Brüningslinden Castle
Brüningslinden Castle had been a country estate since 1912 and an excursion restaurant in the Berlin district of Kladow from the 1930s .
history
construction
In the years 1911/1912 the castle-like designed house Brüningslinden was built on Sakrower Landstrasse 129-131 on the almost 20-meter-high, promising bank of the Havel in Kladow as a country residence by Ernst Rütger Brüning . The architect was Georg Siewert and Fritz Greppert was responsible for the interior fittings.
Country estate
Brüning had been an officer at the German embassies in Tokyo and Washington from 1908 to 1910 , and from his travels upstairs had exhibited East Asia in a special room. The paneling and ceiling paintings in the guest rooms were in the Louis XIV and Louis XV styles . ; the lord of the castle used the rooms as boudoir and music salon.
Brüning inherited richly, his father Adolf Brüning was one of the founders of Hoechst AG , and so he ran a hospitable house in his castle. At the end of the 1920s, Brüning left Brüningslinden and moved to his Brüningsau estate near Rosenheim . In 1929 he rented the castle to the Automobile Club of Germany , which used it as a clubhouse for motorboat drivers.
On September 28, 1931, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning - not related to Ernst Rütger Brüning - visited Brüningslinden Castle for tea with his Foreign Minister Julius Curtius and his French guests, Prime Minister Pierre Laval , Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and the French Ambassador to Germany, André François-Poncet .
Excursion restaurant
In 1935, Max Gruban, head of the Berlin wine wholesaler Gruban und Souchay, acquired Schloss Brüningslinden and designed it as an excursion restaurant to compete with the then very popular and much-visited Schloss Marquardt owned by the Kempinski wine house.
As a member of the Wednesday Society in 1940, the historian Hermann Oncken gave a lecture with women in the castle.
After the end of World War II , Brüningslinden was the headquarters of the British Commander-in-Chief for a short time and then a rest home for Jewish children.
In 1967, a fairy tale forest was set up with about a dozen life-size fairy tales groups from the on-site children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm . A miniature train took the children to groups of fairy tales such as Snow White , Hansel and Gretel , Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty .
The restaurant business developed in deficit, however, and Max Gruban applied for the building to be demolished in 1972 because the renovation required 300,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 487,000 euros) and fewer and fewer guests were visiting the house. In response to a request, the then Building Senator Rolf Schwedler stated that Brüningslinden Castle was not so important in terms of building history and art, in order to preserve it against the will of the owner.
demolition
The house was demolished at the end of 1972, and the property was then acquired by Gagfah for the construction of their own homes. However, the construction of homes did not begin until 1977.
The Venetian Lion Fountain at Brüningslinden Castle was moved from Brüningslinden to Wilmersdorf Town Hall at Fehrbelliner Platz 4 in 1972 and has been at the Kladower Forum house on Kladow's village square since 2017.
literature
- Kurt Pomplun : Pomplun's Grosses Berlin Buch , Haude & Spenersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1985, pp. 109–112
Web links
- Brüningslinden Castle . In: The history of Berlin
- Brüningslinden Castle and other things that have disappeared . In: Berliner Woche , July 10, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Well with a story: The lions should go back to Kladow. In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 14, 2016
- ↑ The Return of the Lions. In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 9, 2016
- ↑ Venetian lion fountain in the round courtyard of the town hall Wilmersdorf. At: berlin.de