Rundling (Leipzig)

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Aerial photograph (2008)
The Western Axis (2009)

The Rundling , also called the Nibelungensiedlung , is a circular housing estate in the Leipzig district of Lößnig .

In a time of great housing shortage, a municipal housing estate was built in 1929/30 by the Leipzig architect and city planning officer Hubert Ritter . Ritter built 24 houses in a row on a flat hill on the outskirts of the city at the time, arranged in the form of three concentric rings. The outer ring has a diameter of 300 meters. Ritter emphasized the hillside location by making the inner ring four instead of three storeys. Two main axes perpendicular to each other and a few secondary entrances open up the area with traffic. The western entrance is emphasized by two front end buildings with sales facilities in the ground floor areas. The entrances to the houses of the two outer rings are from the circular Nibelungenring between them, those of the inner ring from the central Siegfriedplatz.

The buildings were built in the New Objectivity style. In the opinion of the architectural historian Winfried Nerdinger , the Rundling is a "symbol for the ideals of the New Building of the Weimar Republic ". 624 apartments were created with eleven differently tailored floor plans of different sizes and always designed with optimal lighting conditions in mind, for example no living rooms facing north. In the center of the facility was a large paddling pool for the children of the settlement.

The Rundling suffered severe damage in the Second World War . The paddling pool was gutted after the war and initially used as grave land, then a bed was created and the pool abandoned. In 1965/66 the buildings were partially rebuilt. During the complex renovation of the listed complex from 1993 to 1997, five blocks that were destroyed in the war were rebuilt. The Leipzig Housing and Construction Company received the German Builder Award for the renovation of the round building .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. , Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 516
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Hocquel: Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. Leipzig: Passage-Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 244
  3. ↑ The crosshairs of modernity , FAZ.NET August 30, 2009
  4. ↑ Petra Mewes, Peter Benecken: Leipzigs Grün , Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-938543-49-8 , p. 20

Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 46 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 37 ″  E