Island settlement
The island settlement in the Stuttgart district of Wangen is a housing estate in the Bauhaus style or in the style of New Objectivity or New Building . It connects to the north-west of the historic town center of Wangen and is bordered by Inselstraße in the north, Ebersbacher Straße in the south-east and Ackerweg in the south-west. It got its name from the neighboring bathing island in the Neckar , which already belongs to the Untertürkheim district, but is directly connected to the settlement by the Inselstraße.
history
The island settlement was built in 1929 and 1930 by the Stuttgart City Building Department according to plans by the architect Färber and under the direction of building director Franz Cloos. The housing estate was the last major project from the housing program of the time and is now considered impersonal entity under monument protection .
Since there was also great financial shortage in Stuttgart as a result of the global economic crisis , the city invested mainly in the construction of smaller apartments. Their floor plans should be designed in such a way that they offer maximum functionality for the residents on a small area. The island settlement originally comprised a children's playground, a central laundry room , two retail units and 371 rental apartments . Even back then, these were equipped with their own bathtub and toilet as well as thin partitions between the rooms, the latter being intended to allow the interior spaces to be flexibly restructured. Parallel to the construction of the island settlement, however, the Wallmersiedlung , which had already begun in 1925, was completed in neighboring Untertürkheim by 1931 . After it and the Weißenhofsiedlung from 1927 and the Ziegelklinge settlement from 1927/28, the island settlement was the fourth - and at the same time the last - Bauhaus settlement in Stuttgart.
After the completion of the modernization that was started in 2007 - which consists of a total of nine construction phases - the island settlement is expected to include 302 apartments and an office from 2018. For the historically appropriate renewal of the houses, in the back also got its historic white paint again received the Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Stuttgart Housing and Urban Development mbH to (SWSG) that owns the settlement today, German Bauherrenpreis 2011/2012 of the action "High quality - Portable Costs".
description
In detail, the island settlement consists of eleven three- story flat - roof building blocks in a row construction , each consisting of three to nine individual buildings and separated from one another by extensive communal green areas. The parallel alignment of the rows of houses ensures that all apartments have optimal access to light, air and sun and was considered particularly modern at the time. The total of 68 houses are located on Ebersbacher Straße, Inselstraße - which was still called Mühlstraße until 1932 - as well as left and right of Geislinger Straße. The house Geislinger Straße number 74 is designed as a house passage without a ground floor and serves as a symbolic entrance gate to the settlement.
The following table gives an overview of the arrangement of the buildings:
| Ebersbacher Strasse 31, 29, 27, 25, 23, 21, 19, 17, 15 | Ebersbacher Strasse 7, 9, 11, 13 | ||
| Geislinger Strasse 58i, 58h, 58g, 58f, 58e, 58d, 58c, 58b, 58a | Children's playground | former laundry room | |
| Geislinger Strasse 62h, 62g, 62f, 62e, 62d, 62c, 62b, 62a | Geislinger Strasse 57a, 57b, 57c, 57d, 57e, 57f | ||
| Geislinger Strasse 66f, 66e, 66d, 66c, 66b, 66a | Geislinger Strasse 61a, 61b, 61c, 61d, 61e, 61f | ||
| Geislinger Strasse 70d, 70c, 70b, 70a | Geislinger Strasse 65a, 65b, 65c, 65d, 65e, 65f | ||
| Geislinger Strasse 76 | Geislinger Straße 74 / through the house | Geislinger Strasse 69a, 69b, 69c, 69d, 69e | |
| Inselstrasse 14, 12, 10 | |||
The former shop on the ground floor of house 61a has now been converted into an apartment, while the second shop on the ground floor of house 70a now serves as the SWSG office. The central laundry , which had to close in 1984, is no longer preserved . It was set up by the city for the tenants of the settlement, was equipped with five large washing machines and was looked after by a specially employed washing master. The one-story building was later replaced by the new Ackerweg 18a and 18b buildings, which were occupied in 2006.
During the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 onwards, around 150 asylum seekers were accommodated in the island settlement ; if necessary, this number could have been increased to 500 to 600 people.
Public transport
The Stuttgart trams serve the settlement with the stops Inselstraße (U4, U9 and N7) and Wasenstraße (U4, U9 and U13).
Web links
- Cultural monument is revamped in zuHause - The magazine for our tenants , issue 1-2016, pages 14-15
- Living in Wangen - The island settlement is being renovated , article by Maira Schmidt in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten of January 30, 2012, accessed on November 27, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of cultural monuments on stuttgart-stadtgeschichte.net, accessed on November 27, 2017
- ^ Information board in the shop window of the SWSG office, Geislinger Straße 70a
- ↑ Street names in Stuttgart - origin and meaning in Stuttgart articles, issue 10 , Kurt Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1974
- ↑ Refugee accommodation in the island settlement
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 33.3 " N , 9 ° 14 ′ 23.2" E