Margarethensiedlung

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Paulstraße in the far east of the Margarethensiedlung (September 2012)
Residential building Friedrich-Alfred-Straße 143/145 (July 2012)

The Margarethensiedlung was built in Rheinhausen - Hochemmerich in Duisburg from 1903 and named after Margarethe Krupp (1854–1931). The workers' settlement provided the workers of the Friedrich-Alfred-Krupp-Hütte with living space and is a prime example of the model of the garden city adopted from England . It has been a listed building since 1999 .

Construction phases

In 1902, the Krupp building director Robert Schmohl published the first drafts for the new factory estate, in 1903 the building application for the first six houses was submitted, in 1904 these were ready for occupancy. The Margarethenhof core settlement was expanded until 1906, and the workers 'apartments were supplemented by the masters' houses and communal facilities such as a consumer establishment and beer hall (no longer available today). The arrangement of the houses does not give a schematic picture, the irregularity seems to have grown over time, but it was already planned that way - a “staging of the random”. Schmohl mixed 28 different house types in this area from single houses to groups with 20 apartments and more. The main street as well as the intersection and extensions and squares were emphasized by tree planting. The workers' apartments, which look like terraced houses, were given stable extensions and narrow kitchen gardens in the inner or back yards with rear paths for access. The Masters' Houses are larger and designed as more closed structures with no stable extensions.

From 1912 to 1913 the first expansion took the form of a "small garden suburb". The street layout is straight and strict, a clear contrast to the curved arrangement in the core area. Significantly more apartment buildings were built here, the green area behind these houses is no longer privatized. By connecting individual houses by means of stable extensions, chain houses were built in streets . In this construction phase, the building site was built with significantly more living space. The wealth of variants in the building types, roof shapes and facade details receded in favor of frequently recurring motifs.

The second expansion followed from 1917 to 1921 as “suburban roadside development” with elongated blocks of flats (without stables), one or two-family houses were not even built here. The multi-storey apartments are appropriately designed, they transform the more village-like character of the first two construction phases into an urban-functional one. The green area is a common area, and each floor apartment also has a loggia and a laundry room. Style elements from the earlier buildings have been adopted in the facades in order to soften the design breaks.

With the third expansion from 1922 to 1923, the design turned back in the direction of village to small town. In the remaining interior areas of the second construction phase, lower duplex and multi-family houses with varied extensions were built. Among other things, this created the newly created Berthaplatz. Georg Metzendorf planned these construction measures .

The fourth expansion in 1923 and 1927/28 was planned by the architect Hans Scharschmidt as Schmohl's successor in the Krupp construction office. It includes peripheral buildings and two-storey apartment buildings with a spacious urban character. The green areas created by the streets intersecting at acute angles, squares at crossroads and front gardens of different depths due to the receding house fronts create a relaxed street scene.

In 1934 Rheinhausen was granted city rights, and the Margarethensiedlung had become an important nucleus for the young city. To the west of the Margarethensiedlung, another district built by Krupp was built in the 1950s, the Musikersiedlung, which formed the essential part of what would later become the Rheinhausen-Mitte district .

Current condition

In 1979 Krupp announced that it would sell the houses in the settlement. The Margarethensiedlung interest group was then founded , which still exists today and also takes care of the cohesion and conviviality in the settlement. Today, most of the approximately 700 residential units belong to the residents themselves. In 1999, the Lower Monument Authority placed the core area of ​​the settlement under protection and issued a design guide in order to preserve the face of the settlement.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interest group of the Margarethensiedlung ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ig-margarethensiedlung.de

See also

literature

  • The Krupp factory settlements in Rheinhausen 1898 - 1978 (catalog for the exhibition from November 17, 1989 to January 6, 1990, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum of the City of Duisburg in the Duisburg-Rheinhausen Municipal Collection) Text and editing by Katharina Lepper, Duisburg 1989, ISBN 3-923576-60-9
  • Ingrid Lenders: 100 years of Margarethensiedlung ; in: Yearbook 2004/2005 of the districts of the city of Duisburg on the left bank of the Rhine (Ed .: Freundeskreis lively Grafschaft eV Duisburg, ISSN  1435-6252 ), page 8 ff.
  • Katharina Lepper: The Krupp workers' settlement in Duisburg-Rheinhausen ; in: in: Yearbook 1990/1991 of the districts of the city of Duisburg on the left bank of the Rhine (Ed .: Freundeskreis lively Grafschaft eV Duisburg, ISSN  0931-2137 ), page 13 ff

Web links

Commons : Margarethensiedlung  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 25 ″  N , 6 ° 43 ′ 21 ″  E