Schoeler-Schlösschen

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The Schoeler-Schlösschen in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

The Schoeler-Schlösschen is the oldest preserved building in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf , the beginnings of which date back to 1752/1753. It is located at Wilhelmsaue 126.

The Wilmersdorf pastor Samuel Gottlieb Fuhrmann received a “desert” farm - unused since the end of the Thirty Years War - with the requirement to build a single-storey Büdner house as a simple half-timbered building and to plant mulberry trees for silkworms . The house and property subsequently changed hands several times. In 1765/1766 it was converted into a stately baroque country house, a storey was added, ancillary buildings were erected and a large garden facing Wilmersdorfer See was laid out.

In 1893 the house went to the eponymous Berlin ophthalmologist Heinrich Schoeler (1844–1918), who lived here until his death. A housing association acquired part of the property in 1929 and built large apartment blocks there; the house and part of the park came into municipal ownership and were used by the district youth welfare office for various purposes. In 1935 the building was extended by a second floor - in the style of the lower storeys - and used by the Hitler Youth and as a local museum. From 1946 to 2003 the house was used as a day care center; it has been empty since a fire in February 2003.

The Schoelerpark behind the building is framed by apartment blocks from the 1920s

The district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is planning the restoration of the listed building with the Berlin Monument Protection Foundation . The latter insisted on demolishing the second floor and restoring it to its original Baroque state. The highest monument protection authority of Berlin approved the demolition of this floor in February 2007 under political pressure. In the Schoeler-Schlösschen, the 8,000-volume book collection of former Federal President Johannes Rau was to be housed.

On January 29, 2010, the topping-out ceremony for the reconstructed roof structure took place with the participation of the board of the Berlin Monument Protection Foundation and numerous representatives from local cultural policy, art history and the trades involved in the project . The construction work continues.

On January 17, 2011, the Berlin Monument Protection Foundation received a check for 100,000 euros from the Essen-based Evonik Group for the construction of the library.

The ground floor was used by Lebenswege gGmbH for exhibition purposes, lectures and performances (culture salon) and as a “construction site café”. On August 30, 2011, the cultural salon including the café closed.

In December 2012, the usufruct agreement was canceled because further funding from the Monument Protection Foundation was no longer possible. The district office was again the full owner. At this point in time, the interior work had not yet been started. The house has been empty again since September 2011.

Various plans of the district office to use the Schoeler-Schlösschen as another social facility with a cultural program and as a partial replacement for the dissolved Wilmersdorf town hall failed due to a "lack of sustainable concept". Various applications for funding have been submitted to the Deutsche Klassenlotterie Foundation with different usage ideas, from library to wedding room, office of the home association to extensive senior citizen work.

At the beginning of June 2015, the Board of Trustees finally rejected what was now the third proposal; Financing and concept could not convince. Even before the third rejection, the Schoeler-Schlösschen citizens' initiative was founded, the aim of which is to turn the building into a self-governing socio - cultural facility for the district around the Wilhelmsaue. A specific usage concept is currently being worked on.

literature

  • Dr. Lilli Moritz: The story of the "Schoelerschlößchen" in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History . 12th year 1961 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Schoeler-Schlösschen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 6 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 36 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the funding attempts by the Charlottenburg district office, cf. the following article on the website of the Schoeler-Schlösschen citizens' initiative: The Schoelerschlößchen - oldest residential building in Wilmersdorf, part 3: And what about the costs for the interior work?