Meererbusch garden city

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Eichenhof House   in Rotdornstrasse, a monument .

The garden city Meererbusch (sometimes Alt-Meererbusch called; notation also Meerer Busch ) is about 75 ha large residential area in Meerbusch - Büderich , which was built in the early 20th century. It is one of the upscale residential areas in Germany .

history

The land and the adjacent, eponymous forest area Meerer Busch belonged to Friedrich Freiherr von der Leyen , the owner of Haus Meer . 1908 decided Von der Leyen to set up a colony of villas in the style of a garden city and therefore be subjected estate a parcelling . The location near the K-Bahn of the Rheinische Bahngesellschaft , which linked Krefeld and Düsseldorf , and the proximity to the forest should attract wealthy builders. Wide avenues were laid out, the villas were to be separated from each other by park-like gardens, and a front garden was required on the street side. The individual plots were at least 1,500 m² in size. In 1909, Friedrich von der Leyen signed a contract with the former municipality of Büderich , in which he undertook to build the roads and the sewer system. He reserved a creative say in the planning of the villa district. In 1912 he successfully applied to the state government for the official name Garden City Meererbusch for the district.

Many of the first houses in the garden city were designed by the young architect Fritz August Breuhaus , who himself lived in the Eichenhof house   (today Rotdornstrasse 2) from 1910 to 1922 . Other architects, for example Emil Fahrenkamp and Edmund Körner , were also able to build houses here - mainly for industrialists and lawyers, but also for artists.

Only two houses in the garden city are so far under monument protection and are entered in the list of monuments of the city of Meerbusch : the Eichenhof house mentioned above and a prefabricated steel house built from 1950 by the Augsburg-Nürnberg (MAN) machine factory on Hildegundisallee. Haus Eichenhof served as a set for some scenes in Dieter Wedel's two-part television feature film Gier (2010) .

literature

  • Fritz August Breuhaus: Country houses and interiors. Artistic recordings by Dr. Erwin Quedenfeldt . Bagel, Düsseldorf 1911, digitized version of the Bavarian State Library (BSB).
  • Frank Morgner: House Marein in the garden city of Meererbusch. In: Meerbuscher Geschichtshefte , 1985, Heft 2, ISSN  0930-3391 , pp. 44-51.
  • Peter Dohms (Ed.): Meerbusch. The history of the city and the old communities. On behalf of the city of Meerbusch. Eigenverlag, Meerbusch 1991, 736 pp., 235 ills., Linen.
  • Andrea Escher: Living in the Green - The Architect Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot and the Garden City of Meererbusch. In: Yearbook for the Neuss District 2002, pp. 148–155, ZDB -ID 1502185-3 , ed. from Kreisheimatbund Neuss e. V.
  • Tilo Richter: The aesthetic business: the architect Fritz August Breuhaus as a publicist. Dissertation of the ETH Zurich 2008, summary , (PDF; 110 kB), excerpt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hugo Lang-Danoli: Country houses by Fritz August Breuhaus. In: Innen-Decoration , 1912, issue 7, July, pp. 250–259, with illustrations, digitized from Heidelberg University Library .
  2. ↑ Jan Popp-Sewing: Living in Alt-Meererbusch. ( Memento from February 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Rheinische Post , Meerbusch edition, from April 16, 2011.
  3. ↑ Mike Kunze: Villa area Meererbusch: Dream houses are for sale. In: Rheinische Post , April 10, 2005, accessed on May 18, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Gartenstadt Meererbusch. In: Denkmalgalerie Meerbusch , 2011.
  5. ^ A b Jan Popp-Sewing: Alt-Meererbusch im Wandel. In: Rheinische Post , April 8, 2010.

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '  N , 6 ° 40'  E