House Lindenberg

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Lindenberg house, garden side facing Wilhelmshöhe street

The listed Lindenberg House is located at Methfesselstrasse  23 and 25 in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . The villa, completed in 1874, is the only building of the former villa colony Wilhelmshöhe on the eastern slope of the Kreuzberg to have been preserved in its original state . The Wilhelminian-style city ​​villa , named after the client, the businessman Ernst Lindenberg, is located on the eastern edge of Viktoriapark .

Wilhelmshöhe villa colony

Haus Lindenberg, side of the building along Methfesselstrasse

The villa colony was built from 1871 onwards by the Wilhelmshöhe villa partnership , in which 22 Berlin families had come together. The initiators of the construction project were the Secret Finance Councilor Kühnemann and the businessman Paul Pinkus Munk. The location chosen was public land west of the southern part of Belle-Alliance-Strasse (today: Mehringdamm ), which had previously been used for military purposes, among other things. There was also a sand pit there, in which the Berliners supplied themselves with white sand. According to the plan, 40 villas should originally be built on the site. According to the designs of the architects Wilhelm Böckmann and Hermann Ende , a complex with actually 20 villas was built.

Manufacturers, guards officers and civil servants lived in the elegant villa colony named in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm I after his palace Wilhelmshöhe near Kassel .

The north facade

Only authorized persons had access to the specially constructed Wilhelmshöhe private road, which was blocked by a gate. The eastern slope of the Kreuzberg, which is steep by Berlin standards, also made it possible to set up outside stairs in the magnificent gardens rising from this street.

Apart from the Lindenberg house, there are only two other villas in the former colony; however, their facades have been modernized during renovation measures.

Building and current use

The Lindenberg house is a richly decorated villa designed by the architect E. Becher. It is two-story towards Methfesselstrasse and three-story towards the garden. The building originally had the house number Wilhelmshöhe 11. What has been preserved is a remnant of the associated garden with a flight of stairs and old trees.

Haus Lindenberg is the seat of the literary house Lettrétage , which was founded in 2006 and organizes readings, smaller theater performances and art exhibitions at various locations. The 23 | 5 film production facility of director, producer and screenwriter Hans-Christian Schmid is also located in the building .

literature

  • Kathrin Chod, Herbert Schwenk, Hainer Weißpflug: Berlin district lexicon Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7759-0474-3 .

Web links

Commons : Haus Lindenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Wilhelmshöhe. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '15.3 "  N , 13 ° 23' 4.8"  E