Qualla: Villa Wolf https://qualla.com/villa-wolf en-us © 2026 Bendyline Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:49:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/r/villa-wolf-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Villa Wolf https://qualla.com/villa-wolf Villa Wolf: Introduction https://qualla.com/villa-wolf/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. A park slopes down to the Lusatian Neisse in the Polish town of Gubin, and somewhere on that slope is the most consequential house Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built before anyone outside Germany knew his name. You will not see it. Marks set into the ground trace where the walls once ran, the excavated foundations lie under the grass, and that is the whole of what remains of the Villa Wolf - the building where Mies stopped producing tasteful neoclassical villas for wealthy clients and started producing the twentieth century.

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/r/villa-wolf-wp/u34r-villa-wolf-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Villa Wolf: Cloth Money on a Hillside https://qualla.com/villa-wolf/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Erich Wolf (1883-1958) made his money in cloth and textiles in Guben, a town that had been weaving since the Middle Ages. In 1922 he married Elisabeth Wilke (1894-1987), who brought a hat factory of her own into the marriage, and three years later the couple commissioned a house....

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/r/villa-wolf-wp/u34r-villa-wolf-cloth-money-on-a-hillside.mp3 0:06 2 full Villa Wolf: The First Modern Mies https://qualla.com/villa-wolf/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The finished house of 1926 was a set of flat-roofed cuboids of different sizes, assembled asymmetrically, clad in red-black clinker brick and running to more than a thousand square metres. Broad terraces stepped down toward the Neisse. Large panes of glass opened the rooms onto t...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/r/villa-wolf-wp/u34r-villa-wolf-the-first-modern-mies.mp3 0:06 3 full Villa Wolf: 1945 https://qualla.com/villa-wolf/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The family fled in 1945 as the Red Army advanced, leaving everything behind. The house burned. When the Potsdam Conference settled the new border on the Oder-Neisse line, Guben was cut in half: the west bank stayed German, the east bank became the Polish town of Gubin, and the vi...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/r/villa-wolf-wp/u34r-villa-wolf-1945.mp3 0:06 4 full Villa Wolf: Digging Up a House https://qualla.com/villa-wolf/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. From 2001 the Internationale Bauausstellung Fürst-Pückler-Land, under Lars Scharnholz of the Brandenburg University of Technology, began excavating the foundations, which were then measured and documented in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art. In 2006 a "Mies-Memory-Box" i...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/r/villa-wolf-wp/u34r-villa-wolf-digging-up-a-house.mp3 0:06 5 full Villa Wolf: Not Rebuilt, and Perhaps Not Buildable https://qualla.com/villa-wolf/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. A German-Polish initiative has been pressing for reconstruction for two decades. Poland's national heritage authorities have backed the idea, including a proposal to make the site a stop on an architecture route, and in 2019 the Polish government signalled its support. Nothing st...

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