Villengarten Sabersky, Villa garden in Seehof, Teltow, Germany
Villengarten Sabersky is a tree-covered area of about 17,600 square metres in Seehof, bordered by Lichterfelder Allee to the north and Roseggerstraße to the south. A plan for Max Sabersky's house garden by the Potsdam court gardener Theodor Nietner was published in 1880, showing paths and plane trees. Whether it was ever fully laid out is disputed; the site remained unbuilt and grew wild during the DDR years.
Around 1840 the Teltow farmer Neumann built a house, two day-labourers' cottages and a large barn on the estate. In 1856 the Berlin merchant Herrmann Jacobson bought it, built a manor house and named the estate Seehof after the nearby Teltow lake. In the early 1870s he sold it to the brothers Max and Albert Sabersky, who parcelled off most of the land; Max Sabersky had a plan for his 17,600-square-metre house garden published by Theodor Nietner in 1880.
The name Seehof, given by Herrmann Jacobson, refers to the nearby Teltower See. Max Sabersky offered land in 1874 for a garden school, and in 1880 a plan by Theodor Nietner for his 17,600-square-metre house garden with plane trees appeared in the journal "Deutscher Garten".
The park lies in Seehof, about 1.5 km from Teltow's town centre. It is bounded by Lichterfelder Allee to the north, Roseggerstraße to the south and Fritz-Reuter-Straße to the east; the Jacobsonsteig footpath runs diagonally along its eastern side past the former manor house, now used as a doctors' building. The grounds are overgrown and have no marked paths, so sturdy footwear helps.
The monument protection granted in 2011 was lifted in November 2017 after a settlement between the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the owners. The owners had argued that Theodor Nietner's 1880 plan for Max Sabersky's 17,600-square-metre park was never carried out: no path foundations or traces of the planned fountain were found.
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