Villa Carlshagen

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Villa Carlshagen (2016)

The villa Carl Hagen , also Villa Karl Hagen is a Grade II listed building in Potsdam , Olympic Way 1. The on Lake Templin located property is the site of the sports park airship port surrounded. Based on the design by the architect Friedrich Wilhelm Göhre , a residential building in classicist style was built in 1909/1910 . It was named after the former owner and Berlin banker Carl Hagen (also Karl Hagen).

Previous construction

The Berlin forwarding agent Moreau Ballette acquired a piece of land from the Potsdam merchant Meyer Isaac Cohn that stretched from what was then Louisenstrasse, later Zeppelinstrasse, to the shores of Lake Templin. Ballette had a small tower villa built on the property around 1870, which the Potsdam master bricklayer Otto Held is said to have carried out. Ballets enlarged the property in 1875 through the purchase of land from Westend-Potsdam-Baubank-AG, which collapsed in the wake of the founders' crash . After ballets, master mason Held lived in the house from 1889 to 1899.

Villa Carlshagen

The property was bought by the Jewish banker Carl Levy (1856–1938) around 1900, who renamed himself Carl Hagen in 1906. He had the building redesigned in the classicist style according to the design by the architect Friedrich Wilhelm Göhre in 1909/1910 and expanded with a guest wing, a terrace, an oval dining room and an entrance hall. The execution was carried out by master bricklayer Max Beyertt. After the renovation work, the villa, which served as a summer residence, had a total floor space of 1000 square meters.

Carl Hagen died in 1938. During the National Socialist era , the heirs had to sell the villa with the 65,000 square meter property to the City of Potsdam and try to emigrate abroad. The plans to convert the house into a museum location were not realized by the beginning of the Second World War. From 1939 until the end of the war in 1945, however, the cultural history department of the Potsdam City Museum used the garages. From 1945 to 1990 the villa housed a children's radiology clinic at the Potsdam District Hospital .

The airship harbor, which borders the property in the south and was converted into a land and water sports area from 1924, was expanded to the north around the villa in GDR times and a large part of the park was built over. A children's and youth sports school (KJS) with a 15-storey high-rise boarding school, a school building, a gym and a cafeteria was built there from 1975 to 1978 . The original straight approach from Zeppelinstrasse to the driveway of the villa was changed by the construction of the traffic route at the airship port.

After reunification, it was transferred back to the community of heirs and in 1995 it was included in the list of monuments. The enclosure wall, which is no longer part of the villa area since the expansion of the sports facilities, is also a listed building. The property with the vacant building threatened by decay was acquired by the city's own group of companies, ProPotsdam , which secured the villa from further deterioration. ProPotsdam made the bank area of ​​the property available "free of charge by means of a limited personal easement for the general public [...]." This enabled a 130 meter long section of the "Reinhold-Mohr-Ufer" footpath and cycle path to be closed and opened to the public in 2010 . The riverside path along the west side of the Templiner See is part of the European cycle path R1 .

At the beginning of 2012, ProPotsdam sold the 10,000 square meter property to the Potsdam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK). The section of the Uferweg previously became the property of the City of Potsdam. The Chamber of Industry and Commerce planned to set up a training and conference center and began renovating the building in 2013. Due to an internal financial affair, the work was temporarily stopped in 2014 and only the external renovation was completed in 2016. As early as 2015, the IHK general assembly ruled out its own use and offered the property for sale. In 2017 it was acquired by “Villa Carlshagen Grundstücks GmbH”, whose managing director is the entrepreneur Ilona Renken-Olthoff. The HMU Health and Medical University Potsdam has been based in the villa since 2019 .

architecture

The external appearance has been preserved to this day. The thirteen-axis building has one and two floors with a mansard hipped roof . The converted attic is illuminated by dormers . The main entrance is on the west side. A four-storey stair tower and a risalit with a front entrance hall, which is entered through the arched entrance door, emphasize the central part. On the garden side in the east, a semi-oval porch emerges from the center of the building. The oval dining room with a view of Lake Templin is hidden behind its three arched window doors. An arbor is in front of the three-axle north side . The building received decorative elements with columns, pilasters , ashlars as well as semicircular lunettes and rectangular reliefs above the window roofs .

The approach, laid out as an avenue, is via Zeppelinstrasse. Walls with red solid and yellow facing bricks, ornamental grilles with floral ornaments and pillars with ceramic crowns form the enclosure along Zeppelinstrasse. They date from the construction time of the first villa around 1870. In the line of sight in front of the villa there was a fountain basin with children's figures, which was created with Hagens redesign.

literature

  • ArchitraV Potsdam (ed.): The airship port - a place of modern Potsdam . Potsdam 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035742-8 , p. 11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renaming of the street from Zeppelinstraße 114 to Olympischer Weg 1 according to resolution 16 / SVV / 0028 of the 17th public meeting of the City Council of the City of Potsdam on January 27, 2016. See Official Gazette of the City of Potsdam, vol. 27, No. 3, p. 5.
  2. ↑ Thomas Sander: The history of the airship port area. From the Ratsbahnheide to a playground for speculators . In: ArchitraV, 2011, p. 11, note 16, according to Sigel, Dähmlow, Seehausen, Elmenhorst: Architekturführer Potsdam . Berlin 2006, p. 110.
  3. ↑ a b Thomas Sander. In: ArchitraV, 2011, p. 11, note 16.
  4. ^ Mathias Deinert: Suspicious stamps. On the current provenance research in the Potsdam Museum . In: Museum Association of the State of Brandenburg e. V: Museum sheets . Issue 23, 2013, p. 27.
  5. ↑ Thomas Sander. In: ArchitraV, 2011, p. 31.
  6. ^ City of Potsdam: Lord Mayor Jann Jakobs opens Villa Carlshagen section of the riverside path . Press release No. 612 of September 21, 2010, accessed August 15, 2016.
  7. ^ City of Potsdam: Renovation of the Villa Carlshagen. Lord Mayor welcomes IHK vote . Press release No. 164 of March 19, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2016. ProPotsdam stated the property size in 2012 as 13,000 square meters, cf. ProPotsdam: Living | Building | Developing . Annual report 2012, chapter 5, p. 12.
  8. ↑ ProPotsdam: Living | Building | Developing . Annual report 2012, chapter 5, p. 12.
  9. ^ Henri Kramer: Restoration stop at Villa Carlshagen . In: PNN of March 19, 2014, accessed on August 15, 2016.
  10. ↑ Jana Haase: An expensive gem . In: PNN of June 27, 2016, accessed on August 15, 2016.
  11. ↑ HMU Potsdam press release of December 2, 2019 , accessed on February 12, 2020.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 51.5 "  N , 13 ° 1 ′ 13.8"  E