Bejach country house
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The Landhaus Bejach is a residential building in Berlin-Steinstücke , which was built in the New Objectivity style in 1927-28 according to plans by Erich Mendelsohn . The building owner and client was the Berlin city doctor Curt Bejach .
architecture
The architect Erich Mendelsohn became particularly famous for the expressionist Einstein Tower he built on the Potsdamer Telegraphenberg 1920–1922 . The Bejach country house, characterized by functional and objective architecture, comes from his later creative period and is one of his smaller residential buildings. Due to its largely original state of preservation, it is an important building of the New Objectivity.
The flat-roofed cubic building, which is built across the elongated property (25 m × 60 m) on the rear part, divides the garden into two areas and is connected to the large front and the smaller rear garden by two side pergolas that run along the property boundaries. Like the house itself, the pergolas are made of dark brick with crossbars. A brick wall connected to the front right pergola delimits the front garden to the street.
The only thing noticeable about the house is the dynamic horizontal facade structure. Tile strips made of three visible brick layers are accentuated by the alternation with bright, recessed plaster surfaces and this pattern is repeated on the pergola columns. The receding ribbon of windows on the upper floor is lightly plastered and is surrounded by the protruding sill and the protruding flat roof. The upper floor is shortened in the southwest across the house for a 4 meter deep terrace. On the ground floor, the floor plan, which is symmetrical to the longitudinal direction of the house, is divided into three zones. In the north-east are the entrance area, stairs, toilet and kitchen, which is followed by the spacious, three-sided 40 square meter living area. The total area of 150 square meters is also efficiently designed on the upper floor with 2 bedrooms, a guest room, a girl's room, a dressing room and two bathrooms.
history
The building is located in Steinstücke, a West Berlin enclave . The country house was best known as a film set . Scenes for the classic film Die Drei von der Gasstelle with Heinz Rühmann were filmed here in 1930.
In March 1936 the Nazis forced Bejach to sell his house.
The house has been the seat of the Erich Mendelsohn Foundation since September 2009 , and the renovation of the building began at the same time.
Web links
- The sun should look in here, not the Gestapo. In: Der Tagesspiegel from October 2, 2011
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- State Monument Office Berlin
- Dr. Screed and Dr. Bejach
Individual evidence
- ↑ He wanted to make the individual well - a new "Jewish miniature" commemorates the Berlin city doctor and social medicine specialist Curt Bejach ( Memento from July 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ A foundation wants to make Erich Mendelsohn's legacy more popular Kulturportal Brandenburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 21 ″ N , 13 ° 7 ′ 45.2 ″ E