FDGB holiday home Fritz Heckert
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The FDGB holiday home Fritz Heckert is a listed building in the town of Gernrode, part of the town of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
It is located on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains on the Kuhkopf, south of the Gernröder old town and is registered as a home in the local register of monuments.
Architecture and history
The large vacation home was the first new building in the history of tourism in the GDR and was built between 1952 and 1954 based on a design by the Halle engineering office Maedecke in the classic modern style . The design is based on that of the Berlin Olympic Village from 1936. It was created on behalf of the GDR union FDGB , which was largely responsible for the provision of vacation spots in the GDR. The home was named after the KPD politician Fritz Heckert (1884–1936).
The entrance area of the home is arranged on the west side and protrudes in a semicircular curve from the line of the building and is provided with terraces. There are arcades on the south side of the bed wing .
Inside the house there is a large vestibule and halls on the individual floors.
It opened on July 11, 1954. In 1959, the vacation home was shown on a GDR postage stamp. In 1969 the home was expanded to include a ward with 150 beds and a restaurant with a bar. After the political turning point in 1989 , the home was closed in 1990. The facility stood empty and fell into disrepair. In 1998 the later built ward block was torn down again. In front of the home was the plastic Junge Familie, created by Heinz Beberniß . It was secured in 1999 and repositioned in what is now Otto-Franke-Straße in Gernrode.
The holiday home is still empty, is ruinous and in urgent need of renovation. The decaying building is portrayed in the documentary “Vergessen im Harz II” by Enno Seifried , which premiered in May 2016 in Thale .
literature
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7.2: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Winfried Korf and Theo Gosselke: Quedlinburg district. Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , page 129 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV 2013, page 66
- ↑ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV 2013, page 70
- ↑ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV 2013, page 73
- ↑ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV 2013, page 77
- ^ André Winternitz: FDGB vacation home "Fritz Heckert" before marketing , rottenplaces.de # , January 28, 2016
- ↑ Wolfgang Schilling: Documentary film "Forgetting in the Harz II": Remembering former hotels , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , 23 May 2016
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 6.6 " N , 11 ° 8 ′ 41.7" E