Gartenheimsiedlung (Dresden)
The garden home settlement Dresden-Gruna is a settlement east of the Great Garden in the Dresden district of Gruna . It was created after the First World War under the influence of the garden city movement . With over eight hundred apartments, it is one of the largest Dresden settlements prior to the Second World War. To the east of the ditch is the settlement of the former Dresdner Spar- und Bauverein . Together with the GEWOBAG settlement to the north-west, they contributed to the change in the rural character of Grunas.
To the south of the Gartenheimsiedlung is the Schieferburg , a building complex for children and young people that is striking because of its appearance. It is only separated from the settlement by the moat and an earth wall. The listed estate is bordered by the streets Junghansstraße, Hepkestraße, Bärensteiner Straße, Am Grüngürtel and Am Ende as well as Frauensteiner Platz.
About the character of the garden home settlement
The garden home settlement was built between 1920 and 1926 around Gartenheimallee by the garden home association. Designed by the Dresden architect Paul Beck under the direction of Max Oertel , it has a traditional construction method with discreetly used expressionist elements, as is clear from the building entrance Am Grüngürtel , which has "decorative shapes such as circles, triangles and rectangles" ] which are faded in using the plastering technique. ”The structure of the administrative building of the cooperative, known as the town hall, has a central projection that structures the facade and has six concave arches.
The settlement appears to be closed on the outside, but opens up inside with a series of streets, squares and courtyards. Each apartment has a garden in the courtyard area.
In the war partially destroyed, it was then rebuilt in substantial parts and was increasingly left to decay until the 1990th By 2003 it was modernized by the Aufbau Dresden eG housing association and repaired in accordance with the preservation of historical monuments . In doing so, gaps that remained open during the reconstruction after 1945 were closed with historicizing buildings.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lupfer, p. 227 (Historisches Register / Historical index: Expressionismus / Expressionist… 230 / Traditionalistisches Bauen der 20er und 30er / Traditionalist Style in the Twenties and Thirties… 230)
- ↑ Lupfer, No. 230 (Gartenheimsiedlung, 1920, Paul Beck)
literature
- Karl-Heinz Loewel et al. (Ed.): Housing cooperatives in Dresden. A fifty year anniversary. Published by the Dresden Housing Cooperative Working Group. Michel Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2004
- Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra and Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
- Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 5.5 " N , 13 ° 47 ′ 34.4" E