Retirement home of the Jewish community in Berlin

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Old people's home of the Jewish community in Berlin, corner of Berkaer and Sulzaer Strasse
Old people's home of the Jewish community in Berlin, front building with raised middle section

The old people's home of the Jewish Community in Berlin is a retirement home in the Berlin district of Schmargendorf . The building, built by Alexander Beer for the Jewish community in Berlin from 1929 to 1931 , has served as a retirement home, office of the Reich Security Main Office , barracks of the British Army , general hospital and geriatric specialist hospital and is currently part of the Vivantes group as Haus Wilmersdorf .

architecture

The brick building is strikingly horizontally structured by bright, continuous plaster and window bands. It has rounded balconies and a recessed upper floor. The house is located on an exposed corner between Berkaer Straße and Sulzaer Straße. The northern bar is a symmetrical head building with a raised central part. The building bends bluntly towards Sulzaer Strasse.

history

In 1929, the Jewish community had the building erected on the 7000 m² site, which ultimately contained places for 180 residents and a prayer room for 300. In 1941 the German government had the home closed and confiscated by the SS and deported the remaining residents and nursing staff to a concentration camp, where it had them murdered. In the following years, the Reich Main Security Office Office VI (Abroad - SD-Abroad), the counter-espionage, used the building and set up a file bunker in the courtyard.

After the liberation of Berlin, Canadian units took the building as Mackenzie King Barracks , which were taken over a short time later by the British Armed Forces in Berlin . The surrounding area between the school building and Hohenzollerndamm was closed as barracks.

In 1951 the house was handed back to the State of Berlin, which had it renovated by 1956. It became a branch of the Wilmersdorf Hospital . After this was closed, it belonged to the Max-Bürger-Hospital since 1988 .

Since 1999 the building has been used as a retirement home again, and Vivantes has operated it since 2001 . The Vivantes Group, which belongs to the state of Berlin, had the home extensively renovated between 2009 and 2011 for eleven million euros. In August 2011 the group reopened the house. After the renovation, the house offers space for 123 residents in 75 single rooms and 24 double rooms.

Memorial plaque on the retirement home

Since 1988, a memorial plaque on the outer wall (to the left of one of the entrances on Berkaer Straße) has been commemorating Alexander Beer and the deported and later murdered residents and care workers.

With the Leo Baeck house in Charlottenburg, there has again been a retirement home for the Jewish community since 1980.

literature

  • Alexander Beer: The new old people's home of the Jewish community. In: Gemeindeblatt der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin , 21st year 1931, No. 4 (April 1931), pp. 124–125.

Web links

Commons : Retirement home of the Jewish community in Berlin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max-Bürger-Krankenhaus , in: Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger, Michael Bollé, Ralph Paschke and others: Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments - Berlin German Art Publishing House 2006 ISBN 3-422-03111-1 , p. 276.
  2. ^ A b Luise Berlin: Residential Care Center Wilmersdorf - Heimstatt Wilmersdorf 
  3. ↑ a b c Berlin.de: Memorial plaque Jewish retirement home
  4. ^ Jewish community in Berlin: Leo Baeck House

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 43.1 ″  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 9.3 ″  E