Unterer Porst settlement
The Unterer Porst settlement was a building project with significant personal contribution by the future residents of the non-profit housing company Vogewosi in the 1950s to provide inexpensive living space for the up-and-coming, but still relatively poor strata of the population after the end of the Second World War in the urban area of Dornbirn , Vorarlberg , Austria , to accomplish.
Surname
The Porst corridor (formerly also Borst ) was a gravelly area of land that was often flooded by the Dornbirner Ache and on which mostly only hard, "bristle" grass grew (see also swamp porosity ). Other parcels located here, such as B. Im Borst , Borstwall , Studa or Kressgraben , still point to this original vegetation of the area. Several of today's street names located here, such as B. Im Porst , Unterer Porst , Porstgrund , Porstmahd in Dornbirn took up the original field names.
Background and story
Such settlements, sometimes also referred to as workers 'settlements or contemporary as workers' colonies , were built in the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century on the initiative of non-profit organizations or by entrepreneurs in the entire German-speaking area to provide inexpensive and healthy living space for those who were still living at the time To create largely unpaid strata of the population and to eliminate the housing shortage that prevailed after the war. Architects and construction technicians already began in the mid-19th century, deal with the investment of such settlements to even the simple man durability and safety, functional layout, consideration of light, air and vegetation, but also the leisure and sports facilities, as a basis for healthy living.
A similar, smaller, settlement like the one in Unteren Porst was previously realized in Lustenau (Hagenmahd). Originally, 60 houses as well as a consumer branch and its own chapel were to be built in Unteren Porst . In consideration of the possible formation of a ghetto and because of the problems with the building site, the project was reduced by a third. The building application was submitted on March 21, 1957. The topping-out ceremony for the Unterer Porst settlement was held together with the topping-out ceremony for 15 JM Fußenegger factory settlements on January 10, 1958 in the Schwanen guesthouse, and the first residents of the settlement moved in as early as the early summer of 1958. The facility was ceremoniously handed over in July 1959 and inaugurated by Prelate Gustav Glatthaar from the Catholic Church , in the presence of Mayor Günther Anton Moosbrugger and Member of the National Council Franz Grubhofer . On December 9, 1959, the usage permit was granted. The first chairman of the settlement was Oskar Salzgeber.
location
The Unterer Porst settlement (around 418 m above sea level ) was built on a two- hectare , previously undeveloped, reed area in what is now the Rohrbach district on the western edge of the populated urban area. The Dornbirner Ach flows only about two hundred meters away . In the decades after the Second World War, the area around Flur Porst quickly developed into an important settlement area in Dornbirn. Today this settlement is hardly distinguishable from the rest of the settlement area; it was clearly delimited when it was built.
Size of the settlement
The Unterer Porst housing estate consists of twenty free-standing, largely identical, semi-detached houses , which are lined up between two side streets and connected to two other streets. All of these streets are named Unterer Porst and enclose or open up an area of around two hectares .
Construction, planning, execution and equipment
The planning and construction management of the Unterer Porst estate was the responsibility of Ernst Schwarz. The houses were built without the help of heavy machinery (e.g. excavators , construction cranes etc.) and without any pile foundation (piloting) in poor building ground with a great deal of personal contribution by the later owners. Because of the poor soil conditions, semi-detached houses were also built instead of individual houses. Each subsequent owner had to raise a financial contribution of 50,000 Schilling (EUR 3,633.64) payable in installments. The later owner's own work mainly concerned the excavation work for the houses and the streets as well as the interior work on the 1st floor.
The twenty two-storey semi-detached houses offered two to four families shelter on each of the two full storeys (a total of 40 residential units, one to two families per residential unit). Kitchen gardens and uniform fence design reinforce the uniform impression of the ensemble.
There are two types, one type 2C with 65 m² and 2F type m² with 92 surface, respectively on reinforced concrete - foundations . The buildings are traditionally and simply designed in the spirit of the Stuttgart School and have rooms of almost the same size.
The houses were built with hollow concrete blocks on the outside in the basement, with bricks on the upper floor and with clay bricks on the inside, with non-load-bearing walls, originally not all of them had central heating , but instead had individual wood-coal firing or additional stoves, some with hot air heating .
See also
literature
- Klaus Thaler, 40 years of Unterer Porst , Festschrift, Dornbirn 1998.
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Bohle: Dornbirn Lexikon , search term: Porstgrund, V.
- ↑ Klaus Thaler, 40 Years Unterer Porst , p. 2.
- ↑ Klaus Thaler, 40 years Unterer Porst , p. 21.
- ↑ Klaus Thaler, 40 years Unterer Porst , p. 13.
- ↑ Klaus Thaler, 40 Years Unterer Porst , p. 22.
- ↑ Klaus Thaler, 40 Years Unterer Porst , p. 22.
- ^ Albert Bohle: Dornbirn Lexikon , search term: Porstgrund, V.
- ↑ Klaus Thaler, 40 Years Unterer Porst , p. 3.
- ↑ Klaus Thaler, 40 Years Unterer Porst , pp. 2 and 8.
- ↑ Klaus Thaler, 40 years Unterer Porst , p. 8.
- ↑ Klaus Thaler, 40 Years Unterer Porst , p. 22.
- ↑ Klaus Thaler, 40 years Unterer Porst , p. 21.
- ↑ Klaus Thaler, 40 years Unterer Porst , p. 8.
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 14.7 " N , 9 ° 43 ′ 34.8" E