Redesign cities

Redesign cities were called cities on imperial German territory under National Socialism , which were to be provided with monumental party and secular buildings. The number of cities that Hitler designated as redesign cities by personal decrees rose steadily; according to a communication from the General Building Inspectorate Speer to the Reich Ministry of Transport on December 6, 1940 (ZStA der GDR i. P., 46.06 General Building Inspectorate, page 18) it was 25 Cities (Speer gives 27). Due to the course of the war, most of the projects were not implemented.

The redesign cities were:

• Augsburg : expansion plans by Thomas Wechs and Hermann Giesler
• Bayreuth
• Berlin : Albert Speer's expansion plans (see world capital Germania )
• Bremen
• Wroclaw
• Dresden
• Dusseldorf
• Frankfurt am Main : Appointment only on May 29, 1941, therefore not on Speer's list. Only the planning of a Gauhaus by Clemens Klotz can be proven
• Frankfurt (Oder) : Expansion plans by Hans Mehrtens , Hans Freese , Rudolf Hasinger , Gustav Reutter and Helmut Hentrich / Hans Heuser
• Graz
• Hamburg : Konstanty Gutschow's expansion plans
• Hanover : Karl Elkart's expansion plans
• innsbruck
• Cologne
• Koenigsberg i. Pr.
• Linz : The city where Adolf Hitler spent his youth. Appointed in March 1939.
• Munich
• Muenster
• Nuremberg : city of the Nazi party rallies
• Oldenburg (Oldenburg)
• Poses
• Salzburg
• Saarbrücken
• Salzgitter / Stadt-der-Hermann-Göring-Werke
• City of the KdF car (today's Wolfsburg )
• Szczecin
• Waldbröl : hometown of Robert Leys , the head of the German Labor Front
• Wurzburg
• Weimar : Hermann Giesler's expansion plans
• Areas of the Wewelsburg : Hermann Bartels' expansion plans

See also

• Architecture under National Socialism
• Leader city
• Gauforum

literature

• Thomas Enderleit: Unbuilt Hanover. Urban planning projects, ideas and utopias. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Stadtleben, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-9802847-0-0 .
• Anton Joachimsthaler : The broad gauge railway. The project for the development of the greater European area 1942–1945. 4th edition. Herbig-Verlag, Munich et al. 1993, ISBN 3-7766-1352-1 .
• Christiane Wolf: Gauforen - centers of power. On National Socialist architecture and urban planning. Verlag Bauwesen, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00694-4 (also: Bochum, Univ., Diss., 1997).