Kolberger Platz high-rise building

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Kolberger Platz skyscraper, view from northwest (2018)
Kolberger Platz skyscraper, view from the northeast (2014)

The skyscraper at Kolberger place was from 1954 to 1958 in the district of St. Lawrence in Lübeck completed.

location

The St. Lorenz district is located west of the Holstentor and forms the suburb of the station.

The parrot settlement was built on specially modeled terrain in the middle of existing buildings. Loosened-up row development fans out to the right and left of the access road that leads to the square with the asymmetrical high-rise . There are over eight shops and a (now closed) central laundry 116 apartments on twelve floors. Three- to four-storey blocks with 622 storey apartments and 150 private homes in two-storey terraced houses form the lower development. All facades are plastered in color: light red, light green and yellow contrast with off-white. Only the high-rise was made of red exposed brickwork - in which the colored balustrades of the loggia and arcade are interruptions.

The colourfulness gave the settlement the name "Parrot Settlement".

The skyscraper is on Kolberger Platz. This is named after Kolberg , a port city on the Baltic Sea in Western Pomerania . At the end of the Second World War , it was occupied by the Red Army and almost the entire population of over 70,000 inhabitants was evacuated by sea.

history

As a result of the refugees and displaced persons, Schleswig-Holstein had to cope with an extremely disproportionate burden of over 70% overpopulation. Housing construction had to take on an unprecedented scale.

The laying of the foundation stone of the "Parrot Settlement" was celebrated on December 21, 1954. The subways as a builder and later incorporates in new home, the settlement built until 1958. The ability of the client and the situation in the housing market made it possible that "take the lead architect not only the houses, but also the urban planning of the district creative in the hand could. ”In the urban planning in general, Ernst May , the lead architect of the parrot settlement saw “ the dangers of an overgrown schematism, of a recipe town planning ”, which he wanted to counter with“ lively design ”,“ a plan that takes every task out of its special conditions developed. "

In the planning department of the Neue Heimat, Ernst May developed the overall plan of the estate only in the basic concept. The arcade high-rise as a settlement center was designed by May and Ernst Grosse. As one of the first high-rise buildings May built, it was still traditionally bricked, although he sought to rationalize it. "Despite the monotony of the task, the high-rise has a strong structure: The horizontal lines of the bright balconies were kept in balance by the vertical brick pillars."

“The 1-family houses are the largest apartments, the multi-storey buildings still have family apartments. The smallest residential units are clustered together in the skyscraper and lined up along the arcades. So all parts of this residential town come into their own. "

After the “ Neue Heimat ” housing association was dissolved in the 1990s, the Trave property company took the high-rise building into its portfolio. During this time, there was natural fluctuation and the influx of financially weak rental households. The building fabric had a lack of repair and was modernized.

architecture

The skyscraper on Kolberger Platz has twelve floors. The structure, made up of three different disks, forms an irregular star. On the ground floor, eight shops rotate triangularly out of the facade, offset by 15 degrees, a single-storey building, once for a central laundry, is attached to the side - the commercial floor space is 800 m². The high-rise has two staircases that are open from the 1st floor. From these you can reach the 113 apartments with one to three rooms and 37 - 89 m², facing south-west via porticos, or better known as arcades. On the back, the apartments have individual loggias; In some cases asymmetrically, they also jut out of the facade in a triangular manner, rotated by 15 degrees. The mailboxes are located on the storeys, the doorbell systems in front of the entrances.

The high-rise was built conventionally. The outside and the open access to the stairs and arcades are clinkered red. The colorful parapets of the arcades and loggias are set off in the facade.

Web links

Commons : Kolberger Platz (Lübeck)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst-May-Gesellschaft e. V: Overview of works Germany 1954–1970 , accessed on March 16, 2018.
  2. ^ A b Elke P. Brandenburg: St. Lorenz. Chronicle of the suburbs in front of the Holsten Gate . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2001, ISBN 3-7950-3116-8 , p. 93.
  3. ^ A b Florian Seidel: Ernst May. Urban development and architecture in the years 1954–1970 . Dissertation, Technical University of Munich, Munich 2008, pp. 20–21.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Dankwart Gerlach: The "parrot settlement". In: The car . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1959, pp. 105-108.
  5. ↑ a b Kolberg location. In: Lexikon der Wehrmacht , accessed on March 18, 2018.
  6. ↑ Dankwart Gerlach: The "parrot settlement" . In: Der Wagen 1959. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck, pp. 105, 108.
  7. ↑ Grundstücks-Gesellschaft Trave mbH: St. Lorenz Süd housing stock , accessed on March 16, 2018.
  8. ^ Hanseatic City of Lübeck: Lübeck St. Lorenz. Districts with special development needs - the social city . Documentation, Lübeck plans and builds issue 98. 2007, 2.2 Development of the St. Lorenz district
  9. ↑ a b Grundstücks-Gesellschaft Trave mbH: Exposé Kolberger Platz 1 , accessed on March 21, 2018.

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '18.3 "  N , 10 ° 39' 39.9"  E