Janisch settlement
The SKW settlement (" Janischsiedlung") in the Upper Bavarian municipality of Garching an der Alz in the Altötting district is one of the most beautiful garden cities in Germany and is a listed building as a whole.
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The Garching settlement was built between 1921 and 1924 as a factory settlement for the Reichsstickstoffwerke, later the Süddeutsche Kalkstickstoffwerke (SKW), which had settled in the Garching district of Hart and in the neighboring Unterneukirchen in 1908 . The Swiss-born architect Otto Rudolf Salvisberg (1882–1940) created a model settlement for a garden city .
Around a central square, originally named after the Jewish chemist Nikodem Caro , a ring-like development with two- and three-storey apartment buildings and row houses with flat hipped roofs was created. A school building on the square and shops for daily needs were also planned. The residential buildings, or each apartment, include house gardens with garden sheds, which formerly served the residents as an additional supply basis through keeping small animals and growing vegetables.
While Salvisberg used what had already been tried and tested in other settlements with regard to the structure of the settlement and the apartment floor plans, he used pre-Alpine design elements such as B. cantilevered gable roofs and a change of plastered walls and wooden cladding.
The vernacular renaming to "Janischsiedlung" took place from the early 1960s as a result of the naming of the central square in Janisch-Platz. Karl Janisch was responsible for construction at the nitrogen works and in 1931 also planned the extension of the Garching School, which was also named after him. However, he had nothing to do with the planning of the “Garching Garden City”.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 51.5 ″ N , 12 ° 34 ′ 49.7 ″ E