Villa Garbáty

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Villa Garbáty
View of the residential villa in 1987, used as the embassy of the People's Republic of Bulgaria

View of the residential villa in 1987, used as the embassy of the People's Republic of Bulgaria

Data
place Berlin-Pankow
architect Paul Überholz
Construction year Start of construction in 1876, completion in 1881
Coordinates 52 ° 34 '11.5 "  N , 13 ° 24' 42.9"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 34 '11.5 "  N , 13 ° 24' 42.9"  E
Villa Garbáty (Berlin)
Villa Garbáty

Villa Garbáty has been called the representative residence of the cigarette manufacturer Josef Garbáty in the Berlin district of Pankow , district Pankow, since the end of the 20th century . The building with the main entrance at Berliner Straße 123/124 has been a monument since the 1980s . After some vacancy from 1990 and temporary uses, it is the seat of the Lebanese embassy in Berlin .

history

Production halls, storage buildings and a residential building are built

As early as 1876 , manufacturing, storage and administration buildings for a cigarette factory were built in the Pankow district on the property, which stretches at an angle to Hadlichstrasse and Breiten Strasse .

The house at Berliner Straße 126/127 was built around 1890 as the residence of the cigarette manufacturer Josef Garbáty . The villa is a two-storey plastered building with an extended mansard roof in the historicizing style. The Garbáty family lived in this house until the company's founder died in 1939.

Most of the buildings erected on the site were designed by the architect Paul Überholz . Fritz Höger , on the other hand, provided the construction plans for the elongated five-storey factory wing along Hadlichstrasse . The grid structure in functional forms of industrial architecture has closely lined up vertical templates. The spaces between the rows of windows are lined with white clinker bricks.

In total, the parcels at Berliner Straße 122 to 126 were owned by the Garbátys. Number 122 was a larger rental house, numbers 123/124 were assigned directly to Garbáty cigarette factory KG with an apartment for the guard , number 125 belonged to the garden and numbers 126/127 were the address for the residential villa. As recently as 1943, the address book listed the apartments for a works manager, a tobacco master and a driver. From this it can be deduced that the factory continued to produce its cigarettes during the Nazi era . Apparently the house numbers changed after the end of the war.

The residential villa becomes the embassy building and the factory becomes public property

After the Second World War , the entire complex fell under the expropriations . The villa served as the residence of the Bulgarian ambassador in the GDR .

The VEB Berliner Zigarettenfabrik established itself in the production facilities and remained there until the GDR was dissolved.

The restored villa, the seat of the Lebanese embassy since 2005 , winter 2010

After several years of vacancy, the entrepreneur Wolfgang Seifert (founding member and managing chairman of the party-affiliated Johann Gottlieb Fichte Foundation of the party The Republicans as well as candidate and federal referee of the Republicans) acquired the site including the villa. From 1999 to 2003 the villa was rented to the Republican Party. After a complete renovation, the Embassy of Lebanon moved here .

In 2000, a cultural association opened Café Garbáty in the building at Breiten Straße 43, which was also part of the former Garbaty property . The restaurant moved to Mühlenstrasse 30 soon afterwards . Since the 2010s, the building on Breite Straße has been used by the Eden dance theater - together with the former Pankow cultural center.

Web links

Commons : Villa Garbáty  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Lebanese Embassy in Berlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lebanese Embassy in Berlin - Directions and opening times , accessed on August 24, 2014
  2. ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 28 f .
  3. ↑ Berliner Strasse 122 to 127 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, Part III, Pankow, p. 2433.
  4. ↑ fichte-stiftung.de: we about us ( Memento from April 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Republicans fire their city council . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 11, 2010
  6. ↑ Christoph Dieckmann : Pankow, wake up! In: Die Zeit , February 4, 1999
  7. ↑ Homepage of Café Garbásty
  8. ↑ site Dock11 and Eden, accessed on February 10, 2016