Imperial settlement of Rudolf Hess

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The former Reichsiedlung Rudolf Heß (also called settlement for members of the staff of the deputy of the Führer , staff leader settlement , Bormann settlement or settlement Sonnenwinkel ) was built from 1936 to 1938 in Pullach near Munich , from 6 December 1947 by the organization Gehlen and from used on April 1, 1956 by the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). The listed building ensemble is currently still part of the BND property in Pullach . Following the relocation of the headquarters to the headquarters of the BND in Berlin , the site will be free for subsequent use.

history

The separate settlement on the other side of the southern edge of Munich was planned by Roderich Fick . The client and builder was Martin Bormann , at the time head of the staff of the Führer’s deputy , who selected Pullach as the location. As a model Nazi settlement for the party elite , it was intended for the staff of Rudolf Hess , the so-called deputy of the Führer . The first residents moved in in 1938. The model estate consisted of single and two-family houses, which were aligned towards the centrally located staff chief building . The individual simple buildings with hipped roofs had strictly structured facades with lattice windows embedded flush with the exterior plaster, including internal folding shutters. Goethe's garden house in Weimar, which for the National Socialists was the pointed gable ideal of the German home, was considered an architectural model . The headquarters building was a representative villa. The ground floor comprised various meeting rooms, a music and dining room and a library. Bormann had his apartment upstairs.

The settlement also included a nursery, a driver's yard with workshops and garages, and houses for the drivers and domestic workers. The individual houses were sealed off by walls so that privacy could not be disturbed.

It was a model settlement, in accordance with the National Socialist ideology of the national community . There should be no social differences within the settlement residents, which is why an identical, withdrawn interior design with high-quality materials was chosen. “ Aryan ”, politically reliable families with at least two children were accepted.

The area was also the domicile and control center for high-ranking National Socialists, above all Martin Bormann. Adolf Hitler visited the settlement on September 14, 1938. The model settlement was largely spared from the effects of the war. The individual houses were given a dark camouflage paint to protect them from possible bombing attacks.

The Siegfried Headquarters was built in the immediate vicinity .

literature

  • Bodo Hechelhammer, Susanne Meinl: Secret object Pullach. From the NS model settlement to the BND headquarters , Ch. Links, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-386153-792-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reich Building Councilor Roderich Fick. In: arch INFORM . (List of works)
  2. ↑ a b c Böse Bauten III Hitler's architecture in the shadow of the Alps. from 7:30 min. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The history of the BND. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 51 ″  N , 11 ° 31 ′ 37 ″  E