Rosenau (Basel)

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As Rosenau a ‹on the Lysbüchel› or ‹St. Johann-Boden ›am Wasenrain in the extreme north-west of the Basel district of St. Johann denotes the area directly on the border with France .

Emergency housing estate

The emergency housing estate in Rosenau was built there in 1948/49 . It was part of a government-subsidized construction program to combat the housing shortage and comprised 13 similar, two-story residential buildings each with 20 rooms and a kindergarten . They all consisted of prefabricated Durisol panels that were inserted into a wooden framework, which enabled quick and cheap assembly. The houses of this type were designed for the temporary accommodation of families in need and were built in the Basel city area also on the Burgfeld border and at the cemetery on the Hörnli . The name of the settlement was apparently taken from the village of Rosenau , located about seven kilometers north-northwest on the Alsatian bank of the Rhine .

In 1996 the houses in Rosenau were demolished to make way for the construction of the Basel northern bypass ; The residential building at Neudorfstrasse 93, which was used as a construction manager's barracks until 2004, remained in place.

Villa Rosenau

Villa Rosenau in 2006.

On the occasion of a public kitchen , the only remaining house was occupied by autonomous people and in the following years served as a social center under the name Villa Rosenau . The operators set up a screen printing workshop , a cinema room, a bar and a concert hall. The residents supported campaigns against deportations , especially in the case of the possible extradition of the Kurdish refugee Erdogan Elmas to Turkey.

In mid-2008 the Basel Civil Engineering Office, which administered the building for the Federal Roads Office, planned to demolish the building in favor of a replacement green area, the creation of which was required by law to compensate for the construction of the north bypass. However, due to a parliamentary interpellation by some members of the red-green camp, the Villa Rosenau was finally granted "until further notice". Conservative politicians and the Basel police officers' association criticized this as tolerating a “legal free area”.

On the night of February 3, 2013, the building was severely damaged in a fire. According to the public prosecutor's office, an overloaded electrical line was the cause of the fire. The building insurance declared a total loss and had the property locked for security reasons and demolished on February 8th. This approach was strongly criticized by former residents and their sympathizers. According to a private report, the house should not have been in danger of collapsing. An intact residential bus was destroyed during the demolition work and the police refused entry to the former residents in order to salvage their last belongings. Photos of the residents show that large parts of the property and the inventory remained untouched by the flames. Around 200 people commemorated the demolished occupying community in February with a “funeral march” through Basel, and in September 2013 there was a “birthday parade” to celebrate the occupation nine years ago.

The Villa Rosenau was the last occupied house in Basel to date. A business park is now to be built on the site.

Literature on the history of architecture

  • Dorothee Huber: Architecture Guide Basel. Published by the Architekturmuseum in Basel. 2nd edition, Architekturmuseum, Basel 1996, ISBN 3-905065-22-3 , p. 378 f.
  • Rudolf Kaufmann: The artistic life in Basel from October 1, 1947 to September 30, 1948 , published in the Basler Jahrbuch 1949, edited by Ernst Jenny and Gustav Steiner , Verlag Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1948, pp. 187, 226

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hansjörg Huck: In front of the St. Johann-Tor: field names and place names ‹Auf dem Lysbüchel›, ‹Im Davidsboden› , compiled from various sources, plans and literature areas of the Basel-Stadt State Archives, Basel 2007; online (PDF; 22.1 MB)
  2. ↑ Origins of Villa Rosenau , altbasel.ch, January 4, 2012, accessed on October 3, 2013
  3. ↑ Villa Rosenau occupied! ( Memento from May 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Villa Rosenau
  4. ↑ Violent left-wing extremism (PDF; 1.4 MB), confidential document from the public prosecutor of the canton of Basel-Stadt on grundrechte.ch
  5. ↑ Erdogan E. is free , Indymedia Switzerland, January 30, 2007
  6. ↑ Dominik Gross: Villa Rosenau, the last occupied house in the city of Basel: Bastion des Lebendigen , WOZ Die Wochenzeitung , June 3, 2008
  7. ↑ Mischa Hauswirth: “The Villa Rosenau is a legally free space” , Basler Zeitung , October 20, 2011
  8. ↑ Raphael Suter: Squatters are more important than taxpayers , comment in the Basler Zeitung , February 5, 2013
  9. ^ Occupied "Villa Rosenau" burned down , 20 minutes , February 3, 2013
  10. ^ Occupiers want to stay in Villa Rosenau , Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SFR), February 4, 2013
  11. ↑ Overloaded electric line Cause of fire in "Villa Rosenau"  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bluewin , February 5, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bluewin.ch  
  12. ↑ Martin Regenass: The End of Villa Rosenau , Basler Zeitung , February 9, 2013
  13. ↑ Abort «Villa Rosenau»  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , SRF , Schweiz aktuell , February 8, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.srf.ch  
  14. ↑ Renato Beck: Villa Rosenau: Question marks behind the actions of the authorities , TagesWoche , February 9, 2013
  15. ↑ Farewell to Villa Rosenau - Thoughts on Occupied Houses , Blog 47: Intellectual Self-Defense , February 11, 2013
  16. ↑ Basel: And suddenly the villa was completely gone , WOZ Die Wochenzeitung , February 21, 2013
  17. ↑ The question of how and where ( memento of the original from March 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Blog on the demolition of Villa Rosenau, October 1, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.villarosenau.ch.vu
  18. ^ Demolition: «Villa Rosenau» in Basel , destroyed by fire, demolished , TagesWoche , February 8, 2013
  19. ^ Villa Rosenau has been demolished , Badische Zeitung , February 9, 2013
  20. ↑ Demonstration: Farewell to Villa Rosenau is not without background noises , Basellandschaftliche Zeitung , February 11, 2013
  21. ^ Basel: Birthday parade for Villa Rosenau , Indymedia , October 1, 2013
  22. ^ Business park instead of Villa Rosenau , Basler Zeitung , June 18, 2013

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