Gildenhall

Gildenhall

Gildenhall is a residential area in the city of Neuruppin in the northwest of the state of Brandenburg . It is located northeast of the old town on the opposite bank of the Ruppiner See .

Gildenhall was founded in 1921 as an open-air settlement by the master builder and settlement technician Georg Heyer (1880–1949). The architect Max Eckardt took part in the construction from 1923, and in 1925 Otto Bartning , based on the Eckardt plan, created a development plan . The architect Heinrich Westphal settled in Gildenhall in 1927. In 1929 Gildenhall was incorporated into Neuruppin.

The artisans' cooperative worked according to the principles of the German Werkbund (DWB) and the Bauhaus . The following artists and artisans settled here:

• 1923: Else Mögelin (1887–1982), hand weaver , member of the DWB, 1919–1923 pupil of Johannes Itten , Paul Klee , Gerhard Marcks and Georg Muche at the Bauhaus in Weimar
• 1923–1928: Harry Grossmann (1896–1961), decorative painter
• 1923–1929: Richard Mutz (1872–1931), ceramist, member of the DWB
• 1923–1929: Hans Lehmann-Borges (1879–1945), sculptor, member of the DWB
• 1923–1929: Siegfried Prütz (1900–1939), blacksmith
• 1924: Hanne-Nüte Kämmerer (1903–1981), artist embroiderer
• 1924: Walter Vogt, carpentry, formerly of the German workshops Hellerau worked
• 1925: Eberhard Schrammen (1886–1947), wood turner, member of the DWB
• 1926: Henni Jaensch (1904–1998), hand weaver

In 1923 the artisans merged to form the Handwerkschaft Gildenhall eGmbH , and Hausrat GmbH was founded for sales and operated three sales outlets in Berlin .

The global economic crisis that began in 1929 ended the historic Gildenhall project.

Gildenhall became a purely residential area and the location of one of Neuruppin's primary schools . The Neustadt – Herzberg railway runs through Gildenhall, but no passenger trains stop.

Attractions

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Neuruppin

literature

• Kristina Bake: The Gildenhall open-air settlement. Crafts, life reform, social utopia. (= European University Writings, Art History , Volume 384.) Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Schultze: History of the city of Neuruppin. Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87776-931-4 .
2. ↑ Eberhard Schrammen ( memento of November 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on bauhaus-online.de, accessed on October 14, 2012
3. ↑ The history of the Geltow hand weaving mill (1904-2004)

Coordinates: 52 ° 56 '  N , 12 ° 50'  E