Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift (Potsdam)
The Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift at Potsdamer Neuer Garten is a palace-like building complex of the former Kaiserin-Augusta-Stiftung , which was built from 1900 to 1902 under the direction of the architect Lothar Krüger in the neo-Romanesque architectural style as a home for war orphaned girls.
use
The foundation established in 1872 by Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach for the education and schooling of orphaned daughters of nobles, officers, pastors and civil servants moved from Charlottenburg in 1902 to the abbey building newly built for this purpose in Potsdam with living and sleeping rooms for the girls. Educators and other staff as well as the dining room, gym, hospital, chapel and the cartridge chamber, the most beautiful room in the building. By 1945, 80 girls could live, live and grow up there at the same time.
From 1945 the building was used by the Soviet secret service. Until it moved out in 1994, it served the KGB as its European headquarters and was then given back to the Kaiserin Augusta Foundation .
When it was completed in 2007, the abbey building, which has since been sold, was completely restored and converted into a residential building with 40 residential units.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Project: Dining room of the Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift. Werkart Restaurierung GbR, 2016, accessed on May 7, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Where the "girls in uniform" lived. PNN , September 6, 2005, accessed May 7, 2016 .
- ↑ a b The KGB headquarters: No longer secret, but cozy. Der Tagesspiegel , November 7, 2005, accessed on May 7, 2016 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 57 ″ N , 13 ° 3 ′ 59 ″ E