Erdmannshof (Steinstücke)

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Behren's assistant in the studio, v. l. To the right: Mies van der Rohe , Adolf Meyer , Max Hertwig , Bernhard Weyrather (behind), Jean Krämer , Walter Gropius
View of Steinstücke , 1989, the property is in the middle at the top of the picture

The Erdmannshof was a property in the Berlin location Steinstücke , directly on the border with Potsdam 's Babelsberg district .

View of Rote-Kreuz-Straße, 2013, the newly built houses on the left

It was named after the imperial court sculptor Erdmann Encke , who built a house on the 8,500 square meter property shortly before his death in 1896. His son Eberhard Encke rented the house in 1907 to the architect Peter Behrens (1868–1940), a pioneer of modern industrial design and a pioneer of new building . For many decades, the villa and atelier were the meeting place for important architects and sculptors, including Adolf Meyer , Mies van der Rohe , Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius .

The property was located directly on the Berlin Wall in the Steinstücke enclave and overgrown, the villa became a ruin. Around the turn of the millennium, an investor planned to remove the remains and rebuild the 8,000 square meter property. On the other hand, resistance from the local residents formed and a citizens' initiative was founded. At the end of February 2000, the park was destroyed and trees felled, and in December the last remains of the Wilhelminian style house were removed. The property at the corner of Rote-Kreuz-Strasse and Stahnsdorfer Strasse has now been built over with residential buildings.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Limberg: Potsdam: A Place of Modernity? Architects and their buildings in the first third of the 20th century . Brandenburgische Denkmalpflege, Volume 6, Issue 2. Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1997, pp. 66–67.
  2. ↑ a b Dispute about the Sleeping Beauty Castle . In: Potsdam Latest News , April 4, 2000.
  3. ↑ Katharina Körting: Development of the "Erdmannshof": dispute on historical ground . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 4, 2001.
  4. ↑ www.bi-erdmannshof.de , archived on February 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive .
  5. ↑ Memory of Peter Behrens . In: Märkische Allgemeine , September 24, 2019.
  6. ↑ Jens Franke: Destroyed. The Erdmannshof and the architecture of the 20th century . Website of the Erdmannshof citizens' initiative, archived on February 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive .

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '28.5 "  N , 13 ° 7' 40.3"  E