Hut village
A hut village refers to a settlement of huts , i.e. H. in a simplified construction, mostly as a protest camp .
With cabins spontaneous makeshift buildings are often meant not the standard of a solid established and solid house meet, and the more temporary shelter or accommodation offer than the living room by the usual standard today. With regard to their structural and legal character, the hut villages built as protest camps usually correspond to informal settlements .
Hut villages as places of political resistance and alternative culture
Hut villages, also tent cities or villages , are often built as a means of political resistance , e.g. B. as protest camps against the prevailing refugee policy or against controversial building projects. Above all, the opponents of nuclear power in the 1970s and 1980s made use of this means (e.g. in Wyhl am Kaiserstuhl ), but such projects still exist today.
In some cases, attempts are made to combine alternative living with political protest (cf. squatting ). They are therefore also comparable to construction trailer villages.
Other settlements of huts and similar phenomena
There are also collections of makeshift huts in slums in large cities, for example. B. in South America. These are informal or irregular settlements. Instead of hut villages, slums or favelas are usually used here .
In contrast, container villages (made up of residential or office containers) and barracks settlements are mostly temporary and makeshift facilities, but they are often built by the public sector and therefore have to meet minimum building standards.
Budenstädte are typologically comparable with the hut villages, e.g. B. on the occasion of Christmas markets . They also consist of hut-like objects, the booths , but they are usually not put together spontaneously, but professionally manufactured and can often be assembled and disassembled in a few simple steps. They are for sale and are usually part of officially approved events or ensembles, so they are not informal settlements.
Examples
- Republic of the Free Wendland (1980)
- Protests against the construction of the West Runway (1980–1981)
- Protest against the new route of the federal highway 8 near Königstein (1979–1981)
- Anatopia (1991-1995)
Web links
- Before the 20th anniversary of WAA-Hüttendorf - an indymedia article on the Hüttendorf against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant
- www.huettendorf.de - Resistance project against the planned A 33 between Osnabrück and Bielefeld, was evacuated in June 2005
- Hüttendorf in the Kelsterbacher Wald - Protest against the planned construction of a runway for Frankfurt Airport
- Final end for the planning for the B8 , article of the BUND Landesverband Hessen eV local association Königstein-Glashütten
- The Damm occupation from 1979 - 1981 - Taunus-AB - an indymedia article about the hut village against the new route of the federal road 8 near Königstein