Villa Kampffmeyer
The Villa Kampffmeyer in Potsdam is a representative listed building in the immediate vicinity of the Glienicke Bridge .
History of construction and use
The house was built in 1924 for the mill owner Kurt Kampffmeyer (1896–1949). Kampffmeyer was the largest mill owner in Germany until the end of the war . The villa was originally located alone in a large park on the Glienicker Horn near the Glienicker Bridge. The elaborately designed villa with Rococo and Baroque elements is kept in a traditional style and has 15 rooms with around 1000 m² of living space. The architects were Carl Mohr and Paul Weidner in Berlin . The construction was carried out by the Berlin construction company Adolf & Friedrich Bolle. The villa is now a listed building and is part of the UNESCO - World Heritage Potsdam.
After the end of the Second World War , the villa housed the KGB escort of the Soviet delegation during the Potsdam Conference . Subsequently, the villa experienced various uses. First the Association of Publicly Owned Enterprises (VVB / Projektierung) moved in, then the German Red Cross . The Landesbühne Potsdam used part of the facility (a wooden theater). At times the villa was used to store and sell furniture and household items from GDR citizens who had left them in their apartments when they fled to the West. Then the villa became the domicile of the Free German Youth (FDJ). After the wall was built in 1961, the club was closed for security reasons due to the proximity to the border, and the villa was initially empty. On August 11, 1962, it was taken over by the 2nd Groß Glienicke Border Brigade without any particular purpose. In the period 1963/1964 the work area Passport Control Berlin took over this object for the training of management cadres for the 22 border crossing points of the GDR. The villa served the KGB and the Stasi in the exchange of agents on the Glienicke Bridge as an observation post. In the course of the introduction of the passport and visa requirement on June 11, 1968 by the GDR, increased use of personnel at the border crossing points was necessary, and employees were transferred to Potsdam, who were also housed in the Kampffmeyer villa. Then the work area Passport Control Potsdam, which was responsible for 13 border crossing points, was accommodated.
After the political change , an armory in the attic and fixed rooms in the basement were discovered in the villa, which allegedly served as cells. In addition, over 100,000 documents are said to have been stored. It was probably a matter of documents from a service unit of the MfS , which used the now vacant property to destroy files.
In the 1990s the villa was restored and served as an exhibition, event and international conference venue. After the villa and park were sold by the Kampffmeyer community of heirs, several controversial postmodern villas were built in a closed residential complex under the name “Potsdamer Arkadien” . The Villa Kampffmeyer then changed hands several times. The residents included, for example, the Swiss diplomatic couple Borer-Fielding and, since 2005, the military attaché of the United Arab Emirates , Achmed al Shaik. The owner in August 2011 was Commerzbank AG.
The building has been privately owned again since 2012 and was renovated by Kahlfeldt Architects from 2012 to 2014 and converted in accordance with the requirements of the monument protection. The color scheme and subsequent furnishing of the interior was carried out by Friederike Tebbe - studio farbarchiv. The building has been up for sale again since the beginning of 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information and extensive catalog raisonné by the architects Mohr and Weidner private homepage by Reinhard Glaß
- ↑ Hans-Dieter Behrendt: In the shadow of the agent bridge . GNN-Verlag, Schkeuditz, ISBN 3-89819-140-0
- ↑ Silvia Meixner: A villa that is waiting for its lover . In: Die Welt , August 5, 2000
- ↑ Martin Klesmann: Military attaché now lives in Villa Kampffmeyer . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 8, 2005
- ^ Henri Kramer: Villa Kampffmeyer is sold . In: Potsdam Latest News , February 18, 2017
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 40.7 " N , 13 ° 5 ′ 15.3" E