Karl-Marx-Strasse 73 (Potsdam)
The house at Karl-Marx-Straße 73 is a listed villa built in 1912 in Potsdam- Babelsberg .
location
The house is located on Karl-Marx-Strasse, which forms a triangle with Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse and August-Bebel-Strasse, which it also borders. Hiroshima Nagasaki Square is adjacent.
architecture
The house at Karl-Marx-Straße 73 was designed in 1912 in the so-called Heimatstil , an architectural style widespread in Europe at the time. It was built according to the plans of the architect Emanuel Heimann (1855-1910) as an office building in the form of a country house. It represents the area of Potsdam and at the same time the history of Germany before the First and Second World Wars .
The asymmetrical facade facing Karl-Marx-Straße has a pronounced half-timbered gable and a high mansard roof with beaver tail covering . The loggia , bordered by a wooden parapet and framed by columns, was originally unglazed. The villa is adorned with carvings - two eagles at the ends of the verges , an owl on the ridge , grapes and tendrils on the columns and the coffered undersides of the eaves . The south facade facing Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße shows a polygonal extension with a half-timbered upper floor and a hipped roof. The staircase extension to August-Bebel-Straße is also dominated by half-timbering resting on consoles . Here you can find the inscription Anno Domini 1912 in a cartouche with tendrils carved into the curved swelling wood. The fourth side of the house is kept comparatively simple with a small bay window on the ground floor.
history
Karl-Marx-Strasse was initially called "Kaiserstrasse" because it was located near the imperial Babelsberg Palace . The villa colony Neubabelsberg was built around the street from 1873 , which was planned and implemented by the government building councilors Friedrich Wilhelm Böckmann and Hermann Gustav Ende . The proximity to the Kaiser and the location on the Griebnitzsee should encourage wealthy people to buy a residence here. At the end of the 19th century, many screen stars settled in the nearby Ufa studios. The villa was initially used as the office of the architects' successor company.
During the Nazi era, the building housed a branch of the sixth police station from 1933. In 1938, Kaiserstrasse was renamed “Strasse der SA”.
From 1945 the street was named after Karl Marx . The house was used as the public post office of the Deutsche Post until 1990 . The billing office for the people's book trade for the Potsdam district was also located here .
In 2011 the villa was rebuilt and now houses an agency and a multimedia company.
literature
- Christiane Theiselmann: Potsdam and the surrounding area. 2nd edition, DuMont, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7701-3129-0 , p. 246.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg, City of Potsdam, as of: December 31, 2015 , p. 33. ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. bldam-brandenburg.de, accessed on June 19, 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '43.2 " N , 13 ° 7' 21.7" E