Praunheim settlement
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 View from the Damaschkeanger to Am Ebelfeld |
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| Basic data | |
| Area : | 2.0 km² |
| Population : | 3.114 |
| Population density : | 1,557 inhabitants / km² |
| Creation time: | 1926-1929 |
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| District : | 7 - middle-west |
| District : | Praunheim |
| District : | 42 2 Praunheim housing estate |
| Center / main street: | Hofgut |
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| Architectural style: | classic modern |
| Urban planner: | Ernst May , Herbert Boehm , Wolfgang Bangert |
| Architects: | Ernst May , Eugen Kaufmann , Anton Brenner |
Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ N , 8 ° 37 ′ E
The Praunheim settlement is the oldest settlement in New Frankfurt and is located in the Praunheim district of Frankfurt . Parts of the settlement (especially in the western third construction phase and the model houses in the street “Am Hofgut”) and individual buildings (the Ebelfeld School , the Christ-König-Kirche and the bunker in the Eberstadtstraße) are cultural monuments.
history
The Praunheim settlement was created as part of a large-scale construction project to eliminate the housing shortage resulting from the First World War . Due to the high prices for building land, it was next to impossible to create living space with low rents at that time.
In 1925, the Lord Mayor of Frankfurt, Ludwig Landmann , appointed Ernst May as town planning officer and head of housing development to deal with this problem in Frankfurt. This year, 30,000 people looking for accommodation were registered here, ie almost 6.5% of the city's population (with a total population of 467,520). In autumn 1925 the city parliament decided on a ten-year program for housing construction under the name “ New Frankfurt ”, in the first half of which by 1930 12,000 apartments were built.
The Praunheim settlement was built to enable families to purchase a single-family home on favorable terms within the framework of the Reichsheimstätten Act passed in 1920 . This law, designed according to the political ideas of the land reformer Adolf Damaschke , provided that the owner of a home used as a Reichsheimstätte was protected from the claims of creditors and thus from the foreclosure auction by communicating with the publisher of the Heimstätte (in the case of the Praunheim settlement the City of Frankfurt) concluded a binding homestead contract, which granted the city a right of first refusal from non-relatives, allowed mortgage charges only for the maintenance of the homestead and provided for price control by the homestead publisher. This was intended to ensure the permanent retention of the purpose as a socially bound place of residence and to prevent speculative exploitation by the owner. The existence of a homestead contract was entered in the land register as a so-called " homestead note ". Until the repeal of the Reichsheimstatt Act in 1993, the Praunheim settlement was the largest Reichsheimstättensiedlung ever.
An integral part of the Praunheim Reichsheimstätten contract was that the settlers had to found a settlers' association through which they could regulate their internal affairs and represent their interests externally.
To finance the Reichsheimstätten program, the house interest tax was introduced among homeowners in Germany . This tax was intended to siphon off the profits that property owners had gained during the inflation of 1922/23 because the debts on the property were devalued, but the houses themselves had retained their value. A mortgage of 6,000 gold marks at an interest rate of 1 to 3% was distributed from this house interest tax for each newly built apartment. Further financing instruments were grants from the city budget and loans from the city savings bank at 8% interest.
In order to keep the construction costs low, no reason identified as building land could be used for the realization of the settlement because of the high land prices. Instead, agriculturally used areas on the outskirts were chosen and, by applying the Prussian Remediation Ordinance of 1920, a total of 32 hectares of land for the "Niddatal Project" (the settlements in Praunheim and the Roman town) were expropriated into municipal property because some landowners refused to sell their land to sell or demand inflated prices. Instead of a required square meter price of up to 15 marks, the city had to pay only 3.50 marks per m² by court order.
The area in front of the Ebel mountain, which slopes down to the Niddatal (today the Heinrich-Lübke-Siedlung stands on the mountain itself ) between Mainzer Straße (today Heerstraße) and Hainstraße (today Sandplackenstraße) was chosen. The only development in this area was the estate of the orphanage foundation as well as a few houses and a farm . There were a total of five brickworks around the construction site .
