Lindenhof settlement
The Lindenhof estate is a housing estate in the extreme south of the Schöneberg district of Berlin , which was built in the 1920s and based on the idea of the garden city .
location
The settlement is located in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district . To the east of the settlement are the Eythstrasse cemetery and Alboinplatz . To the south of the settlement is the St. Matthias cemetery, already in the Tempelhof district . In the west, the settlement is bounded by the railway systems of the Dresden and Anhalter Bahn with the Priesterweg S-Bahn station .
The facility is located around eight kilometers south of central Berlin. Just a few minutes' walk away is the Priesterweg S-Bahn station (lines S2 and S25 ), from which you can get to Potsdamer Platz in ten minutes and Friedrichstrasse station in 15 minutes . Numerous leisure activities can be found in the immediate vicinity, including the Insulaner with the “Sommerbad am Insulaner”, the planetarium at the Insulaner , the Wilhelm Foerster Observatory , a winter toboggan run and the Südgelände Nature Park . In the Lindenhof settlement there is also a day care center with all-day care from the Schöneberg neighborhood home, a primary school, the GeWoSüd headquarters, a wash house, the “GeWoHiN” neighborhood meeting place and a youth club.
history
Between 1918 and 1921, the Lindenhof estate was one of the most famous settlements in Berlin in the 1920s. It was developed under the direction of the then Schöneberg town planning officer Martin Wagner .
The Lindenhof - a pioneer settlement with a model character - was characterized above all by good living space at favorable conditions, numerous communal facilities and the possibility of self-sufficiency in house gardens.
Bruno Taut was also involved in the settlement with the plans for a “single home” . The landscape architect Leberecht Migge was responsible for the design of the outdoor facilities in the area of the Lindenhof pond . The owner of the estate was the town of Schöneberg, which was independent until 1920. As a result, the estate became the property of the Cooperative Siedlung Lindenhof eGmbH, founded on December 16, 1921 . In December 1941, the Lindenhof cooperative founded in June 1919 Charitable Landerwerbs- and cooperative Dahlem-Schmargendorf eGmH assigned and brought into line . Since then, the owners' cooperative has been operating under the new name of Gemeinnützige Wohnungsgenossenschaft Berlin Süd eG (GeWoSüd). The cooperative has been operating under the name GeWoSüd genossenschaftliches Wohnen Berlin-Süd eG since mid-2010 .
In World War II, almost 80 percent of Lindenhofbauten were destroyed. Parts could be rebuilt. From the years of reconstruction until today, the various architectural styles of the 20th century can be seen in the Lindenhof. The original development around the gardens from the 1920s was replaced by the contemporary linear construction in the 1950s.
In the 1960s and 1970s, multi-storey residential buildings and point high-rise buildings were built in the estate. In the 1990s, the semicircular new building in Arnulfstrasse closed the last vacant lot from the Second World War. In 2005, GeWoSüd renewed its administrative center. The modern extension was built to an existing residential building at Eythstraße 45, mainly made of concrete, glass and wood.
General
Due to its location and architecture, the historical settlement looks like an island within the city. As a former garden city, the Lindenhof is characterized by its park-like open spaces with old trees and its own pond , which arose from an Ice Age pool .
Extensive renovation measures have been underway in the entire Lindenhof since 2007 . 120 apartments have already been renovated in the old multi-family houses. In 2008/2009 all the attic floors in Suttnerstrasse and in some houses on Reglinstrasse were expanded. According to plans and under the management of the Carlos Zwick architectural office, 21 new apartments with maisonette character were built. As part of the competition of the BBU Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Housing Companies e. In March 2009, GeWoSüd was awarded first prize in the cooperatives category for its “Lindenhof - traditionally modern” concept. The concept took second place in the nationwide “Future Prize” for the real estate industry. A special feature is the energy concept: since 2009, a total of three combined heat and power units (BHKW) from the Berliner Energieagentur (BEA), which are housed in a glass heating center, have provided the residents with heat and electricity . The CO 2 emissions of the settlement were drastically reduced in the course of the renovation in accordance with the listed buildings . Between 2012 and 2016, a further 29 apartments were built in the expanded attic of the historic apartment buildings. A sponsorship project “My Tree” replaces trees that have reached their natural age or have been damaged by diseases or environmental influences that they had to be removed. The balance improves with each planting and a generation contract is concluded between the residents and tree sponsors. A beekeeping company processes the honey from six colonies of bees on the roof of the communal wash house in the park. In November 2015, GeWoSüd received the “Green Buddy Award” from the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district office for energy-efficient building renovation in listed buildings. In November 2016 the Lindenhof was recognized as an official project of the “ UN Decade of Biological Diversity ”.
The Lindenhof comprises 232 houses with a total of 1262 apartments; there are 163 apartment blocks and 69 single-family houses . The settlement has around 2500 residents (as of 2016).
literature
- Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt (Ed.): "That was a completely closed society here". The Lindenhof: A cooperative settlement in the big city . Dirk Nishen Verlag, Berlin-Kreuzberg 1987, ISBN 3-88940-133-3 .
Web links
- Lindenhof I settlement in the state monument list
- Eythstraße residential complex (extension of the Lindenhofsiedlung) in the state monument list
- Garden monument open spaces and gardens of the Lindenhofsiedlung in the state monument list
Individual evidence
- ↑ When monument protection and energy saving are fun. The “Green Buddy Award 2015”, the environmental award of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district, was awarded in the category “Energy-efficient renovation of listed buildings” by GeWoSüd for the renovation of the historic Lindenhof. (No longer available online.) Www.gewosued.net, archived from the original on December 11, 2015 ; accessed on December 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Hendricks honors Berlin garden city Lindenhof. At: bmub.de , November 3, 2016
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '28.8 " N , 13 ° 21' 43.2" E