Red houses

Prinzenalle 46A, group of houses called “Red Houses” in 1901 by Breslauer and Salinger

Memorial plaque for Hugo Heimann at Prinzenallee 46a

Red houses is the popular name for a row of eight residential buildings on the plot of land at Prinzenallee 46a to 46h in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen , which the social democratic politician and publisher Hugo Heimann had built in 1901 to enable Berlin social democrats to be elected as members of the city council .

background

Since the election as a member of the Berlin city council was tied to property for 2/3 of the seats, 2/3 of the SPD members had to be landowners, which was usually not the case due to the origin of the candidates. In order to circumvent this restriction, the social democrat Hugo Heimann had the small settlement built on Prinzenallee and transferred the property rights to social democrats, who could thus be elected. They retained this function until the end of the Empire.

settlement

Redevelopment of the former settlement

In 1901, eight two- and three-story residential buildings with a spacious floor plan and front gardens were built on the property, which were mostly inhabited by two parties. The architects were Paul Salinger, a friend of Heimann, and his office partner and brother-in-law Alfred Breslauer . Karl Liebknecht , Paul Singer , Eduard Bernstein , Wilhelm Pfannkuch and Hermann Weyl were the owners - without living in these houses themselves. Mostly skilled workers and craftsmen lived in the houses, mostly SPD members. Four houses were destroyed in World War II, the other four badly damaged. In 1958 the Vaterländischer Bauverein acquired the property for the construction of a new residential development, and in 1960 three-storey houses were built here in the typical style of the 1960s.

literature

Helga Grebing , Siegfried Heimann (Hrsg.): Workers' movement in Berlin. The historical travel guide. Ch. Links, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86153-691-8 , p. 30. ( very limited preview of Google books )

Web links

Commons : Prinzenallee 46a (Berlin-Gesundbrunnen) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Red houses - Berlin Lexicon. In: luise-berlin.de. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .

Individual evidence

^ Joachim Berger: Berlin - liberal & rebellious . Goebel, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-924591-02-4 .
↑ Prinzenallee 46a – h . In: Berlin address book , 1914, part III. Streets and houses of Berlin, p. 705.

52.559844 13.387453Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 35.4 " N , 13 ° 23 ′ 14.8" E

[1] Joachim Berger: Berlin - liberal & rebellious . Goebel, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-924591-02-4 .

[2] Prinzenallee 46a – h . In: Berlin address book , 1914, part III. Streets and houses of Berlin, p. 705.