New Jerusalem settlement
The Neu-Jerusalem settlement has been a listed residential complex of the new building since 1992 on Heerstraße in the Berlin district of Staaken ( Spandau district ), near the Berlin city limits. The settlement was planned in 1923/1924 by the architect Erwin Anton Gutkind and completed in 1925; The garden architect Leberecht Migge was responsible for the garden design . The project concerned a housing estate for members of the Aviation Academy of the Staaken airship port with a total area of 37,611 m².
The complex consists of 21 identical semi-detached houses (eleven north and ten south of Heerstrasse) and one single house. The street-side row of the individual cubic houses with attached, single-storey ancillary buildings conveys a closed settlement appearance and encloses the parceled garden areas with a size of around 700 m² per semi-detached house. With their cube-shaped design and the differentiated staggering of the buildings, the houses are typical examples of the architectural avant-garde of the early 1920s. A horizontal structure of the facades with plastered areas on the ground floor and dark brickwork in the upper area originally reinforced the design concept. Initially, one apartment per semi-detached house was planned, but currently a semi-detached house consists of four rental apartments.
In contrast to the conventionally bricked semi-detached houses, the single-family house was built using an experimental prefabricated construction method .
In 2012, the property was sold to different people via Prinz von Sachsen Immobilien GmbH by the owner Northern Cross Estate GmbH (NCE), who had previously acquired this property in 2008 through the Liegenschaftsfonds Berlin, contrary to the requirements of the Supreme Monument Protection Authority sold to new owners.
The monument protection catalog was finalized and published in 2014 in close cooperation with the delegates from Staaken, Burgunde Grosse , Dieter Nellessen from the Lower Monument Protection Authority and the owners. Since then, Erwin Gutkind's listed building has been able to be renovated.
On June 5, 2016, a memorial plaque for the Neu-Jerusalem estate and its architect Erwin Gutkind was unveiled by the district mayor of Spandau, Helmut Kleebank , and the Berlin photographer Eduard Frelke.
literature
- Rudolf Hierl: Erwin Gutkind (1886–1968). Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1992, ISBN 3-7643-2689-1 .
- Peter Güttler (Ed.): Row houses. (= Berlin and its buildings , part 4, volume D) Imhof, Petersberg 2002, ISBN 3-433-01017-X .
Web links
- New Jerusalem settlement. In: arch INFORM .
- New Jerusalem protected settlement is in ruins. In: Berliner Morgenpost , June 10, 2008.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 41 ″ N , 13 ° 7 ′ 34 ″ E