Gutenhalde
The Gutenhalde is an estate in Filderstadt ( Esslingen district ) that was built in the 1940s by the Stuttgart entrepreneur Willy Bürkle . Parts of the building complex are under monument protection.
history
In 1941 the food manufacturer Willy Bürkle bought the area of the open-air swimming pool in Bonlanden in order to create a summer recreation area for the members of his company. He had a company home, a country house called "Haus Schattwald" and a bathroom built. After the end of World War II , the US military government used the site. Bürkle, who had evidently taken a distant stance towards the Nazi regime, was able to carry out further construction projects on his 17- hectare property: he planned a model agricultural operation and ceramics production as a replacement for the previous industrial production.
In 1949 Bürkle went bankrupt and the Gutenhalde became the property of its main creditor, the Städtische Spar- und Girokasse Stuttgart. Nevertheless, the ceramics business was temporarily continued. It existed until 1958. The manor was leased. From 1954 to 1988 a children's village was run on the Gutenhalde. After that, the former ceramic workshop, in which up to a hundred employees had worked at times, was used by a Waldorf school , and the children's village was used by a socio-therapeutic community that later also leased the estate.
architecture
The architect Paul Heim designed the estate between 1945 and 1949 in the form of a Low German farm. At first, the buildings were provided with thatched roofs; However, due to the risk of fire, these had to be replaced with tiled roofs. Remains of the open-air swimming pool, some changing houses and Bürkel's former house in the former park have been preserved. A sandstone vase from this park is now in front of the local history museum in a green area.
The manor's horse stables were tiled, and oak was used for the pig and cow stalls.
In Bürkel's time, however, the buildings were not valued. Gutenhalde employees are quoted in a Spiegel article with the sentence: "The whole hoax is worthless [.] No solid buildings, all barracks and the like."
location
The Gutenhalde is located on a slight hill south of Bonlanden. The individual buildings are offset on the slope. The Waldorf school is located on the hilltop at the edge of the forest, the farm halfway up in the meadows.
literature
- Nikolaus Back and Paul Horrer: Die Gutenhalde and Willy Bürkle . In: Filderstädter Schriftenreihe , Volume 8, Filderstadt, 1993, pp. 37-68
- Nikolaus Back: The Gutenhalde Children's Village (1954–1988) . In: Filderstädter Schriftenreihe , Volume 8, Filderstadt, 1993, pp. 69–74
Web links
- Gutenhalde near the city of Filderstadt
Individual evidence
- ^ Projects by Bo We Pa Architects
- ^ Spiegel report on the Bürkle financial scandal
- ↑ a b Der Spiegel 31/1950
Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '22 " N , 9 ° 13' 25.7" E