Scharlinz settlement

The Scharlinz housing estate is a housing estate planned by the architect Curt Kühne between 1919 and 1926 and built in what was then Kleinmünchen - now a district of Linz .

location

The Scharlinz housing estate comprises the houses Spaunstraße 52–66, 68–114, Haydnstraße 22–81 and Schwindstraße 41–57.

history

The Scharlinz settlement is an outstanding example of the settler movement immediately after the First World War . In this tradition, which saw itself as the development of the garden city idea, the settlement is particularly noteworthy due to its urban spatial consistency. Architecturally, the model of the Staaken garden city in Berlin-Spandau, built between 1914 and 1916 by Paul Schmitthenner , is evident.

The urban heart of the settlement is the long, axially symmetrical street space of Haydnstrasse. In the two outer sections, the front gardens and the rows of gables channel the view, which can be found in a square in the middle. The house type changes here, the front gardens are replaced by verandas . The other house groups contrast this small-town street space with more rural outdoor spaces. The most important architectural decision is certainly the strict typological division into a sophisticated public street front, which preserves the collective character of the settlement, and the amorphous, private garden side, which has been further developed through additions and additions. The social reality of the creation corresponds to this aesthetic image. The original form of a real cooperative, where the settlers proceeded according to a common plan and their individual work management (robot performance) when building the houses was deducted from the price of their house. The number of hours worked thus reduced the amount of the loan granted , which was paid off in the form of rent. The originally uniform and subtle architectural detail work, especially on windows and doors, was gradually destroyed by individual modernizations.

Also noteworthy are the narrow, elongated plots of land (Haydnstraße to Zötlweg or Teutschmannweg) as well as the blue house number plates - otherwise unusual in Linz - which still come from the municipality of Kleinmünchen and are still mostly attached to the houses in the settlement today.

literature

• Dietmar Steiner : Housing in Upper Austria. Examples. OÖ Landes-Hypothekenbank, Linz 1985, p. 26 f.
• Austrian Art Topography, Volume LV The profane architectural and art monuments of the city of Linz, III. Part. Published by the Federal Monuments Office, Department for Inventory and Monument Research.

Web links

• City history of Linz, monuments , Scharlinz - Haydnstraße
• City history of Linz, monuments , Scharlinz - Schmuckhof Spaunstraße
• City history of Linz, monuments , Scharlinz - Schwindstrasse 41–51
• City history of Linz, monuments , Scharlinz - Schwindstrasse 53–57
• City history of Linz, monuments , Scharlinz - Spaunstraße

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietmar Steiner : Housing in Upper Austria. Examples. OÖ Landes-Hypothekenbank, Linz 1985, p. 26 f.

Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 14 ° 18 ′ 23.4 ″  E