Kiautschau

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Benediktinerstraße 7
Neuhauser Weg 4
Alicestrasse 23

The Kiautschau is a former workers' settlement in Worms . It is under monument protection as a monument zone .

Geographical location

The settlement is located in the west of today's core city of Worms. The monument zone comprises the development along Alicestraße and Rößlinstraße in the west, Neuhauser Weg in the east and the connecting sections of Schützenstraße, Benediktinerstraße and Glockengießerstraße.

Surname

The workers' settlement was named after the then German leased area Kiautschou , which the German Reich had acquired in 1898. At the end of the 19th century, the Worms believed that the settlement was built as far outside of the city center as the remote Chinese leased area.

history

The settlement was initiated by Cornelius Wilhelm von Heyl zu Herrnsheim , the owner of Heyl'schen Lederwerke AG , for the needs of the workers in his factory on the then western outskirts of Worms. He made the area available in Liebenauer Feld . Planning began in 1896. About one third of the site was built by him and two thirds by a stock corporation founded on November 15, 1897 to build cheap apartments, specifically for the benefit of workers in Worms am Rhein . In turn, Heyl'schen Lederwerke AG held half of the shares in this housing company, while the rest of the shares were held by the city of Worms, a number of banks and companies. This construction allowed Heyl to have a decisive effect on the overall project without having to raise the entire capital.

By the outbreak of the First World War , the stock corporation built 91 houses with two- and 21 with three-room apartments, making a total of 112 houses with 224 apartments. Heyl AG had also built 42 houses with 79 apartments for their own workers. At that time the settlement had a total of around 2000 inhabitants, so the housing situation was quite cramped. The block of flats facing Alicestrasse, which was designed as a gateway to the settlement, was only added later in the 1920s. During the Second World War, the settlement was only damaged in its northern area and rebuilt there in modified forms. Another damage to the ensemble was a block of flats at the southern end of Alicestrasse, which was put there in the 1970s.

description

The then city architect of Worms Karl Hofmann planned the new residential area in 1896. The houses are 1½-storey, with a basement and each floor has an apartment. Only a few buildings on the corner of the street were built as single-storey houses. The front gardens were separated from the narrow streets with picket fences. Most of the streets were laid out without a separate sidewalk.

There were semi-detached houses with two-room apartments and detached houses with three-room apartments. The buildings were designed in a country house style, had a rubble base on which the walls were built in brick . Initially, until 1904, the upper floor was made of visible framework, which was abandoned in the houses built later because it was too expensive to maintain. Krüppelwalmdächer with Gaupen cover the houses.

Each apartment had about 37-50 square meters of living space, toilet, its own entrance and a kitchen garden. For the conditions at the end of the 19th century, this was a modern equipment, but the average occupancy of six to seven people in each apartment severely limited the “comfort”. Gas and water connections existed from the beginning. Due to the great distance to the city center, there was no connection to the sewage system. It only came in between 1931 and 1934 and the power connection was not made until 1934. Any infrastructure beyond the actual housing development was initially also completely missing. The comfort standard for a new building at the end of the 19th century was in the lower range. On the edge of the settlement - already outside - a closed development was built along today's Bebelstraße (then: Landwehrstraße ), which then also housed shops and an inn.

Monument protection

After the houses in the settlement were sold to individual interested parties, there were a number of very different changes in appearance and substance. Overall, however, the settlement has retained its historical character. Today it is protected on the one hand by an urban design statute and on the other by its status as a cultural monument . According to the Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Protection Act , the settlement as a whole is a monument zone.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spille: Monument topography , map 3/4.
  2. ↑ Schrade: The Worms Kiautschau .
  3. ^ Reuter: Karl Hofmann , p. 227.
  4. ^ Werner: Workers' settlements , p. 390; Reuter: Karl Hofmann , p. 228.
  5. ↑ Schrade: The Worms Kiautschau .
  6. ↑ Werner: Workers' settlements , p. 390.
  7. ^ Werner: Workers' settlements , p. 399.
  8. ↑ Spille: Monument topography , p. 172.
  9. ↑ Schrade: The Worms Kiautschau .
  10. ^ Werner: Workers' settlements , p. 399.
  11. ↑ Werner: Workers' settlements , p. 400f.
  12. ^ Reuter: Karl Hofmann , p. 230.
  13. ^ Werner: Workers' settlements , p. 404.
  14. ↑ Werner: Workers' settlements , p. 400.
  15. ^ Werner: Workers' settlements , p. 405.
  16. ↑ Statutes of the city of Worms on the design and protection of the townscape. Here: "Kiautschau" design statutes of July 2nd, 2003 . PDF. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
  17. ↑ Spille: Monument topography , p. 172.

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 14.4 "  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 47.6"  E