Guest House of the Senate of Hamburg, Senate guest house in Uhlenhorst, Hamburg, Germany
The Guest House of the Senate is a late-classicist villa at Schöne Aussicht 26 on the Feenteich, built in 1868 to Martin Haller's plans for building-materials trader Johann Friedrich Krogmann. The white-plastered building has two and a half storeys, a flat pale grey roof with a single dark chimney, tall evenly spaced windows, and metal balconies on the right side of the upper floors. Inside are seven bedrooms on the first and second floors.
Martin Haller designed the villa, completed in 1868 for building-materials trader Johann Friedrich Krogmann. After Krogmann's death it passed in 1880 to merchant Adolf Oetling, a Deutsche Bank supervisory board member and former German consul in Mexico. Hamburg listed it as a Kulturdenkmal in 1958, and in 1965 it became the Senate's guest house, first hosting Elizabeth II.
The villa's interior decoration was shaped by Christa von Dohnanyi, wife of then-mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi: bright colours, mostly white, with rich stucco ornaments. The ground-floor state rooms and the library show the domestic style of earlier times, while seven bedrooms occupy the first and second upper floors. The house is used for receptions and talks, not open as a museum.
The villa stands at Schöne Aussicht 26 in Uhlenhorst, directly on the Feenteich and beside the Feenteichbrücke, a short walk from the Außenalster shore. It is a working guest house of the Senate, so the building is not open to visitors; the white facade, the two metal balconies and the projecting central bay can be seen from the street and the bridge.
The first guest was Queen Elizabeth II on her first visit to Germany; during the G20 summit in July 2017, Donald Trump stayed here. The house stands at Schöne Aussicht 26, directly on the Feenteich, and has been a listed monument since 1958.
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