Villa Hecht

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Villa Hecht in Berlin around 1910

The Villa Hecht was built around 1900 and is a stately building on Hasensprung , in the Berlin district of Grunewald in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district . The former single-family house was converted into an apartment building, but has not lost its charm with its high ceilings and sophisticated floor plans. The house is in the second row to Koenigsallee 35 between Koenigssee and Dianasee . The client was the businessman Walter Hecht .

architecture

At Villa Hecht in the Berlin-Grunewald villa colony near Berlin, which was built in 13 months from February 15, 1898 to March 15, 1899, according to plans by Karl Eduard Bangert, the floor plan was designed according to a program drawn up by the client , which required the diagonal staircase with the loggia in front and the three entrances to the house. The soul of the entire room arrangement is formed by a two-storey central skylight hall around which all other rooms are grouped. The exterior architecture was caused by the building site sloping sharply from Königsallee to Dianasee. The ground floor was assumed to be one meter above the top of the street, which meant that the foundations had to be "brought up" in some cases over 5 meters. In order to prevent the viewer from getting the impression that the building was "sinking", the part of the garden in front of the house was sunk right behind the street and led horizontally to behind the house and then the height difference of about 7 meters in two Balanced terraces. The energetic height development given to the building is due to the two distant views from the Koenigsalleebrücke over the Koenigssee and from the Fontanestrasse over the Dianasee. The base is made of sandstone , the basement is veneered with red stones, some of which are raised to the first floor, and the remaining areas with gray-white Ullersdorfer stones. The tower has a facing with 3 cm thick timber framework and yellowish white stones. The architectural parts are made of sandstone, the roof is covered with red-brown glazed interlocking tiles. The client's aversion to pomp and elegance was decisive for the interior design . Therefore, attempts were made everywhere to achieve a fresh comfort with the simplest means. The owner attached great importance to hygienic facilities. The house has several bathrooms , an isolated hospital ward, a gymnastics and fencing room, a bowling alley and the like. In addition, there is a central hot water heating system with a water heating system and its own dynamo system with accumulators, and a greenhouse system in the garden. The construction was carried out by master mason Carl Mittag. The construction costs, including the gardens, the greenhouse, etc., amounted to around 350,000 Reichsmarks.

Prominent residents

The writer Ingeborg Bachmann lived in the property at Koenigsallee 35 from August 1963 to 1965.

Architecture in the Grunewald

As a “millionaire colony”, the villa colony of Grunewald was probably the most spectacular housing estate in Berlin. It attracted astonishment, amazement, envy , hatred or contempt, it left no one indifferent. Even the street hooter who accompanied its creation expresses the ambivalent reactions of the Berliners: “In the Grunewald, in the Grunewald there is a timber auction.” Back then, too, it was extremely unpopular to fell trees for the construction of a housing estate, and the Grunewald was in Berlin sacrosanct as a recreation area.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal: Berliner Architekturwelt. Hugo Hartung, accessed June 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Bösel, Peter-Alexander: Berlin-Grunewald: In Historical Views Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2011, ISBN 3-897-02853-0 , p. 22.
  3. ^ Address book for Grunewald-Halensee: together with local police regulations and plan of Grunewald-Halensee. Druck und Verlag Max Schildberger, 1901, accessed on May 24, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Noon, Carl. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
  5. ^ Alfred Andersch , Max Frisch : Alfred Andersch and Max Frisch: Briefwechsel Diogenes Verlag, Zurich, 2013, ISBN 3-257-06879-4 , pp. 49, 165.
  6. ↑ Elke Schlinsog: Berlin coincidences: Ingeborg Bachmann's " types of death" project . Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3120-2 , pp. 48–52.
  7. ^ Karl-Heinz Metzger: The villa colony Grunewald. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 13.9 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 15.4 ″  E