Kerpely colony

Kerpely colony (Donawitz residential area)
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Leoben  (LE), Styria
Judicial district	Leoben
Pole. local community	Leoben   ( KG  Donawitz )
Locality	Donawitz
Coordinates	47 ° 22 ′ 35 ″  N , 15 ° 4 ′ 2 ″  E
height	556  m above sea level A.
Post Code	8700 Leoben
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Kerpely colony (61108 082)
The Donawitz ironworks with the Kerpely colony in front of it.
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

The Kerpely Colony or Kerpelysiedlung is a housing estate in the Donawitz district of Leoben, designed by the architect Alfred Keller between 1907 and 1922 . The buildings on Kerpelystrasse were completed between 1907 and 1913, the rest of the buildings only in the early 1920s . The Kerpely colony, like the surrounding settlements (e.g. in Pestalozzistraße), was built for the large influx of working class families. The colony should be a mixture of mass housing and garden areas. According to the architect's plans, the project should have been significantly larger, but was not fully implemented for cost reasons.

literature

• Susanne Leitner-Böchzelt: Leoben history 1880-1960 . Sutton, Erfurt 2002, ISBN 3-89702-408-X , p. 126 .