Villa "Hope" (Bad Freienwalde)
| Villa "Hope" | |
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 Villa "Hope" 2019 |
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| place | Bad Freienwalde (Oder) |
| builder | Otto Seidemann |
| Client | Judge fort Wilhelm Schulz |
| Architectural style | Home style |
| Construction year | 1905 |
The Villa "hope" is a vibrant city in Heimatstil outside the area designated as a monument historic heart of Bad Freienwalde , southeast of the municipal cemetery at the after Altranft leading Frankfurter Straße ( B167 ). The facade is characterized by a basement- like , brick-faced basement and a dominant two-storey dwelling with a half-timbered gable under a gable roof, framed by a balcony on one side and the recessed stair tower with the main entrance on the other. The three-storey tower is crowned on three sides by facing gables with integrated round windows and has a pyramidal spire with the weather vane showing the year of construction
history
The villa was built in 1905 by the master mason and carpenter Otto Seidemann from Freienwalde for the court fort Wilhelm Schulz and sold in 1909 to Otto's brother Wilhelm Seidemann, who here (at the former address Wriezener Straße 51B) a “Vegetarian and Diet recovery home with air and sunbathing ”.
In Brandenburg, this vegetarian and diet recovery home is the only known facility so far in which the natural way of life propagated since the end of the 19th and first half of the 20th century was practiced consistently to this extent and for which the name "hope" Program was. The urban development significance of the land development with villa, courtyard building and guest house is illustrated above all in the largely separate location outside the former city limits and through the direct reference to the landscape within the vicinity of the city, which can still be experienced today, which offered the ideal conditions for this use.
Wilhelm Seidemann
Wilhelm Seidemann (born September 17, 1879 in Ruhland ; † December 10, 1949 in Bad Freienwalde) had completed his training as a gardener, learned to grow orchids in London and primarily occupied himself with fruit growing in Paris and Brussels before he joined the emerging free-thinker movement, Became a vegetarian and practiced and propagated the natural way of life and healing. In September 1904 Wilhelm took part in the world congress of freethinkers in Rome, to which he traveled by bike and on foot and where Ernst Haeckel was proclaimed "antipope". He then traveled on foot to Naples and Capri and finally came back to Germany via the Gotthard Pass and the Axenstrasse . In 1910/11 Wilhelm Seidemann laid out the lime tree avenue that still exists today to the forest house "Coethenerheim, educational institution for boys". From 1915 to 1918 he was a soldier ( Landsturm ) and took part in the fighting in Kovno ( Kaunas ), Wilna ( Vilnius ) and Orany ( Varėna ).
Vegetarian and Diet Rest Home
His wife Anna Seidemann, b. Körlin (born February 28, 1886 in Erfurt ; † 1973 in Berlin) was a trained vegetarian and diet cook. In 1909 Wilhelm Seidemann set up a vegetarian and diet rest home with her in the "Hope" villa and created a large orchard for the vegetarian diet kitchen, in which he refined numerous old varieties and even supplied the Berlin hotel "Adlon" with the fruit . There were apple trees like the Goldrenette from Blenheim , Wintergoldparmären , Bismarck , lemon and Eiseräpfel , among the pear trees the Countess of Paris, the Delicious from Charneux , the Good Luise from Avranches , the Good Gray and the Boscs bottled pear , walnut trees and hazelnut trees . This included an extensive own vegetable cultivation with asparagus field and cherry plantation on the site at the edge of the forest, as well as numerous bee colonies to supply honey. The wife took care of the food with two maids and a gardener. A certain tolerance towards non-vegetarians should be emphasized here. The prospectus of the rest home from 1932 explains:
“Those who have passed over to the reform diet are given meat or fish as an addition twice a week at their own request or on medical advice. The hosts believe that they are doing more to spread the diet reform movement than by rejecting such rare requests. Experience has shown that the example and the health success of the other guests, who came as transients, usually quickly convinced them of the healthier, meat-free way of life, often made them forego meat or fish additions and won them over to the purely vegetarian diet. "
The importance of regional foods was emphasized in a very modern and up-to-date manner:
“In addition, as guests point out again and again, freshly used vegetables and East allow a completely different vegetarian catering than the often no longer wholesome products bought in the big city from third and fourth hand. It is therefore also the principle of the hosts to prefer fresh and original products to all art products. "
The motto of the vegetarian and diet rest home was:
“The best doctors in the world,
despite all envious people, all haters;
There are loyal members in the league:
diet, exercise, air,
light and water! ”
Wilhelm Seidemann
Air and sunbathing
In the garden behind the "Hope" villa, an air and sun bath with shower and loungers was set up and a six-acre sunbath was created on the southern slope of the now wooded Piglet Hill, where movement in the air and sun with breathing exercises and medicine ball training were practiced.
