It is said that your character could be removed during the night so as not to alarm the neighborhood, some bodies in the morgue of the San Juan de Dios hospital and was on the backs of mules up the hill with a confidential servant, to be subjected to prosecution " .
«(...) The liquid was injected into the jugular of the deceased and to go through the circulatory tract drying or dehydrating the body, getting the perpetuation of the body after of life. " "The charm and persistence to prevent the inexorable process of decomposition of the bodies created around Knoche a legend and a fictional territory adjacent to the mansion lived Bella Vista: the mausoleum (...)».
Sources:
Moreno, Gabriela: Mummies Dr. Knoche Creole. Every magazine on Sunday. 2 (60), pp. 46-48. (Nov. 2000)
Schael, Guillermo José: Caracas from century to century, pp. 158-165, Graphic Art, Caracas, 1967.
Schael, Guillermo J., "Compass" From Dr. Knoche Welser, newspaper El Universal, Caracas, March 1971
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