Villa Folke Bernadotte
The Villa Folke Bernadotte in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde (location Lichterfelde Ost) in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district was built in 1885 and named in 1958 after Folke Bernadotte Graf von Wisborg. The villa in Jungfernstieg 19, a listed building , houses a children's, youth and cultural center run by Mittelhof e. V.
history
The villa was built from 1885 to 1886 based on designs by Reinhold Richard Hintz . The client was Emil Drenker . The first resident in 1887 was the former pharmacist and rentier Emil Lüdecke (1835–1898), who had his summer residence here for eleven years until his death. In 1916 a coach house was built behind the villa , which was later used as a garage .
After several temporary residents, the house was the work and residence of Manfred von Ardenne with his research laboratory for electron physics from 1928 to 1945 . Some important inventions in the history of television were made in his research laboratory. a. the world's first electronic image decomposition and reproduction with line-by-line scanning via a photocell and reproduction on a cathode ray tube .
During the Second World War , the building survived the Allied air raids and the Battle of Berlin unscathed, while the residential building on the neighboring property was destroyed.
After the end of the war, the villa was used by soldiers of the US Army as a jazz club until it was handed over to the Steglitz district in 1958 . He used the villa as a leisure facility for children and young people and named it after the Swedish UN envoy Folke Bernadotte Graf von Wisborg.
Since 2006 the Mittelhof e. V. is responsible for the sponsorship and maintains a children's, youth and cultural center here .
Web links
- Villa Folke Bernadotte on the website of Mittelhof e. V.
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List: Jungfernstieg 19
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 57 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 43 ″ E