Arrenberg'sche Höfe
The Arrenberg'schen Höfe are a partially listed group of buildings in the Elberfeld-West district of Wuppertal . The houses on Arrenberger, Senefelderstrasse and Simonsstrasse originally housed the Ferdinand Sauerbruch Clinic (today Helios University Clinic Wuppertal ), but have since been converted into a residential area.
Building description
The historic clinic buildings are located in a park with old trees and changing height levels. The clinic buildings erected in 1913 are four-storey buildings with distinct facade decorations in the classicism style .
Building history
Because of the constant overcrowding of the hospitals in Elberfeld founded in 1820 and 1825, even after a private house had also been rented in 1848, the city of Elberfeld decided in 1856 to build a new hospital with 250 beds with an associated "insane asylum". In 1857 the city bought a plot of land on Arrenberger Weg for the construction of the hospital for 5000 thalers . The foundation stone was laid in 1859, and on December 1, 1863, the “municipal hospitals” of the city of Elberfeld were officially opened. The construction had cost 170,000 thalers instead of the originally approved 100,000 thalers. Due to the growing need for space, the hospital was continuously expanded with additional buildings in the course of the 19th century. In 1909 the city bought neighboring properties to expand the hospital. On February 21, 1913, three new buildings were inaugurated after a construction period of 22 months. At that time the number of beds was 752. After the First World War , additional buildings were built on the part of the hospital grounds adjacent to today's Senefelder Strasse. In 1940, on the occasion of Ferdinand Sauerbruch's 65th birthday, the hospital was given the name “Ferdinand Sauerbruch Clinic”. In 1976 the clinic was merged with the “Städtische Krankenanstalten Barmen” to form the “Klinikum der Stadt Wuppertal”.
In 2004 the clinic group Helios Kliniken bought the majority of the shares in the clinic from the city of Wuppertal. At this location, however, Helios only continued to operate the heart clinic. Several existing buildings were no longer needed.
When this step became apparent in 2003, the Arrenberg project development company Küpper developed a concept that provided for these parts of the area to be converted into apartments and service areas. The integration into the surrounding, socially difficult district of Arrenberg was an important aspect. In 2004 the Küpper subsidiary "Arrenberg Entwicklungs- und Investitions-GmbH" bought the areas and buildings no longer required for the clinic on a plot of land measuring around 2.2 hectares. During the following two-year vacancy period, artists were given the opportunity to temporarily use the houses. A retail market was set up in a hall on the site without major modifications.
In 2005, the new owner received the building permit for two conversion projects: the conversion of nurses 'dormitories and doctors' apartments into student dormitories and the conversion of three other buildings into high-quality condominiums for investors under the marketing name “Stadtresidenzen”. The financing partner for the condominiums was the Leipzig company Premium Estate Group. The city residences were completed between 2006 and 2011. These listed buildings were in poor condition due to the ingress of moisture and were gutted. The building technology had to be completely renewed, and in many cases load-bearing components had to be reinforced with steel beams. The facade decoration received a renovation, whereby different views of the building owner and monument protection authorities caused delays in the project, especially with regard to the window design. At the same time, the surrounding public spaces were redesigned. At the end of this phase, the “city residences” contained 52 apartments with a total of around 5200 square meters of living space, each between 47 and 167 square meters.
No monument requirements had to be taken into account in the new student dormitories. Since the core of the building was solid, there was only a comprehensive renovation of the building services as well as an energetic and general modernization. 118 student apartments with almost 3,600 square meters of living space, each 18 to 50 square meters in size and supplemented by common rooms, were built there.
The other former clinic buildings will continue to be used as office and commercial space without major renovations, especially for users from the medical and health sectors. The entire area was given the marketing name “Arrenberg'sche Höfe.” The renovation costs for “city residences” and student dormitories were around 8.2 million euros.
literature
- Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research (Ed.): Conversion of non-residential buildings into residential properties - Documentation of the case studies, 2015, PDF version
Individual evidence
- ^ Elberfeld district ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) by Wolfgang Mondorf