Villa Hinderer
The Villa Hinderer is a war ruin at Beymestrasse 16 in Berlin-Steglitz . Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '3.64 " N , 13 ° 19' 56.22" O
The villa was probably built in 1904. The reindeer J. Stein is named as the owner at that time .
The theologian and publicist August Hermann Hinderer (August 8, 1877-27 October 1945) worked as director of the Evangelical Press Association for Germany from 1918 (at the time, Evangelical Press Association ), which had its seat across from the house in Beymestrasse 8. Hinderer is named there in several address books as a tenant. The house at Beymestraße 16 was still owned by Stein, with changing tenants. The address book from 1928 names the Stein heirs as owners. After that the house was owned by the Evangelical Press Association and was inhabited by Hinderer. In the last Berlin address book published during the Second World War from 1943, two years after the dissolution of the press association, the owner status of the house, still inhabited by Hinderer, is described as "unnamed".
On the night of March 23-24, 1944, the villa was badly damaged in an air raid and was never rebuilt. The "Central Archive for Protestant Literature" housed in the house fell victim to the flames. The former press association building opposite, Beymestrasse 8, was also destroyed. August Hinderer died a year later in his home in Württemberg.
As a result, August Hinderer's son, the astronomer Fritz Hinderer , who lives in Berlin , took care of the garden. In 1991 he died on the property. Since then, the area has been left to its own devices and overgrown with thick bushes. Trees protrude from the roofless ruin.
Web links
- Stand of defiance: Professor August Hinderer and his war-torn villa on abandonedberlin.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Small inquiry KA 112 / II, Betr. Property Beymestr. 16 from MP Kay Heinz Ehrhardt (FDP) to the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district parliament, dated August 2002, online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Berlin address book 1908.
- ↑ http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz32435.html
- ↑ Berlin address book 1920, 1927, 1928 and 1929.
- ^ Berlin address book 1943.
- ↑ Simone Höckele: August Hinderer, Way and Work of a Pioneer Protestant Journalism , Christian Journalism Verlag, Erlangen 2001, page 123.
- ↑ A war ruin awaits the future in: Der Tagesspiegel , April 24, 2005
- ↑ Irmela Bues: Obituary: Fritz Hinderer. Communications of the Astronomical Society, Vol. 75 (1992), pp. 5-7 (year of death 1991).
- ↑ Status of defiance: Professor August Hinderer and his war-torn villa on abandonedberlin.com, accessed on November 14, 2016.
