Meienegg

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Meienegg
Aerial view of Meienegg 1960s-1970s

Aerial view of Meienegg 1960s-1970s

Data
place Bern , Stöckacker
architect Hans Reinard
Architect Gret Reinhard
Builder FAMBAU family building cooperative
Architectural style Country style, post-war modernism
Construction year 1949-1955
Coordinates 597 031  /  199352 coordinates: 46 ° 56 '42.9 "  N , 7 ° 23' 58.7"  O ; CH1903:  597,031  /  199352

The Meienegg settlement is an apartment building settlement built by Hans and Gret Reinhard in 1949–1955 in the statistical district of Stöckacker in Bern's district VI, Bümpliz-Oberbottigen . It was the first multi-family housing estate in Bern to be financed by a cooperative , and it still contains the city's first senior citizens' apartments.

Building history and building description

The Meienegg housing estate was built for the family building cooperative (now FAMBAU cooperative) shortly after the Stöckacker housing estate, the first multi-family housing estate in Bern financed with municipal funds (demolished in 2013). An attempt was made to counter the explosive population growth after the Second World War and the associated housing shortage with the construction of three- and multi-storey apartment buildings, combined to form larger settlement units.

The buildings

Apartment building at the entrance to the Meienegg housing estate

The ten apartment buildings in Meienegg are three to four storeys high, have a basement and a gable roof . In plan they are with their two- to four-room apartments the ideas of classical modern obliged in the architectural design, however, they show elements of the Landi style such. B. the gable roof, flower and lattice windows with blinds or wooden trellises on the entrance facades. The buildings still show a large proportion of the substance of the construction period and many original equipment elements, such as B. the stairwells, entrances with canopies and front door, windows and apartment doors including fittings. In the interior of the relatively small apartments, the individual rooms are not only formed by walls for reasons of space; the entrance area and the living room, for example, were connected by a transparent metal grille and together serve as a central access point to the rooms. So could on pure traffic areas such. B. Corridors are dispensed with. In addition to a kindergarten in the center of the complex and two shops in the east, two additional blocks were built in the west of Meienegg as arcade houses with apartments for the elderly, which should enable older or widowed residents to stay in their settlement even when they are old.

Meienegg housing estate, block with one-room retirement apartments

The outside space

Meienegg settlement, outdoor space with children's playground

The Meienegg buildings are embedded in an extensive landscaped park. In contrast to the interwar buildings, such as B. the settlement Bethlehemacker I, they no longer orientate themselves towards the street. Instead, a system of paths from the central “village square” (a turning area) opens up the individual buildings. Small, differently formulated open spaces, groves, niches, playgrounds and barbecue areas serve as meeting places within the settlement. This concept of communal outdoor space with village character, which was first implemented in a Bernese housing estate in Meienegg, was later used in all of Bümpliz's large-scale developments by Hans and Gret Reinhard, such as B. the Tscharnergut , continued.

The Meienegg as a listed building

In the federal inventory of protected sites in Switzerland of national importance (ISOS), Meienegg is designated as building group B 8.6 of category A (“majority of buildings and rooms with original substance”) and with preservation goal A (“preservation of the substance, ban on demolition, none New buildings, detailed regulations for changes »). The preservation of monuments of the city of Bern lists the estate in the building inventory as an “object worth preserving”, while the Federal Commission for the Preservation of Monuments recommends classifying the estate as “worthy of protection”.

Plans for demolition and replacement building in 2019

According to a media release on May 13, 2019, the Bern municipal council intends to replace “two thirds to three quarters of the Meienegg estate with new buildings in the short to medium term”. For this purpose, he signed a planning agreement with the owner, the FAMBAU cooperative, with regard to the upcoming project competition. In contrast, according to a media release dated September 6, 2019, the Bern Homeland Security is calling for the planning process to be aborted , while the Swiss Homeland Security has put Meienegg on the Red List of Threatened Monuments.

See also

literature

  • Anne-Catherine Schröter, Raphael Sollberger, Dieter Schnell, Michael von Allmen: Settlements of the post-war period in Bümpliz-Bethlehem, ed .: Society for Swiss Art History. No. 1025.Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3-03797-350-9 .
  • Dieter Schnell, Bümpliz - from village to district. On the discrepancy between planning and reality in the 20th century. In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte, 2016, No. 1, pp. 32–50.
  • Federal Commission for Monument Preservation EKD, BE Bern-Bümpliz, Meienegg housing estate, classification. Expert opinion of December 4, 2015, Bern 2015.
  • Michael von Allmen, The Meienegg settlement - Bern prototype for communal living and social densification . In: Heimat heute, 2017, pp. 20–24.
  • District inventory Bethlehem 1994, edited by Gottfried Derendinger and Hans-Peter Ryser, Ed .: Monument Preservation of the City of Bern, Bern 1995.
  • District inventory Bümpliz 1993, edited by Gottfried Derendinger and Hans-Peter Ryser, Ed .: Monument Preservation of the City of Bern, Bern 1994.

Web links

Commons : Meienegg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne-Catherine Schröter, Raphael Sollberger, Dieter Schnell, Michael von Allmen: Settlements of the post-war period in Bümpliz-Bethlehem . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History. No. 1025 . Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3-03797-350-9 , pp. 9 .
  2. ^ Anne-Catherine Schröter, Raphael Sollberger, Dieter Schnell, Michael von Allmen: Settlements of the post-war period in Bümpliz-Bethlehem . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History. No. 1025 . Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3-03797-350-9 , pp. 28-29 .
  3. ↑ Michael von Allmen: The Meienegg settlement - Bern prototype for communal living and social densification . In: home today . Bern 2017, p. 23 .
  4. ^ Bümpliz-Bethlehem . In: Federal Office for Culture (Ed.): Federal inventory of protected sites in Switzerland of national importance . tape 3 . Bern 2005, ISBN 978-3-905782-34-9 , pp. 133-171 .
  5. ↑ Federal inventory of protected sites in Switzerland of national importance. Explanations of the ISOS. Federal Office of Culture, August 21, 2019, accessed on September 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Meienegg assembly group . In: Preservation of monuments of the city of Bern (ed.): Bauinventar Bern . Bern 2017.
  7. ^ Federal Commission for Monument Preservation EKD: BE Bern-Bümpliz, Meienegg settlement, classification. Opinion from December 4, 2015 . Bern 2015, p. 11 .
  8. ^ Municipal Council (ed.): Stöckacker Nord: Develop, condense and partially receive. Media release of May 13, 2019 . May 13, 2019.
  9. ↑ Meienegg: develop and partly maintain . In: Anzeiger Region Bern . No. 33 , May 17, 2019, p. 9 .
  10. ↑ Berner Heimatschutz, Region Bern Mittelland (Ed.): Meienegg - The Heimatschutz calls for the planning process to be aborted. Media release from September 6, 2019 . September 6, 2019.
  11. ↑ Bern's first cooperative housing estate threatened with demolition. In: Red List. Swiss Homeland Security, August 27, 2019, accessed on September 10, 2019 .