Mechelnbusch settlement

Mechelnbusch House 27

Haus Mechelnbusch 29. The offset of the floors can be seen.

South end of Mechelnbusch Street

The Mechelnbusch settlement is located in the Rissen district of Hamburg . The closed residential estate with its 28 houses was built in the early post-war years and was designed as a "settlement with high residential value".

location

The settlement borders on the town center of Rissen in the north and stretches left and right of the Mechelnbusch street in a southerly direction to the Tinsdaler Heideweg . The individual buildings are quite low with two to three floors and grouped as solitaires in an open park landscape.

history

All houses were built according to plans by the architects Heinz Graaf and Max Corleis between 1949 and 1951; the surrounding park was designed by the garden architect Karl Plomin . The client was the Bauverein der Elbgemeinden , which is the owner of the building to this day and for whom Heinz Graaf built many housing developments in the 1950s and 1960s. As is typical of the times, one had to be careful with construction and design. Therefore, although concrete was used, a large proportion of debris was mixed in with it. The bright plastered facades were atypical for Hamburg at the time of construction. The concept of the settlement reflects the guidelines for social housing of the British occupying forces that were still in effect at the time of planning and approval .

Living concept

The 280 apartments in the complex all have shower rooms only and were originally designed with kitchenettes in the living rooms.

The internal division of the houses is unusual, but also contributes to the desired relaxed design. The houses are divided by a staircase in the center of the house , the front and rear apartments are offset from one another by half a storey.

The apartments are closely connected to the green area and the loggias and terraces give them a very open flair. Each apartment has a garden of around 200 m².

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 45.4 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 17.6"  E

Mechelnbusch settlement​

Hamburg

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  Gardens in summer

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  House 8

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  House 21

literature

• Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 286 f .
• Georg Dehio (Greetings): Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ) . 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 3-422-03033-6 , p. 119 f .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Assessment in Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 286 .
2. ↑ Heinz Graaf's curriculum vitae in the Hamburg Architecture Archive. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
3. ↑ Description of the apartment distribution on the website of the local magazine "Hamburger Klönsnack" from the Elbe suburbs . Retrieved August 1, 2016.
4. ↑ Brief description of the estate with sample floor plans on the BVE website. Retrieved August 1, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Mechelnbusch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Description on the website of the Altona district