German Embassy Garden (\u0628\u0627\u063a \u0633\u0641\u0627\u0631\u062a \u0622\u0644\u0645\u0627\u0646)<\/p>\n
The garden of Malek al-Ketab Rashti (\u0645\u0644\u06a9\u200c\u0627\u0644\u06a9\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0631\u0634\u062a\u06cc) was located on the eastern side of Safara Street, also known as Ala al-Dowleh Street (present-day Ferdowsi Street). Later, part of the garden was purchased by the German government and another part by the Ottoman government, and the two properties became the sites of their respective embassies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe site of the present-day German Embassy, during the Naseri period, before the demolition of the Shah Tahmasp city walls, was a garden belonging to Malek al-Ketab Rashti, located opposite the garden of Ilkhani (see: Ilkhani),\u201d (Mahboubi, p. 570).<\/p>\n
The aforementioned garden was purchased by Mokhber al-Dowleh (\u0645\u062e\u0628\u0631\u0627\u0644\u062f\u0648\u0644\u0647) from Malek al-Ketab and was sold years later to the Germans and the Ottomans. His son, Mokhber al-Saltaneh (\u0645\u062e\u0628\u0631\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0637\u0646\u0647), recounts the story in his memoir Khatereh-ha va Khatarat (Memories and Dangers):<\/p>\n
\u201cOur house was in Chal Meydan. I remember nothing of it (I was six years old at the time)… At the encouragement of Yahya Khan, my father’s special adjutant, he purchased the garden of Malek al-Ketab Rashti. Opposite it was the garden of Allah-Qoli Khan Ilkhani, which is now the site of the National Bank and was sold to the German Embassy. There was a building at the corner opposite the National Bank, and ten to twelve thousand zareh of land was purchased in installments for six thousand tomans. My father took half, and my uncle, Niyer al-Molk, took the other half. A portion was also given to Mohammad-Hossein Khan Adib al-Dowleh, administrator of Dar al-Funun. The garden and residence of Niyer al-Molk is now the Ottoman Embassy, which has since become the Turkish Embassy. The British Embassy was the reason for the development of the area outside the city.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Hedayat, Khatereh-ha va Khatarat, p. 1.)<\/p>\n
On page 149 of Tehran in the Mirror of Time, the garden of Malek al-Ketab is incorrectly identified as being west of Ferdowsi Street and as corresponding to the Ilkhani Garden, the site on which the National Bank was later built. This identification is erroneous.<\/p>\n
When the map of Najm al-Dowleh (\u0646\u062c\u0645\u200c\u0627\u0644\u062f\u0648\u0644\u0647) was drawn (surveyed in 1305 AH), the garden was already in the possession of the German Embassy; that is, Mokhber al-Dowleh had transferred the garden to the Germans before that date.<\/p>\n
Establishment of the German Diplomatic Mission in Tehran<\/p>\n
\u201cFor more than 100 years, Germany has maintained a diplomatic mission in Iran. On 11 June 1873, a Treaty of Friendship and Navigation was concluded between the German Empire and Iran. Among the provisions of this treaty was the establishment of permanent diplomatic missions in both countries. Eleven years after the conclusion of the treaty, on 20 October 1884, the first German diplomatic mission was established at the court of Naser al-Din Shah, and Ernst von Braunschweig was sent to Iran as Germany’s special representative.\u201d<\/p>\n
(German Embassy website.)<\/p>\n
The first official German diplomatic delegation arrived in Tehran in Dhu al-Hijjah 1301 AH \/ September 1884. The members of the delegation were Ernst von Braunschweig, German Minister Plenipotentiary and Special Envoy; Brooks, Counselor of the Embassy; and two other embassy staff members.<\/p>\n
After arriving in Iran, the delegation was received in Bandar-e Anzali by Mirza Reza Khan, General Adjutant (\u0645\u06cc\u0631\u0632\u0627 \u0631\u0636\u0627\u062e\u0627\u0646 \u062c\u0646\u0631\u0627\u0644 \u0622\u062c\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0646) and escorted to Tehran. An official reception was held for them at Bagh-e Shah, and a building in Laleh-Zar Garden was also designated as their residence. (Iran, no. 557, pp. 1\u20132.)<\/p>\n
Six months after the German delegation arrived in Tehran, the German government requested that its ambassador be permitted to reside permanently and officially in Iran. The Iranian government accepted the request. (Ibid., no. 572, pp. 1\u20132.)<\/p>\n
According to the German Embassy’s account, the present German Embassy building, located in the heart of Tehran, was purchased ten years later by Count Schulenburg, a representative of the German Empire. The property was adjacent to the Turkish Embassy and near the British, Russian, and French emba<\/p>\n
ssies as well as several important Iranian government buildings.<\/p>\n
The two-story embassy building was constructed between 1302 and 1304 AH \/ 1884\u20131886 by a European architect. Ayn al-Saltaneh (\u0639\u06cc\u0646\u200c\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0637\u0646\u0647), however, states that the building was constructed by Sani al-Dowleh (\u0635\u0646\u06cc\u0639\u200c\u0627\u0644\u062f\u0648\u0644\u0647), the son of Mokhber al-Dowleh. (Ayn al-Saltaneh, Vol. 1, pp. 685\u2013686.)<\/p>\n
The garden and building were leased to the German Embassy for approximately a decade. In 1310 SH \/ 1931 CE, the property was registered for the first time in the name of the German government.<\/p>\n
The building was subsequently renovated several times by Germany and was demolished and rebuilt in 1937. In 1941, during the Second World War, the new embassy building was completed and ready for use. At that time, however, it was confiscated by the Iranian government. The Swedish Embassy then moved into the building, as Sweden was protecting German interests in Iran during the war.<\/p>\n
In 1949, the property was transferred to the Americans, who used it until their own embassy building was completed in 1953. That year, the property was released from confiscation, but its ownership was ultimately transferred permanently to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1977.<\/p>\n
(German Embassy website.)<\/p>\n
The alley adjoining the southern side of the German Embassy, formerly known as Ajudanbashi (\u0622\u062c\u0648\u062f\u0627\u0646\u0628\u0627\u0634\u06cc) according to Najm al-Dowleh’s map of 1309 AH, was renamed Berlin (\u0628\u0631\u0644\u0646).<\/p>\n
\u201c…the alley was named Berlin.\u201d (Ayn al-Saltaneh, Vol. 9, p. 7231.)<\/p>\n
The property used as the residence of the German ambassador, located in northern Tehran in the Elahieh area, was purchased in 1904. (German Embassy website.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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