First of all, ten experimental houses in prefabricated construction were built opposite the east wall of the Hofgut in the street Am Hofgut . The entire settlement was then built in three construction phases from May 1926 to December 1929:
- Construction phase, May – Dec. 1926, 173 apartments
- Construction phase, July 1927-March 1928, 565 apartments
- Construction phase, Aug. 1928-Dec. 1929, 703 apartments
A southern block of houses planned to run parallel to Damaschkeanger in what is now the allotment garden area, as well as two blocks on Sandplackenstrasse and some buildings on Heerstrasse, were not built. The planned Volkshaus in Damaschkeanger was also not built. In the middle of the site of the third construction phase between Camillo-Sitte-Weg and Heinrich-Tessenow-Weg, a square area was kept free for a kindergarten, which was also never built. Today the area is used as a playground .
In addition to the owner-occupied houses, a few rental apartments were built, which were rented out directly by the building construction department until 1931, but were later sold to the municipal stock building company. These were the ten experimental houses in the street Am Hofgut, the aisle houses along the Ludwig-Landmann-Straße, the so-called “Brennerblock” (named after its architect Anton Brenner ) on Ebelfeld and fifty single-family row houses between Heerstraße and Muthesius-Weg. Further demand for rental apartments was covered by the Westhausen settlement built in 1929–31 .
A central laundry was set up in Olbrichstrasse, the use of which was compulsory for the residents of the 2nd construction phase. At the street corner Am Ebelfeld / Damaschkeanger a building for a restaurant was built, in corner houses space was created for shops and between Heerstraße and Damaschkeanger a settlement nursery was created in the area of the 1st construction phase. Finally, a central radio system for the settlement radio was set up.
In 1930, a primary school was built on the edge of the settlement, which was initially called the Hindenburg School and later the Ebelfeld School.
The Frankfurt assembly process was also tested for the first time in the Praunheim settlement . This was a research program in which the advantages of panel construction (series production, reduction in wall thickness, independence from the weather) were to be tested. The panels consisted of 62.5% pumice gravel , 25% pumice sand and 12.5% Portland cement and were poured into molds made from wooden planks. They were initially manufactured in the Haus der Technik on the exhibition grounds, and later in a record factory on the grounds of the Osthafen .
The city of Frankfurt selected the applicants for a Reichsheimstätte. The following groups of people were preferred:
- War participant
- Widows of the fallen
- large families
- Frankfurters, who left a usable old apartment to the city
- Already registered for a year as looking for a home
The first statistic shows the following composition of the first settlers:
- 33% city and state officials
- 26% workers
- 24% commercial employees
- 17% technical and bank clerks, liberal professions, teachers
The purchase price of a home was between 14,000 and 22,000 RM, depending on the type of building. Apart from a basic contribution of RM 500, no further equity capital was required. To repay the loans and interest from the house interest tax mortgage and the city loans, between RM 57 and RM 95 per month (with an average monthly salary of RM 240 in 1925) had to be spent for a term of 33 to 46 years.
In 1936 the idea arose to build garages between Damaschkeanger and Heerstraße opposite the settlement nursery. In 1938, the settlement association received financial aid from the city for the wooden roofing of the 153 open roof gardens in the first construction phase. In 1939 it was decided to build a settlement house on Pützerstraße, but it was never realized because of the start of the war. Instead, from 1941 onwards, renovations were made to protect against air raids. For example, wall breakthroughs were made in the cellars for escape routes and splinter trenches were built. A large air raid shelter was built on Eberstadtstrasse.
In 1941/42 a factory of the measuring instrument manufacturer Hartmann & Braun was built on the north side of Heerstrasse , employing up to 1000 workers.
In June 1945, a large part of the settlement houses on Heerstrasse and the Hartmann & Braun plant opposite were confiscated by an American parachute battalion and cordoned off with barbed wire. It wasn't until 1948 that these houses were returned to their original owners. In 1947 the splinter trenches set up in front of the houses were blown up.
