Carl von Weinberg settlement
The Carl-von-Weinberg-Siedlung is a housing estate in the Westend district of Frankfurt , which was initially referred to as a project of the New Frankfurt Miquelstraße , before it was named after the Jewish patron and founder Carl von Weinberg in the post-war period .
Emergence
Due to the great demand for apartments in the 1920s, City Councilor Ernst May developed the New Frankfurt urban development and housing program to meet housing needs by building settlements. Well-known projects include the Römerstadt settlement and the Praunheim settlement . In addition to numerous other areas, a twelve-hectare area in the north west end was also shown in the land allocation plan for residential development. To the northwest of the arterial roads Eschersheimer Landstrasse and Miquelallee, the housing association ABG built the settlement between 1930 and 1934 with funds from social housing . The planning comes from the architects Herbert Boehm , Wolfgang Bangert and Carl-Hermann Rudloff . Due to the global economic crisis , the settlement could not be completed, so that some areas only emerged in the post-war period. Around 1280 residents (as of 2008) live in the 690 apartments.
In the vicinity are the Deutsche Bundesbank in the west, the Carl-Schurz-Siedlung in the north, the police headquarters in the east, the Grüneburgpark in the south-west and the Westend campus of the Goethe University in the south-east.
Development
The Carl-von-Weinberg-Siedlung is connected to the local road network via the two busy arterial roads - Miquelallee is part of the Frankfurter Alleenring - as well as via Hansaallee and Plieningerstraße. The internal access roads run in a north-south direction and are called Karl-Scheele-Strasse, Freseniusstrasse, Carl-von-Weinberg-Strasse, Kallestrasse, Walter-vom-Rath-Strasse and Duisbergstrasse. The connection to the local public transport takes place via the underground station Miquel- / Adickesallee in the southeast and a bus line in the Hansaallee.
Development
The Carl-von-Weinberg-Siedlung consists mainly of rows of buildings that run in a north-south direction, so that the apartments face east and west. The buildings are arranged to accompany the internal access roads and form head structures on the streets running across them. Only in the southwest does a block edge encompass the public space at the intersection. In spite of the 180-meter-long buildings, there was no pure linear construction , as the houses are arranged along the streets and not exclusively across them. Nevertheless, with the urban planning concept, a rational city floor plan with well-lit apartments was created, as is typical for the row construction. Most of the buildings are multi-family houses with a total of 630 apartments. They are complemented by 60 semi - Townhouses . The three to five-storey buildings are flat-roofed and functionally designed. The long lines at some entrances are structured by recesses so that small green spaces are formed. Generous green spaces are laid out between the living areas and are available to all residents. The single family townhouses have private gardens. There is a daycare center and a grocery store in the settlement.
literature
- DW Dreysse: May settlements. Architectural guide through eight new Frankfurt settlements 1926–1930 , Fricke, Frankfurt am Main 1987 ISBN 3-88184-092-3
- Hans-Reiner Müller-Raemisch: Frankfurt am Main. Urban development and planning history since 1945. Campus-Verlag Frankfurt a. M. 1996, ISBN 3-593-35480-2
- German Architecture Museum Frankfurt am Main: Ernst May and the New Frankfurt 1925-1930 , Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag, Berlin
- Helen Barr, Ulrike May: The New Frankfurt. Walks through the Ernst May settlements and the architecture of his time Frankfurt am Main 2007 ISBN 978-3-938783-20-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): The green belt leisure map . 7th edition, 2011
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '57.4 " N , 8 ° 40' 3.6" E