Neuland housing company
The new territory housing company mbH is a German housing company based in Wolfsburg . She was instrumental in building the city.
Companies
70.9% of the company is owned by the city of Wolfsburg, 24.0% by the (city-owned) Wolfsburg structure and investment company and 5.1% by the phæno foundation. It employs over 200 people, mainly in the commercial area. In Wolfsburg, she owns around 12,000 rental apartments, 98 leased apartments and 240 commercial rental units with around 34,000 square meters of space. The company is based in the Westhagen district . Hans-Dieter Brand has been the managing director since January 2015.
history
On November 2, 1938, the Neuland, non-profit housing and settlement company of the German Labor Front, was founded in the city of the KdF-Wagons in the former city of the KdF-Wagons near Fallersleben , later Wolfsburg. The share capital was 1,000,000 Reichsmarks . The aim was to build a town near the Volkswagen factory founded in the same year . The first technical managing director of Neuland was the architect Titus Taeschner . He worked with Peter Koller , who, as the head of the urban planning office of the German Labor Front, was responsible for building the city.
The law on the redesign of German cities , created in 1937, made it possible to build the city in the previously under-developed area. A housing association initially commissioned refused the contract to build the new city because it exceeded its possibilities, so Neuland was founded for it. The circumstances that made barracks to accommodate the construction workers had to be set up first of all, making construction work in the Neuland more difficult and costly. In the area that had been dominated by agriculture up to that point, there were no handicraft companies with sufficient capacity for urban development. So first branches of construction companies from other parts of the German Reich had to be established in the development area of the new city. Since the construction of the west wall began at this time and almost all construction workers were obliged to do it, the construction of the Neuland apartments was primarily carried out by Italian workers at the beginning .
First, the districts of Steimker Berg , Schillerteich and Wellekamp were built. The apartments built by Neuland were heated with district heating from the start and were mostly equipped with a bathtub , so that they offered a high level of living comfort for the time. Three central laundries operated by Neuland , including one on Steimker Berg and what is now Lessingstrasse, were available to tenants to wash their laundry. The first large individual building built by Neuland was the single home on Schlieffenstrasse opened in the summer of 1939 (today's Goethestrasse, today used as a residential and nursing home). From autumn 1941, due to the lack of labor and building materials caused by the war, hardly any new buildings were started, only building projects that had already started were completed. By the end of the Second World War , 2,915 apartments had been built on the Neuland.
As of 1945, Neuland, as a former company of the German Labor Front, was under the control of British asset management. Construction could only be resumed in 1947, but until the currency reform in 1948 only existing buildings could be expanded.
In the post-war period, Neuland built numerous buildings, mostly rental apartments. Until 1959 she was largely solely responsible for the construction of new apartments. Initially, the focus was on the demolition of the barracks , but later numerous new districts were built. Especially from 1955, when the city of Wolfsburg received the property rights to the land in the city area, there was a rapid expansion of the city.
In 1972/73 Neuland and August Haerder & Co GmbH from Lübeck built the Haerder-City-Center in Porschestrasse as the first shopping center in the city center to combine various independent retail stores under one roof. From 1979 the administration of Neuland moved to Westhagen, so that in 1985/86 their previous administration building (Unter den Eichen 51/53) could be converted into senior citizen apartments. In the 1980s, Neuland began selling rental apartments as condominiums, initially in the Steimker Berg district .
In the 2000s, Neuland was responsible for several large buildings:
- 2003: BadeLand Wolfsburg , one of the largest swimming pools in Northern Germany
- 2003: Wolfsburg main branch of Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg
- 2005: Science Center phæno
The Neuland Foundation was established in 2013 for the company's 75th anniversary.
In 2015 Neuland decided to sell the phæno to the city of Wolfsburg because of the high follow-up costs. For this she received around 30 million euros from the city, which has since been responsible for repairs. In 2018 the step high-rise built by Neuland , one of the most striking residential buildings in the Detmerode district , was demolished due to its dilapidation.
literature
- New territory. An apartment every working day. Neuland (ed.), Wolfsburg 1953.
- New territory - a housing company shapes the face of a city. In: architecture & economy. No. 52, Verlag für Architektur GmbH, Wiesbaden 1986, pp. 66-82.
- Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. A chronicle. 1938-1948. Wolfsburg 1974, p. 57.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c portrait on the homepage , accessed on November 9, 2015
- ↑ The city will be built next year. In: 50 years of Wolfsburg in the press. City of Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 1988, p. 12.
- ^ Portrait of Koller by Sigurd Trommer , accessed on November 9, 2015
- ↑ Foundation website ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 9, 2015
- ↑ Phæno: City pays 30 million to new land. Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung of July 13, 2015, accessed on November 9, 2015