After every square centimeter of living space was used to accommodate refugees and those who had been bombed out in the first post-war years, in the 1950s new prosperity gradually found its way into the settlement and led to numerous extensions and renovations, which are not always in line with the settlement's standard of uniformity in the homestead agreement stood.
From 1988 it became possible to obtain the deletion of the Reichsheimstätten note in the land register upon request. With the complete repeal of the Reichsheimstätten Act in 1993, all obligations of the homeowners towards the city disappeared and the Praunheim estate was transformed into a conventional row house settlement.
Shape and equipment of the settlement houses
In the houses of the Praunheimer Siedlung, more than 15 different house types can be identified, which result from a combination of the following features:
- Left / right house
- House width 4.26 m / 6.00 m
- separate staircase / passage room
- with / without attic
- with / without granny flat
- with / without roof terrace
- Kitchen front / back
- Gas / electric stove
- Bathroom and toilet on the ground floor / 1st. floor
- full / half basement
- with / without front garden
- Brick construction / panel construction
Not every house got its own connection for water supply and sewage, gas and electricity, but several houses were always combined. The rules for dealing with these jointly used pipe systems in the event of repairs were specifically regulated in the Heimstätten contract and will remain in place even after the Reichsheimstätten Act is repealed.
The apartments were all equipped with the Frankfurt kitchen by the architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , who shifted the focus of kitchen ergonomics away from the eat-in kitchen to the “kitchen laboratory” in the style of the modern fitted kitchen . The kitchen was separated from the living and dining room on the ground floor by a sliding door. In addition, there was a bathroom in each apartment (in the 3rd construction phase only with a hip bathtub). In addition to the western 2nd construction phase (where there was a central laundry), a laundry room with a coal-fired copper boiler was also set up.
The water heating was carried out by coal bath stoves and in isolated cases in the 3rd construction phase by gas bath stoves and electric storage. The apartments were heated by coal stoves, which were installed in two models: Frankfurter Siedlungsofen (Bockenheimer furnace) , manufactured by the Bockenheimer iron foundry , or the Kramer furnace , designed by Ferdinand Kramer and manufactured by Berger Hütte . Central heating systems were only found in isolated cases.
A fundamental design feature of the Praunheimer Siedlung was also the specification of a uniform color design for the exterior facades in the homestead contract. The oldest color concept came from Hans Leistikow , the head of the city administration's graphic office and envisaged white facades for remote facades and red and blue facades for the effect on the streets and squares within the settlement. After 1945, however, fewer and fewer settlers adhered to the obligation to maintain the uniform appearance of the settlement and made changes to the color scheme as well as various additions and renovations on their own initiative. Between 1960 and 1981, the settlement association developed three different color concepts, none of which could be implemented across the board. With the repeal of the Reichsheimstätten Act in 1993, the last resort to obligate the homeowners to uniformity disappeared, so that today's facades, contrary to the original idea, are characterized by a high degree of individualism.
The house gardens should also have a calm overall appearance through uniform planting. The garden architects Max Bromme and Lebrecht Migge were responsible for the garden design . In the 3rd construction phase, for example, 2 currant, 7 raspberry and 2 blackberry bushes as well as 2 high fruit trees were planned. In the 1st construction phase, an apple and a plum tree were alternately offset. The gardening and cemetery department of the municipal settlement office was responsible for the gardening of the house gardens. The locations for lawns, vegetable beds and trellises were specified in detail in the garden plan. The settlers were only given their own freedom in choosing which vegetables to grow.
