Hertwig-Bünger-Heim

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The former Hertwig-Bünger-Heim is located in the Radebeul district of the Saxon city of Radebeul , at Lessingstrasse 1 and Einsteinstrasse 30. It was named in 1930 after the politician Doris Hertwig-Bünger , who initiated its construction in 1929, and was part of the GDR era the name Feierabendheim "Käthe Niederkirchner" after the communist resistance fighter Käthe Niederkirchner .

Hertwig-Bünger-Heim, in front of it the corner pavilion

description

The one with the original parts of his fence and the corner pavilion listed former old people's home , today a detached apartment house , located on the edge of the Dresdner boys Heide .

The building stands on a high clinker plinth as a basement floor and has a well-developed, tile-covered attic. The elongated, symmetrical central building stands at the eaves facing Einsteinstrasse, with an elongated, story-high roof pike in the roof . On both sides of the central building there are short side wings with steep half- hipped roofs , on the back of the building there is a central projection .

The plastered building is not structured, the windows have folding shutters , and there are also some recently renewed and expanded loggias with balustrade bars. The gables and the badger are boarded up.

At the corner of the property at the crossroads there is a wooden pavilion over a square clinker base and a tiled tent roof . The enclosure is a wooden fence between concrete posts.

history

The Reichstag deputy Doris Hertwig-Bünger (1882–1968), among other things chairwoman of the city federation of Dresden women’s associations at the time, established the Dresden Foundation for Women’s Housing Assistance in 1926 , which had the task of combating the housing shortage. The aim was to create homes for older people, especially for the middle class, and thus to make their apartments, which are often too large in old age, available for the housing market and thus for younger families with children.

Hertwig-Bünger was married to the lawyer and politician Wilhelm Bünger , with whom she lived from 1926 to 1932 in her husband's official apartment in Oberlößnitzstrasse 72 . At that time she was also a member of the Radebeul-Oberlößnitz local group of her foundation, and in 1929 she initiated the construction of this retirement home, which was designed by the Oberlößnitz architect Alfred Tischer and built by the Radebeul- Serkowitz master builder Alwin Höhne in the same year. She received generous support and cheap loans from the state, the city and the local savings bank.

The building was modernly equipped and had 20 age-appropriate one and two-room apartments as well as several common rooms . The character of the accommodation should be more like a pension and thus be “neither a monastery nor a barracks”. In the year after completion, in 1930, the residents suggested naming it after the initiator, which resulted in the name Hertwig-Bünger-Heim .

In 1950 the running foundation was dissolved and its assets were nationalized. After the home had not covered its costs because of its relatively low rents and had been operated already partially diverted since 1945, it was in a regular urban Feierabendheim converted with 47 seats. From 1951 it was called "Feierabendheim" “Käte Niederkirchner” after the communist resistance fighter Käthe Niederkirchner (1909–1944). Multiple planned extensions did not take place.

In 1993 the institution was taken over by the Diakonisches Werk ; from 1999 it was empty because it needed renovation. In 2002 the building was sold to a private investor who converted it into a modern residential complex with ten apartments in 2005.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hertwig-Bünger-Heim  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 23 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been based in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
  2. ^ Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 83 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 7.9 "  N , 13 ° 41 ′ 34.5"  E