Nordparkiedlung Düsseldorf
The Nordparkiedlung is a housing estate consisting of 14 buildings in the Stockum district of Düsseldorf . It was created in 1937 as part of the exhibition Reichsausstellung Schaffendes Volk and was originally named Wilhelm Gustloff Settlement .
The model estate was intended to provide exemplary accommodation for workers with the option of self-sufficiency and was commissioned by the city of Düsseldorf. They made the site available on a long lease and bore the development costs. The Rheinische Gauheimstätte was responsible for sponsorship, financing and implementation . The urban layout of the buildings, traffic and green areas was designed by Peter Grund in collaboration with the architect Hanns Bökels according to the scheme of a garden city ; Bökels and his colleague Hans Maria Schneider were responsible for planning the building. The location of the houses around a “ village green ” with a fountain and linden tree was intended to create a “village idyll”.
The settlement area is located in the northern corner of the exhibition grounds and has a total area of 1.7 hectares. The settlement and the former exhibition area, today's Nordpark , are still connected by a path. For cost reasons, the number of buildings was limited to 14 (13 residential buildings and a training center) and the land and garden areas were kept as small as possible. The living space of the houses was between about 48 and 65 square meters, which were intended for five to nine people. Each house has a plot of 800 to 1000 square meters for agricultural use, which did not meet the minimum of the legal requirements of the time.
The models for the buildings were the “traditional buildings of the Lower Rhine landscape”, that is, single houses in a simple, clear form and with a base that is as rectangular as possible. An exception was the more spacious settler school at the entrance to the settlement, which had a dormitory with twelve beds and was used by the BDM during the exhibition . Three model houses were uninhabited and publicly accessible during the exhibition and were fully furnished with the help of the German Settlers Association and the “Home and Hearth” department of the Düsseldorf women's association .
The cost of a model house was 6000 Reichsmarks (ℛℳ). The financing was to come from 600 600 equity, a factory loan of 800, Reich loan and Reich supplementary loan totaling 1,900 and a mortgage of 2,700. The annual loads totaled 360 ℛℳ. The "settlers" were selected by the Gauheimstättenamt . These should be "frontline fighters and fighters for the national uprising", "victims of national labor" and "large families, as far as racially valuable". Despite these strict criteria, the settlement sites only became the property of the new residents after three years, after they had "proven themselves" in the meantime. One of the residents was Franz Boden, whose job was listed in the Düsseldorf address book from 1939 as "garden designer" and who wrote several publications on the subject of self-sufficiency .
Seven million people visited the Imperial Exhibition of the Creative People , including the Duke of Windsor , who also visited the North Park Settlement. He could hardly believe that so many people should live together in such a small space in the houses of the North Park settlement.
gallery
The former training home
at the entrance to the settlement
The “goose fountain”
by August Wilhelm Goebel
One of the typical
small model houses
The "village green" with
the houses grouped around it
literature
- Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition Schaffendes Volk, Düsseldorf 1937 . In: Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein (ed.): Sources and research on the history of the Lower Rhine . tape 4 . Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-3045-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 471. Announcement: At the suggestion of the city administration I name the settlement south of Stockumer Kirchstrasse "Wilhelm-Gustloff-Siedlung", Düsseldorf, July 2, 1936. The police chief. , in the official gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region, year 1936, item 29, p. 191
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Stefanie Schäfers: The Wilhelm Gustloff Settlement - The Exhibition Creative People. In: schaffendesvolk1937.de. February 23, 2016, accessed September 26, 2017 .
- ^ [1388] 515 - Third part of the population directory of the city of Düsseldorf sorted by streets and house numbers - address book of the city of Düsseldorf - S. In: digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Name entry for Franz Boden. In: Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .
- ^ Stefanie Schäfers: The exhibition Schaffendes Volk - Düsseldorf 1937. In: schaffendesvolk1937.de. February 23, 2016, accessed September 27, 2017 .