Aspen (Stuttgart)

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Aspen is a housing estate that was built in the 1960s in the Baden-Württemberg state capital, Stuttgart . It stands as a complete system under monument protection .

description

The Aspen housing estate was planned and built from 1963 to 1966 as a small, exclusive condominium complex especially for the upscale target group of state officials (ministerial councilors, professors, etc. initially lived there) - a deliberate counter-model to the large housing estates built around the same time in Stuttgart, such as Fasanenhof or Freiberg . The developer was Württembergische Heimstätten GmbH . The Stuttgart company awarded the overall urban planning for the residential area to the architects Kammerer + Belz, founded in 1964 and also based in Stuttgart .

The quarter is located on the southern edge of Botnang , an urban district west of Stuttgart's core city, in a forest clearing with different slopes and thus a view over the Botnang valley. It comprises 82 residential units on 1.5 hectares (corresponds to 54.7 units / hectare). It is accessed from Vaihinger Landstrasse through the two secondary roads Umgelterweg and Gänßleweg. It is a purely residential area, no infrastructure facilities such as shops or kindergartens were planned. The settlement is connected to line 91 with a bus stop on Umgelterweg.

The buildings erected in one go are divided into different types: a seven-storey high-rise building in the shape of a three-in-hand with 21 residential units marks the entrance in the northeast. Behind it, between Vaihinger Straße and Umgelterweg, follow five three-story buildings set back from the street with a total of 30 residential units. In line with the model of the car-friendly city that prevailed in urban development at the time, rows of garages along the street shape the image. All of the aforementioned houses were planned and built by the Stuttgart architect Hans Werner Schliebitz . On the downhill side of the Umgelterweg there are also some two- and three-story chain houses (staggered row houses), which are combined in groups of three or six houses, there are a total of 31 residential units. The Kammerer + Belz office (responsible for: Lutz, Hallermann, Greitzke, Munz) was responsible for this area.

The buildings are uniformly provided with flat roofs, the facades are roughly white plastered and mostly clad with black asbestos-cement shingles ("Eternit"), which is why the residential area is locally called "the black settlement". Aspen is one of the first examples in which Kammerer + Belz used this design element that later became characteristic of the office. The landscaping design of the area of ​​the entire estate, including the private gardens as a "large garden landscape", was designed by the Stuttgart landscape architect Hans Luz .

reception

Shortly after completion, the city of Stuttgart awarded the planners the Paul Bonatz Prize in 1967 for their "exemplary, contemporary and exemplary solution" for the Aspen estate. In 1971 the estate was included in the architecture guide for Stuttgart and the surrounding area . In 2011, the Lower Monument Protection Authority at the Stuttgart City Planning Office added the estate as an ensemble to the list of cultural monuments . The regional council of Stuttgart as the upper monument protection authority describes the Aspen settlement as the highest quality settlement in Botnang and one of the highest quality in the entire administrative district. The "outstanding testimony to settlement architecture" has an exemplary character for compact, individual living in uniformly designed buildings. Conservator Ulrike Plate from the State Office for Monument Preservation described Aspen as an important example of post-war modernism . The protection status was challenged by four homeowners. The lawsuit was rejected by the Stuttgart Administrative Court on January 18, 2017, because monument protection was justified, especially from a scientific point of view. The settlement has a number of location-related and design features that qualify it as an exclusive form of settlement with some unusual approaches to improving the quality of living. The application submitted by the plaintiffs for admission of the appeal was rejected by the Administrative Court of Mannheim on December 27, 2018.

literature

  • Edeltrud Geider-Schmidt: Official settlement in a forest clearing. The Aspen residential area in Stuttgart-Botnang. In: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. 40th year 2011, no. 2, p. 122f.
  • State capital Stuttgart (ed.): Paul Bonatz Prize '67 and list of the buildings that won awards in 1959 and 1963 . Stuttgart Contributions , H. 2. Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1967.
  • Christina Simon, Thomas Hafner ( ed. ): WohnOrte. 50 residential quarters in Stuttgart from 1890 to 2002. Stuttgart contributions , Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 2002.
  • Work report Kammerer and Belz, Kucher and Partner, Stuttgart 1985.
  • Gretl Hoffmann: Architecture Guide Stuttgart and Surroundings. A guide to 380 historical and modern buildings , Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1971.
  • Deutsche Bauzeitung , 1964, issue 1.
  • Uwe Tommasi: Monument protection in the area “Aspen”: Loud protests from residents . In: Botnanger Anzeiger , No. 4 of April 1, 2011, p. 4 and 6th
  • Thorsten Hettel: The anger is great in the black settlement . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, March 25, 2011.
  • Torsten Ströbele: Aspen housing estate: The guidelines for Aspen are ready after two years . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, June 10, 2013.
  • Administrative court Stuttgart: Stuttgart housing estate "Aspen" a cultural monument? - hearing . Press release from January 16, 2017
  • Josef Schunder: Aspensiedlung in Stuttgart-Botnang: Owners reject monument status . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, January 19, 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the Stuttgart Administrative Court on the procedure 13 K 1240/14 from February 8, 2017, accessed on February 13, 2017 ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vgstuttgart.de
  2. ↑ Resolution 1 S 631/17 of VGH Mannheim beck date, accessed on 10 February 2019

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '18.8 "  N , 9 ° 7' 17.2"  E