Stadtrain settlement

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The two-storey double row family houses that characterize the settlement

The Stadtrain settlement (also called Birchermüesliquartier ) is a row house settlement in Winterthur built from 1928 in the style of New Building . The estate commissioned by the Heimstättengenossenschaft Winterthur (HGW) from the architect Adolf Kellermüller is listed by the federal government in the list of cultural assets of regional importance in the canton of Zurich (B object).

location

Map of the settlement's OpenStreetMap project.

The settlement is located in the urban district of Oberwinterthur in the southeastern part of the Talacker district under the church hill . The settlement borders the Eulach on one side and is sandwiched on the other side by Frauenfelderstrasse.

history

The estate was built on behalf of the Heimstättengenossenschaft Winterthur (HGW) with the aim of creating affordable living space. After a long period of preparation, the construction of the first 18 single-family homes began in autumn 1928. The quarter was actually supposed to be built in one go, but the global economic crisis delayed construction in the 1930s, so that the settlement was built in several stages and was not fully completed until 1943.

In 2008/09 the settlement was redeveloped and expanded at the expense of the gardens. For this renovation, the executing architects Kaschka Knapkiewicz and Axel Ficker were awarded the Silver Rabbit by the Hochparterre magazine in 2009 .

architecture

Adolf Kellermüller , who planned the settlement together with Hans Hofmann , incorporated influences from his involvement in East Prussia , where quadruple and cross-row houses were common. The settlement is kept in the style of New Building. It has a four-storey perimeter development with 100 one-, three- and four-room apartments, which shields the settlement from Frauenfelderstrasse and has shops on the lower floor. The two-storey cross-row houses, which consist of a total of 13 one- to two-room apartments, 36 three-room apartments, 124 four-room apartments and four five-room apartments, lie across the four-storey residential buildings. There is a garden in front of these houses on both sides. In addition, the houses have flat roofs with double skylights to counter the lighting and ventilation problems caused by the type of house.

Birchermüesliquartier

Signpost in the Birchermüesliquartier

The settlement is known for its nickname "Birchermüesliquartier". This is due to the fact that the street names represent the typical ingredients of a Bircher muesli , apart from the oat flakes. The streets are named after the following berries and fruits:

Only the Baumschulstrasse, Talwiesenstrasse and the Spitzweg deviate from this scheme.

A previously unnamed path, also located in Winterthur, which was renamed “Zwetschgenweg” in 2018 on the initiative of a local resident, is across the street and not in the Birchermüesliquartier. The path was named after a name familiar to local residents.

traffic

The quarter is right next to Frauenfelderstrasse, a main road leading from Winterthur city center through Oberwinterthur towards Frauenfeld. The trolleybus line 1 (Töss - HB - Oberwinterthur) also runs on this street, and its “Stadtrain” and “Talwiesen” stops, named after the settlement, are in the immediate vicinity of the settlement.

Also close to the settlement is the railway line leading from Winterthur main station towards Oberwinterthur station , on the edge of which a future Grüze-Nord station is indicated in the cantonal structure plan near the settlement, although the planned construction of a bus bridge will give the settlement more direct access to the settlement later anyway Grüze station should receive.

Web links

Commons : Siedlung Stadtrain  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Canton of Zurich KGS inventory, B objects. (PDF; 473 kB) Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Protection of Cultural Property, January 1, 2018, p. 14 , accessed on June 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Busz: Two rabbits for the best city . In: The Landbote . Winterthur December 9, 2009.
  3. ↑ Martin Gmür: In future it will be called Zwetschgenweg . In: The Landbote . Winterthur July 2, 2018, p. 5 ( landbote.ch [accessed on July 2, 2018]).
  4. ^ Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Cantonal structure plan . Version approved by the Federal Council, as of September 18, 2015 (PDF, 236 pages, 26 MB). September 18, 2015, p. 4.3–4 ( are.zh.ch [PDF; 28.3 MB ; accessed on June 28, 2018]).

Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '6 "  N , 8 ° 44' 59.7"  E ; CH1903:  698796  /  two hundred sixty-two thousand and thirty-seven