Friendship Route settlement
The Freundsweg settlement is a listed housing estate in the Salbke district of Magdeburg .
The residential buildings are located on both sides of the dead end friendship path , which branches off to the east of the main street Alt Salbke .
Architecture and history
The settlement was built between 1904 and 1913 and was built on behalf of the Prussian State Railways . The workers of the Reichsbahn repair shop Salbke, a little further to the west, were supposed to find apartments in it. Five houses were built to the north and four houses to the south of today's friendship route, which was originally named as a private railway road .
Three-storey semi-detached houses with a mansard roof were built, the architecture of which is based on the reform architecture of the time. The apartments were designed as two or three-room apartments. The toilets were outside the building. Behind the houses were small stables and sheds. The facade of the ground floor is clinkered, that of the other floors is plastered and framed with brick pilaster strips . The windows on the upper floors are also decorated with flat brick gables. The center of the facade is formed by a by a gable in framework construction provided Risalit emphasized.
A little south of the settlement is the Salbker water tower , which also belonged to the repair shop.
During the Second World War , the houses were damaged in air raids. The roofs were covered and the windows destroyed. During the heavy air raid on the neighboring Reichsbahn repair shop on January 21, 1944, a 500 kg high- explosive bomb hit the residential building at Eisenbahn-Privatstrasse 1 on the south side of the confluence with Alt Salbke . The bomb penetrated the building down to the basement and exploded there. The 21 residents in the air raid shelter there , including children, were killed. The building was completely destroyed.
literature
- Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 197 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 100 years of the Magdeburg repair shop 1895-1995 , page 25
- ↑ 100 years of Magdeburg repair shop, 1895-1995 , page 44
Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 59.6 ″ N , 11 ° 39 ′ 56.9 ″ E