Villa Liegnitz
The Villa Liegnitz is located directly on the edge of the Sanssouci Park in Potsdam . It was built in its current form in 1841 by the architect AD Schadow . The house was named after the second wife of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1770–1840), for whom he had the villa built and which she lived in for decades.
Princess of Liegnitz
In 1823, the widowed Friedrich Wilhelm III. in the spa town of Teplitz ( Bohemia ) know Comtesse Auguste Harrach (1800–1873), who was 30 years his junior . He married her on November 9, 1824 in the chapel of Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin and awarded her the title of Princess of Liegnitz, Countess of Hohenzollern .
The marriage was morganatic , not befitting of one's status , and therefore excluded any influence of the princess on the line of succession and contained further obligations (members of the royal family were preferred over her, exclusion from certain celebrations). The Princess Liegnitz was allowed to continue living in the villa after her husband's death . She died in 1873 while taking a spa stay in Bad Homburg .
She was buried in the crypt of the mausoleum in the Charlottenburg Palace Park in Berlin.
Further use and alterations or extensions followed.
The parks of the Villa Liegnitz with a stibadium laid out by FA Stüler in 1847 , several paved paths and fountains no longer exist.
Use after the death of the Princess of Liegnitz
The property in the southeast of the Sanssouci Park was intended to serve as a residence for Princess Charlotte of Prussia after marrying the Hereditary Prince Bernhard of Saxony-Meiningen in 1878. Joachim von Prussia committed a suicide attempt there on July 17, 1920, as a result of which he died a day later. After the end of the monarchy , the villa was left to August Wilhelm Prince of Prussia (1887–1949). In 1945 the prince was expropriated.
After 1945, the Soviet occupying forces set up a children's home in the Villa Liegnitz for a short time. From 1950 the State Palaces and Gardens of Potsdam-Sanssouci left the Villa Liegnitz as an official building to the Brandenburg State University, which was founded in 1948 at the instigation of the Soviet military administration. A zoological institute was set up, which was used by the state university, later renamed the Potsdam University of Education “ Karl Liebknecht ” (PHP), until after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Zoological Institute maintained seminar and laboratory rooms here, which were in operation until June 2004 (with restrictions) even after the PHP was transferred to the University of Potsdam, which was newly founded in 1991 . An animal house was built in the seventies on the site directly adjoining the villa to the east (on the left on the map of Villa Liegnitz). a. used for behavioral studies, and in the 1990s a modern laboratory container was attached to the newly founded Institute for Zoophysiology and Cell Biology , later the Institute for Biochemistry and Biology at the University of Potsdam. This building was used by the university until the beginning of 2006. The built-up area is directly connected to the area of the Villa Liegnitz; the demarcation wall indicated on the plan is only partially preserved today.
The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation will use the Villa Liegnitz as an office building in the future and will renovate it over the next few years . The income from the Potsdam Palace Night in 2006 will therefore be used in part to rebuild the pergola at the Villa Liegnitz. In the building itself, the foundation wants to unite the holdings of its scientific libraries in Berlin-Charlottenburg and Potsdam under one roof for the first time : 40,000 volumes on the history of Prussia, monument and garden conservation, restoration and art history. So far, 430 linear meters are stored in Potsdam and 350 in Berlin . In addition to the library, the valuable inventory of glass negative plates is also to be digitized in the building. The unused Villa Liegnitz is to be renovated from 2021.
The Hohenzollern demand since the year 2019, a "perpetual, royalty-free and by land to be secured apartment right" to Cecilienhof on Lindstedt Palace or at the Villa Legnica one.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Rainer Schüler: Villa Liegnitz is being renovated for 7.8 million euros . Märkische Allgemeine . February 21, 2019. Accessed March 30, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Villa Liegnitz will be renovated from 2021. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
- ↑ How the dispute between the Emperor's great-great-grandson and the Bund could escalate. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '59.2 " N , 13 ° 2' 26.4" E