Post trial settlement

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The post trial settlement , officially attempt settlement of the Bavarian Post and Telegraph Association is a housing estate in Munich district Neuhausen .

history

Row of houses in the east

In the years 1928/29 the settlement was built by the building cooperative of the post and telegraph staff in Munich. Architects were Robert Vorhoelzer and Walther Schmidt . The planning took place in cooperation with the Reich Research Society for Economic Efficiency in Construction and Housing . The aim was to test different types of apartments from the point of view of acceptance and economy. Different roof shapes , construction methods of external walls and ceilings, as well as different materials were to be tested . In otherwise identical houses, three different heating systems were installed: central heating , floor heating and individual stoves should be compared with regard to their economic efficiency in terms of construction and maintenance as well as with regard to ease of use. A report by the research association appeared in 1929. The apartments were equipped with the Munich kitchen by Hanna Löv , which was characterized by a partially glazed wall that separated it from the living room. Four model apartments were also furnished with furniture from Bayerische Hausratshilfe , which were seen as examples of particularly practical, inexpensive and beautiful furnishings; the tenants of these apartments received accompanying advice.

Today the settlement, an early and important example of the Post Building School , is a listed building .

buildings

Row of houses in the south

The buildings of the post-trial settlement are grouped around a large, approximately square inner courtyard. In the north, west and east, the settlement is bounded by single-wing, elongated apartment blocks, and in the south by a four-wing complex. Within this square, which is only connected at two corners by a single-storey shop building, there are further apartment blocks on the west and east sides, parallel to the blocks on the outside. The arrangement of the buildings should ensure favorable lighting conditions.

The facades of the buildings in the New Objectivity style are kept very simple. A total of 326 apartments in two sizes - 57 and 70 square meters - were built. For reasons of comparability, the floor plans of the blocks extending from east to west are the same as those in north-south direction, which sometimes results in unfavorable lighting conditions.

Shops and property management are located in the block along Arnulfstrasse to the north .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reichsforschungsgesellschaft for Economic Efficiency in Building and Housing (Ed.): Report on the experimental settlement in Munich . Beuth, Berlin 1929.

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 48 ″  N , 11 ° 31 ′ 42 ″  E