Görzsiedlung
The Görzsiedlung (also known as the Görz Foundation ) is a housing estate in Mainz that was built between 1903 and 1937 and was founded by the businessman Adolf Görz (1857-1900). The entire complex has been a listed building since 1985 .
history
After his death in 1900, the wealthy and socially committed Mainz merchant Adolf Görz left 300,000 gold marks for charitable purposes. His brother, the judicial councilor and chairman of the supervisory board of the Mainz construction and savings association Friedrich Görz, had a settlement built in front of the city's former fortified belt near Zahlbach from 1903 with inexpensive apartments for needy families with children.
The Görzsiedlung was gradually expanded until 1937. The facility survived the Second World War largely undamaged. Since 1985, the entire estate has been a listed building as an important testimony to cooperative housing construction . The buildings have been gradually renovated over the past few years. There is a Görzstraße in the settlement, which is named after Adolf and Friedrich Görz.
Appearance
The Görzsiedlung consists of a total of eleven three- and four-story multi-family houses standing closely together, with green inner courtyards between them. The buildings are designed in the style of the so-called homeland security architecture, that is, they are partly loosened up with turrets, bay windows and balconies and mostly crowned with a mansard roof . Many facades are decorated with clinker brick , natural stone or half-timbered . The front sides of the houses on Untere Zahlbacher Strasse in particular are richly structured.
Figure relief
During the last phase of construction during the Nazi era, a figure relief with an inscription was attached to one of the entrances to the settlement . The two figures of an architect and a construction worker standing shoulder to shoulder as well as the inscription " Volksgemeinschaft creates work and bread " are today considered documents that the National Socialist propaganda extended to all areas of life. The relief and the inscription are therefore also under monument protection - only a swastika under the inscription was removed after the Second World War.
literature
- Brigitte Müller-Münz: Adolf Görz Foundation eighty years old. An example of early social housing in Mainz. In: Mainz. Quarterly issues for culture, politics, economics, history. 4th vol., No. 3, 1984, ISSN 0720-5945 , pp. 122-123.
Web links
- Description of the settlement including a map. (PDF file; 220 kB)
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 29 ″ N , 8 ° 15 ′ 10 ″ E