Villa Muhlberg (Potsdam)

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Villa Mühlberg, Puschkinallee 4

The Villa Mühlberg is a listed building in Potsdam. The villa is in the Nauener Vorstadt , Puschkinallee 4.

history

The villa with stables and greenhouse built in Capellenbergstrasse 8 (later 4) was commissioned by the Berlin rentier Otto Mühlberg (1815–1884). According to the design of the architect Reinhold Persius , master mason Heinrich Zech (1826 – around 1899) carried out the construction in 1872/73. The later ennobled Mühlberg used the house in the summer months. After his death, the widow Emma von Mühlberg (1825–1904), née Zimmermann, was the owner, who also only lived there in summer. In the Potsdam address books for 1904 and 1905, “v. Mühlbergsche Erben ”, from which Hans Emil von Oppenfeld, who lives in Berlin , acquired the villa. In 1905 he had master mason Carl Partik (1841–1908) expand the attic and build a two-story gardener's house as well as a laundry building and a coach house.

According to the Potsdam address book for 1919, the reindeer Gertrud Henke is the next owner and from 1922 at the latest the chamberlain and major a. D. Hans-Richard Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1872–1958), who rented out living space, as evidenced by the other names under the address “Kapellenbergstrasse 4”. Herwarth von Bittenfeld sold the property to the state, which made the house available to Heinrich Müller , President of the Reich Audit Office from 1938 to 1945 , as a service villa. In 1945 the property went to the city of Potsdam. The city ​​radio set up there by the state broadcaster Potsdam began operating in June 1946. Up until 2001, Antenne Brandenburg broadcast from the villa . The property has been privately owned again since 2009.

architecture

The nine-axis plastered building is two-story with a basement and a slate mansard roof . The mansard windows are provided with segmental arched roofs . The front side to Puschkinallee is emphasized by polygonal protruding corner projections , on the back a central projection protrudes. In front of the middle section on the street side is an open space running over three window axes. Quarter-circle outside stairs lead to the front garden. A French balcony is attached to the French window on the floor above. Double cornices structure the wall surface between the floors. The window frames decorate agraffes in the form of scrollwork cartouches . The upstream, segment-arch roofed entrance area is on the north side.

literature

  • Ulrike Bröcker: The Potsdam suburbs 1861-1900. From the tower villa to the apartment building. 2nd Edition. Wernersche, Worms 2005, ISBN 3-88462-208-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Broecker, p. 281.
  2. ↑ Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb): On the history of the Funkhaus Potsdam . Retrieved March 7, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '37.8 "  N , 13 ° 3' 32.7"  E