Landhaus Gugenheim
Landhaus Gugenheim is a villa in Babelsberg, a district of Potsdam, Germany. Its brick facade rises beneath a high mansard roof. Hermann Muthesius designed it for Hans Gugenheim, son of silk manufacturer Fritz Gugenheim, between 1921 and 1922. Muthesius was known for contributions to modern architecture.
Ownership changed sharply after 1936, when Hans Gugenheim, who was Jewish, had to leave Germany. Brigitte Horney bought the property in 1938. In 1943, Erich Kästner wrote the screenplay for Münchhausen on the terrace under the pseudonym Berthold Bürger. Hans Albers and Horney starred in that film.
During the GDR era, the villa served as an internat for the Fachschule für Archivwesen. After reunification, a legal dispute ended with its return to the Gugenheim heirs. The heirs later sold the property to a private buyer, and restoration followed in 2008. That work preserved historic elements and restored the reform-style garden and historical entrance gate. Tours through the Neubabelsberg villa colony include the restored villa.
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