Palais Kurland

The Palais Kurland was a no longer existing, historical building in Berlin , Unter den Linden No. 7 according to the census used until 1937. It was an elongated baroque palace with 13 windows at the front. The historical name of the building comes from the period 1805 to 1837, when it was owned by the Duchess Dorothea of Courland . It became known through the salon of the Duchess Dorothea of Courland. In its place is today the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Berlin .

history

In 1732, the Secret Council and Regimental Quartermaster Christian Ludwig Möller bought the property on Unter den Linden 7.
1734 Development with a two-storey building, then several modifications to a three-sided building with a courtyard enclosed by the neighboring building.
1748 sold to the secret finance, war and domain councilor Johann Christoph Zinnow (1710–1760).
Reconstruction by Friedrich Wilhelm Diterichs .
1764 to 1787 owned by Amalie von Prussia
1765 Reconstruction by Johann Boumann in the Frederician Rococo style , construction aid was his son Michael Philipp Boumann .
Heir is Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm , who sold the palace to the major of the Gens d'armes regiment and later court marshal Valentin von Massow .
From 1805 owned by Dorothea von Courland .
1806–1815 the French city commander lived in the palace.
1837 Sale by Dorothea von Sagan to Tsar Nicholas I of Russia .
1840–1841 Conversion by Eduard Knoblauch , used as the Tsar's Palace and Russian Embassy in Berlin
In June 1942, the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories moved into the building , which was headed by Nazi chief ideologist Alfred Rosenberg . The building was destroyed in the Allied air raids in February 1944 .

literature

Petra Wilhelmy: The Berlin Salon in the 19th Century (1780–1914). Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989, ISBN 3-11-011891-2 . (Dissertation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) (Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin, Volume 73)
Hans-Werner Klünner: Panorama of the street under the lime trees from 1820. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-87584-376-2 .
Ute Laur-Ernst: The city of Berlin in printmaking 1570-1870, Vol. 2 . 1st edition. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86732-055-9 , pp. 352 . (Palace of Princess Amalie)
Olaf Thiede, Jörg Wacker: Chronology of Potsdam and the surrounding area: the cultural landscape from 800 to 1918: Brandenburg, Potsdam, Berlin . tape 2 . O. Thiede, 2007, ISBN 3-00-021100-4 , pp. 690 f .

Web links

www.russische-botschaft.de - official website of the Russian Embassy in Germany

Individual evidence

↑ Other war servants. In: Address calendar of the royal Prussian capital and residence cities Berlin and Potsdam. 1735, accessed August 22, 2020 .
↑ Gensd'Armes Regiment. In: Address calendar of the royal Prussian capital and residence cities Berlin and Potsdam. 1790, accessed August 22, 2020 .
↑ Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is heading for a catastrophe ..." The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941–1945 . Munich 2006, p. 76 f.

52.516151944444 13.383456Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '58.1 " N , 13 ° 23' 0.4" E

[1] Other war servants. In: Address calendar of the royal Prussian capital and residence cities Berlin and Potsdam. 1735, accessed August 22, 2020 .

[2] Gensd'Armes Regiment. In: Address calendar of the royal Prussian capital and residence cities Berlin and Potsdam. 1790, accessed August 22, 2020 .

[3] Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is heading for a catastrophe ..." The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941–1945 . Munich 2006, p. 76 f.