Elbe stairwells
The Elbe staircases , also called Heuburg , are an ensemble of five nested buildings on the Altonaer Elbhang near Neumühlen with the addresses Elbtreppe 5, 7/9, 13 / 13a, 15a / b and 15c / d. They were built between 1740 and 1888 and are the last evidence of the former settlement structure at the Altona harbor. Nevertheless, since the mid-1990s, a conflict has developed over the preservation and renovation of the houses, contrary to the demolition plans of the city's own housing association SAGA .
history
The houses at the foot of the Elbe slope were built between 1740 and 1888 in the course of the port and industrial development of Neumühlen. What has been preserved are five buildings from a series of dockworkers' houses that used to stretch along the Elbe. They are located on a path that climbs up the slope, which was called Heuberg from the 17th century onwards, because Ottenser and Bahrenfeld farmers brought the hay up the mountain from the Elbe islands by ship.
At the beginning of the 20th century, stairs were built instead of the driveway, since transports next to the port railway could be carried out with the port towing railway since 1911 . Since 1950 these stairs and the way up to the Elbchaussee have been an official street called Elbtreppe , which crosses the Schopenhauerweg halfway up .
In the 1920s, the first row of houses in the ensemble was torn down to widen Neumühlen Street and a sheet pile wall was built in front of the remaining houses. On the ground floor of house number 5, the 19th century restaurant Heuburg or Zum Heuberg is known, around 1910 it housed the Clausen restaurant , and at the end of the 20th century the pub Die Zwiebel .
architecture
The building ensemble shows various forms of workers' housing from the 19th century in a confined space and is considered the last evidence of a formerly larger village-small-town settlement structure on the banks of the Elbe "in the field of tension between the villa development on the Elbchaussee and the modern office architecture of the banks of the Elbe".
The list of cultural monuments includes the Wilhelminian-style apartment building from 1888 with house numbers 13 / 13a directly on the stairs in the ensemble with the steel houses behind it from the years 1863 to 1872 with house numbers 15 a / b. They are one of the last Sahlhauses in Hamburg that has been almost completely preserved as it was.
The houses number 7/9, in which a restaurant has been operated almost continuously since its construction, as well as house number 5, in which there is an unusual barrel vault, are not listed, but were probably also built between 1863 and 1872.
House No. 7 and 9 as well as a view of the entrance area of No. 15 b
Wilhelminian style house on the stairs, No. 13 and 13 a
Sahlhäuser No. 15 a and b as well as a view of the entrance area No. 15 c
Back of the Sahlhäuser No. 15 a and b
Preservation of the ensemble
The ensemble has been owned by the Hamburg housing association SAGA since 1997 and has since been systematically de-rented - despite a conservation requirement laid down by the Hamburg Parliament in 2000 in accordance with the Monument Protection Act . After a successful public petition for the receipt in 2010 and a corresponding promise including a prospect of a right of return, the last tenants moved into temporary apartments in 2012. A short time later, SAGA announced that a partial demolition was unavoidable due to “difficult static conditions on the slope”. After lengthy negotiations between tenant representatives, politicians and employees of the housing association, a new compromise was reached in November 2013. After this, four of the five houses were to be restored, but the multi-storey house with the house numbers 15 c and d was demolished and rebuilt in a similar form. Construction work began in summer 2014, and the houses have been ready for occupancy again since spring 2016.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ hamburg.de: Ensemble Elbtreppe
- ↑ hamburg.de: Ensemble Elbtreppe
- ^ NDR: A tour of the stairs district , article 6 June 2012
- ^ Elbe staircases: One demolition, four restorations , Hamburger Abendblatt, November 13, 2013
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt from March 9, 2016
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '40.5 " N , 9 ° 55' 17.4" E