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Siemens Villa at Potsdam’s Lehnitzsee Set for Forced Auction on Thursday

Strict monument protection will shape any future use.

Overview

  • The Amtsgericht Potsdam will conduct the public auction and confirms only the date, declining to share further procedural details.
  • The estate’s market value is estimated at about €27 million, according to the auction notice.
  • Heritage official Haiko Türk calls the property an exceptionally large monument with a distinctive position on a tongue of land extending into Lehnitzsee.
  • The more than 100,000-square-meter site includes a main house built in 1910 by architect Otto March for Carl Friedrich Siemens for residential and representative purposes.
  • After use by the Soviet army as a hospital and from 1952 as a lung sanatorium, the property was restituted to the Siemens family after reunification, later sold, and now stands vacant after a planned renovation did not proceed.