ECA settlement Hannover-Mittelfeld

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two building types on Thaerstraße: single-story and two-story single-family houses
six-story arcade house on Washingtonweg

The ECA settlement in Hannover , even America - neighborhood called, is a beginning of the 1950 year built residential area known as "exemplary social housing " and experimental development in the Hanover district midfield to previously largely undeveloped with nearly 300 apartments arable land emerged. In addition to the creation of living space , the housing program at the time was primarily looking for designs and building materials that "enabled significant savings in time and money."

History and description

After the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War and refugee movements , especially from families from Silesia until the post-war period, there was a great housing shortage , plans for an ECA settlement in Mittelfeld were developed in 1951 following the neighborhood settlement on Mittelfeld.

In the state capital Hanover, whose city administration had made a site near the exhibition center available for development , an architectural competition was announced. An international evaluation committee subsequently decided, with reservations, in favor of the award-winning designs by the architects Konstanty Gutschow and Friedrich Spengelin , who was working in Hamburg at the time , while the construction work was to be carried out by the construction company Friedrich Eickhoff . Before that, however, Margarete Müller from the Institute for Building Research at the University of Hanover should sift through the plans. However, the not inconsiderable deficiencies in the floor plans and in the construction subsequently discovered by Müller were initially ignored.

Around 200 buildings were erected in quick succession as part of a special construction program using ERP funds and funds from the Marshall Plan, which were erected very quickly and with economical use of building materials. A total of 112 single-storey and 76 two-storey detached houses as well as an elongated block of a six-storey arcade house were built .

Very quickly, however, the buildings showed the structural defects predicted by Margarete Müller, so that “after two years of competency wrangling between architects, building contractors, property developers, etc.”, DM 750,000 was finally needed to renovate the new buildings and to compensate for the “community of interests created by the ECA estate Am Midfield injured party ”.

Margarete Müller then became the initiator of the new Plano houses in Hanover-Bothfeld , which were built in the mid-1950s .

media

  • Bruno Hanne: Found a new home - Silesians report on the beginnings in their new home in the ECA housing estate Hannover-Mittelfeld , in cooperation with the Döhren-Wülfel-Mittelfeld cultural initiative, a 60-minute film with interviews with contemporary witnesses

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Georg Barke , Wilhelm Hatopp ( edit .): Neighborhood settlement on Mittelfelde as well as ECA settlement in this: New building in Hanover: Builders, architects, building trade, construction industry report on the planning and execution of the construction years 1948 to 1954 (= Monographs of civil engineering , volume 23), vol. 1, ed. from the press office of the capital Hanover in cooperation with the municipal building management, Stuttgart: Aweg Verlag Max Kurz, 1955, pp. 20-25
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek : Midfield. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 446.
  3. ↑ a b c d Friedrich Lindau : The PLANO houses in Hanover-Bothfeld , in ders .: Planning and building in the fifties in Hanover . Schlütersche, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-530-9 , pp. 115–123, here: pp. 115f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : 1951 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 31

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 58.3 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 13.7"  E