Mannheim Garden City Cooperative
| Gartenstadt-Genossenschaft Mannheim eG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Registered cooperative |
| founding | August 26, 1910 |
| Seat | Mannheim |
| management | Wulf Maesch, Wolfgang Pahl |
| Branch | Housing industry |
| Website | Mannheim Garden City Cooperative |
The Garden City Cooperative Mannheim eG is a housing cooperative with saving device . It mainly manages residential properties in various districts of Mannheim as well as in Edingen-Neckarhausen , Ilvesheim and Ladenburg . The cooperative has around 9100 members.
history
Since its foundation in 1910, the Gartenstadt-Genossenschaft Mannheim eG, which refers in its name to the garden city idea of Ebenezer Howards , has been an instrument of self-help by members for members in the field of living. On August 26, 1910, the "Gartenvorstadt-Genossenschaft Mannheim eGm.bH" was founded by 39 women and men. The main initiators who carried out educational and preparatory work were, among others: State Housing Commissioner Hans Kampffmeyer and City Councilor Otto Moericke as well as Labor Secretary Richard Böttger and Reichstag deputy Ludwig Frank , a committed group from all strata of the population , parties and religious communities who pursued the same goal: They wanted Counteract the housing shortage by building healthy and inexpensive apartments, if possible with their own garden. This should also improve the standard of living .
The Gartenstadt-Genossenschaft Mannheim founded the Mannheim districts Gartenstadt (1912) and Almenhof (1921). The history of the cooperative was shaped to a significant extent by Walter Pahl . In 1947 he became managing director and from 1953 a board member. He played a key role in the reconstruction of the housing stock in Mannheim, which had been badly damaged in World War II . The garden city cooperative was involved in larger building projects in Mannheim under Pahl's leadership, including the development of the Waldhof-Ost district , the Vogelstang and the Herzogenried housing estate . In Pahl's time, the cooperative's housing stock increased by over 3,000 rental apartments in almost all Mannheim districts. Under the aegis of Pahl, the name of the cooperative was shortened in 1953 to “Gartenstadt-Genossenschaft Mannheim eG”.
In 2012 she received the Mannheimer Stein award from the Mannheim Architecture and Building Archive (MAB).
purpose
The primary task of the cooperative is to support its members by building and purchasing apartments in Mannheim and the surrounding area for use as well as maintenance and modernization . In addition to the cooperative right of residence , this funding mandate also includes advice and support for members, the adaptation of the apartments to the needs of every age and the provision of assistance beyond living.
The savings facility serves the Gartenstadt-Genossenschaft Mannheim eG to fulfill its aforementioned tasks largely independently of external lenders and to support the members with interest rates customary in the market. Due to the operation of a savings facility, the cooperative is subject to the regulations of the Banking Act and thus to banking supervision by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority .
Housing management
In the 2018 financial year, the Gartenstadt-Genossenschaft Mannheim eG managed 4181 apartments and 26 commercial units in 477 multi-family houses and 632 single-family houses . The average apartment size in 2018 was 73.26 m² , the average usage fee 5.86 euros per m² . In 2018, 3837 apartments had a balcony or garden . This corresponds to approx. 92% of all apartments. In 2018, 55 apartment buildings belonging to the cooperative were equipped with an elevator. That is around 11.5% of all apartments.
literature
- Lothar Jacob: An idea makes history: 75 years of the Mannheim Garden City Cooperative. Hammonia-Verlag, Hamburg 1985.
- Barbara Hahn: The subsidized housing in Mannheim 1850-1985 , Institute for cultural studies and regional research of the University of Mannheim, Mannheim 1986, ISBN 3-87804-185-3
- Axel Schollmeier: Garden cities in Germany, their history, urban development and architecture at the beginning of the 20th century , LIT Verlag Münster, 1990 ISBN 3-88660-537-X
- Walter Pahl: 100 years Gartenstadt-Genossenschaft Mannheim eG: Contribution to urban development and urban renewal under the sign of the garden city movement. Self-published, Mannheim 2010.
- Franz Jungbluth: Between Socialism, Social Reform and Social Housing. Mannheim housing cooperatives 1895–1926. In: History and potential of self-help: the housing cooperatives. Contributions to the 6th conference on cooperative history on October 28 and 29, 2011 in the Museum of Labor in Hamburg, Adolph von Elm Institute for Cooperative History eV, Heinrich Kauffman Foundation, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-1248 -4 , pp. 41-52. on-line
Web links
- Gartenstadt-Genossenschaft Mannheim eG
- Annual report 2014 of the Gartenstadt-Genossenschaft Mannheim eG
Individual evidence
- ^ Gartenstadt-Genossenschaft Mannheim eG. (PDF) In: gartenstadt-genossenschaft.de. 2014, p. 2 , accessed on September 22, 2015 .
- ^ Hermann Muthesius : Small house and small settlement , Bruckmann, Munich 1918; Reprint Aischines Verlag, Paderborn 2014, p. 367; limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ Website of the city of Mannheim: district life, Almenhof. Retrieved September 22, 2015 .
- ^ Lothar Jacob: An idea makes history: 75 years of the Mannheim Garden City Cooperative. Hamburg 1985.
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen “Building event with stone” from March 19, 2014
- ↑ MARCHIVUM: Findstar , S 2 / Artikel_063790 Garden city model honored with Mannheim stone.
- ↑ Directory of credit institutions and their associations as well as the trustees for credit institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany , Banking Information 2, Deutsche Bundesbank , 2015, PDF, p. 14