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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | January 16, 1891 |
| Seat | Aachen , Germany |
| management | Thomas Huebner, Ulrich Warner |
| Number of employees | 52 |
| sales | EUR 33.41 million |
| Branch | Housing industry |
| Website | www.gewoge-aachen.de |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
The gewoge AG in 1891 as a Non-profit construction company for Aachen and Burtscheid founded and is currently the largest housing company in Aachen. Today the housing estates shape the cityscape of Aachen.
Company history
Established until the First World War
The profit construction company for Aachen and Burtscheid counted a short time after its establishment next to the Gelsenkirchen Mining-Aktien-Gesellschaft, Department Aachen Hüttenverein and the Building Association sealing height and the Garden City Society Beverau of the largest residential construction companies in Aachen, which is the non-profit construction have prescribed.
In 1912 the construction company had working capital of 750,000 marks , of which 30 shareholders brought capital of 300,000 marks into the AG, 450,000 marks were taken out by banks.
Just 6 years after it was founded, the housing association owned 192 apartments in 17 houses. The colony of Sandkaulstrasse was inaugurated in 1898 as the first architecturally closed housing estate owned by gewoge AG .
| year | Two- room apartments |
Three- room apartments |
Four- room apartments |
Five- room apartments |
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| 1900 | 61% | 32.5% | 6.5% | - |
| 1905 | 54.8% | 38% | 7.2% | - |
| 1908 | 42% | 43% | 15% | - |
| 1910 | 25.3% | 51.6% | 21.5% | 1.6% |
The original aim of the foundation was to provide inexpensive and "healthy apartments for the less well-off population". The housing stock in Aachen in 1910 was mainly characterized by small apartments, in which two thirds of the population lived. 28,336 apartments (78% of the total housing stock) only had 1 to 3 rooms (including the kitchen). Initially, it was planned that the non-profit flats would preferably be built as two-room apartments; by 1911, 51.6% of the apartments were three-room apartments.
One of the characteristics of the apartments was that they were rented without cancellation. As a rule, the apartments were not rented to individuals, only older individuals could get an apartment. The apartments were given preference to low-income families with at least three children. The non-profit construction company for Aachen and Burtscheid built some workers' settlements in the city - initially near the Königstor (Königstraße / Bärenstraße), in the Passstraße and a complex of ten houses consisting of ten houses in the Sandkaulstraße and the Hanbruch settlement.
When designing the housing estates and the buildings, particular emphasis was placed on the greatest possible comfort despite low rents. The facades of the settlements were kept as light-colored plaster as possible, which were architecturally loosened up with brick elements, external timber framework and flower niches. The buildings had internal toilets, water connections and garbage disposal systems (garbage chutes) on the respective floors. Each apartment had a closed cellar, and playgrounds, reading rooms, drying rooms and laundry rooms with rainwater pumps could be used together. Usually there was also a grocery store and a restaurant in the complex. It is remarkable that as early as 1910 thought was given to utilizing the heat radiation for natural heating of the rooms and that the rooms were aligned according to the position of the sun. In order to promote comfort in the residential complexes, the construction company launched a flower care competition.
In 1912, the rents in the housing company's settlements were exemplary low for German inner-city locations: a two-room apartment cost 8.60 marks, a three-room apartment was 14.60 marks and a three-room apartment 19.80 marks. At the beginning of the First World War the company owned 249 apartments in 22 houses.
Development after the First World War until 1945
The housing situation in Aachen was catastrophic after the First World War until the mid-1920s. During the war, for economic reasons, a private building ban was issued and residential construction came to a standstill. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , formerly German areas around Eupen and Malmedy were ceded to Belgium and numerous German families moved to Aachen. The city was part of the Rhineland occupied by the Belgians until 1928 , and numerous residential buildings were confiscated for their relatives by the occupying forces. During the hyperinflation in Germany in 1923 , numerous residential properties were sold to Dutch and Belgian citizens who, thanks to the gold-backed guilders and francs, used the purchasing power advantage to buy real estate at low prices.
At the end of the 1920s, the housing company began building new apartments and modernizing the old buildings. During the Second World War , 43% of the residential buildings in Aachen were destroyed by air raids, 199 of which were apartments owned by the non-profit housing association . Among other things, the workers' settlement Sandkaulstrasse 87-105 was totally destroyed by an air mine and several bomb attacks in 1943. The company's headquarters at Kapuzinergraben 16 also fell victim to the bombs in 1941. In 1941 the city of Aachen offered the housing company a financial stake and thus became a partner .
Development after the Second World War
In 1958, the city of Aachen transferred the administration of its entire house portfolio to the housing association. The company's headquarters were set up in Kleinmarschierstrasse. At that time, the non-profit housing company for Aachen AG was managing around 4,000 apartments in Aachen. In the period that followed, new residential units were built: u. a. in Triererstraße, Hauptstraße, Alkuinstraße, Jägerstraße, Frankenberger Straße and Elsassstraße (all around 1960), on Roskapellchen (1977), in Hans-Böckler-Allee and in Schurzelter Straße (1979). The non-profit housing company also sponsored projects for intergenerational living early on , such as a housing project for senior citizens on Joseph-von-Görres-Straße (1967) and the “Generational Housing Project for Old and Young” on Steppenberg (1996).
In 2003 the non-profit housing company for Aachen AG was renamed to its current name. A year later, the city considered selling its shares, but this failed due to massive resistance from the Aachen population. The gewoge AG has acted as a property developer since 2008 . a. in Kornelimünster and in Hanbruch. In 2010 the company participated in the urban planning concept for the social city Aachen-Nord funding area .
With the management of around 7,800 residential and commercial units and total assets of € 150.574 million (2010), gewoge AG is now the largest housing company in Aachen.
literature
- H. Vogt: The non-profit building company for Aachen and Burtscheid. In: Festschrift for the 72nd meeting of German natural scientists and doctors. Aachen 1900, pp. 316-319.
- H. Vogt: The non-profit construction company for Aachen and Burtscheid. In: The health care in Aachen. Aachen 1913, pp. 64-69.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b gewoge AG annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ^ Vogt in Gesundheitspflege 1913 p. 65
- ↑ a b c d e Special issue of the customer magazine of gewoge AG for the 120th anniversary , accessed on July 10, 2012
- ^ Vogt in Festschrift 1900 pp. 316–319
- ^ Vogt in Gesundheitspflege 1913 p. 64
- ^ Karl Struben, Philipp Kerz: Housing and Settlement. In: Aachen. (= Germany's urban development .) Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag (DARI), Berlin-Halensee 1925, p. 63
- ↑ a b Vogt in Gesundheitspflege 1913 p. 68
- ↑ a b Vogt in Gesundheitspflege 1913 p. 67
- ^ Vogt in Gesundheitspflege 1913 p. 69
- ^ Karl Struben, Philipp Kerz: Housing and Settlement. In: Aachen. (= Germany's urban development .) Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag (DARI), Berlin-Halensee 1925, p. 64
- ↑ Company profile on Xing , accessed on July 10, 2012
- ↑ Annual Report 2010 , accessed on July 12, 2012