Schwanenwerder

Schwanenwerder (German pronunciation: [ˌʃvaːnənˈvɛʁdɐ] ⓘ; English: "Swan Ait") is an island in the locality of Nikolassee in southwestern Berlin, located in a wider stretch of the Havel close to the eastern bank and adjacent to the Großer Wannsee to the south of it.

The neighbourhood is considered an affluent residential area and was home to known people such as Alexander Parvus, Joseph Goebbels, Gustav Fröhlich, Ernst Udet, Axel Springer, and Lída Baarová.

After World War I more rich inhabitants built villas on Schwanenewerder, among them were the banker Samuel Goldschmidt, the economist Werner Feilchenfeld, the entrepreneur Alfred Guggenheim, the judge Herbert Gidion and the publisher Leo Goldstaub.

[3] Among those who profited from these events were Minister Joseph Goebbels, who in 1935 bought the villa formerly owned by the Oscar Schlitter for a very modest sum,[4] Three years later, he also purchased the "aryanized" neighbouring property of the Jewish banker Samuel Goldschmidt.

In a similar manner Hitler's personal physician Theodor Morell acquired the premises of Georg Solmssen (the uncle of author Arthur R.G.

[5] Remnants of the historic land development include a column of the demolished Tuileries in Paris, which was bought by Wessel in 1882 and placed on Schwanenwerder as part of a mock ruin, typical of the spirit of Romanticism in late 19th-century Germany.