Steinrausch settlement (Langenfeld)
The Steinrausch settlement of Bauverein Langenfeld was built between 1920 and 1928 and has been a monument since 1994.
To the settlement
The architect G.A. was responsible for the planning design of the houses as well as for the overall conception of the system at Steinrausch in Langenfeld. Münzer . The Richrather Straße 88-92 was planned by Carl Conradi from Elberfeld . The other houses in the settlement include the houses at Richrather Straße 62-76, 80-92 and furthermore the houses Steinrausch 1-11, 2-16 . This historical development is concentrated on the west side of Richrather Straße and Steinrausch Straße , which also gave the settlement its name. With the exception of the three single-family semi- detached houses Steinrausch 2-8 and Steinrausch 1/3 , the buildings are two-horse multi - family houses with two apartments on each floor opposite . The houses are two-story , plastered and covered with pitched or hipped roofs. They have simple rectangular windows , side extensions and protruding entrance axes on simply structured structures . The oldest buildings do not have a bathroom , but they still have stables , sculleries and laundry rooms . From 1926, the apartments in the apartment buildings were assigned a bathroom and stables were dispensed with. The so-called chain house 88–92 (with the building association administration, see picture) also occupies a special position. It was built in 1922 by the 'non-profit society for the procurement of small apartments in Solingen-Ohlig' on behalf of the Kronprinz company. The two houses with half-hipped roofs are connected to each other by side farm extensions (like a chain). In 1956, the entire settlement received a sewer connection instead of the sink well .
For evaluation
The history of the Langenfeld building association itself deserves a special mention, as was also pointed out in the statement. It was established immediately after the end of the war in 1919 with the aim of pooling all those interested in housing construction . So were found - for the construction of apartments especially for workers - the workers themselves that they have done imaging companies as well as the main shareholder, the city of Langenfeld together. This mixed-economic association acquired a plot of 113,116 m² on Richrather Strasse in 1921 , which the architect GA Münzer completely redesigned. In spite of the construction in several construction phases , the given settlement plan was adhered to . The area therefore represents continuity and change , developments in the history of architecture and changing architectural conceptions in a very small space. The intrinsic value of the settlement is given by the high quality design of the individual building in a spacious complex. The settlement is closely linked to the city's history, shows flexible reactions of the building association to changed circumstances and receives its importance as a special, regional form of housing construction of the twenties. The architectural-historical development with its social statements, which can be read from the individual buildings, also determines the monument value of the complex.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "Expert opinion on the monument value of the Steinrausch settlement in Langenfeld", Pulheim 1994
Web links
- Lower monument authority of the city of Langenfeld ( Memento from February 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- List of monuments
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '4.4 " N , 6 ° 57' 2.1" E