Garden City (Dortmund)

Garden city City of Dortmund Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 36 ″  E
Height :	approx. 120 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	9110  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Area code :	0231
Sub-districts :	082 and 084
Typical house in the northern garden city; Architect: Paul Lutter.

The Dortmund Garden City is a popular urban residential area in the Dortmund City Center-East . Here it is part of the statistical district Westfalendamm and is divided into the two sub-districts Gartenstadt-Nord and Gartenstadt-Süd.

The garden city of Dortmund was realized as a villa colony on both sides of the Westfalendamm from 1913 according to a plan revised by City Councilor Cremer in December 1912 .

The first draft and the settlement concept came from Heinrich Metzendorf from Bensheim ( Bergstrasse ). The building owner was Gartenstadt-Dortmund eV , founded on November 29, 1910 by influential citizens and higher officials . Cooperative ltd

The Dortmund garden city was realized in two construction phases:

• In the first construction phase (1913–1914) 47 villas in the home style of Metzendorf + Winter were built. The architect Paul Lutter was commissioned with the development of the site north of the Westfalendamm in the years 1919–1920 .
• The second construction phase (1922–1929) was characterized by the artistic direction of the architects D. + K. Schulze and a more expressionistic architectural style. What all houses have in common is the technically solid design and the differentiated architectural training.

The cooperative settlement concept of the garden city was embedded in urban planning through the designation of particularly large plots along the Westfalendamm, which was operated by the city of Dortmund and which were reserved for a private, independent and financially strong public.

After the end of the Second World War , a third phase of development began on the edges of the existing garden city. Characteristic of this construction phase, which lasted from 1949 to approx. 1960, was the country house style that appeared all over Germany for an individual clientele. However, there was no longer any artistic direction.

The garden city is still today an upscale, bourgeois, downtown residential area. The area has a particularly large number of high-income residents. The average income in the southern garden city is the second highest value in all of Dortmund after Lücklemberg . The stately houses and apartments in the immediate vicinity of Bundesstraße 1 are increasingly used as office locations due to the increased noise and emissions (> 140,000 cars per day). With the planned motorway tunnel between Max-Eyth-Strasse and Märkischer Strasse and the dismantling of the Westfalendamm, which will then only be used for inner-city traffic, there is a chance that the garden city will regain its old center and improve the quality of life.

Individual buildings in the garden city are registered as architectural monuments in the monuments list of the city of Dortmund .

population

Social structure of the garden city population:

• Population density: 99 inhabitants per hectare of settlement area.
• Minor quota: 20.0%, slightly below the Dortmund average of 20.1%.
• Old age quota: 44.6%, is well above the Dortmund average of 31.3%.
• Proportion of foreigners: 7.1%, is well below the Dortmund average of 12.8%.
• Unemployment rate: 7.8%, well below the Dortmund average of 13.4%.

The average income in the northern garden city is around 20% above the Dortmund average, while the value in the southern garden city is around 135% above the Dortmund average. The sub-district Gartenstadt-Süd is the richest sub-district in Dortmund after Lücklemberg .

Population development

year	2003	2008
Residents	9180	9110

Web links

Commons : Dortmund-Gartenstadt  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 18, 2014 (size: 180 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.