Streets
The Praunheim settlement comprises the following streets:
1st construction phase (May – Dec. 1926) and 2nd construction phase east (July 1927 – March 1928)
| Current name (namesake) | investment | Origin Name / field name |
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| At the Hofgut ( Hofgut ) | 1926 | At the estate |
| Damaschkeanger ( Adolf Damaschke ) | 1926-28 | The beune |
| Heerstrasse | ..., 1926-29 | Mainzer Strasse, histor. Elisabethenstrasse |
| Sandplackenstrasse ( Sandplacken ) | Hainstrasse |
2nd construction phase west (July 1927 - March 1928)
| Current name (namesake) | investment | Origin Name / field name | |
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| Heerstrasse | ..., 1926-29 | Mainzer Strasse, historic Elisabethenstrasse | |
| Eberstadtstrasse ( Rudolf Eberstadt ) | 1926-28 | ||
| Praunheimer Hohl | Under the highest path | ||
| Olbrichstrasse ( Joseph Maria Olbrich ) | 1927-28 | The walnut fields , In the long pranks | |
| Pützerstraße ( Friedrich Pützer ) | 1927-28 | The walnut fields , In the long pranks | |
| At Ebelfeld | 1926-28 | The walnut fields , In the long pranks | |
| Ludwig-Gehm -weg | 1927-28 | without name , first mentioned in 2002 | |
3rd construction phase (Aug. 1928 – Dec. 1929)
| Current name (namesake) | investment | Origin Name / field name | time of the nationalsocialism |
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| Fritz Schumacher -Weg | 1928-29 | The mutton fields | no renaming |
| Theodor-Fischer- Weg | 1928-29 | The mutton fields | no renaming |
| Heinrich-Tessenow -Weg | 1928-29 | The mutton fields | no renaming |
| Camillo custom way | 1928-29 | The mutton fields | no renaming |
| Messelweg ( Alfred Messel ) | 1928-29 | The mutton fields | Wallotweg (1942–1945) after Paul Wallot |
| Muthesius Way ( Hermann Muthesius ) | 1928-29 | The mutton fields | no renaming |
| Ludwig-Landmann- Strasse | 1928-29 | Hindenburgstrasse (until 1947) | |
Green areas and allotments
The most important green area is the large meadow behind the “Zum Neuen Adler” restaurant (Adlerwiese). It borders directly on an oxbow lake of the Nidda and is planted with some chestnut trees on the edges. Here, winter is a toboggan slope to the oxbow lake of the Nidda, colloquially known as the Adlerwiese .
There are also numerous smaller green areas in front of and between the houses, which the city plants and cares for. In the Damaschkeanger, for example, a row of poplars was planted in 1927, which was replaced in 1953 after the splinter ditches had been blasted by a new planting of birch and maple in groups.
Between the houses of the Damaschkeanger and the Niddaufer and south of the street in the third construction phase on Ebelfeld, the town leased grave land to the settlement association between 1948 and 1951, which it is allowed to lease to its members as allotment gardens to this day. Only in 1978 had part of the site to be returned because of the construction of the Heinrich Lübke settlement . Today the area of the allotment gardens covers 16,282 m², which are divided into 97 plots of sizes between 122 and 237 m².
traffic
In 1927 the area could only be reached via the streets of Ginnheim and Hausen . Today the Praunheim settlement can be reached by car from the west via Heerstraße, which leads to Rödelheim . Coming from Westhausen , Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse meets Heerstrasse from the south . There is also a connection to the A66 . In the east, the Heerstraße leads through Alt-Praunheim to Heddernheim and the north-west town .
The 7 underground line and its predecessors
Line 36 of the Frankfurt am Main tram has been running since 1913 (as the successor to the privately operated horse-drawn bus that went into operation before 1872 ) from Schönhof to Praunheimer Brücke . Initially, however, only a narrow dirt road led from the settlement to the Praunheimer Brücke, which in bad weather could only be walked on with rubber boots. The military road leading to Heddernheim was not paved at first either. From 1928, line 18, coming from Borsigallee to Schönhof, was extended to Praunheim Brücke and line 36 was initially temporarily discontinued, and from 1948 even completely. In 1957, line 18 was extended to Enkheim . From 1967 line 6 was added via Hauptwache and Konstablerwache , which initially led to Hugo-Junkers-Strasse, from 1970 to Eckenheim and from 1972 to Ostbahnhof . Between 1971 and 1976 line 18 was replaced by line 13 between Praunheim Brücke and Berkersheim , but this was switched back to line 18 by 1976. In 1978 line 6 was replaced by line 21 to Schwanheim . From 1984 line 21 no longer ran to Praunheim Brücke, but only to Schönhof. In 1986 the tram route 18 between Praunheimer Brücke and Hausen was dismantled and since 1987 it has operated from Hausen as the U7 underground line, initially to Zoo . In 1992 the line was then extended to Enkheim.
