Sailor rest home

Former administration building

The seaman's recreation home is a listed and privately owned former seaman's home in Kleinmachnow on Zehlendorfer Damm.

history

The seaman's recreation home was built in 1910 in the Kleinmachnow villa colony belonging to Zehlendorf on a 16,000 square meter property. The property consisted of four buildings; a casino building, the officers' house with officers and crew rooms with several lounges, a kitchen wing and a bathing area.

Architects were Giesecke & Wenzke from Charlottenburg , who paid attention to simple and functional room design, but avoided leaving a barrack-like or hospital-like impression. The base storeys were made of Rüdersdorfer limestone , the facades were designed with granular terrace plaster, and all wooden structures were treated with color. The buildings were heated from a central office by means of a low-pressure steam heater from the Berlin company Junk. For this purpose, the lines led through accessible concrete channels. The water heating system was also central and connected bathing systems, showers, steam-electric and medical baths, as well as the small swimming pool. The construction of this system was carried out by H. Schaffstaedl GmbH from Gießen . Bricklaying and carpentry work was carried out by Held & Francke, Berlin. Heinrich Giesecke did the sculpting himself. All houses had gas and electricity lines, the garden was designed by Kleinmachnow tree nurseries . The total cost was 440,000 marks.

After the Second World War , only the base remains of the casino building and the officers' house. Only team house 2, the administration building and the enclosure remained in a dilapidated condition. The crew house 2 consists of 13 living rooms and bedrooms for seafarers looking for peace and quiet. The administration building includes several offices, a library and the director's apartment. In 2008, the state of Brandenburg put the remaining buildings, the team house 2, the administration building and the enclosure with entrance gate, under monument protection . In autumn 2011, the rapper Bushido acquired the property and the associated buildings. He then had the villa rebuilt and in April 2012 the historic enclosure with the entrance gate demolished. A four-month construction freeze imposed by the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark did not induce the client to rebuild the gate. In 2016 the gate was rebuilt according to the requirements of the Lower Monument Authority of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district , with the completion and construction of the historic wall and gate in June 2016.