Garden city of Wandsbek

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The garden city

The garden city of Wandsbek is a residential area in the north of the Hamburg district of Wandsbek . It was built from 1910 on the area of ​​the then still independent city of Wandsbek according to the principles of the garden city movement of that time . The settlement is predominantly built with private homes ; There are also allotment garden associations along the Osterbek creek , which marks the border to Bramfeld .

The garden city is named after the Wandsbek-Gartenstadt underground station of the Walddörferbahn , which is now served by the underground lines U1 and U3 .

location

The settlement borders in the north on Bramfeld , in the east on Tonndorf , in the west on Dulsberg and Barmbek-Nord , in the south on the Wandsbeck district of Hinschenfelde .

history

On January 31, 1910, the Gartenstadt-Gesellschaft-Wandsbek was founded. The aim was "to provide low-income families or people with healthy and functional apartments in specially built or purchased houses with or without gardens at cheap prices in the immediate vicinity of the city of Hamburg" (Section 2 of the statutes). In practice, these were semi-detached houses to be rented , to which one had to acquire cooperative shares. The gardens belonging to the houses were intended for the residents to be self-sufficient.

The company acquired 4.5 hectares of the Helbingschen Gutshof and secured the right of first refusal for a further 14 hectares. Around 1909/1910, settlement began in the area of ​​Berner Straße (today: Tilsiter Straße), Erikastraße (today: Goldlackweg), Katharinenstraße (today: Stephanstraße) and Rosenstraße (today Gartenstadtweg) on ​​then wide open land. Several building types were developed as two-family houses, which were built in series and, in the best case, only had a partial basement, but had an attic. At the intersection of Gartenstadtweg / Tilsiter Straße, a small shopping center with eight shops was built, the owners of which also lived or could live in these buildings. In the early 1970s there was a baker / confectioner (Breier), two grocery stores (most recently Edeka Wischer and Rewe Scherner), a butcher , a drugstore (Ruthe), a shoemaker (Brandt), a sewing shop and a tobacco / Lotto shop (pitcher). All these shops were spatially arranged around the intersection, but have now all disappeared.

During the First World War and shortly afterwards, settler houses were built along Asternstrasse and Lilienstraße (today: Immergrünweg). In the 1920s, more houses were built on the Nelkenweg, Lavendelweg and Rosmarinstraße to the south. All these houses belonged and still belong to the garden city cooperative WGW. In addition, houses were built on Fliederweg (today: Pillauer Straße) in the late 1920s. In the late 1930s, simple terraced houses and two bunkers on Anemonenweg were added. This ended the expansion of the garden city before the Second World War . The rest of the area in the area was used for agriculture at that time or was allotment garden, especially around today's Tilsiter Straße. Around a third of the WGW's settler houses were damaged or destroyed in the Second World War. Comprehensive reconstruction could only begin after the currency reform in 1948 .

In July 1950, numerous streets were renamed here, as in the entire city, to end double-naming. Now the street names in brackets were valid. As early as the 1930s, further settlement was planned in the area east of Stephanstrasse, but this was not done due to the time. It was not until the late 1950s that such plans became concrete again. In 1958–1960, the housing company Neue Heimat (predecessor of the later SAGA ) created the row buildings and the three high-rise buildings on Tilsiter Strasse. From 1961 the houses on Eydtkuhnenweg and Vosskuhlen (partly by the WGW) and on Rauschener Ring were built. The St. Stephen Church on the corner of Tilsiter Strasse and Stephanstrasse was consecrated as early as 1956 on the Day of Repentance and Prayer. In 1965 the population there was so numerous that Hamburger Hochbahn AG (HHA) had to set up bus route 165 (later 166, now 118). From 1962 onwards, extensive residential buildings by private sponsors and Neue Heimat continued to emerge south of Tilsiter Strasse along Stephanstrasse and around the newly created Bothmannstrasse and Helbingstrasse. For that were there allotments sacrificed. In the actual garden city, further new buildings were built by the WGW: Around 1959 in the area Gartenstadtweg / Immergrünweg.

On Friedrich-Ebert-Damm east of Stephanstraße, a then ultra-modern shopping center with numerous specialty stores (including a PRO supermarket and a Haspa and Neuspar branch) for regional supplies was built around 1964 . Two slab high-rise buildings were built above the shopping center, most of which were already owner-occupied at the time. Another small shopping center was built on the corner of Vosskulen at the corner of Pillauer Strasse with a hairdresser, restaurant, dry cleaner, pharmacy , shoe store "Dima", drugstore "Ruthe" and supermarket "Steinke", later "T-Markt". The "Horn" dairy shop was located on Pillauer Str. At the corner of Vosskuhlen / Am Schützenhof there was a coal trading company until the mid-1960s, which was replaced by a CALTEX, then a TEXACO, later a DEA and later a SHELL petrol station. The general decline in shops in this area began in 1976 when “Big Bär” opened on Friedrich-Ebert-Damm, a large supermarket for the time (later Toom , now Kaufland ).

In August 1963, the Tilsiter Strasse school opened near Stephanstrasse and was renamed Schule an der Gartenstadt a little later . A youth house was also built near this school at that time . At the lower end of Stephanstraße, another elementary school was built at that time, the Stephanstraße 15 school , which initially consisted of just one of the class crosses typical of Hamburg. After an eight-story high-rise apartment building was built on Tilsiter Strasse at the corner of Vosskulen in 1973, for which a brick pond was filled in, the settlement of the garden city was largely complete.

Until March 1959, a tram line ran through Lesserstraße with line 1 or, most recently, line 5. It was replaced by bus line 65, called line 165 after the introduction of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV) in the mid-1960s, today Metrobus line 8. Im Friedrich-Ebert-Damm there was also a tram line from 1927, which at that time had its own track area on the median of the partially developed street and thus had the character of an express tram . Line 8 was replaced by line 16 in 1960. It was shut down in April 1963 and replaced by bus route 71, and since 1967 routes 171 and 271. When Friedrich-Ebert-Damm was rebuilt in its current form in the early 1980s, the tram tracks came to the median strip that was then used as a parking lot Appearances that have now been eliminated.

The garden city became - like Hinschenfelde, Marienthal , Jenfeld and Tonndorf - a district of the then city ​​of Wandsbek . Since 1951, Wandsbek Gartenstadt has only been part of the Hamburg district of Wandsbek.

Subway station

There is an underground station on Lesserstraße on the embankment , which is served by the U1 and U3 lines. There are three bus stops for lines 8, 118 and 166 in front of the reception building.

Military hospital

The Bundeswehr hospital

The Bundeswehr Hospital in Hamburg is also known . The hospital was previously used by the German Wehrmacht and, after World War II, until the early 1960s, the British Army .

literature

  • Helmuth Fricke : Hinschenfelde, mosaic of a forgotten town . Gerd-Goldenbaum-Verlag, 2013.
  • Orfix plan, City Atlas Hamburg and neighboring cities. Paul-Hartung-Verlag, 1928.
  • Hamburg streets and traffic atlas. Schaffmann & Kluge publishing house, various editions 1959, 1965, 1970.

Web links

Commons : Wandsbek Gartenstadt (Hamburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '  N , 10 ° 5'  E