Mecklenburg settler house
The Mecklenburg Settler House is a two-storey type house that was designed in the late 1920s by the architect Max Krüger (* 1893 in Güstrow, † 1958 in Schwerin) for new settlers in Mecklenburg and built many times over.
The Mecklenburg settler houses can be found in Bredenfelde , Jesendorf , Wasdow (Rostock district), Strohkirchen and Beckendorf (Ludwigslust-Parchim district). Possibly the architect took the alpine-looking houses as a model, which Karl Friedrich Schinkel had designed in 1837 for Zillertal inclinants in Silesia. During the time of National Socialism , their “falsified Swiss house style ” was criticized a little later , which does not fit into our landscape .
They are single-ridge houses: living quarters, stable parts and barn are combined under one roof. The living and stables are made of bricks on the ground floor. The lower upper floor with its simple insulation between half-timbering was clad with horizontal wooden slats that lay over extended beam heads. A flat on the building rises gable roof , which usually with tar paper is covered. The barns are simply built and air-permeable with wooden cladding on wooden stands. In some buildings, a barn was added at a 90 ° angle to the main house. The living rooms are on the gable side. On the ground floor the living room and kitchen-cum-living-room, from which the path led to the stables via a small hallway. There was room for up to eight pigs and seven cows; also two horses with which the work in the field was done. The barn was divided into two parts. A loaded car could drive into the drive through. On the gable side of all houses on the upper floor there was a balcony, which is no longer available everywhere today. It led to the parents' bedroom. There are two more bedrooms next to it.
History of the houses in Bredenfelde
After the Great Depression of 1929, the Good Bredenfelde was made on September 3, 1931 receivership by debt and on 27 January 1932, the Mecklenburg Siedlungsgesellschaft sold that the 814-hectare estate by 48 newly created settlers points with a size of 7.6 settled up to 25 hectares.
The settlement sites arose on the road to Kittendorf and are built in a kind of two-sided row settlement along the road. This arrangement, it is also called scattered settlement , was often chosen in the Weimar Republic because the arable land was directly on the farm and long journeys to the fields could be avoided.
Gardens
The gardens of the settlers' houses are not derived from traditional cottage gardens, but rather resemble the gardens of the suburbs of large cities. On the representative residential gable side there was very often a perennial garden, near the house a mostly large vegetable garden and the orchard in a larger open space. In Bredenfelde, as in most other settlements, only very few historical garden structures can be recognized on the settlement houses. B. yew, oak or a white dome hedge as well as fruit trees such as cherries, pears and apples from the construction period.