Settlement (Lohfelden)
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The settlement is a garden city, which was built in 1939–1951 in the homeland security style in Lohfelden . With the new main street it contributed significantly to the growing together of the districts.
history
Already in 1919 there were plans to build a garden city. The plans were only implemented in the 1930s when the need for personnel at the Junkers and Fieseler factories increased due to the war. A settlement with 2000 residential units for 12,000 people and a district hospital were planned. The architect Hans Georg Oechler won the competition .
The settlement played a special role insofar as it lay between the previous districts of Crumbach and Ochshausen and henceforth formed the new municipality of Lohfelden with them. The Fernsicht camp, where forced laborers were housed, was located next to the settlement .
The construction of the settlement was completed in 1952, but on a much smaller scale than originally planned. The armaments industry was now meaningless and the county hospital was never built. The structural change from two villages to an urban community was nevertheless completed.
layout
Although it was built under the National Socialists, there are no quotes from homeland, the Söhrestrasse is reminiscent of models from garden cities and the row of houses on the main street of classicist models. The reason may be that, due to the settlement of workers from industry, they did not want to romanticize the previously rural areas and therefore oriented themselves towards bourgeois forms of living. On the other hand, there are also numerous examples of classicism in Lohfelden.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ' N , 9 ° 32' E