Villa Quistorp
Villa Quistorp stands on Hegelallee in Potsdam, where nineteenth-century development replaced sections of the former city wall. Also known as Villa Friedrichs, it was built in the early 1870s for banker Heinrich Quistorp. Court architect Friedrich Ernst Petzholtz designed the villa during Germany’s Gründerzeit, a period of rapid industrial expansion.
The 1873 stock-market crash brought bankruptcy, and the property passed from Quistorp’s ownership. Jewish owners acquired the villa in 1892 before the Nazi regime dispossessed them in 1940. During the DDR era, the building housed the commander of Soviet troops stationed in Potsdam.
Later, the rooms served as a kindergarten, adding another chapter to the building’s changing use. Hegelallee also contains another Quistorp villa at number 5, completed by Petzholtz in 1879. Together, the two villas mark the construction boom that followed the demolition of Potsdam’s city wall.
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