Nordostbahnhof settlement

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City of Nuremberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 19 ″  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 322–332 m above sea level NN
Area : 28 ha
Residents : 3991  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Population density : 14,254 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 90491
Area code : 0911
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Location of the statistical district 81 Schoppershof in Nuremberg
Northeast train station Leipziger Platz
Northeast train station Leipziger Platz

The residential district of Nordostbahnhof is located in the northeast of Nuremberg and belongs to the Schoppershof district of Nuremberg and has around 4,000 inhabitants. The area is identical in terms of area to the statistical district 811 Schoppershof (Leipziger Str.). Most of the 350 residential buildings with 2,350 apartments belong to the real estate company wbg Nürnberg . The settlement was built between 1929 and the 1950s and is now a listed building as an ensemble ( E-5-64-000-30 ).

history

In 1898, when the ring line was built (and later the Nuremberg-Graefenberg branch line ), the northeast station was built.

The Nordostbahnhof settlement is the result of a competition held in 1928 as part of a large-scale housing construction program under Mayor Hermann Luppe . As a large housing estate project, the Nordostbahnhofsiedlung was one of the largest housing construction projects in the Weimar Republic. Most of the buildings were planned by the architect Karl Sorg between 1929 and 1931 and built under his direction, but the building was not completed until the early 1950s.

The settlement emerged from Leipziger Platz in stages from west to east and south of the Ringbahn . In 1929, 190 houses with 1,177 apartments were built in the first construction phase. The first tenants moved into the apartments in 1930. From the beginning, the proportion of workers was very high, as rents were relatively cheap.

Leipziger Strasse was given its name on June 22, 1929, and a short time later the area west of it was called Leipziger Platz. Wooden barracks were built on the unpaved square as emergency shelters for the homeless who stood there until the Second World War; Most of the accommodations burned down during the bombing of Nuremberg. There were also a few smaller shops and handicraft businesses based there.

In the early 1960s, Leipziger Platz was converted into a traffic hub. A seven-story apartment block with a row of shops on the ground floor was built on the southern square. In 1990 an urban planning ideas competition was held with the aim of building a multifunctional district center, which was partially implemented by the end of the 1990s. The Nordostbahnhof underground station was completed at the beginning of 1996 .

The Lindestadion was built by the Linde company on Bayreuther Straße in 1935 on the occasion of the Winter Games in the 1936 Olympic year. In the direction of today's Elbinger Straße, there is a swimming pool with a sunbathing lawn, today's Nordostbad.

Since around 2000 the owner (the municipal housing company WBG) has invested heavily in the modernization and future viability of the aging settlement, whose housing stock was largely shabby.

Structure, design and concept

The settlement is laid out like a fan and spreads out from Leipziger Platz with its main axis, Leipziger Straße and a wide green corridor as a secondary axis to the east. The strictly factual designed apartment blocks are symmetrically oriented on the main axis Leipziger Straße and are given accents and spaces through pavilion-like constrictions with arcades for nine shops and a restaurant.

The buildings are kept very objective, the facades geometric and free of ornamental decoration, i.e. modern in the sense of the contemporary Bauhaus theory. On the other hand, flat roofs - very different from the large housing estates that were built at the same time in Frankfurt am Main (Praunheim, Hellerhof and Römerstadt, by Ernst May ), in Berlin-Britz (horseshoe settlement by Bruno Taut ) or in Karlsruhe ( Dammerstock by Walter Gropius ) - completely waived. The moderately traditional-looking, flat hipped roofs used instead make the otherwise uncompromisingly modern conception of the estate appear rather sedate and not radical, for which Sorg was also criticized by contemporary architects at the time. The modern-minded construction consultant Walter Brugmann could not stand up against Lord Mayor Dr. Hermann Luppe , who was open to new building , but didn't want any radical breaks in the cityscape.

The standardized house types contained only small apartments, as a rule the living space was less than 50 m². Some houses contain artist studios generously glazed up to the roof area on the second floor.

The exterior of the settlement has largely been preserved in its original state, making it a vivid example of the plans for urban expansion and the housing policy practiced during the Weimar period.

traffic

The settlement at the Nordostbahnhof is well connected to the regional transport network. The Nordostbahnhof underground station , served by the U 2 underground line, is located at the entrance to the settlement below Leipziger Platz. Several city bus routes also go there. The airport is about two kilometers away and the main train station about three kilometers away, both destinations can be reached with the U 2 without changing trains. The DBAG regional trains to Graefenberg, via Heroldsberg, Kalchreuth and Eckental, start and end from the eponymous train station in Nürnberg-Nordost. On the street side, the estate is well connected to the urban and supraregional transport network ( A3 ) via Dresner Straße / Oedenberger Straße to the Nordostring ( Bundesstraße 4a ) and via Kieslingstraße to Äußere Bayreuther Straße Bundesstraße 2 .

Web links

Commons : Nordostbahnhof (Nürnberg)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b City of Nuremberg - Local capital for social purposes: Nordostbahnhof , accessed on June 16, 2015
  2. ^ City map service Nuremberg, District 811 Schoppershof (Leipziger Str.)