Garden city of Berne

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Semi-detached house on the Kornpfad

The garden city of Berne is a settlement area in the Hamburg district of Farmsen-Berne , which was created in 1919–1932 as part of the garden city movement . The resulting in cooperative self-help settlement had large plots of land that allowed self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables and also the coulure allowed the sewage.

With the construction of the Walddörferbahn after 1912, the rural parts of what was then Hamburg's national territory were better developed and use as a residential area was attractive. The surviving construction of the Berne underground station illustrates these ambitions of the city planners.

In the area between the streets Beim Farenland , Berner Heerweg , Berner Allee , St. Jürgenstraße , Kleine Wiese , mostly semi-detached houses with an average living space of 73 m² were built on 55 hectares of part of the site of the former Berne 540 estate . The designs for the plastered buildings in the Berner Heerweg area come from Prestinari, and from 1921 mainly from Friedrich Richard Ostermeyer .

In preparation for the self-help construction work, a sawmill and a field factory for concrete blocks were built on the site. The settlers built the cleaning houses on Sundays in their free time. Most of them were trade unionists and social democrats, and they were all craftsmen by profession. Self-help work was abandoned early after it turned out that no savings could be made. When Ostermeyer took over the planning, the estate grew rapidly by 60 to 100 houses a year.

The first construction phase on Berner Heerweg with terraced houses with mostly four apartments was based on Prestinari's designs. Between 1921 and 1924, single-storey, plastered semi-detached houses followed. The clinkered, partly two-story houses around the Bernese Forest were built after 1925.

The later buildings opposite the manor house Berne , were carried out 1929-1930 as clinker buildings in the style of the new building . The buildings were built by the Gartenstadt Hamburg eG cooperative , which is still the owner and lessor today. Fritz Schumacher built the Lienaustraße school in the west of the site to supply the area. In the adjacent area, further single-family houses and also semi-detached houses were built.

Monument protection

Garden city of Berne Saselheider Weg 10

94% of the Garden City area has been a listed building since May 1, 2013 and is included in the list of recognized monuments.

It was requested that the whole ensemble be placed under monument protection . According to press reports from May 2012, there are plans to demolish a house, as the owner (Genossenschaft Gartenstadt Hamburg eG) stated that the renovation costs should reach the new building cost level, but without attaining the new building standard.

Web links

Commons : Gartenstadt Berne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg - The great architecture guide. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 object G 33
  2. ↑ Bethy Lübcke: Man is good - The life of a worker in the resistance, editor: Work and Life Hamburg 2004, p. 41
  3. ↑ Hans Harms / Dirk Schubert: Living in Hamburg - a city guide, . Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-7672-1079-7 . P. 305 ff
  4. ↑ List of monuments Wandsbek (PDF; 1.9 MB)
  5. ↑ small request from GAL April 10, 2012  ( 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. (PDF; 15 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gal-fraktion.de  
  6. ↑ taz May 21, 2012 reports plans to demolish a first house

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 52.3 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 10 ″  E