Villa Oppenheim, Neoclassical villa in Heringsdorf, Germany.
Villa Oppenheim is a neoclassical mansion in Heringsdorf on Usedom island positioned directly along the beach promenade. The building features a white facade with four Corinthian columns and is now divided into separate vacation apartments for visitors.
The mansion was built in 1883 for banker Benoît Oppenheim senior and experienced significant changes through the following decades. It later served as NSDAP headquarters and then as a Red Army health facility before returning to private ownership after German reunification in the 1990s.
Lyonel Feininger used the villa as a motif for watercolours and woodcuts between 1908 and 1912, during his summers on Usedom. The white neoclassical building with four Corinthian columns appears in several of these works, which record the seaside architecture of Heringsdorf before 1914.
Access to the villa is through Heringsdorf's beach promenade, which is easily walkable from the town center. Since the building now serves as holiday apartments, the architecture is best viewed from the waterfront side during a walk along the shore.
The architect of the white neoclassical building with four Corinthian columns is not documented with certainty; it may have been the Berlin architect Hermann von der Hude. The villa was built in 1883 as a summer residence for the family of banker Benoît Oppenheim senior (1842–1931).
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