Palais Marshal

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The Marschall Palace was an aristocratic palace on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin . It was later also called Voss'sches Palais . Vossstraße was laid out on the property in 1872 .

Construction and use

In connection with the expansion of Friedrichstadt and the construction of the Husarenstraße, later renamed Wilhelmstraße, this plot of land with a depth of more than 400 meters was created around 1735. It stretched from Husarenstrasse to the excise wall , which was located on today's Ebertstrasse .

The influential Minister Samuel von Marschall (1683–1749) commissioned the master builder Philipp Gerlach to plan a palace for the future site at Wilhelmstrasse No. 8 , which was built from 1737 onwards. At the same time Gerlach designed the nearby squares “ Quarré ” ( Pariser Platz ), “Oktogon” ( Leipziger Platz ) and “Rondell” (later Belle-Alliance-Platz , now Mehringplatz ).

Palais Marschall (left with bluish roof) on Wilhelmplatz
- right of it Wilhelmstr. 77 (later Reich Chancellery ), front left: Gold and Silver Manufactory, Wilhelmstr. 79

In 1761 it went to the younger brother of King Friedrich II , Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia  - in the memory of posterity through the construction of Bellevue Palace  , which was completed in 1786 - but who only kept it for a short time.

In 1763 the merchant Gotzkowsky , known as a porcelain manufacturer, bought it from him . After its bankruptcy it fell to the Prussian crown in 1768 , d. H. to Friedrich II.

In 1770 it was bought by Minister Karl Wilhelm von Finckenstein (1714–1800), childhood friend and close confidante of Friedrich II, who used it until his death.

His son-in-law, the Minister Otto von Voss (1755–1823) received it in 1800. From then on it was called the Vossisches Palais .

Bettina and Achim von Arnim spent their honeymoon in the park's garden shed in 1811.

It remained in the possession of the von Voss family even after the minister's death, now at number 78. Numerous family members, including von Finckenstein, have claims to ownership.

The lawyer at the Superior Court of Justice Carl Otto Friedrich von Voss († February 3, 1864) was the last permanent resident. After his death there were complicated inheritance disputes between different branches of the Voss and Finckenstein families.

A line of Voss on Buch died out in 1871 with General Ferdinand August Hans Friedrich von Voss-Buch (* October 17, 1788 - July 1, 1871), 1833–1840 commander of the Kaiser Alexander Grenadier Regiment , retired in 1854. However, he lived on Buch near Berlin and never on Wilhelmstrasse. He was also married to a native Countess Finck von Finckenstein, Julie Karoline Albertine. Her sister Luise Albertine Ulrike from the Madlitz family had married Otto von Voss auf Trebichow .

With the death of General Count Voss, the conflict over the inheritance was resolved by the remaining community of heirs of the Voss and Finck von Finckenstein families, who were related by marriage, and sold the property to the Berliner Bankenverein on November 1, 1871 .

Bismarck , the immediate neighbor at number 77 , was strictly against private use by renting apartments in Wilhelmstrasse and, in his capacity as Prussian Prime Minister, attempted to acquire the property in order to use the palace and property for institutions of the Prussian government or otherwise for an authority of the German Reich to use, could not answer for the demanded purchase price.

Vossstrasse

The bank commissioned a real estate company to demolish the historic palace in 1872 and to divide up the area. A private access road was created through the elongated property from Wilhelmstrasse to the former city wall (now Königgrätzer Strasse). It was named Vossstrasse after the recently deceased general on May 2, 1874.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LvZedlitz-Neukirch (Ed.): New Prussian Adels Lexicon . tape 4 .. Gebr. Reichenbach, Leipzig 1837, p. 301-302 ( GoogleBooks ).
  2. ↑ Vossstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )

Coordinates: 52 ° 30'40.3 "  N , 13 ° 22'59.3"  E.