Schwagenscheidt settlement Faßberg

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The Schwagenscheidt settlement is a residential area in the Lower Saxony municipality of Faßberg .

description

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The twelve hectare housing estate is located in the south-eastern part of the town center in the corner of the Lange Reihe and Schlichternheide streets. The settlement includes 71 multi-family houses with 287 apartments. The buildings were all erected between green spaces from red clinker bricks with a gable roof. They are combined into several assemblies with twelve to 20 four-family houses. A characteristic feature is the multiple arrangement of buildings offset by 90 degrees.

history

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The Schwagenscheidt settlement is closely related to the Faßberg air base built in the 1930s . Between 1934 and 1938, three housing estates (white, red and gray) were built to accommodate the families of the military personnel stationed at the air base, separated by rank. When the population in Faßberg rose sharply in the mid-1950s, also due to the takeover of the air base by the German Armed Forces, the municipality of Faßberg decided on an extensive housing construction program. The architect Walter Schwagenscheidt from Kronberg im Taunus played a decisive role in the execution of the planning . Schwagenscheidt was a well-known representative of the Frankfurt School at that time . After he had already supervised two projects on behalf of the German Armed Forces in 1958 and 1959, in 1960 he also received the order for a third new residential area, the Schwagenscheidt settlement later named after him. It became a striking example of the ideas of the Frankfurt School and was added to the list of architectural monuments in Faßberg in the 1990s . By 2015, the Schwagenscheidt settlement had become a need for redevelopment and burdened the Faßberg community with a vacancy rate of 50 percent. In 2016 it was possible to sell the entire estate to a Swiss group of companies, which immediately began extensive renovations.

literature

  • Christoph M. Glombek: Chronicle of the community Fassberg. Self-published by the municipality of Faßberg, 2002, OCLC 840057930 , pp. 316-317.

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