Sabersky villa garden
The Sabersky villa garden , also known as Sabersky Park , is a tree-lined area in the Seehof district of the city of Teltow in the Brandenburg district of Potsdam-Mittelmark . The original layout of the garden is attributed to the royal court gardener Theodor Nietner from Potsdam . After 1990, the now overgrown area, like many other areas in Seehof, was part of an extensive and lengthy restitution process to return the Jewish property expropriated by the National Socialists to the heirs of the original owners.
In 2011, the facility was placed under a preservation order, among other things to protect the area from building. The private owners who have meanwhile reinstated their property protested against the decision on the grounds that Nietner's plans were probably just a draft and had never been implemented. In November 2017, after a settlement between the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the owners, the monument status was revoked.
location
The facility is located in Seehof, a district of the town of Teltow in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the area of the town's former manor house, around 1.5 kilometers from the town center of Teltow. It is bounded to the north by the main street Lichterfelder Allee, which runs through the village, and to the south by Roseggerstraße, on which the former Seehof manor is also located. To the east / north-east of the park is Fritz-Reuter-Strasse. The Jacobsonsteig is a footpath that runs diagonally on the east side of the park between Fritz-Reuter-Straße and the former manor house (now used as a medical center).
The Seehof estate
Around 1840, Neumann, a Teltower farm citizen, bought a larger property and built a house on it, two day laborer's houses and a large barn. In 1856, the Berlin Jewish merchant Herrmann Jacobson bought the area and built a mansion on it , which he mainly used as a summer residence. He gave the estate the name "Seehof" after the nearby Teltower See . In the early 1870s, Jacobson sold Seehof to the brothers Max and Albert Sabersky. They parceled out a large part of the property. Because of the attractive landscape and the proximity to Berlin, Seehof developed into a place of residence for artists, scientists and entrepreneurs.
Max Sabersky was very interested in garden design from the start of his work in Seehof. In 1874 he turned to the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture regarding the establishment of a garden school: “If someone could find a suitable person who could set up such an institution, he would be happy to provide a very suitable terrain for years to come in Seehof Lichterfelde would be left free ”.
In 1880 a plan by the Potsdam royal gardener Theodor Nietner for Max Sabersky's house garden in Seehof was published in the magazine “Deutscher Garten”. We are talking about a 17,600 square meter park with plane trees. In addition to the manor house, the Sabersky family owned another representative house since the beginning of the 1880s, known today as the "Sabersky Villa". It is located about 500 meters northeast of the estate on today's Max-Sabersky-Allee, corner of Hauffstraße. In 1904 a villa was built in the manor park for Paul Mamroth , who was married to Max Sabersky's daughter Elsa.
Max Sabersky had died in 1887. After Albert Sabersky's death in 1907, the property in Teltow fell to a community of heirs made up of the brothers' descendants. The manor house was rented.
From 1933 to 1939, further parts of the land owned by the Sabersky heirs were parceled out. There had been plans for this for a long time. According to the economic plan of the city of Teltow from 1927, the park area should also be included in the parceling. The Jewish members of the Sabersky community of heirs fled abroad from the National Socialist regime, a son of Max Sabersky survived the time in Germany. Paul Mamroth died in 1938 and the villa was destroyed in the following years.
After the division of Germany in 1949, Seehof became part of the GDR . The estate park remained undeveloped and over the course of time it became overgrown.
The controversy over monument protection
After 1990, a number of properties in Seehof were the subject of one of the most controversial restitution proceedings after German reunification . The key question was whether the sale in the 1930s was voluntary or under pressure from the National Socialist regime. There were a number of legal proceedings that dragged on for over twenty years. The park was returned to the heirs of the Sabersky family. Around 2010 there were violent protests in the town against plans to develop the site.
In 2011 the park was placed under monument protection as the "Sabersky villa garden". The report of the monument office recognized the park as an important work by Theodor Nietner, which "has been preserved in its basic features".
The State Office for the Preservation of Monuments established the monument protection, the original structure "is based on the numerous old trees, the terrain profile and the paths that can be read as paths or in the relief of the terrain". Nietner's path structure can also be seen in aerial photographs from 1945.
The owners then announced that they would take legal action against the decision. They pointed out that paths in a landscaped garden have a corresponding substructure, which, however, could not be found here. There are also no traces of the buildings depicted on Nietner's plans, such as a fountain.
In a report commissioned by the community of heirs in 2015, it is stated that “the monument protection has been instrumentalized for the purpose of preventing the development of the area with private homes”. Nietner's design was never realized in this way. Sabersky would have asked Nietner for an extended design four years after the initial order. The expert opinion indicated that the publication of Nietner's plan in 1880 would describe a connection between the villa and manor house with a promenade and arcade. Since the villa never existed, the same is unlikely for the garden. In addition, the street in the north of the estate park, which was already in existence at that time (today's Lichterfelder Allee) should have appeared in the plans. Even then, the Mamroth Villa, built in 1904, would have made a decisive contribution to the substance of the park. To the appraiser, it seemed conceivable that parts of the plan could instead be implemented around the other villa of the Sabersky family on today's Max-Sabersky-Allee. There, next to the villa, the garden with its bark house is under monument protection. The original shape of the complex there can no longer be traced, however, as parts of the property were built on with residential buildings after 1990.
In November 2017, the State Office for Monument Preservation declared that it had reached an agreement with the heirs. The monument protection was lifted and the owners agreed to a comprehensive documentation of the facility. The monument office is not convinced that it will win a legal dispute and has then agreed to the settlement. The owners announced that the area would be at least partially developed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monthly of the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture in Königl. Preuss. States for Horticulture and Botanical Science, 17th year, commissioned by Wiegandt, Tempel & Parey, Berlin January 1874, p. 485.
- ^ Villas and settlement houses. In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , January 28, 2006.
- ↑ Overview plan of the municipality of Teltow, economic plan , city of Teltow, 1927, online .
- ↑ a b Sabersky Park is a listed building. In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , August 25, 2011.
- ↑ a b A park that may never have existed. In: Potsdam Latest News , March 27, 2015, online .
- ↑ a b Sabersky Villa. Villa garden loses monument status. In: Potsdam Latest News , November 22, 2017, online .
- ^ Sabersky Park in Teltow. For lack of evidence. In: Potsdam Latest News , April 14, 2015, online .
- ↑ Entry of the Sabersky villa in the monument database of the state of Brandenburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 21 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 5 ″ E