Goebbels villa that's been left unattended for over 20 years.. Does it work as "House of Ghosts"?
Aug 26, 2024
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According to the British daily The Times on the 25th (local time), organizations and individuals interested in acquiring the villa have emerged since the city of Berlin announced in May that it would donate the Goebbels villa in Bandlitz, Brandenburg, north of the country, for free, but city officials have yet to decide for more than three months.
Mayor Oliver Borhert Bandlitz told The Times that `really crazy ideas are being offered"We are currently collecting several proposals, and we will soon invite the proposers to meet in person for discussion" he said.
So far, a plan has been received to convert the site into a house with 2,000 households at a cost of about 300 million euros (about 440 billion won). However, it is pointed out that the villa is located in a forest far from the nearby village, making it less realistic.
In addition, there was a proposal to turn the entire villa into a BMX cycle race track, or an exorcist's proposal to set up a camera inside the villa to film the horror experience. A far-right group that denies the legitimacy of the current German government and has an anti-Semitic nature was reportedly caught trying to secretly purchase the villa under a different name.
Goebbels, notorious for his Nazi propaganda activities, first owned the villa site, located in a lakefront forest, in 1936, and at the time there was a smaller villa.
Goebbels, who had an affair with a Czech actress at the time, reportedly enjoyed visiting the villa as a place for his affair.
Since then, Goebbels has demolished his original small villa in 1939 and built a luxury villa with a width of 1,600 square meters and more than 70 rooms, which has been bothering the authorities.
The villa, which was briefly used as a hospital by the Allies shortly after World War II, was used by East German authorities as a place for youth education after the division of East and West.
Since 1999, it has been left unattended and reduced to an abandoned house where weeds have grown.
The villa is located in the state of Brandenburg, but the building and site are owned by the city of Berlin. The city initially tried to demolish the building, which costs hundreds of millions of won every year for maintenance alone, and turn the area into a forest.
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