Neuhausen settlement
The Neuhausen settlement is a residential area in the Munich district of the same name .
history
The Neuhausen settlement is one of the first large settlements to be built on behalf of the newly founded GEWOFAG . Hans Döllgast was responsible for the overall planning of the estate , and a number of other architects were entrusted with the planning of the individual buildings, including Johannes Ludwig , Sep Ruf , Franz Ruf , Gustav Gsaenger , Otho Orlando Kurz , Martin Mendler and Uli Seeck . Construction time was from 1928 to 1931. The so-called American block was the last building to be completed at the western end. It owes its name to loans from the United States , which the then Mayor of Munich, Karl Scharnagl , negotiated for its financing. The Steuben Place , where the Americans block is located and the Karl-Schurz -Straße are named for the same reason after famous German-Americans who Washington Street after the first American president.
The American block - as an important example of the New Objectivity - and a few other buildings are listed , the entire settlement is registered as a building ensemble .
buildings
The settlement comprises 1,900 apartments, all with bathrooms and between 58 and 114 square meters in size. There are 33 shops and four restaurants on the ground floor of the apartment blocks.
Most of the apartment blocks are built in rows in a north-south direction, so that the windows are to the east and west. Exceptions to this are long rows of houses along the east-west running Wendl-Dietrich-Strasse and along Arnulfstrasse - there is a triangular complex in the southeast. The buildings are kept very simple in alignment and design. The Künstlerhof in the southern part of the complex - designed by Uli Seeck - is delimited by single-storey studios facing north .
The already mentioned American block on Steubenplatz is the work of Otho Orlando Kurz and Eduard Herbert. With five storeys, it is one storey higher than the other buildings and is much more striking. It is a four-wing complex with a large inner courtyard. At the partially rounded corners there are balconies clad with clinker brick . The entrances are also accentuated by clinker bricks; the figures above are by the Munich sculptor and academy professor Erwin Kurz .
Artistic program
The main idea behind the artistic program was to juxtapose modest personal demands with a rich artistic design of the public space.
The simple appearance of the settlement - apart from the American block - is loosened up somewhat by the different designs of the individual buildings by different architects. The varying decoration of the buildings with plastic ornament should also serve this purpose; Frescoes on the buildings, painted by Sepp Frank , no longer exist today.
Various fountains and sculptures in or near the settlement complete the artistic program. Mention should be made here of, among other things, the fountain in the Künstlerhof and the “Knabe auf Waller” fountain by Ferdinand Liebermann . The monument to Prince Regent Luitpold by Wilhelm von Rümann was moved to its current location in the southeast of the settlement in 1930.
literature
- Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Architecture Guide Munich. Reimer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-01211-0 .
- Bavarian Architects and Engineers Association (publisher): Munich and its buildings after 1912 , Bruckmann, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7654-1915-X
Web links
- Housing construction state capital Munich
- American block and Neuhausen settlement . Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments , accessed on September 15, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Benedikt Weyerer: Munich 1919-1930. City tours on political history , Buchendorfer, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-927984-18-3
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 5 ″ N , 11 ° 31 ′ 29 ″ E