Loest's court
The Loests Hof in Merseburger Strasse 101–103, Schmiedstrasse 19–37 and Schlosserstrasse 1–17 in Halle (Saale) is an extreme example of dense residential and manufacturing space development, the so-called tenement barracks .
The commercial area was also a work space, the arrival point of the post office and carts, the storage room for raw materials, and the place of production and residence. You could live and work in the same house.
The Loests Hof was built from 1884 to 1890 by the building contractor Rudolf Loest and is one of the largest tenements ever built in Germany, with a length of 250 meters with four floors and closed perimeter block development. The average occupancy per residential unit was six people, a total of 2,700 people once lived in 408 apartments in Loests Hof. The courtyard was originally closely built up with stables, sheds and businesses.
The Loests Hof is a prime example of the urban development and hygienically problematic mixed culture of the Wilhelminian working-class neighborhoods and is one of the last completely preserved of its kind.
An architecture like the Loests Hof in the south of Halle, with its raw brick functionalism and at the same time great design ambition, represents the notorious type of mass housing construction in the late 19th century.
Web links
- Official website of the Loests Hof
literature
- H. Brülls, T. Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 55.5 ″ N , 11 ° 59 ′ 10 ″ E