Helenenhof (Berlin)

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Path through the Helenenhof

The Helenenhof in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain is a listed residential complex. The settlement lies between Gryphiusstrasse and Holteistrasse . The complex includes the rows of houses at Gryphiusstrasse 1–8, Sonntagstrasse 17–22, Holteistrasse 28–33 and Simplonstrasse 41–51 as well as Helenenhof 1–8 in the central axis running between Gryphius and Holteistrasse. It consists of 507 residential units.

history

Gryphiusstrasse entrance

The five-storey residential complex was built in two sections in 1904/1905 and 1904–1906 by Erich Köhn for the civil servants' housing association in Berlin , which was founded in 1900 , after the association had bought the property in 1903 from the rural community of Boxhagen-Rummelsburg . The two rows of houses are grouped around three or four large park-like inner courtyards with a hexagonal floor plan and a children's playground along a former private path. The residential buildings have balconies on the street side as well as on the inner courtyard and in some cases large bay windows , loggias and window widths as well as risalits and varying ridge heights.

The Helenenhof was named after Helene von Budde (née Heyland, born May 11, 1871 in Iserlohn ; † February 2, 1916 in Berlin), the wife of Hermann von Buddes , the general director of the German arms and ammunition factories and between 1902 and 1906 Prussian Minister for Public Works, also head of the Reich Railway Authority . Helene von Budde was present at the laying of the foundation stone .

patio

In World War II, parts of the residential complex were severely damaged. The buildings along Simplonstrasse have been restored in a simplified manner.

From 1994 to 1998 the Helenenhof was extensively renovated and modernized with funding from the Socially Integrative City project . In 1997 it received the Friedrichshain Builders' Prize because of its special importance for the cityscape.

The Helenenhof testifies to the efforts to reform apartment building in Berlin during the imperial era , and thus adjoins the residential complexes of Alfred Messel in Proskauer Straße 14/15 (1897–1898) and Weisbachstraße (1899–1905). Another preserved residential complex of Erich Köhn's Berlin civil servants housing association is located at Torstrasse 3-7 (built from 1903 to 1905). These and other reform housing projects became models for later social housing . The further development can be seen in the example of the Schillerpark settlement .

See also

Web links

Commons : Helenenhof  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Information on www.bwv-berlin.de
  2. ↑ The explanatory board above the street sign bears the obviously incorrect year “1861”, as can also be seen on the photo.
  3. ↑ My home . Members' magazine of the Beamten-Wohnungs-Verein zu Berlin eG. 2012, issue 2, p. 13

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 26 ″  N , 13 ° 27 ′ 49 ″  E