Leipzig housing and construction company

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Leipziger Wohnungs- und Baugesellschaft mbH (LWB)

logo
legal form GmbH
founding December 10, 1990
Seat Leipzig
management Ute Schäfer (managing director),
Iris Wolke-Haupt (managing director)
Number of employees 488
sales 179.7 million euros
Branch Housing industry
Website www.lwb.de
Status: 2018

First major building project of the VEB Haus- und Grundbesitz 1952 with 238 apartments and 17 shops in what was then the street III. World Festival
Ring development on Roßplatz with the Ring Café , built 1953–1955
Longest residential building in Germany, the central aisle residential building in Probstheida, built 1966–1968
The tallest residential building in Leipzig, the winter garden high- rise, built by VEB KWV and VEB GWL in 1970–1972 and renovated by LWB in 2004/2005

The Leipzig Housing and Construction Company Ltd. (LWF) is a municipal real estate company of the city of Leipzig . It manages residential and commercial properties throughout the city. In addition to rental and purchase properties, the management of third-party property is one of the LWB's fields of activity.

history

1945–1971

After the Second World War , the municipal utility company of the city of Leipzig was founded on March 15, 1945 , which brought together businesses from eight economic groups - including house and real estate as well as construction.

The construction of new apartments after the Second World War began in 1949 with 30 apartments for activists at Dieskaustraße 260–264 in Großzschocher . The official GDR representations, on the other hand, looked at the construction project started in 1952 on Straße der III. World Festival as the beginning of new residential construction.

When the communal utility company was dissolved on March 31, 1951 and split into state-owned companies (VEB) , a. the VEB Haus- und Grundbesitz and the VEB Bau der Stadt Leipzig (a forerunner of the later Leipzig Building Combine )

The VEB house and property administered the built in the 1920s and '30s communal apartments and the resulting since 1952 the state-owned housing starts. In addition, there was a steadily increasing number of fiduciary administrations. These concerned the houses and properties of Leipzig Jews expropriated before 1945, after 1945 expropriated burdened functionaries of the Nazi regime and owners who were forced to transfer their property to the city of Leipzig free of charge or who voluntarily left the GDR. Between 1945 and 1960 the number of these apartments rose from 7,712 to 19,380. Added to this were the 1,928 apartments built between 1945 and 1955 as part of government reconstruction programs.

Since there was no municipal housing construction financed from city funds and public loans in the GDR, this was done in special state programs with state funds on state-owned land. There was no separation into state and municipal buildings and the municipalities and districts were to be responsible for the “state-owned” housing. Therefore, by resolution of December 15, 1948, the state building construction offices were dissolved.

In 1956, VEB Haus- und Grundbesitz became VEB Kommunale Housing Management (KWV) Leipzig , which took on the task of investing in state-owned housing.

1953–1955 the representative ring development with 197 apartments was built at Roßplatz 1–13 and at Grünewaldstrasse 1. 1966–1968 built the VEB KWV in Probstheida -Süd, popularly known as "Lange Lene", 350 meters long residential slab Lene-Voigt-Straße 2–8. The ten-storey central aisle residential building on the edge of a single-family housing estate is structured by four vertically rising staircase towers. Originally around a third of the Probstheida population lived in the block in 800 one to three-room apartments. It is still the longest full-length residential building in Germany that can be walked through. 1970–1972, the Wintergartenstrasse high- rise residential building, the highest residential building in Leipzig with a total height of 106.8 meters , was built on the edge of the city center .

1971-1990

With a city council resolution of September 29, 1971, VEB Municipal Housing Management and VEB Maschinen- und Heizungsbetrieb Leipzig were formed on October 1, 1971 into VEB Gebäudewirtschaft Leipzig (GWL) . This city-run company was responsible for the legal ownership, administration, management and maintenance of all publicly owned and urban developed and undeveloped land. In addition, VEB GWL had to participate in the planning, preparation and implementation of repairs, reconstructions and modernizations in its capacity as a legal entity. The new housing construction, however, was the responsibility of the district council .

The VEB GWL consisted of a main plant in Springerstraße 17 and seven operational parts in the territories of the councils of the city districts. Since 1975, each housing administration has generally administered one constituency in the city district. The number of apartments managed by VEB GWL rose to 65% of the Leipzig housing stock by 1990. Around 168,000 apartments were managed by VEB GWL in 1990. Statistically speaking, at the end of the 1980s, two out of three Leipzigers lived in a city-managed apartment.

Apartments in Leipzig
year Total number of
apartments in Leipzig		 by GWL
farmed		 privately
managed
managed by a cooperative
1979 233,794 49% 33% 18%
1983 249,608 56%
1990 257.928 65% 10% 25%

Since 1990

With the German reunification , the city of Leipzig took over the formerly state-owned housing assets into its legal ownership on October 3, 1990. To manage the apartments, the Leipziger Wohnungs- und Baugesellschaft mbH (LWB) was founded as a 100% subsidiary of the City of Leipzig on December 10, 1990 from VEB Gebäudewirtschaft Leipzig. The VEB building management was dissolved. When the LWF was established, approximately 136,900 apartments were given as municipal property.

