Duncker district

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In the Duncker district in 1960

The Dunckerviertel is a residential area built in the 1950s in the west of Leipzig , made up of multi-family houses with a total of over 1000 apartments. As a whole, including selected green areas and parts of the road and pavement, it is a listed building .

Location and description

The Duncker Quarter is located in the district of Neulindenau in the district Alt-West. It is bounded in the northeast by Saalfelder Strasse, in the southeast by Morgensternstrasse, in the southwest by Beckerstrasse and Abrahamstrasse and in the northwest by Mansfelder Weg, each with the adjacent buildings. Central axis is the eponymous Dr. Hermann Duncker Street, named after the 1960 FDBG -Funktionär Hermann Duncker . From 1908 to 1960, also during the construction of the quarter, it was only called Dunckerstraße after the Leipzig donor Gustav Heinrich Duncker († 1882).

The houses are four-storey, plastered brick buildings combined into blocks with gable or hipped roofs . There are five five-storeys or more in the Morgensternstrasse / Beckerstrasse corner, a six-storey building transverse to Dr.-Hermann-Duncker-Strasse (all in panel construction), a round pavilion-like extension at the end of this street and the day-care center on Abrahamstrasse.

history

Volunteer construction workers (1953)

Apart from individual streets ( Straße der III. Weltfestspiele ), the Dunckerviertel, built between 1953 and 1958, was the first residential complex in Leipzig after the Second World War . The houses were built on the right and left of the existing Dunckerstrasse. The architects were Heinz Auspurg (urban development), G. Batteraux, Adam Buchner and Martin Weber (project). The construction took place within the framework of the national construction work , which means that the population was called upon to do voluntary work.

In addition to the apartments, 14 shops, a household laundry, a library, a post office, a kindergarten with 120 places, children's playgrounds and green areas were built. The furnishing of the 1,068 apartments with bathrooms and central heating was exemplary for that time. The goal achieved was the completion of occupancy in all apartments by the election for the third people 's chamber of the GDR on November 16, 1958.

While the quarter was very popular during the GDR era, that changed after the fall of the Wall . Young people in particular moved away, and the quarter with its gray rows of houses became increasingly less attractive. Through changes to the floor plan in the apartments that went along with the renovations, they were adapted for different age groups. Elevators were installed, maisonette apartments furnished and balconies installed in consultation with the monument protection authority. Some of the shops have been converted into handicapped-accessible apartments. The Dunckerviertel is now a popular residential area again.

literature

  • Vera Danzer, Andreas Dix: Leipzig - A regional history inventory in the Leipzig area . Ed .: Haik Thomas Porada . 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22299-4 , pp. 389 .
  • Peter Schwarz: Millennial Leipzig . From the beginning of the 20th century to the present. 1st edition. tape 3 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-945027-13-4 , pp. 287 .

Web links

Commons : Dunckerviertel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the historical conservation issues in Leipzig , ID number 09292559
  2. ↑ Bauwelt 45/2006. P. 4
  3. ^ Website of the Leipzig housing and construction company. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 5.2 "  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 36.3"  E