Official housing estate Oberwerth
The official settlement Oberwerth is on the Oberwerth in Koblenz incurred and under monument protection standing residential development . The settlement for state civil servants and workers , inspired by the garden city movement , was built in the 1910s and 1920s on behalf of the civil servants housing association founded in 1911 (today: Modernes Wohnen Koblenz eG).
history
From the 12th century until the secularization of 1802, there was only one Benedictine monastery on the former Rhine island of Oberwerth . With the construction of the Horchheim railway bridge in the 1870s and the filling of the southern arm of the Rhine, it lost its island character.
At the beginning of the 20th century, building activity began on the former island. For this purpose, the northern part was opened up and in 1909 the Oberwerther bridge over the Rheinlache was completed. The civil servants housing association began in 1912 with the support of the Prussian state along the railway line to the Horchheimer railway bridge with the construction of a settlement for government officials and workers. The first four building complexes were ready for occupancy on July 1, 1913 in Sebastian-Bach-Strasse. The settlement was planned by the architects Ludwig Stähler and Fritz Horn, who had previously worked in the Huch & Grefges architectural office and who built many other buildings for the civil servants' housing association in Koblenz.
With the outbreak of the First World War , construction work was stopped and only completed in the 1920s. The entire settlement now comprises three adjoining street quarters whose buildings differ from one another. The streets in the settlement have the character of an avenue . During the air raids on Koblenz in World War II , many buildings in the settlement were destroyed and later rebuilt in different ways.
Development within the official housing estate
The civil servants' settlement in Oberwerth was built in three sections. The oldest part from 1913 comprises the buildings between Weberplatz, Sebastian-Bach-Straße, Schillerstraße and the railway line, although only the buildings at Weberplatz 1 and Sebastian-Bach-Straße 33-45 have been preserved in their original form and are therefore listed. The two-storey row houses in plastered construction with eaves mansard roofs run parallel to the railway line and are separated from it by gardens. The long row of houses is separated from the street by front gardens and jumps back at the level of Uhlandstraße to form a courtyard-like indentation. The buildings have irregular stems in the form of different with hipped roofs -provided risalits . The individual houses are loosened up by the alternation of round arched and high rectangular wall openings.
The Richard-Wagner-Strasse, Eichendorffstrasse, Brahmsstrasse and Goethestrasse districts built between 1925 and 1926 consist of two-storey plastered buildings with expressionist motifs. In contrast to the closed row of houses in the first section, there are several sections of four connected houses parallel to the street with steep gable roofs on the eaves , which are divided by front bay windows with dwarf houses . Typical of the expressionist elements of the 1920s, the use of Hermenpfeilern and jambs in brick . The buildings Richard-Wagner-Strasse 11 and 13, Eichendorffstrasse 15–29 (odd numbers), Brahmsstrasse 12 and 14 and Goethestrasse 14–28 (even numbers) are listed here.
The third section was also created between 1925 and 1926 and is delimited by the streets Brahmsstraße, Eichendorffstraße, Sebastian-Bach-Straße and Goethestraße. Here you will find semi-detached houses with equally expressionist motifs that not only run parallel to the street, but are also placed diagonally. The architecture corresponds to that of the second section with a shared garden courtyard below. The buildings here are Brahmsstrasse 9, 11, 13 and 15, Eichendorffstrasse 31, 33 and 35, Sebastian-Bach-Strasse 12, 14, 16 and 18 as well as Goethestrasse 30, 32, 34 and 36.
Monument protection
The civil servant settlement Oberwerth is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Oberwerth in the monument zone of the official housing estate in Oberwerth .
The civil servants' settlement in Oberwerth has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley since 2002 .
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz. (Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt)
- Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X .
- Volume 2: From the French city to the present. Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
- Herbert Dellwing (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.1: City of Koblenz. Southern suburb and Oberwerth. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-590-31033-2 .
- Reinhard Kallenbach: Koblenz's story retold . Mittelrhein Verlag, Koblenz, 2012, ISBN 978-3-925180-03-3 .
- Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history - namesake for streets and squares. 2. revised u. exp. Edition. Publishing house for advertising papers , Mülheim-Kärlich 2005, OCLC 712343799 , p. 375f.
- Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
- Housing Cooperative Modernes Wohnen Koblenz eG (Ed.): 100 years of good and safe living - history of the Housing Cooperative Modernes Wohnen Koblenz eG 1911–2011 . Garwain, Koblenz 2011, ISBN 978-3-936436-23-5 .
Web links
- Koblenz's story retold - Part 50: Builders and planners discovered Oberwerth in: Rhein-Zeitung , July 22, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013.
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 14 ″ N , 7 ° 35 ′ 16 ″ E