The underground line 6 and its predecessors
From 1928 a bus line (line W) ran from the sports field (now Industriehof ) via Hindenburgallee (Ludwig-Landmann-Straße) to Heerstraße, and from 1932, according to the citizens of Westhausen and Praunheim, the railroad tracks were laid to Heerstraße - initially only single track , from 1980 finally double track. From 1933 the two tram lines 2 (via main and Konstablerwache to Seckbach) and 19 (via main and local train station to Bornheim ) ran here. From 1942 on, line 19 only ran from Schönhof. Line 11/21 (to the main train station) was added between 1950 and 1954. A new line 19 was run between 1955 and 1960 from Heerstraße to Offenbach city limits , but then replaced by line 21 to Schwanheim . In 1971 the section from Bornheim to Seckbach on line 2 was replaced by bus services and line 2 was given the number 19. In 1974, instead of line 21, line 23 briefly went to Gutleutviertel . From 1978 on, line 22 ran from Heerstrasse via Hauptwache to Neu-Isenburg . From 1984 the 22 then only drove to Hauptwache. From 1987 tram line 22 was then continued as underground line 6 to Zoo and extended to Ostbahnhof from 2000 . The former Ebelfeld stop was closed in 2004.
The bus routes
Another bus line (line K, from 1940 line 60) ran from Heddernheim to the Hofgut from 1928 and from 1932 to Praunheim Brücke and formed the forerunner of the later bus line 67 , which came from the north-west center from 1965. In 1965, a new bus line 60 was added from Heddernheim to Heerstraße, from 1972 to the Westhausen settlement and from 1974 to Rödelheim train station . In 1986 the route of line 67 was extended as part of the dismantled tram line 18 to Hausen . In 2007 line 67 was split into lines 72 and 73 and extended. Line 72 runs from the north-west center over the Gerhart-Hauptmann- Ring and Praunheim Bridge to the Industriehof and then to the Rödelheim train station . Line 73 takes the same route, but turns off at Industriehof in the direction of Westbahnhof .
Settlement radio
In 1927 the settlement radio was also set up, i. H. A central distribution station for the radio of the Frankfurt Schneider-Opel AG was placed on the first floor of the restaurant building Neuer Adler , from which lead cables led into the cellars of all apartments in the estate. After paying a monthly fee of 1.25 RM, all participants were provided with a radio program. During the Second World War , air strikes were announced by the code message “the top of the fat cars are in the sector ...”.
economy
retail trade
The Praunheim settlement had a wide range of shops right from the start. Ten shops were planned in the long block on the east side of Ludwig-Landmann-Straße, which initially included various grocery stores, a café, a drugstore, a dairy shop, a stationery store, a fashion store and a hairdresser. There were also four other shops at the corner houses in Damaschkeanger and Ebelfeld that were rented by the city. Some settlers also opened workshops or shops on the ground floor of their own house. In addition to the regular shops, the residents were also supplied by hawkers from neighboring towns.
However, after World War II, these small shops disappeared with the gradual appearance of supermarkets and eventually with the construction of the North West Center . In 1980 another “small shopping center” was opened on Ludwig-Landmann-Straße together with the Heinrich-Lübke-Siedlung. In the 1990s, a supermarket branch follows on Heerstrasse.
gastronomy
In addition to the café on Ludwig-Landmann-Straße, the Zum Neuen Adler restaurant had existed in the house at Am Ebelfeld 133 since 1929 . In times of economic crisis and unemployment, a welfare kitchen opened between 1930 and 1933 in the corner building at Muthesiusstrasse / Hindenburgstrasse, serving soup and milk. In addition to its function as a restaurant, the New Eagle often served as a meeting place instead of the unbuilt Volkshaus.
