Sonnenland settlement (Hamburg)

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The Sonnenland settlement is a large housing estate in Hamburg-Billstedt that was built between 1960 and 1965.

Location and development

The Sonnenland settlement has an elongated shape that runs from Kapellenstrasse as the southern narrow side to Steinfurther Allee as the northern narrow side. In the northwest, Steinbeker Marktstrasse and Oststeinbeker Weg delimit the settlement as a long side, in the southeast the street An der Glinder Au. This is followed by the Glinder Au to the east , on the other side the motorway (A 1) runs, behind it the large housing estate Mümmelmannsberg . The settlement is accessed centrally from the Sonnenland road, which gives it its name.

The settlement is built on with box-shaped buildings in point and disk form, all covered with flat roofs. The majority of the houses have between four and nine upper floors . There are 803 apartments with mostly small floor plans.

School An der Glinder Au , originally the Sonnenland School

The An der Glinder Au school , originally the Sonnenland school, is located in the southern part of the settlement . This school was built according to plans by Friedrich and Ingeborg Spengelin and inaugurated in 1962. This pair of architects was also involved in the design of the surrounding new residential area. The city of Hamburg acquired the school property from the housing company “Freie Stadt” GmbH (later: SAGA ).

A small shopping center was demolished in the 1980s. In 2009 the nursing home "Kursana" was built there.

history

The Sonnenland settlement was built between 1960 and 1965, using precast concrete construction. Among other things, homeless victims of the storm surge of 1962 moved in here . The houses are owned by the SAGA group of companies .

The settlement was considered a social hotspot for a long time . The school on the Glinder Au, which has its catchment area mainly in the Sonnenland settlement, has a social index of 1, i.e. disadvantageous requirements for the student body and thus the highest need for support. In the school year 2016/17, 79% of their students had a migration background , well above the average of all Hamburg primary schools.

The city tries to take countermeasures through local initiatives such as the Sonnenland eV district project. At the beginning of 2008, the apartments in Sonnenland were modernized in blocks. In 2015, around 3,000 people lived in the settlement. Originally, all apartments in the settlement were subject to rental price control through subsidies in social housing . In 2015, this only applied to a quarter of the apartments.

The Sonnenland settlement is part of the “Development Area Billstedt-Horn”, a quarter of the framework program Integrated District Development (RISE). It aims to improve the quality of life and strengthen social cohesion through urban development measures.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mai-Britt Wulf: Hamburg: What is life like in Sonnenland? ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Hamburger Wochenblatt.)
  2. ^ Boris Meyn: The history of the development of the Hamburg school building . Hamburg 1998, p. 427. (inventory number 387)
  3. ^ Draft for the “Glinder Au” residential area: Architects: Friedrich and Ingeborg Spengelin . In: Baumeister , ISSN  0005-674X , Volume 59 (1962), No. 3, pp. 217-218. (See Friedrich Spengelin Archive )
  4. ↑ Purchase of part of the property at Steinbeker Marktstrasse 36-38 / Sonnenland for a new school building, 1955-1963 , holdings in the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (call number 442-6_88)
  5. ↑ Beatrice Blank: Sonnenland is 50 years old . In: Hinz & Kunzt , August 22, 2014.
  6. ↑ History workshop Billstedt: Housing ( Memento from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ a b Saga celebrates the 50th anniversary of the "Sonnenland" settlement . In: Haufe Immobilienwirtschaft, September 9, 2014.
  8. ↑ Jan-Eric Lindner, Sascha Balasko: Sonnenland settlement in Billstedt: search for traces in a focal point . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, May 8, 2009.
  9. ↑ Small written question from MP Robert Heinemann (CDU) of February 28, 2013 and answer from the Senate. Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - 20th electoral period, printed matter 20/7094 , Annex 4b: Old and new social indices of the state secondary schools, p. 27.
  10. ↑ Peter Ulrich Meyer: That's how high the proportion of migrants in Hamburg schools is . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from April 19, 2018 (at the Hamburg elementary schools the proportion was on average 50.7%, see Authority for Schools and Vocational Training )
  11. ↑ Areas of support for integrated urban development and areas with a focus on urban development in the Hamburg-Mitte district, Department of Urban and Landscape Planning, City of Hamburg.

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 9.8 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 10.6 ″  E