Correns mansion
| Correns mansion (Siemensvilla) | |
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 The Correns manor house called Siemensvilla |
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| place | Berlin |
| architect | Fritz Freymüller |
| Client | Friedrich Christian Correns |
| Construction year | 1913-1916 |
| Floor space | approx. 1000 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 26 '19.8 " N , 13 ° 19' 44" E |
The manor house Correns , today mostly called Siemensvilla , is a villa in Berlin built in the 1910s . The monument is located on the corner of Calandrelli and Gärtnerstrasse in what is now the Lankwitz part of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district of Berlin.
The former mansion was built according to plans by Fritz Freymüller for the entrepreneur Friedrich Christian Correns in the historic Rosenthal villa district (today: the composer's quarter ) in the garden city of Lankwitz .
It has around 75 to 80 rooms on 3700 m². The basement rooms are around 1000 m². The property includes a concert hall with 400 seats, ancillary buildings such as the gatehouse and a park of around 27,000 m², which is protected as a garden monument.
location
The villa is accessible from Calandrellistraße and is located in the north-west of Lankwitz, today's composers ' quarter, bordering the historic villa quarter in Lichterfelde Ost. The streets of the composer's quarter bear the names of musicians and other artists, such as Beethoven , Mozart and Calandrelli .
history
The mansion in the style of historicism was built in the years 1913 to 1916 (according to other information 1912 to 1919) by the municipal planning officer Fritz Freymüller for the director of the Accumulatoren Fabrik Aktiengesellschaft (later renamed VARTA and BAE ), Friedrich Christian Correns. The porter's house, gardener's house and the enclosure were designed by the architect Albert Denzel . Correns was a Walcker - organ installed. After Correns' death, the mansion was sold by his widow to Werner Ferdinand von Siemens (1885–1937) in 1925 , until his death it remained in the possession of the von Siemens family , which is why it is now known as the Siemensvilla .
Werner Ferdinand von Siemens, one of the three board members of Siemens & Halske AG from 1919 to 1920 , a music lover and patron , had Gustav Clemens add a music hall in 1928/1929 , in which he sometimes conducted himself. He had an organ built by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company (with two manuals and eight registers ), which he later sold to the Ufa-Palast cinema in Berlin when he replaced it in 1929 with a much larger organ (four manuals and 15 registers). His son Peter von Siemens , who later became the company's boss and conductor, grew up here. On February 2, 1943, the villa and with it the Wurlitzer organ became the property of the German Reich. This large organ has been in the Berlin Musical Instrument Museum as a gift from the Federal Republic of Germany since 1982 . It has been restored and is playable.
The music hall is best known for its acoustics in classical music . Sound recordings are made here on a regular basis.
From 1941 to 1976 the villa was the seat of the Ibero-American Institute (German Central Library for Ibero-America). Until 2010 the villa was the seat of the German Music Archive of the National Library, which was relocated to Leipzig . In October 2010, businessman Stefan Peter acquired the property from the federal government in a bidding process.
The immediate vicinity of the villa was badly damaged by Allied air raids during World War II. Further destruction of the historic buildings followed in the post-war period . Today the neighboring streets are predominantly characterized by rental development, with the villa standing out as a single property.
In September 2012, BSP Business School Berlin Potsdam and MSB Medical School Berlin moved in as tenants.
In November 2015, the Correns mansion was Monument of the Month for the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district .
The park
The garden of the villa was designed by the garden architect Carl Rimann , who also planned the Lankwitz community park . The approximately 27,000 m² park is now, like the building, a listed building . The originally existing well is now filled in, a smaller second well basin has been preserved. A garden pavilion, which was initially intended as a tea pavilion and was later used as a bandstand, has been preserved.
Web links
- Sarah Wiesner, Jörg Rüter: Monument of the month November 2015: Correns mansion - Siemensvilla . District Office Steglitz-Zehlendorf of Berlin (PDF).
- Entries in the Berlin State Monument List: Correns mansion (Siemensvilla) andPark of the Correns manor house (later Siemensvilla)
- Pictures of the Correns mansion on Flickr
Individual evidence
- ↑ A clinic is to be built in the Siemens villa. In: Welt Online , March 14, 2011. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
- ↑ Sound carriers as a sensitive cultural asset. In: NZZ Online , September 1, 2005. Accessed April 25, 2019.
- ↑ a b Siemens villa between art and burnout. In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 16, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
- ↑ In Lankwitz there is good tone. In: Berliner Morgenpost , October 28, 2008. Accessed April 11, 2012.
- ^ Brigitte Schmiemann: Two private universities in the Siemens villa . In: Berliner Morgenpost , July 14, 2012, accessed on January 24, 2019.
- ^ Sarah Wiesner, Jörg Rüter: Monument of the Month November 2015: Correns Manor - Siemensvilla . District Office Steglitz-Zehlendorf of Berlin, accessed on January 24, 2019 (PDF).