Oberschöneweide settlement
The Oberschöneweide housing estate is a residential area in the Berlin district of Oberschöneweide in the Treptow-Köpenick district , which was built around 1920. The complex designed by Peter Behrens , J. Th. Hamacher and Hans Spitzner is a listed building.
location
The settlement with an approximately parallelogram- shaped floor plan is located in the north of the district Oberschöneweide and is bordered to the south by Zeppelinstraße, to the north by the street An der Wuhlheide, to the east by the Fontanestraße and to the west by the Roedernstraße. It comprises the properties Zeppelinstraße 11–71 (odd numbers), An der Wuhlheide 2–22 (even numbers), Fontanestraße 8–12C and Roedernstraße 8–14B (each with consecutive numbers). To the east, also between Zeppelinstrasse and An der Wuhlheide, is the Gebag settlement .
history
Oberschöneweide (part of Berlin since 1920) developed into an important industrial location at the beginning of the 20th century. In order to create living space for the workers and employees, houses and settlements were built in a number of places in the village. The non-profit Bauaktiengesellschaft Oberschöneweide (Gebag) began in 1919 with financial support from the Oberschöneweide community with the construction of the Oberschöneweide housing estate, primarily for AEG employees . The construction planning came from municipal building officer J. Th. Hamacher with the support of Peter Behrens. Master mason Adolph Mattheus was responsible for the construction. Originally, a compact residential development was planned, but the architects finally realized a residential complex shaped by the garden city movement .
The buildings along the Zeppelin, Fontane and Roedernstrasse were built between 1919 and 1921. Gebag announced a competition for further construction, and third-placed Hans Spitzner was awarded the contract. Between 1921 and 1923, the row of houses along the street on the Wuhlheide and two houses on the corners of the Zeppelinstrasse to Roedernstrasse and Fontanestrasse were built based on his designs. Older works attribute the buildings in the street An der Wuhlheide to Jean Krämer .
construction
The development was built in a row along the four street fronts. The vast area in the center of the block was not built on; gardens for the residents were created here. The houses were equipped with modern kitchens and bathrooms according to the standards of the time.
The buildings are predominantly two-story, sometimes three-story. There are five types of houses. Four-family houses based on designs by Hamacher are located on Roedernstrasse and Fontanestrasse. Single-family houses for civil servants and skilled workers of the AEG were built in Zeppelinstrasse . Most of them also come from Hamacher; earlier works still name Peter Behrens as the author. Only the buildings in the middle of the street at the passage to the courtyard go back directly to Behrens. Hans Spitzner designed two elongated rows of houses along the street An der Wuhlheide and the two three-story corner buildings on Zeppelinstraße. The facades of the buildings are “proportioned with continuous cornice strips and structured by external axes projecting like a bay window and house entrances as well as dormer windows”.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ^ A b c Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The building and art monuments in the GDR. Capital Berlin II. Henschel-Verlag Art and Society, Berlin 1987, p. 329.
- ↑ a b Georg Dehio: Berlin (= Handbook of German Art Monuments) . 3rd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-422-03111-1 , p. 580.
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ' N , 13 ° 31' E