PH 16

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Stuttgarter Allee in Leipzig-Grünau with one of the characteristic high-rise buildings (on the left, with a staircase added later)
Three of the first 5 high-rise buildings of this type on Juri-Gagarin-Ring in Erfurt

The PH 16 (point high-rise building with 16 storeys) was one of several types of industrial housing in the GDR , whose origins lie in the Erfurt Housing Combine. Thus it belongs to the "Erfurt" series of apartments ( WBR Erfurt ), which was mainly built in Erfurt. The PH 16 is the only building that was built in series outside of Thuringia . It reached a height of 16 floors. The emergence of such settlements was initiated by a housing construction program adopted by the SED in 1973 .

Construction of the building

Schematic ground floor plan of a PH 16

The PH 16 contained 132 one to five-room apartments , one or two small business units on the ground floor, as well as storage and garbage rooms within the building. Around 400 people live in a fully rented building. In terms of construction, the building consists of 3 block segments, each with 3 apartments, which are connected via an H-shaped corridor system. Access is mainly via two internal elevators up to the 14th floor. The houses are usually positioned so that the block segments face east, south and west. Due to the design of the building, most of the apartments are only oriented in one direction and only have windows in that direction. A stairwell behind the northern elevator serves primarily as an escape route. There are no apartments in the west segment on the ground floor. The entrance area is here, to the left of it there was often a transformer and a garbage room. To the right of the entrance was the mailbox room. By moving the mailboxes to the entrance area and relocating the garbage cans, storage rooms, a caretaker's office or small business units were created. At the outer ends of the access corridors there were windows and emergency balconies for being instructed in the event of fire.

In terms of urban planning, the PH 16, often erected in groups with at least two buildings, served as a gateway or high point within the prefabricated housing estates . With a height of 50.485 meters (above ground), it is one of the highest series-built panel construction types in the GDR.

Apartments

The apartments had a rectangular floor plan with wet cells right next to the apartment entrance and the classic kitchenette with hatch to the living room. The two- and three-room apartments had another room, accessed through the living room, which was designed as a walk-through room. The latter also had a room across from the bathroom. In the south-west corner, the third room was accessed via the second room, so that two of the three rooms were connecting rooms. Since there were no balconies in the apartments, some of the windows were designed as French windows with particularly low parapets.

From the ground floor to the 14th floor, the apartments are designed as one, two and three-room apartments, with the latter measuring around 60 m² of living space and located in the corners of the building. On the 14th floor, only the western segment has this division. In each of the 3 block segments, a room is used for the tenants' storage boxes, because there are no basement boxes. In at least one of the storage box rooms (in the western one) there was a garbage chute , which was rarely used.

A special feature are the maisonette apartments in the east and south segments , which access the 15th floor via a staircase in the living room. The floor plan corresponds to the apartments below. Here, too, the stairwell serves as an escape route, but it also opens up the elevator machine room and the ventilation center above.

The power supply within the apartments was divided into 220-volt lines and control lines with 24 or 48 volts, with all lamps being switched via bell wire buttons. A central relay controlled all ceiling lights in the apartment.

history

The first PH 16 was built in Erfurt as early as 1969. When the high-rise building on Juri-Gagarin-Ring opened as a construction workers' hotel on October 7, 1969, the 20th anniversary of the former GDR, people spoke of “the highest economic construction” and “top performance in construction ". Because it was built completely turnkey within just 100 days of construction. A special feature was the roof terrace with a pergola and the addition of a large hall that served as a guest room for the hotel. In 1990 Kowo took over the building and a hotel moved in. In 1998 the operator filed for bankruptcy . The house has been empty since then. In January 2002, the dismantling began with a subsequent full renovation. The three segments of the point high-rise were removed in such a way that a tiered house was created. The east block was reduced to 7, the south block to 5 and the west block to 3 floors. On November 7, 2002, the new headquarters of Kowo mbH was opened here. The remaining fifteen PH 16s were built by 1973. Eislebener Strasse 3 and 5, Mainzer Strasse 21 and 22, Kassler Strasse 2 and, after the renovation in 1995, also the buildings of Juri-Gagarin-Ring 126 a, were given a roof terrace and b.

Two of these PH 16s were built using the boarding method. One was used by the Civil Engineering School, the other as a dormitory for the University of Erfurt. They differed mainly in that the two maisonette floors were developed as common rooms. Here there was a large hall, TV, club, hobby and sports rooms, a tea kitchen, a bar, a music room and a small library . The two buildings had been vacant since 1999/2003, until they were the last to be handed over to tenants as fully refurbished residential buildings of the Cavere Group in March 2016.

Behind the two former dormitories there is a third house. This was the last to be pulled empty as part of the master plan until 2012, only to be demolished afterwards. The reason for this was the incomplete renovation and the neglected environment of the dormitories, which were vacant at the time. Exactly at the time of the vacancy, however, the population of Erfurt changed for the better, which prevented the demolition. After a long vacancy, the building is to be completely renovated and made usable again by 2020. The last two PH 16s built in Györer Straße weren't so lucky. Despite already carried out partial renovations, u. a. with an expensive ceramic facade, they were removed in 2004.

Refurbished PH 16 in Leipzig-Mockau

Locations

PH 16 along the Straße des 18. Oktober in Leipzig

Solitary locations in the major cities of the GDR:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Large housing estates in Germany. In: www.wohnsiedlungen-in-deutschland.de. Retrieved August 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ museumsmagazin online: Dream and Tristesse ( Memento from April 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ WHH residential high-rises. Federal Ministry for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development, 1993, accessed on August 17, 2015 .
  4. ^ Skyscraper in Berlin-Mitte: World Trade Center of the GDR - Berlin - Tagesspiegel. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved August 17, 2015 .
  5. ↑ infas 360 - Where people live in high-rise buildings. In: infas360.de. Retrieved August 17, 2015 .
  6. ↑ LVZ-Online: After gold and silver comes bronze: third LWB high-rise in the music district is being renovated. In: www.lvz.de. Retrieved August 17, 2015 .
  7. ^ Matthias Bernt: The political control of the urban redevelopment in Leipzig-Grünau. In: UFZ discussion papers. 2005, archived from the original on July 12, 2016 ; accessed on August 17, 2015 .

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