Gebag settlement

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Fontanestrasse and Zeppelinallee, in the part of the estate designed by Jean Krämer

The Gebag settlement , also known as Fontanehof or Fontanehof settlement , is a listed housing estate in the Berlin district of Oberschöneweide in the Treptow-Köpenick district , which was built in two construction phases in 1924/25 based on designs by Jean Krämer and 1928/30 by Ernst Ziesel . The client was the non-profit construction company Oberschöneweide (Gebag).

location

The settlement with a trapezoidal floor plan is located in the north of the Oberschöneweide district between Zeppelinstrasse in the south, Fontanestrasse and Roedernstrasse in the west and east and An der Wuhlheide street in the north. To the west, starting on the opposite side of Fontanestrasse, is the Oberschöneweide settlement that was built a few years earlier . The Gebag settlement includes the properties Zeppelinstrasse 73–87 (odd numbers), An der Wuhlheide 26–40 (even numbers), Fontanestrasse 3–7 (consecutive) and Triniusstrasse 10, 11 and 11A. The corner area Triniusstraße / An der Wuhlheide is not part of the ensemble.

history

Buildings designed by Ernst Ziesel on the corner of Zeppelin and Triniusstrasse

In Oberschöneweide, a district of Berlin since 1920, a large industrial site had emerged from the end of the 19th century. The AEG was one of the largest companies in town. She founded the non-profit construction company Oberschöneweide, or Gebag for short, for her employees . They built a number of residential buildings, including the Oberschöneweide settlement around 1920. In the immediate vicinity, she began building another settlement in 1923, which became known as the Gebag settlement . For the first time in Oberschöneweide, funds from the state housing subsidy could be used.

The architect Jean Krämer could be won over for the first construction phase in the area of ​​the Fontanestrasse. Several other buildings in Oberschöneweide were made by Krämer, including the AEG cable works in Oberspree . Ernst Ziesel was responsible for the design of the second construction phase, which was completed in the late 1920s. Ziesel, who was at times one of AEG's in-house architects, also built buildings in the cable plant and in the AEG transformer plant in Oberschöneweide.

In 2001, the estate was renovated with private funds and funds from the urban protection program.

construction

House entrance design Fontanestr. 3 by Jean Krämer
Courtyard, with a view of the houses at An der Wuhlheide

The settlement consists of two and three-story row houses. In contrast to the neighboring settlement of Oberschöneweide, multi-family houses were built in a relaxed block-edge construction, which meant that more apartments could be built at lower costs.

At the intersection of Zeppelinstrasse and Fontanestrasse, Jean Krämer built three-storey residential houses arranged at right angles, leaving a small green space at the intersection. In the exterior design of the facades, Krämer referred to the opposite corner buildings of the Oberschöneweide estate designed by Ernst Spitzner. The design is loosened up with risalits, loggias, roof structures and folding shutters. The two main entrances to the square are designed in an expressionist manner.

The houses of the second construction phase designed by Ernst Ziesel are modern cubic buildings with open loggias and hipped roofs . The plastered facades are structured by vertical clinker strips that partially accommodate verandas. Ziesel built two-story row houses in the street An der Wuhlheide. Like Krämer on the corner of Fontanestrasse, Ziesel also designed a three-storey square on the corner of Zeppelin and Triniusstrasse.

The extensive area in the middle of the block was not built on. Unlike in the neighboring Oberschöneweide settlement, no individual gardens were created, but a green area accessible to all residents.

Web links

Commons : Siedlung Gebag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fontanehof on the website of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment.
  2. ↑ a b Georg Dehio: Berlin (= Handbook of German Art Monuments) . 3rd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-422-03111-1 , p. 580.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  4. ^ A b Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The building and art monuments in the GDR. Capital Berlin II. Henschel-Verlag Art and Society, Berlin 1987, p. 329.

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '  N , 13 ° 31'  E