Villa Pauly
The Villa Pauly was built in 1923 in the center of Luxembourg . The client was the surgeon Norbert Pauly; Mathias Martin was responsible as the architect . With its corner towers, the house alludes to the palace architecture of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
history
During the Second World War (August 1940 - September 1944) it housed the Gestapo headquarters in Luxembourg under the direction of Gestapo chief Fritz Hartmann . The cellars of the house were used for torture and interrogation . The house became a symbol of Nazi terror and oppression in Luxembourg.
Today the Villa Pauly is home to the “Comité directeur pour le souvenir de la résistance” and a documentation center on the resistance movement in Luxembourg. The building has been a listed building since 1989 .
address
- 57, Boulevard de la Pétrusse
literature
- Andreas Pflock: On forgotten tracks. A guide to memorials in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-89331-685-X .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 22 ″ N , 6 ° 7 ′ 30 ″ E