Krochsiedlung
The Krochsiedlung , also referred to as Neu-Gohlis by the Leipzig Monuments Office , is a 16- hectare residential development in the New Building style in the Leipzig district of Gohlis . It was built in 1929-30 and was supposed to be the first phase of a planned residential town . The residential buildings form a listed entity in Gohlis-Nord . The Krochsiedlung is one of the most important examples of classical modern architecture in Leipzig.
History and architecture
The stock corporation for house and real estate whose main shareholder is Bankhaus Kroch jun. KG a. A. of the Jewish banker Hans Kroch , announced a competition in 1928 for the construction of a 75 hectare “Neu-Gohlis residential town”. Kroch, on whose behalf the Krochhochhaus was built on Leipzig's Augustusplatz in the same year , also had a major influence on the design. The Berlin architects Paul Mebes and Paul Emmerich , who had proposed building rows of houses, were awarded the contract.
Construction began in the summer of 1929. The first phase of construction with 1,018 apartments was completed in autumn 1930 - it was to remain the only one. The other sections, which should result in a four times larger residential town with 4,500 apartments for around 15,000 inhabitants - this would have become the largest housing estate in the Weimar Republic - were not implemented. The reason was the global economic crisis , which also hit Bankhaus Kroch and then the National Socialists' seizure of power.
At that time, the settlement embodied modern living culture that still meets modern living requirements today. It consists of 3 and 4-storey apartment buildings with a total of 1018 apartments with one to four rooms. Loggias, house gazebos and large windows ensure good exposure. There are some smaller commercial units on the ground floor. The rows of houses are each separated by spacious green areas. Central heating through district heating from its own thermal power station , hot water connection and a bathroom in each apartment offered a very modern comfort that was rare in the time it was built. The settlement also includes low-rise buildings with shops for local supplies on Max-Liebermann-Straße, which is why it was called “Ladenstraße”.
Not far from the Krochsiedlung, the Reconciliation Church was built between 1930 and 1932 as an outstanding testimony to modern German church construction based on a design by Leipzig architect Hans Heinrich Grotjahn . It should be in the center of the planned residential town of Gohlis.
After 1990 the facility was extensively renovated. To maintain the architectural and historical heritage of the Krochsiedlung, the Bürgererverein Krochsiedlung e. V.
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literature
- Wolfgang Hocquél: Leipzig. Builders and Buildings. From the Romanesque to the present. Tourist Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-350-00333-8 .
- Aylin Genca: The residential town of Neu-Gohlis in Leipzig by the architects Mebes and Emmerich. In: Christiane Wolf (Ed.): The “Land in the Middle”. Architecture, monument and housing projects of the modern age. Bauhaus University, Weimar 2004, pp. 147–168.
Web links
- Krochsiedlung. In: arch INFORM . (with references)
- Marcus Schoft: "The north is just not in". In: Einundleipzig.de . December 15, 2014, accessed December 27, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aylin Genca: The residential town of Neu-Gohlis in Leipzig architects Mebes and Emmerich. In: Christiane Wolf: The "Land in the Middle". Architecture, monument and housing projects of the modern age. Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar 2004, pp. 147–168, at pp. 149–151.
- ^ Matthias Judt: Brief building history of today's Gohlis. Bürgererverein Gohlis, pp. 5–6.
- ^ Annette Menting: Reclam's City Guide Leipzig. Architecture and art. Reclam, Stuttgart 2015, p. 186.
- ↑ Gohlis. In: Vera Denzer, Andreas Dix, Haik Thomas Porada (eds.): Leipzig. A regional study in the Leipzig area. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015, pp. 214–221, on p. 221.
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 40 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 45 ″ E