Hamburg construction

Gödersenweg 12, stele (1978) by Georg Engst

The new construction area Hamburg-Bau was built in 1975 in the northern district of Hamburg-Poppenbüttel . It was developed as part of the Hamburg single-family home funding program of the then FDP building senator Rolf Bialas . One of the goals was to reduce the exodus from the city to Hamburg's suburbs by showing that the desire to own a home is also possible within the city limits. According to the development concept , a total of 400 single-family houses were to be built in different, innovative designs. Both detached and densely arranged buildings were planned, i.e. single, double and terraced houses . Part of the space was used as a concept area and was intended to show variants on the subject of building design in the big city (both "Hamburg-typical" and "big-city-typical" forms of living). For this purpose, some model houses ("houses you can touch") were built in order to win over those who are willing and able to build in single-family houses to live in the area.

The claim to develop new house forms could not be satisfied. The type catalog offered only represented the possible typology form of the time. Although it made it possible to meet the individual wishes of the respective client, it led to differentiated floor plans, views and building design.

Hamburg-Bau covers around 35 hectares and is located between Ohlendieksredder in the northeast, Poppenbütteler Berg in the southeast, Harksheider Strasse in the southwest and Poppenbütteler Bogen in the northwest. Before that, the area consisted of fields owned by the city of Hamburg . When selling the building plots , the square meter price was made dependent on the number of children of the buyers, whereby the city administration wanted to achieve a mix of different social classes.

In 1976, the Deutsche Bundespost chose Hamburg-Bau as a test area for the cable television network because it is located in the middle of the approach lane at Hamburg Airport and television reception was disrupted by its ILS transmitter. In addition to the first three German programs, ARD , ZDF and Das Third , the two GDR programs on GDR television were also broadcast.

Until the late 1990s there was only one bus connection with the 178 bus to the Poppenbüttel S-Bahn station in the south of Hamburg-Bau. More than 20 years later, the east of the Hamburg building was connected to the Poppenbüttel S-Bahn station by bus line 176. The industrial area Poppenbütteler Bogen is located in the northwest of Hamburg-Bau . In the south there is a supermarket and a gas station. In 1975 the Harksheider Strasse high school was founded in the middle of the Hamburg-Bau area and renamed Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium in 2000 . The Simon-Petrus-Kirche is closest to the Hamburg-Bau . It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Hamburg-Poppenbüttel.

literature

• Dirk Schubert: Hamburg's residential areas. A city guide through 65 settlements. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-496-01317-6 , pp. 296-299.

Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 6 ″  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 36 ″  E