Hofferbertaue

Petersberg and the Hofferbertaue from the north

The Hofferbertaue is a district of the Wartburg city of Eisenach in Thuringia that was projected in 1932 on the eastern slope of the Petersberg . The name Hofferbertaue refers to the Eisenach municipal building officer and temporary second mayor Karl Hofferbert , who made a significant contribution to the rapid development. The geographic height of the place is 230  m above sea level. NN .

history

Immediately after the end of the First World War , Karl Hofferbert began his work in the Eisenach building authority. He tried honestly to alleviate the housing shortage that had arisen in the city and at the same time to reconcile urban planning development work. With the approval of the city administration, plans for a second city expansion, especially on the eastern and western periphery of the city, were developed and implemented.

After 1920, numerous medium-sized and small towns in Germany took over the concept of the garden city - a residential complex close to the city, with a high level of living and living comfort, as far as possible away from disruptive industrial plants and commercial areas. This concept was also followed in the design of the Hofferbertaue. The residential complex in the countryside was built on the meadows and pastures of the Trenkelhof estate , which thus escaped the previously completely isolated location in a tiny side valley of the Nesse .

The road network of the settlement is largely based on the terrain and rises from the edge of the bank, with the former powder mill as the center, in three strips of parcel on the eastern slope of the Petersberg. The eastern part of the settlement expands in a fan shape over the moderately steep slope to the east. As the center and modeled village square, Hofferbert-Platz was always left out of the subsequent development.

The settlement lies in the countryside, is bordered by the fruit tree plantations created there, in the north by the river Nesse and in the east by the remaining meadows of the Trenkelhof. In the floodplain, following the ideal, a nursery was also built to supply the residents directly. The residential complex still shows a largely homogeneous structure of single-family houses , which are surrounded house by house by gardens. Hofferbert's goal of creating a financially affordable residential complex for large families was not a utopia .

The later expansion and expansion of the Reichsautobahn in the immediate vicinity was not included in the original plans and increasingly impaired the quality of living as the volume of traffic increased. By January 2010, the BAB 4 was relocated to the north, the old route is now used as Bundesstraße 88 and the Hofferbertaue is thus relieved of through traffic on the motorway.

Development

There is only one access road to the Hofferbertaue settlement , which makes it difficult to reach in the event of a traffic accident in this section of the road. The Hofferbertaue is connected to the local transport system by bus line 4 (Eisenach ZOB - Hofferbertaue / Wendeschleife), which runs every 30 or 60 minutes between 4:50 and 20:50. The distance to Eisenach train station is 2.5 kilometers.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
2. ^ Herlind Reiss: City of Eisenach. Villas and country houses at the foot of the Wartburg . In: Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology (Ed.): Monument topography BRD. Cultural monuments in Thuringia . tape 2.1 . E. Reinhold-Verlag, Altenburg 2006, p. 71 . ISBN 978-3937940243
3. ↑ Hofferbertaue celebrated summer festival. WartburgkreisOnline, August 19, 2002, accessed on September 6, 2011 : “In September 1932 the first house was built in the Hofferbertaue estate. 70 years ago, building supervisor Karl Hofferbert implemented his ideas: A settlement for large families should be built in Eisenach that should be affordable. And so the settlement came into being. There are 248 plots here today, Wiltraut Cott reports. She is the spokeswoman for the solidarity community Hofferbertaue. " 

Web links

Commons : Hofferbertaue  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• "70 years of Hofferbertaue"

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '34.3 "  N , 10 ° 21' 39.8"  E