GEWOBAG housing estate (Dresden)

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House of the GEWOBAG settlement on Falkensteinplatz

The GEWOBAG settlement is now a partially listed settlement on Falkensteinplatz, Zwinglistraße and Haenel-Clauß-Straße in the Gruna district of Dresden . The settlement was built in the northern part of the Grunaer Flur after the Spar- und Bauverein settlement was built east of the Landgraben in 1924 .

History of the settlement

Residential Restaurant Activist (September 1975)

The settlement, which was built according to a uniform concept by Erich Hempel between 1925 and 1928 on behalf of the non-profit housing association GEWOBAG, was primarily intended to contain small, inexpensive apartments for poor families. Ideas from the Bauhaus were used in their design . The buildings are structured “ factually and functionally ” and have been provided with “restrained expressionist elements” such as “triangular balconies, three-dimensional stepped clinker door frames and clinker strips in the plinth area or diamond-shaped floor windows” .

Parts of this facility were damaged during the air raid on Dresden in 1945 . The good condition of the houses and a favorable floor plan enabled a quick restoration, so that in 1949 the first apartments could be handed over, preferably to “deserving activists of the reconstruction”. The residential area restaurant in the corner house on Schneebergstrasse was still called "Aktivist" until 1990.

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GEWOBAG stands for non-profit housing and home society for workers, salaried employees and civil servants mbH

literature

  • Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra and Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
  • City Lexicon Dresden A – Z. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
  • HJZ: Dresden residential buildings. Architect: Erich Hempel . In: Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development, vol. 14, 1930, pp. 201–206 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cultural monument: Settlement of the non-profit housing AG Gruna No. 7-9, row of houses over L-shaped floor plan (Falkensteinplatz 7)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / stadtplan.dresden.de  
  2. ↑ Cultural monument: Settlement of the non-profit housing AG Gruna No. 2-10, row of houses over L-shaped floor plan (Haenel-Clauß-Straße 2)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / stadtplan.dresden.de  
  3. ↑ a b c Lupfer, no. 229 (GEWOBAG settlement, 1928–29, Erich Hempel)
  4. ^ Large housing estate in Dresden Trachau - pioneering work in modern urban and residential construction. In: www.das-neue-dresden.de. Thomas Kantschew, accessed November 3, 2009 .

Web links

Commons : GEWOBAG-Siedlung (Dresden)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 13.1 ″  N , 13 ° 47 ′ 8.7 ″  E