Villa Metz (Potsdam)

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Villa Metz am Heiligen See (street side)

The Villa Metz is a property in Potsdam 's Berliner Vorstadt district at Seestrasse 35–37. The property is located directly on the Holy See .

Because of previous owners or its appearance, the building was sometimes referred to as Villa Kameke , White Villa or Villa Wunderkind .

history

On the property opposite the Marble Palace in the New Garden , King Friedrich Wilhelm II had a neo-Gothic miller's house built in 1795. The cross-shaped building mentioned in the work Potsdam's Oddities by Carl Christian Horvath had pointed arched windows and wall structures that were framed with tufa. In the middle of the 19th century, the street-side part of the property was built with a villa.

After acquiring the property in 1907, the new owners, District Court Judge Ernst Metz and his wife Wanda, had the building gradually expanded from 1911 onwards, initially in the style of a country house, according to plans by architect Carl Peuckert . In 1914 they commissioned Paul Renner with a new plan that included demolishing the miller's house and converting it into a representative "villa in the Italian style" with an enlargement to the current volume. The artist Wilhelm Schmid , who was working in Renner's office at the time, was entrusted with working on the project, and he also got to know the owner's daughter, the chamber singer Maria Metz , who later became his wife. (Note)

The neoclassical style of the house is based in some details on the early classical marble palace on the other side of the Holy Lake. The lake-side façade is provided with floor-to-ceiling arched windows and flanking decorative vases in niches.

In the 1920s, Karl Otto von Kameke took over the villa. The diplomat Ulrich von Hassell lived in the building from 1943 to 1944 . From 1958 until the day of German reunification , the villa was the seat of the British military liaison mission . During this time the building was known as the White Villa .

Name "Villa Wunderkind"

In 1999, Wolfgang Joop bought the property. He named the building Villa Wunderkind after his newly launched fashion label Wunderkind Art . In 2001 a postmodern renovation was completed by Josef Paul Kleihues . From 2003 the villa was not only the place of residence of Wolfgang Joop but also the seat of his Wunderkind Verwaltungs GmbH and received the gold-colored lettering above the entrance portal on the street side.

In 2017, Hasso Plattner and his Hasso Plattner Foundation acquired the villa, which has since been referred to as Villa Metz again . It is used as the Potsdam representative office of the foundation.

literature

  • Paul Sigel, Silke Dähmlow, Frank Seehausen, Lucas Elmenhorst: Architectural Guide Potsdam. Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-496-01325-7

Web links

Commons : Villa Metz

Note, individual evidence

(Note)Starting in 1922, he built a house for himself and his wife not far from the Villa Metz in today's Böcklinstraße 15/16 ( map view ) - the so-called stage house , because it was expanded in stages due to limited financial resources.
  1. ^ Potsdam's Oddities, Berliner Vorstadt , digital collections of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt
  2. ^ A b Peter Degener: The White Villa and the artist Wilhelm Schmid. In: Märkische Allgemeine . November 13, 2018, accessed March 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Catrin During, Albrecht Ecke: Built! Architecture guide Potsdam . Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-936872-90-3 , pp. 59 .
  4. ↑ Joop sells his "Villa Wunderkind" to Hasso Plattner. In: Berliner Morgenpost . February 22, 2017, accessed March 28, 2020 .
  5. ^ Sabine Schicketanz : Plattner buys Joop's villa Wunderkind. In: PNN . February 22, 2017, accessed March 28, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 43.2 "  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 27.3"  E