Landhaus Behrend
The Landhaus Behrend (also: Wartenbergsches Palais ) was a representative summer residence with a park plot to the south-east of Charlottenburg Palace . The building was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel for the banker Louis Bacher Be (h) rend in 1822 and fell victim to the extension of Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse around 1905 .
history
After the withdrawal of the Napoleonic troops , King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Trouble to finance the maintenance of the Charlottenburg Palace Park . For this reason, he ordered the public auction of the royal kitchen garden, southeast of Luisenplatz , by cabinet order on March 24, 1810 .
On May 7, 1810, the eleven- acre site was sold to the banker Moses Levy, who bought it for his son Ferdinand Moritz Delmar , at a price of 3,805 thalers . Ten years later the property passed to the banker Louis Bacher Behrend. For 3,000 thalers, he bought a storage building on the same site but reserved for the castle administration in 1810 (the old orangery house ) including the castle syringe house behind it. In 1823 the “Landhaus” (see illustration) was finally built according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Soon afterwards Berend sold the property to Count Wilhelm Werner Georg von Hacke. Shortly thereafter, he applied for permission to hold a lottery, the main prize of which was the country house ("Lustschloss Charlottenburg"). Further changes of ownership followed in quick succession until the property passed into the ownership of the Wartenberg family in 1835. As Fideikommiss , the area deteriorated visibly, wrote Friedrich Hückstedt in his 1904 city guide:
“To the left on our hike through Berliner Straße we see a park lined with old trees behind a half-ruined wall. A small country house rises in the middle of this poorly maintained area. It is the property of the von Wartenberg family, a Fideikommiss. At the time of Friedrich Wilhelm II. It formed part of the Königl. Kitchen garden. William III. sold the land to the banker Levy for 4,000 thalers at a time when Napoleon was demanding heavy sacrifices from the fatherland. It later became the property of the current owners. Only the gardener lives in the country house. Negotiations are currently pending between the owners and the city administration, which the latter would like to buy the site for the construction of a new street, which is to form the continuation of Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße. A few more years and this beautiful park will have given way to human habitation. "
In fact, the area was eventually taken over by the city of Charlottenburg and parceled out. The country house was demolished for the piercing of Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse. Between Luisenplatz and Schustehrusstraße , five additional house numbers had to be implemented on the west side with “a” appendices (1a, 2a, 3a etc.) in order to avoid completely renumbering the still relatively young street. On the east side you could simply continue counting from house number 103 because of the horseshoe numbering. With the extension of Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse, the city also laid out the southern Lohmeyerstrasse.
The park originally stretched from today's Schustehrusstraße in the south to Luisenplatz in the north, from Nithackstraße in the west to Gierkezeile in the east (see undeveloped area on the map from 1905). The original extent of the Wartenberg property can still be traced in the land register using the old parcel numbers 208, 211 and 212.
Location of the Landhaus Behrend (southwest of Luisenplatz ) on a map from 1824.
Location before demolition with a planned extension of Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse
Lottery ticket for the Count von Hacke
The Landhaus Behrend not long before the demolition
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Drawing of Landhaus Behrend , 1822, Kupferstichkabinett
- ^ Wilhelm Gundlach: History of the city of Charlottenburg . Springer-Verlag, 1905, Volume I, p. 270 f., Textarchiv - Internet Archive
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '8.4 " N , 13 ° 17' 57.7" E