Villa Heydert

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Villa Heydert, 2009

The Villa Heydert , also known as Thiemann House , or Thiemann Villa , is a historic residential building on Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 83 in Potsdam , north of the Nauener Tor .

history

Elevation and floor plan of the Villa Heydert, Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse, 1855

A two-story half - timbered house with a mansard roof and separate stable building originally stood on the site , which a councilor Gossert probably had built after 1733. Councilor Mathias Christian Betcke acquired it in 1755 and in 1764 it came into the possession of the gardening family through the royal court gardener Joachim Ludwig Heydert . His third marriage son, the commercial gardener Martin Ludwig Heydert (1788–1862), he handed over the property with residential buildings, stables, garden, greenhouses and a pineapple house in 1843, who had the house rebuilt in 1854/1855 by the Potsdam architect Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse . During this work, Heydert signed the property over to his son Heinrich Ludwig.

Hesse designed the house in what was then Spandauer Strasse in an Italian country house style. He took over the foundations from the previous nine-axle building. In the six-axis central part of the new construction it lifted the main floor the first floor produced by symmetrically arranged window from the underlying ground floor with the lying there economies. An outside staircase with a covered platform in front of the entrance door on the left enables access to the first floor from outside. Under the direction of the building inspector Christian Heinrich Ziller , the former mansard roof was replaced by a flat, slate-covered saddle roof with a jagged floor . The right side with two window axes, which was kept lower by the jamb floor, was drawn in a little, the left side of the building was raised by one floor, pulled forward at the front and provided with an arcade hall on the top floor . An antique acroter adorned the gable . Since 1872 the property belonged to the widow Florentine Bertha Marie Heydert, b. Winckler. After that, E. Schönborn continued to run the art and commercial gardening business and, since 1913, Oskar Richter.

The building underwent a change in use when it was acquired in 1921 by Sigismund Thiemann (1879–1959), who also changed it until 1959 through minor alterations. The Potsdam architect and his wife Gertrud Anna Marie (1894–1981) furnished the house in which they lived and worked with their collection of sculptures, paintings, furniture, textiles and handicraft objects from various eras and regions that they began in the 1950s. In addition, Gertrud Thiemann ran an antique shop on the ground floor from 1946, which she gave up in 1975. The art collection, which is considered to be the richest private collection in the GDR, was to be preserved beyond her death. She bequeathed her property to the “State Palaces and Gardens of Potsdam-Sanssouci” . In 1974 she stipulated in her will that the house “should be preserved in its current form […], as well as the garden, sculptures and art on the house. […] Depending on their art-historical value, the movable art objects in the house are to be transferred to existing museum collections in the GDR, for example Sanssouci, the Berlin-Köpenick Museum of Applied Arts. These pieces are shown as a 'gift from the Thiemann family' in the museum catalogs. "

This last wish was not complied with, however, and instead numerous pieces from the Thiemann collection were sold to the West via the company Kunst und Antiquitäten GmbH (KuA), the Commercial Coordination (KoKo) department headed by Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski . This was done in agreement with the palace administration, which was able to buy material and tools for the restoration of its own collections with the foreign currency obtained in this way. One of the items that remained in Potsdam is the bed that is now in the former bedroom of the Crown Prince couple in Cecilienhof Palace .

literature

  • Stefan Gehlen: Hofgärtnerhaus Heydert . In: Andreas Kitschke: Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse (1795–1876). Court architect under three Prussian kings. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-422-06611-3 , p. 240 f.
  • Uta-Christiane Bergemann: Embroidery . Inventory catalogs of the collections, ed. by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-05-003341-9 , p. 351.

Web links

Commons : Villa Heydert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kania card index 14, fol. 60, 66. Compiled by Prof. Dr. Hans Leopold Kania, city historian. Archive of the city administration Potsdam.
  2. ^ Stefan Gehlen: Hofgärtnerhaus Heydert , p. 240
  3. ↑ a b c d Stefan Gehlen: Hofgärtnerhaus Heydert , notes p. 241
  4. ↑ Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse: Executed rural residential buildings. Second delivery: rural residential buildings in the vicinity of Sanssouci and Potsdam. [...]. Berlin / Potsdam 1855. Explanatory text on page 12 Conversion of the home of the art gardener Heydert in front of the Nauener Thor in Potsdam . Hesse writes that the renovation was carried out on a massive scale in October 1854 . The city historian Hans Kania gives in the cadastral index 14, fol. 60, wrongly "around 1845".
  5. ^ Stefan Gehlen: Hofgärtnerhaus Heydert , p. 241
  6. ↑ Extract from the will of Gertrud Anna Marie Thiemann. From: The Thiemann Collection . In: Embroidery , p. 351

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '15.4 "  N , 13 ° 3' 26.1"  E