Municipal laundry
The residential laundry set up in Olbrichstrasse 41-47 in 1929 had economic difficulties all its life, although the city of Frankfurt provided water and electricity free of charge. The reason for this was the high price of coal and the financial worries of the settlers, who had to pay off their mortgages and therefore preferred to wash at home. It was not until after 1945, when electricity and coal were rationed and the apartments in the settlement were overcrowded with refugees, that there was brisk activity, which only lasted until electric washing machines were introduced. In 1978 the municipal laundry was finally closed and initially taken over by a cleaning company and from 1992 to 1996 by a dry cleaner. After that, the rooms were empty until the building was finally demolished.
Urban gardening
The settlement gardening had a similar experience. Instead of buying flowers and vegetables, the settlers preferred to grow them in their own gardens, although the settlers' association massively advertised the use of this facility. The successors therefore switched the business to cemetery gardening.
doctors
In the planning of the settlement, the corner house Damaschkeanger 147 was planned as a medical center since 1927. Initially there was a doctor's practice here, and from 1933 two more doctors were added. The family doctor (general practitioner) in the settlement is now on Heerstraße. Also in the 1930s, three dentists settled in the settlement. The parishes also had outpatient clinics / nurses' stations. The Northwest Hospital was inaugurated in 1963.
post Office
The first post office was set up in 1929 in a private house at Am Ebelfeld 226. Post office 902 in Ludwig-Landmann-Straße was only set up later. In 1978 it moved to the small shopping center that was built with the Heinrich-Lübke-Siedlung. This was then closed in 1993.
Kindergarten and school
Since the kindergarten planned in the 3rd construction phase was not realized, many parents were dependent on sending their children to Alt-Praunheim. The kindergarten there was next to the Praunheim church. A meeting point for kindergarten children was therefore set up in the Praunheimer Siedlung. There was a small private kindergarten in the house of Damaschkeanger 72.
At the place of today's kindergarten of the Wicherngemeinde (corner of Pützerstraße / Am Ebelfeld) there was a wooden building in 1928. Between 1937 and 1939 it served as a HJ home, and between 1939 and 1945 as an NSV kindergarten. After the war, this kindergarten became the responsibility of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt until the Wicherngemeinde opened its kindergarten here in 1971. The Catholic kindergarten was opened in 1964 on the grounds of the Christ-König-Congregation. A daycare center was added in the Praunheimer Hohl in the 1970s.
As early as 1927, the Frankfurt magistrate decided to build its own school in the Praunheim housing estate, but planning could not begin until 1929 due to financial difficulties. The school was completed on August 29, 1930 as one of the first pavilion- style schools with flat roofs. The architects of the school were Eugen Kaufmann and his colleague Pullmann. First of all, three pavilions with 12 classrooms with green spaces in between and a school yard with woods were built. Two more pavilions were added later. The wings of the east pavilion and a gymnasium will not be built. The school's first name was Hindenburg School . From 1947 it was called the Praunheim School and from 1955 the Ebelfeld School . Originally it was an elementary school , later a primary and secondary school and finally a pure primary school .
The educational orientation of the school was initially committed to reform pedagogy and the work school concept . From 1930 the Frankfurt curriculum applied to them .
The school buildings were badly damaged by the Second World War, so that unrestricted school operation was only possible again from the 1950s. In 1969 a gymnastics hall was built and the main school branch of the school was closed. The establishment of a funding level was rejected. Between 1989 and 2000 the school also had a separate preschool class.
Parishes
The settlement Praunheim has two churches : the Catholic Christ the King parish in Damaschke Anger and the Protestant Wichernhaus town on Pützerstraße.
