Villa Oechsler - Delbrückstraße 5

The villa was built in 1883 in the center of Heringsdorf. The owner was the Kommerzienrat Hermann Berthold, master mechanic and founder of Berthold Messing AG from Berlin.

In 1905, the Berlin banker Hans von Bleichröder, son of Bismarck's banker Gerson von Bleichröder, bought the villa. Gerson von Bleichröder was ennobled in 1872 as the second Jew in Prussia. As a representative of the Rothschild banks in the financial center of Berlin, he was one of the most important private bankers of his time.

In 1919, the villa became the property of the Berlin banker Hermann Kaphan, who sold it three years later to Elise Oechsler, wife of Otto Oechsler. Due to the unbearable National Socialist repression against Jews, she decided to emigrate to America in 1939.

Ahead of the imminent expropriation of her property in favor of non-Jews, she sold the villa and all of its contents to a former Aryan employee of Otto Oechsler.

The Villa Oechsler is now used as a fashion store.