Row house development (Am Lindgraben 1–20)

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Row house settlement (Darmstadt-Kranichstein, Am Lindgraben 1–20)
Darmstadt-Kranichstein-Terraced Housing Estate.jpg
Data
place Darmstadt-Kranichstein
architect Hans Kleinschmidt
Builder Settlement Society for Traffic Staff (SIEGE)
Construction year 1928
Coordinates 49 ° 54 '15.8 "  N , 8 ° 41' 5.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '15.8 "  N , 8 ° 41' 5.9"  E

The terraced housing estate Am Lindgraben 1–20 is a listed housing estate from the late 1920s in Darmstadt-Kranichstein in Hesse .

History and description

The row house settlement was planned in 1928 by the architect and Reichsbahnoberrat Hans Kleinschmidt . The railway settlement was constructed on circular sections. The settlement is popularly known as "Rundhausen". Of the four originally planned rows of houses, only three were realized. The row of houses closest to the center of the circle consists of three row houses, the middle row of seven and the outer row of ten row houses. The curved layout of the rows of houses created interesting perspectives. The settlement is reminiscent of garden city facilities .

The individual row houses are two-story and have a cellar. All houses have a usable attic under a steep pitched roof ; that goes across the entire row. The facades of the buildings are smoothly plastered .

Monument protection

Stylistically, the settlement is a hybrid of expressionism , traditionalism and moderate objectivity . The windows built in corners and the horizontal emphasis by cornices belong to Expressionism . The shape of the roof is part of traditional architecture. The semi-elliptical porch on the middle house in the inner row is part of the practicality. The ensemble of buildings, which is interesting from a socio-historical point of view, is a good example of the architecture of the late 1920s. For architectural and city history reasons, the building is a cultural monument .

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