Garden city of Hohenhagen

The garden city of Hohenhagen

The garden city of Hohenhagen was founded in 1909 by the Hagen patron Karl Ernst Osthaus and is located in today's Eppenhausen district not far southeast of the Hagen motorway junction .

With the garden city, Osthaus wanted to set a counterpoint to the industrialization of the landscape. The garden city of Hohenhagen was planned as an artists' colony . Osthaus engaged well-known artists and architects to realize his idea. Peter Behrens (through his office also Walter Gropius ), Henry van de Velde and the Dutch architect Jan Ludovicus Mathieu Lauweriks played a key role in the planning of the garden city .

The planning was initially based on the construction of 16 villas. The group of houses on the northern “headband” (a street) was uniformly built by the artist architect JLM Lauwerik; Behrens designed and built three houses on Haßleyer Strasse.

The outstanding building of the garden city is the Hohenhof , designed by the Belgian Henry van de Velde , into which Osthaus itself moved in 1908.

Since Karl Ernst Osthaus died in 1921, the Hohenhagen synthesis of the arts could not be completed.

Resident of the Hohenhagen artists' colony (incomplete)

• Karl Ernst Osthaus
• Johannes Ludovicus Mathieu Lauweriks
• Jan Thorn Prikker (artist) - from 1910
• Will Lammert
• Hans Dorn
• Milly Steger

Web links

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

• Garden city of Hohenhagen. In: arch INFORM .
• Description of all locations on this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Culture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrich Wens: Artists' Colony. June 24, 2015, accessed on March 30, 2020 (German). 
2. ^ Osthaus Museum Hagen. Retrieved March 30, 2020 . 
3. ^ Johan Thorn Prikker. Retrieved March 30, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 35.3 "  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 36.5"  E