1909 In oil, with ink or as watercolor

With the railroad connection to the capital Berlin (1899), the founding of the Hohenlychen sanatoriums (1902) and the burgeoning wanderlust of Berliners, Lychen's rapid rise to a place of longing began. On the Pentecost weekend in 1910, an incredible 48,748 passengers passed through Hohenlychen station - and the following year, Empress Auguste Viktoria even came to Lychen for a flying visit.

The dye works at the location of the SOMMERFRISCHE, however, could no longer keep up with the industrial competition and gave up its trade in 1909. The half-timbered house had long since taken on a new meaning: As a tourist attraction.

Countless vacationers - some more, some less talented - set up their easels here and painted the house from almost every conceivable perspective. In oil, with ink or as watercolor. Hence the name "Malerwinkel" (painter's corner), under which today every Lychen visitor knows the idyll at the SOMMERFRISCHE.