The Catholic community in Praunheim was reorganized in 1909 after the Praunheim community was reformed in 1545. The service in this small initial community took place in rented rooms in the villa of the American consul Graebe on Praunheimer Brücke. With the construction of the Praunheimer Siedlung, however, this prayer room became too narrow, so a piece of land in Schönbergerweg was acquired. When the originally planned Volkshaus in Damaschkeanger was not realized, the city of Frankfurt offered the community a land swap. For example, on December 21, 1930, an emergency church financed from donations was built. The rectory was added in 1935 and the rectory in 1938. It was not until 1951, however, that the parish vicarie was raised to an independent parish. In 1960 the community acquired a garden plot of the former estate and in 1962 a row house that was used as a nursing ward from 1963. The kindergarten finally opened in October 1964.
Younger is the Protestant community in Pützerstraße, whose current accommodation dates back to a church hall built in 1956 that was initially only intended as an external community center for the Church of the Resurrection. Additions were made in 1958 (confirmation room) and 1962 (rectory). In 1963 the Wicherngemeinde finally became an independent municipality. In 1965 the nurses' station of the community was set up in the house at Olbrichstrasse 99, which existed until 1984. In 1971 the Protestant kindergarten was opened. In 1981/82 a central building was built between the church hall and the rectory.
Settlers Association
The homestead contract of the city of Frankfurt provided that the issuer of the homesteads could demand the establishment of an association from the recipient, which was dedicated to preserving the uniform character of the settlement and protecting the common interests of the settlers and dealing with the city of Frankfurt as the deputy of the Settlers used.
The settlers' association was founded on July 9, 1927 by 90 people.
In April 1933 the entire board resigned and elected an NSDAP member as the club leader. In November 1933 there was an extensive amendment to the statutes, which gave the club leader extensive competencies (e.g. the establishment of the leader ring, which replaced the rest of the board) as well as the passages on the political neutrality of the association and the promotion of allotment gardening from the statutes. The leader of the association unequivocally urged the settlers to join the association, to take part in meetings and marches, or to move away from the settlement, since then they would not behave as settlers but only as rented residents. Up until 1939 there were only two non-members of the settlement association among the settlers in Praunheim.
After the war, the establishment of the settlers' association was initially rejected by the American military government. It was not until October 1947 that a founding meeting for an association that had been applied for as an "adult club" could take place.
In addition to a great commitment to defer the repayment of mortgages, one of the tasks of the settlers' association after the war was to try to curb overly excessive renovation measures that would endanger the uniform character of the settlement. However, neither a uniform design statute nor a binding color catalog for exterior paintwork came about.
With the repeal of the Reichsheimstättengesetz (Reichsheimstätten Act), the settlers' association's ability to influence the actions of the homeowners also disappeared and its character changed fundamentally.
The purpose of the association today is to support its members with problems in the residential area, to represent common concerns to authorities and other institutions, to promote community spirit in the settlement and to lease and look after the allotment areas leased by the city of Frankfurt am Main.
Sources and references
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook 2008 City of Frankfurt accessed on Feb. 26, 2020
- ↑ .
- ↑ Color plan by Leistikow, published in Das Neue Frankfurt , issue 7–8 / 1928.
- ↑ cf. also the articles Tram Frankfurt am Main and History of the Tram Frankfurt am Main
literature
- Settlers Association Frankfurt am Main-Praunheim eV: May-Siedlung Praunheim . 1st edition. Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-00-009893-3 .
- Dietrich W. Dreysse: May settlements . 2nd Edition. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-88375-195-2 (architectural guide through eight settlements of the new Frankfurt 1926-1930).
- The settlement. Monthly for the non-profit settlement and housing industry (1929–1939). Bulletin of the building cooperatives and building companies of Greater Frankfurt. Reprint. Ronald Kunze (ed.). Institute for Housing Policy and Urban Ecology V., Hanover 1986.
- Ronald Kunze: Tenant participation in social housing. Establishment and development of tenant representatives in the settlements of the non-profit housing companies. Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-89117-071-8 .
