Schoeler-Schlösschen, Country house in Wilmersdorf, Germany.
Schoeler-Schlösschen is a two-story country house in Wilmersdorf with light masonry walls and a bluish-gray stucco facade on the ground floor. The building displays baroque architectural features with its proportioned window rows and characteristic roof structure.
Pastor Samuel Gottlieb Fuhrmann was granted a derelict farm unused since the Thirty Years' War on condition he build a single-storey timber-framed cottage and plant mulberry trees for silkworm rearing; the house dates from 1752/1753. In 1765/1766 it was rebuilt as a baroque country house with an added storey, outbuildings and a large garden toward the Wilmersdorf lake. From 1946 to 2003 it housed a day nursery, then stood empty after a February 2003 fire.
The house is named after the Berlin eye doctor Heinrich Schoeler (1844–1918), who acquired it in 1893 and lived there until his death. Since July 2025 it has reopened as a cultural venue, with exhibition rooms and a café on the ground floor; in January 2026 the sculpture "Le Bombyx" by Ute Lindner was unveiled in front of the building.
The building is located at Wilhelmsaue 126 in Berlin's Wilmersdorf district and is visible from the street. Nearby you can find remnants of historical gardens that extend toward the former Wilmersdorf lake and can be explored during a visit.
The 1935 second-floor addition was demolished after Berlin's top heritage authority approved it in February 2007, restoring the baroque roof form; the rebuilt roof truss was celebrated at the Richtfest on 29 January 2010. Since reopening in July 2025 the house serves as a cultural venue with exhibition rooms and a café. In front of it stands Ute Lindner's sculpture "Le Bombyx", inaugurated on 16 January 2026.
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