Building cooperative Leipzig
The building cooperative Leipzig e. G. (BGL) is the oldest housing association in Saxony . It emerged from the building association founded on January 31, 1898 for the procurement of inexpensive apartments .
Building association for the procurement of inexpensive [h] er apartments
In 1899 the first office of the building association for the procurement of inexpensive apartments was opened in Leipziger Elsterstrasse 63. In the same year, a savings bank based on the model of the savings and construction association Hanover was incorporated. The second office was at Loessniger Strasse 26 until 1908. Finally, since May 1927, the Leipzig building cooperative has been headquartered at Dörrienstraße 1.
The first apartments created by the Bauverein were built in Leipzig-Kleinzschocher and Sellerhausen in 1898. At that time, the chairman was Bernhard Kuntzschmann (until 1924), he was able to purchase building land for around 200 houses in Leipzig- Schönefeld in 1905 with the savings deposits from the cooperative savings bank , which were built there by 1920. Finally, in 1908, new business premises were opened and the first apartments with an indoor toilet were even built. At this time, the building association had 70 houses with 614 apartments, which corresponds to a number of 2590 tenants.
The First World War brings construction to a standstill. During the time of the global economic crisis, laundries were set up in some residential complexes, the income from which was used to further expand the residential complex and purchase household appliances. In 1927, the Bauverein already owned 278 plots of land with 2,450 apartments as well as further plots of land still to be built for around 300 houses. Since there are still no apartments for single, especially widowed, members, a “single and professional home” with central heating, running cold and warm water, elevator and garbage disposal was built in the Connewitz district in 1931, a very modern facility at the time.
During the National Socialist era, the Saxon Ministry of Labor and Welfare decided to end the self-government of the cooperative. The building association should now primarily build small “people's apartments” with a size of 34 to 42 m². He also built complete houses for the workforce of individual companies, such as B. the Meier & Weichelt foundry . What was also new was that the building association, as a developer, but not as the owner, built private homes for resale to the later owners, which should fully meet the "requirements of the new era".
Socialist building cooperative and AWG
After the end of the Second World War , 51 houses with 522 apartments were completely destroyed and 1,851 apartments were badly damaged, which corresponded to about 60% of the total. That is why reconstruction was a top priority at the time. As a result, more than 1000 apartments were restored or repaired.
In 1957 the GDR Council of Ministers decided to transform the building association into a “socialist cooperative”, which was followed on February 21, 1959 by the name change to a building cooperative for the procurement of inexpensive apartments in Leipzig . This was the beginning of the merger of several housing cooperatives in Leipzig and the surrounding area: the non-profit housing cooperative Leipzig-Lindenau was incorporated in 1959, the building cooperative from 1895 in 1963 and the non-profit building cooperative from 1911 (formerly the fixed-income building cooperative ) in 1969 . Thus there were over 8,830 apartments in the Leipzig building cooperative in 1967.
After the merger with the housing cooperatives in Eilenburg , Markranstädt , Zwenkau and Böhlitz-Ehrenberg , the workers housing cooperative "Alfred Frank" was established in 1977 . The artist and communist Alfred Frank was a member of the Bauverein in the 1920s and 30s and was executed in January 1945.
By 1989 the workers' housing association (AWG) had built 3,157 apartments, 2,673 of them in the Leipzig- Grünau prefabricated building area .
Building cooperative Leipzig e. G.
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After the political change in the GDR, a committee for the future development of the cooperative was founded in 1989. Through this, among other things, the renaming to "Baugenossenschaft Leipzig e. G. ”, the comprehensive repair of the housing stock and a stronger focus on members. Between 1991 and 1997, 11,241 apartments in 1,290 houses were partially renovated. The last laundries of the building cooperative were shut down in Gohlis and Lößnig in 1992. Selected residential complexes with high vacancy rates will be sold in 2005, and around 540 apartments in Grünau will also be demolished in 2008. A citizens' initiative has been formed against further planned demolition of cooperative apartments in Grünau.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release Komm e. V., February 19, 2008: Grünauers demand a halt to demolition ( memento from January 27, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
literature
- Under our roof. Special edition for the 110th anniversary of the Leipzig building cooperative. Edited by the building cooperative Leipzig e. G., Leipzig 2008.
- The Leipzig building cooperatives. In: Thomas Adam: Workers 'milieu and workers' movement in Leipzig 1871–1933. (Zugl .: Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 1998), Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-412-04699-X , pp. 205-218.
- Thomas Adam: Build together, live safely. 100 years of Baugenossenschaft Leipzig eG, since 1898. Ed. By the board of the Baugenossenschaft Leipzig e. G., Leipzig 1998.
Web links
- www.bgl.de - Official website of Baugenossenschaft Leipzig e. G.