Villa Berger (Langenfeld)
The Villa Berger is a monument in what is now the Mitte district of the city of Langenfeld .
The owner of the property was Julius Issac Berger, born in Richrath in 1858 . He left the building in 1906/07 after a draft of the Düsseldorf architect Oscar Rosendahl in late historic building style. Berger lived in the villa with his wife Bertha and four children for a good twenty years. Both companies and private assets were confiscated by those in power during the National Socialist era . The villa is said to have changed hands at the time against payment of 40,000 Reichsmarks . The amount was then paid to the German Reich as a “ Jewish tax ” , so that it was an act of plundering former Jewish citizens - by no means unprecedented, but typical of the time. After the house was completely demolished during the night of the pogrom , the authorized signatory and son-in-law of the Bernhard entrepreneurial family, Ernst Ibach, became the new owner of the house.
It remains to be added to the Bergers that one of the daughters of the family, Aenne Jeanette Berger, returned to the Rhine after being forcibly expelled . She died in Düsseldorf in 1981 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Richrath. On her tombstone is only "Langenfeld: place of birth - resting place " without any dates.
After the war, the city bought the house and put it to different uses. Initially, it was used as a youth , culture and registry office, as the premises in Hauptstrasse 11-13 were too cramped for all the offices of the city of Langenfeld. From 1978 it became the property of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , which used the house as an annex to the district court, which was initially housed in the premises of the old town hall. From 1997 to 2000 the city of Langenfeld rented it for use as a youth music school. After two years of vacancy, the businessman Markus Weber bought the building. After an extensive renovation, the house has been used as an office since then.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Environmental Protection and Beautification Association Langenfeld eV, A guide through the built history of Langenfeld
- ^ Rolf Müller: " Stadtgeschichte Langenfeld Rheinland ", Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld 1992
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 1 ″ N , 6 ° 56 ′ 54 ″ E