Villa Baltic

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Villa Baltic, 2013
Dilapidated entrance area of ​​the Villa Baltic, 2014

The Villa Baltic in Kühlungsborn (formerly Arendsee ), Ostseeallee 44, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was built by the architect Alfred Krause in neo-baroque style between 1910 and 1912 for the Berlin lawyer and notary, Justizrat Wilhelm Hausmann (1856–1921) and his wife Margarete, nee. Frank (1863–1929) for 2.5 million gold marks .

Margarete Hausmann donated the villa with the park to the Berlin University for the Science of Judaism . As the Hausmann Foundation, Rabbi Leo Baeck opened Villa Hausmann and the park on June 28, 1931 as a rest home, conference venue and meeting place for Jewish academics, their relatives and widows. In the opening year the house already had 104 guests.

On July 7, 1935, the Low German observer wrote : “Arendsee will be clean of Jews.” Days later the window panes of the house were smashed. At the end of 1935 there were no more guests. The property was expropriated and in 1938 handed over to the Goebbels Foundation for stage workers at the Reichstheaterkammer . The house still had an extensive house library.

The person in charge asked his superior authority in writing on November 24, 1938:

“On the floor in the old wardrobe we have about one and a half quintals of real Jewish rinds, should they still be kept or given to the school for recycling? Also old picture frames with photos of the crooks who built this castle, in short all things that no longer fit into our world history. "

A handwritten note on this letter with the wording "Keep frame, destroy photos" has also been handed down. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Goebbels Foundation in May 1940, the managing director boasted that he had acquired the Kühlungsborn property for 20,000 RM , although it was worth 1,500,000 RM.

In 1945 the villa served as a Soviet military hospital. After that it was first awarded to the Jewish State Community of Mecklenburg . In 1949 it became the property of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . During the time of the GDR the house became the " Kurt-Bürger- Erholungsheim" of the FDGB and for working people. In 1972 a sea water swimming pool was built next to the house and connected to it.

Since the fall of the Wall , the villa could not be used despite changing owners, resulting in structural damage due to vacancy and vandalism. The also dilapidated swimming pool was demolished in 2017.

The Villa Baltic was included in the list of architectural monuments in Kühlungsborn (No. 60).

In the summer of 2019, the Oldenburg brothers Berend and Jan Aschenbeck acquired the property for two million euros. With the support of the city, the Villa Baltic is to be saved.

Web links

Commons : Villa Baltic  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Sprenger: From the "Judenschloss" to the ruin of the NDR Nordmagazin from January 10, 2014, accessed on January 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Hartmut Bomhoff: The Jewish castle by the sea, a ruin after the fall: The Villa Hausmann in Kühlungsborn. Die Welt, Jewish Voice from Germany, July 7, 2018. ( PDF; 5 MB )
  3. ↑ Hartmut Bomhoff: History: Mecklenburg Mirjamsbrunnen. The Baltic Sea Recreational Home of the University for the Science of Judaism is being renovated. In: Jüdische Allgemeine . November 16, 2010, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Jürgen Jahncke: Kühlungsborn - a foray through the life of the seaside resort. Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-934116-54-X , pp. 73-78.
  5. ↑ After the demolition: What's next at the Baltic Park? , Ostsee-Zeitung.de, June 29, 2017, accessed on January 5, 2020
  6. ↑ Morbid Villa Baltic: "We must act now" , NDR Nordmagazin from 28 December 2019 recalled, on January 5, 2020

Coordinates: 54 ° 9 ′ 8.4 "  N , 11 ° 43 ′ 51.7"  E