Villa Ohlendorff

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Villa Ohlendorff around 1900

The Villa Ohlendorff , also Palais Ohlendorff , was a representative residential building in the Hamburg district of Hamm . It was built from 1872 to 1874 by Martin Haller for the merchant Heinrich von Ohlendorff in the neo-renaissance style and destroyed in 1943 during air raids on Hamburg . From 1930 until it was destroyed, it served as a residential and studio for artists from the Hamburg Secession .

Ohlendorff had made great fortunes by trading in the fertilizer guano and from 1869 bought several large garden plots at the "Hammer Baum", between Landwehr , Hammer Landstrasse and Schwarzer Strasse. He and his family initially lived in a country house there, rearranged the overgrown garden and had several outbuildings (coachman's apartment, stables, a game gate for fallow deer ) built. After his elevation to the nobility , he entrusted Haller with the construction of a "befitting" house, which should not only offer space for his large family, but also for banquets and other social events.

The house also had a six-hectare park with exotic trees, fountains, waterfalls, a grotto and similar decorations typical of the time. Ohlendorff had a greenhouse built for his orchid collection , which was one of the largest of its time.

After Ohlendorff's death, his heirs sold the property in 1930 to the city of Hamburg, which temporarily rented the house to artists, but also used it as a government office or alternative quarters for a neighboring secondary school for girls . The park was converted into a public park and was used until 1943. During the great air raids on Hamburg in the summer of 1943, the building and park were badly destroyed, but the ruins were still used as emergency accommodation for bombed-out families and parts of the park were leased as grave land for growing food.

After the war, the area was not restored, but completely rebuilt. The former park area now houses the Burgstraße underground station , parts of a primary school and the sports center of the Hamburg gymnastics association from 1816, which was opened in 2019/20 . One of the two lions that once adorned the outside staircase of the villa is now in Blohms Park .

literature

  • Karin von Behr: The Ohlendorffs. The rise and fall of a Hamburg family , Bremen 2010.
  • Hermann Hiestermann: The history of Ohlendorffschen Park , 9-part series of articles in the Hamburger Abendblatt , January to March 1972.

Individual evidence

  1. The Hamburg address book from 1936 lists the names of several painters and sculptors living there under the entry "Schwarzestrasse No. 1 - Ohlendorfhaus-Ateliers" , including Hans Martin Ruwoldt , Karl Kluth and Martin Irwahn .

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 22.7 "  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 32"  E