Adelheid Poninska

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Adelheid Christine Friederike Amalie Countess Ponińska , b. Countess zu Dohna-Schlodien (born August 14, 1804 in Kotzenau , † June 9, 1881 in Leipzig ) was a social reformer and urban planner.

Life

Adelheid was the daughter of the Prussian officer and landowner Wilhelm Burggraf and Count zu Dohna-Schlodien (1769–1837) and Friederike Countess von Reichenbach-Goschütz (1785–1839). In 1841 she married Count Adolph Poniński (1801–1878), with whom she settled in Leipzig in 1869, where she died in 1881 without children.

In view of the extreme growth of large cities, caused primarily by the rural exodus during industrialization, and the associated housing shortage, she thought about a possible remedy for this problem in the context of urban planning . From her comes in 1874 published and highly acclaimed work "The big cities in its housing shortage and the foundations of a drastic remedy" that they are, however, not taken seriously from the worry out as a woman, published under the pseudonym "Arminius". In this book, she outlines the possible layout of garden cities and apartment blocks with wide inner courtyards, which was diametrically opposed to the construction of tenement houses with sometimes four or more narrow backyards. Poninska’s ideas were not taken up and implemented until the 20th century, long after her death. Although there was increasing concern among the bourgeoisie about the housing conditions of the workers, who feared a moral decline, a radical change was primarily opposed to the interests of the housing speculators, who benefited most from the smallest possible development.

Since 1997 a street in Berlin-Staaken has been named “Adelheid-Poninska-Straße” in her honor.

Her brother, Count Hermann zu Dohna-Schlodien (1809–1872), Lord of Kotzenau, was known as the "Red Count" as a member of the Reichstag. He published "The Worker's Income".

Works (selection)

  • Basic features of a system for regeneration of the lower classes through the mediation of the higher classes. [Part 1]. Wigand, Leipzig 1854.
  • The big cities in their housing shortage and the basics of a radical remedy . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1874.
  • Annunciata, the lily of the Himalayas and its mission in the German Empire. A wake-up call to solve the burning Christian-social tasks . [2 volumes]. Bremen, 1878 and Müller, Leipzig 1883.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice for Adelheid Poninska. City History Museum Leipzig, accessed on June 30, 2016 (Inv.-No .: A / 2014/729/9).
  2. ^ Karl Walcker: The women's movement. Critical considerations . Strasbourg printing and publishing house, Strasbourg 1896, p. 30 .
  3. ↑ Leipzig address book for 1870 . tape 39 . Alexander Edelmann, Leipzig 1870, p. 218 (first entry by Adolph von Poninsky in a Leipzig address book).
  4. ^ Adelheid-Poninska-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Poninska, Adelheid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dohna-Schlodien, Countess Adelheid von; Dohna-Poninska, Countess Adelheid von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social reformer and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Kotzenau
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1881
Place of death Leipzig