Building association Schweinfurt
The building association Schweinfurt is a 1917 founded Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft .
history
In view of the worsening housing shortage in the industrial city of Schweinfurt during the First World War , in June 1917 the Bavarian Royal Minister of State for the Interior asked the city's magistrate to tackle the problem with a non-profit building association. On July 31, 1917, citizens of Schweinfurt met at the invitation of the mayor and decided to found a registered cooperative with limited liability called “Bauverein Schweinfurt and the surrounding area”. The association was officially registered on August 13th.
In the early years, the focus of construction activity was in the then newly emerging Gartenstadt district , in which a Bauvereinstraße still exists today. In addition to numerous residential buildings, a convenience store and other shops and a restaurant were built.
In the time of National Socialism from 1933 the building association was brought into line by the new rulers, the elected administrative bodies were forcibly replaced by people loyal to the system, and smaller building associations were forcibly merged with the building association.
After the end of the Nazi dictatorship, other smaller cooperatives, which were harder hit by war damage than the Bauverein, joined the association voluntarily. From the 1970s, in addition to the garden city and the musicians' quarter, the former Deutschhof development area became another regional focus of the association.
In 2017, 100 years after it was founded, the Bauverein owned around 3,500 members of the cooperative and over 1,800 apartments in Schweinfurt and the surrounding villages.