The therapy was based on the “atmospheric cure” by Arnold Rikli , the “sun doctor”, in which patients were treated with water-air-light therapies, work and play in the fresh air, intensive sunbathing ( heliotherapy ) and a vegetarian diet . The essential principle of the “atmospheric cure” consists in the “alternating atmospheric stimulus” of water, air and light, which should restore the physical and mental balance.
"Of course, water does it,
but not everything,
higher is the air,
highest is the light"
Arnold Rikli
There were similar light baths in Arnold Rikli's natural healing facility Mallnerbrunn in Veldes ( Bled , Slovenia ) and in the sanatorium of Henri Oedenkoven and Ida Hofmann on Monte Verità in Ascona in the Swiss canton of Ticino .
Light-air hut
The guest house was built in 1929 in the style of the light-air huts from Monte Verità. The light-air huts in the Monte Verità style are the further development of the simple light-air huts by Arnold Rikli. These are simply furnished wooden huts with double walls and a stone foundation. The furniture was limited to the essentials, iron bed, chairs, vanity and wood stove. A central element of this healthy hut was the loggia facing the sun. A turning away from the overloaded, suffocating living of historicism and the parasitic lifestyle of the bourgeois establishment back to the simplest life in frugality and humility should lead sick people back to their original nature and thus to health. The light-air hut is a perfectly fitting, tight-fitting shell of the pure, healthy body. The vegetarian pension had numerous guests and a. from Sweden and England and through the construction of the guest house in the air and sun bath, four additional guest rooms were created.
Wilhelm Seidemann was a member of the “Liedertafel”, conducted a lively correspondence and brought well-known speakers to the city. In 1928 z. B. Valentin Fyodorowitsch Bulgakow in the pension and gave a lecture on the pacifism , anarchism and vegetarianism Leo Tolstoy . Jewish guests were also happy to come, as the kitchen also offered kosher vegetarian food.
During the Second World War, the pension was confiscated by the National Socialist People's Welfare and used as a rest home for armaments workers and for Berliners “expectant mothers”.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Brochure vegetarian and diet rest home "Hope", Wilhelm Seidemann, Bad Freienwalde (Oder), 1932
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Tamke: Vegetarian boarding house in Bad Freienwalde a. O. In: German Vegetarian Association (Ed.): Vegetarian waiting. Monthly for a natural lifestyle and health care. Journal for the natural art of living. 1913 issue 11. Leipzig / Frankfurt a. M. May 24, 1913.
- ↑ a b c d e Lutz Scholz: The Freienwalder Seidemanns . In: Dr. Reinhard Schmook (ed.): Bad Freienwalder home calendar . tape 51 . Albert Heyde Foundation, Bad Freienwalde 2007, p. 63 .
- ^ Ulrich Seidemann: A master builder from Freienwalde . In: Dr. Ernst-Otto Denk (Ed.): Viadrus . Special issue for the 700th city anniversary. Viadrus Press, Bad Freienwalde (Oder) 2016, p. 51 .
- ↑ a b c d Ingetraud Senst: Assessment of the monument . Ed .: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeological State Museum, Department of Monument Preservation. Zossen April 10, 2014, p. 1-4 .
- ↑ Gangolf Huebinger, Rüdiger vom Bruch: Culture and cultural studies around 1900. Volume II: Idealism and Positivism . Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997, p. 253 .
- ^ A b Albert Seidemann: History of the Thuringian-Saxon-Märkische Seidemann family from 1470 to the present . Mitteldeutscher Nationalverlag GmbH, Berlin 1940, p. 220 .
- ^ A b Wilhelm Seidemann: Vegetarian and diet recovery home "Hoffmung" . In: Wilhelm Seidemann (Ed.): Advertising prospectus . Bad Freienwalde (Oder) 1932 ( [1] ).
- ↑ a b Zdenko Levental: The " Sun Doctor " Arnold Rikli (1823-1906) . In: Gesnerus: Swiss Journal of the history of medicine and sciences . tape 34 , issue 3-4. Schwabe & Co. AG, Basel 1977, p. 394-403 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Stefan Bollmann: Monte Verità, 1900 - the dream of an alternative life begins . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-570-55406-7 , pp. 14-16 .
- ^ A b Arnold Rikli: Prospectus of the naturopathic institution “Mallnerbrunn” near Verdes in Oberkrain . Ed .: Arnold Rikli. Veldes.
- ↑ a b Nils Aschenbeck: Labor der Moderne . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, August 16, 2014.
- ↑ Didem Ekici: From Rikli's light-and-air hut to Tessenow's Patenthaus: Body culture and the modern dwelling in Germany, 1890-1914 . In: The Journal of Architecture . Volume 13, Issue 4, August 26, 2008, p. 379-406 .
- ^ Wilhelm Seidemann: guest book vegetarian and diet recovery home "Hope" . Bad Freienwalde.
Coordinates: 52 ° 46 '36.2 " N , 14 ° 2' 58.1" E