White House of Nienstedten

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White House seen from Elbchaussee, the Elbe in the background
White House seen from the Elbe side

The so-called White House of Nienstedten was an Art Nouveau villa built in 1913 in Hamburg-Nienstedten . It gained fame through the last owner, the entrepreneur Claus Grossner , who held many events there with Hamburg celebrities. The building stood in the Hamburg district of Altona on Elbchaussee between Teufelsbrück and the restaurant Hotel Louis C. Jacob . It was demolished in June 2014.

history

The approximately 500 m² Art Nouveau villa with 16 rooms was built in 1913 on a 4374 m² site on the Elbchaussee No. 359 side facing the Elbe . It represented a typical representative villa building, as it was common at the beginning of the 20th century on Elbchaussee to represent Hamburg's commercial prosperity. In its eventful history it has had several owners. In 1953 it was inhabited by Heinrich Onken, the innkeeper of the former Elbschloss pavilion (today ELV ), located in the immediate vicinity on the banks of the Elbe, and in 1970 Carl Maschmeyer, a board member of the Elbschloss brewery . Since the 1970s it has been owned by Peter Linnert, from the tabloid press “Dr. Hokuspokus ”, which later went bankrupt with the Möbel Becker mail order company.

The Finkenwerder shipyard owner Johann Jacob Sietas (shipyard JJ Sietas ) bought the house in 1977 for his daughter Ursula Plaaß. In the same year, the stately house changed hands again. One third of the buyers were Christiane Wessel from Hamburg and two thirds Claus Grossner. Ultimately, he bought the property alone in order to live there and to hold lectures and discussions. Many celebrities attended events in the villa that sounded fanciful, such as “Jumelage” or “Festa Europea” on the topics of culture, philosophy, politics and Europe. Grossner's guests included, for example, the director Christoph Schlingensief , the mail order entrepreneur Michael Otto and the publicist Marion Gräfin Dönhoff . In 2007, 40 well-known scientists met in the villa, including Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker , to u. a. to discuss Hamburg as the headquarters of the World Future Council ( WFC ).

Grossner Villa in Nienstedten on June 17, 2014, seen from the street
Grossner Villa in Nienstedten on June 17, 2014, Elbe side

Claus Grossner died on December 10, 2010, and the villa has been empty since then. The Grossner Foundation, which he decreed in his will, owned not only the White House in Nienstedten, but also Richard Dehmel's home in Blankenese . The White House was sold in 2011 for an estimated six million euros to a Hamburg entrepreneur in order to use the proceeds to renovate the Dehmel House, among other things . The White House, not listed was, was demolished on June 17, 2014. The plan is to build a new villa on the property.

Web links

Commons : Category: Weißes Haus von Nienstedten  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hamburg-magazin: The new ELV - an Elbe restaurant for all generations (accessed on March 24, 2014)
  2. ↑ The spirits economy. Magazine for alcohol industry. Trade journal for distilleries and the spirits, vinegar and yeast industries . Volume 75, 1953, p. 247.
  3. ↑ August Ludwig Degener and Walter Habel: Who is who? The German who's who . Arani 1970, p. 816.
  4. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 50/1976: shares, papers from St. Pauli from December 6, 1976
  5. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article406750/Denk-Gipfel-an-der-Elbchaussee.html
  6. ^ Large demolition in City and Nienstedten , abendblatt.de, June 20, 2014, accessed on June 23, 2014

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 53.6 ″  N , 9 ° 51 ′ 22 ″  E