The corporate purpose of the newly founded company was and is "the construction, management and administration of apartments and commercial properties in all legal and usage forms". Priority should be given to ensuring that the population is provided with safe and socially acceptable housing, in particular for the socially disadvantaged and recipients of transfer payments.

Manfred Jäger was the interim managing director of the LWF; he was replaced on December 15, 1990 by the then 67-year-old Karl Trabalski . However, it turned out that Trabalski, who had worked in various housing associations for many years, had no experience in business management, which resulted in heavy financial losses for the LWF. In order to improve living conditions quickly, the LWB awarded contracts for the renovation of old Leipzig buildings in the years 1991 and 1992 amounting to more than DM 800 million, of which around half was raised for properties with unclear ownership. Since the LWF managed these apartments in trust, it was only allowed to carry out so-called emergency repairs there. As a result, the LWF's debts increased immensely, which is why the Supervisory Board dismissed Karl Trabalski as managing director on June 4, 1992. In December 1992 the LWF resigned from orders concluded by Trabalski in the tens of millions. In October 1993 it had to announce a loss in the 1992 financial year of 791 million DM caused by the miscalculations. The committee of inquiry set up by the city council in 1992 stated in its final report in January 1994 that over 400 million DM had been invested in restitution-burdened houses and were thus lost to the city. As a result, it was found that the controlling bodies were primarily responsible for the LWF's financial crisis.

Between 2000 and 2009, the LWF demolished around 10,000 homes. By 2011, 2,950 properties with around 26,000 apartments were sold as “packages”. LWB invested 1.5 billion euros in its building stock.

In October 2015, the LWB relocated its headquarters to Wintergartenstrasse 4. The move was accompanied by a “modernization of the external image of the LWF” and the like. a. with a new company logo. The new LWB building was created in place of the commercial extensions at the foot of the winter garden high-rise, which were demolished in 2004 when it was renovated. For the new development, the LWB carried out an urban planning ideas competition in 2010, the result of which was the start of construction for the new building at the turn of the year 2013/14.

Housing stock

The LWB has a portfolio of undeveloped properties as well as residential, commercial and other buildings and properties with third-party building rights with a balance sheet value of EUR 1.02 billion (as of December 31, 2018).

In 2018, LWB and its subsidiaries managed the "core portfolio" of 35,144 apartments.

subsidiary company

  • WSL Wohnen & Service Leipzig GmbH (WSL)
  • LWB Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
  • KAV Kommunale Assekuranzvermittlung GmbH & Co. KG
  • LWB Modernisierungs- und Sanierungsgesellschaft mbH
  • IVG Immobilienverwaltung Gohlis GmbH (IVG)
  • LWB GmbH & Co. Second Real Estate Management KG
  • LWB GmbH & Co. Erste Modernisierungsfonds Leipzig KG
  • LWB GmbH & Co. Second modernization fund Leipzig KG
  • LWB GmbH & Co. Immobilienverwaltungs KG

literature

  • Samira Sachse, Kristin Hensel, Sandy Ruhland, Helge-Heinz Heinker: Back to the future - at home in a growing city. (extra living time), Leipziger Wohnungs- und Baugesellschaft mbH (LWB), Leipzig 2016.
  • Thomas Nabert, Gregor Hoffmann, Christoph Kühn, Iris Reuther , Monika Schulte: “One apartment for everyone”. History of municipal housing construction in Leipzig 1900–2000. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-9807201-1-X .
  • Walled up and plastered . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1993, pp. 120 f . ( online - November 22, 1993 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Annual Report 2018 of the Leipziger Wohnungs- und Baugesellschaft mbH , pp. 10, 15, 26, 27
  2. ↑ a b Nabert et al .: “One apartment for everyone” , p. 82
  3. ↑ a b Nabert et al .: “An apartment for everyone” , p. 257
  4. ↑ a b c Nabert et al .: “One apartment for everyone” , p. 101
  5. ↑ Nabert et al .: “An apartment for everyone” , p. 101 f.
  6. ^ Peter Schwarz: The millennial Leipzig. Volume 3. From the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-945027-13-4 , p. 265
  7. ↑ Nabert et al .: “One apartment for everyone” , p. 102
  8. ↑ a b Nabert et al .: “One apartment for everyone” , p. 210 ff.
  9. ↑ Nabert et al .: “One apartment for everyone” , p. 250
  10. ↑ The residential building St. Petersburger Strasse 26–32 , built in 1969 , which the city of Dresden also calls the longest in Germany, is only 240 meters long.
  11. ↑ a b c d Nabert et al .: “One apartment for everyone” , p. 141
  12. ↑ Nabert et al .: “An apartment for everyone” , p. 146
  13. ↑ Leipzig City Archives: Leipzig Chronicle of the Year 1990 (PDF; 234 kB)
  14. ↑ a b Leipzig City Archives: Leipzig Chronicle of the Year 1992 (PDF; 82 kB)
  15. ↑ Leipzig City Archives: Leipzig Chronicle of the Year 1993 (PDF; 87 kB)
  16. ↑ Leipzig City Archives: Leipzig Chronicle of the Year 1994 (PDF; 98 kB)
  17. ↑ The new LWF building is on schedule and within budget. Press release from June 3, 2015
  18. ↑ LWB lays the foundation stone for the new building on the winter garden high-rise. Press release from June 20, 2014 ( Memento from March 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )