House Mühlberg

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Ohrdruf Castle (Mühlberg House)
Ohrdruf Castle (Mühlberg House)
Ohrdruf, Haus Mühlberg, gate on Gothaer Strasse
Ohrdruf, Mühlberg House, Bodo Ebhardt's main building

The Mühlberg house in Ohrdruf , Thuringia , also known as Burg Ohrdruf , is a building commissioned in 1933 by the lead paint factory owner Thilo Albin Mühlberg . It was built by Bodo Ebhardt between 1933 and 1935 and used as an educational facility for years. Since 2017 the area has been used as an event location under the name "Burg & Park Ohrdruf".

description

The architect and founder of the German Castle Association Bodo Ebhardt built the very distinctive house at Gothaer Straße 30 in Ohrdruf . The very unusual for the 1930s construction and commissioning of a renowned architect of the time make the building an extraordinary building, which together with its extensive parkland, already at the time of the GDR under monument protection was provided and refurbished.

The building is now known as "Burg Ohrdruf", also on a stone slab next to the entrance gate ("Burg Ohrdruf GmbH"). This designation is wrong in the real sense of the term castle , since castles describe medieval residential and defense structures. The design clearly suggests a castle; However, since the building was only built in the 1930s, it cannot actually be assigned to this term. An inscription on a stone slab in the outer wall, apparently from the construction period, reads: “ora et labora” (pray and work).

In the Handbook of German Art Monuments, the building is entered as: "Haus Mühlberg". Other names are "Kupferschlösschen", "Villa Mühlberg", "Mühlburg" or "Vierfarbenenschloß".

Thilo Albin Mühlberg was appointed "State Councilor" from 1933 to 1935 and was appointed President of the Central Thuringian Chamber of Commerce and Industry by the NSDAP, and thus also worked in the main economic department of the NSDAP- Gauleitung Thuringia. A foundation stone on the building shows his name and the aforementioned year information. So far, however, there is insufficient evidence that the building was actually inhabited by its client. In April 1945, Mühlberg was briefly arrested by the American occupation forces and all of his property was expropriated. His factory became "public property" (later VEB Bleiwerke Ohrdruf ), the "Haus Mühlberg" was occupied by the 4th American Panzer Division on April 5, 1945 and briefly served as the commandant's office for the adjacent transit camp (formerly Ohrdruf forced labor camp , now Ohrdruf military training area ) for released Soviet prisoners of war. As part of the exchange of land after the Yalta Conference , it was handed over to the Soviet military and the headquarters of the 39th Guards-Mot. Rifle division Ohrdruf of the group of the Soviet armed forces in Germany , which left it in 1978 in a deplorable condition.

In the 1980s, the house was placed under monument protection and extensively renovated for around 7 million marks and converted into an educational facility. After the turnaround and further renovation work on the building and the parks, it became a youth education center for the State of Thuringia, but this use was given up on December 31, 2003 for cost reasons. Until 2006, Haus Mühlberg was privately run as an educational facility; today it is used as a restaurant and conference hotel.

House Mühlberg can be used and viewed in consultation with the operator.

Chronological use

  • 1933–1935 construction phase
  • 1936–1945 home of the owner Dr. Thilo Mühlberg and his family until they were expropriated in 1945
  • 1946–1949 Caritas orphanage
  • 1949–1955 Children's rest home (relocated to Georgenthal)
  • 1955–1978 Soviet Army Staff, most recently: Staff position 39th Guard Mot. Rifle Division
  • 1978–2003 used as a training and recreation home with various providers, most recently as a youth education center for the state of Thuringia
  • 2003–2006 continued use as a privately owned educational facility
  • 2015–2016: Use as a privately owned event location with restaurant and conference hotel
  • since the beginning of 2017: use as a venue for private and public events such as trade fairs, concerts and other open air events

Theories

Various theories about a possible use in the Third Reich are circulating about the building , from the secret command, news or command headquarters to a secret bunker under the premises to the integration into the planning in the nearby Jonastal . The reasons for this are the location on the grounds of Camp SIII "Olga" Ohrdruf-Nord and the theming of the area and the building in the book by the Berlin historian Rainer Karlsch , "Hitler's bomb". None of the theories has yet been adequately proven. The city of Ohrdruf does not mention the building's existence in tourist publications or on the Internet.

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Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Ermel "Neighborhood between Exercise and Emergency", Ohrdruf and military training area 1906 - 2009, Rockstuhl, 2010

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 28 "  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 3.7"  E