Settlement house
A settlement house is usually a simply built one-and-a-half-story house with little living space on a simple standard, mostly surrounded by a large kitchen garden for self-sufficiency and livelihood, sometimes with a small stable for keeping z. B. chickens and a pig. Settlement houses are often type buildings . Mostly they are free-standing single or double houses with a pitched roof .
Settlements with settlement houses ( small settlements ) were created between the 1920s and 1950s as town or village fringes , especially after the First World War . Some of these settlements were built for the unemployed, people with low incomes or (after the Second World War) for refugees from the formerly German eastern regions . Some of these were also factory settlements . Often they were also created in self-help .
Settlement houses, together with the small agriculturally used (sideline to secure the subsistence level ) outbuildings and the large property are also called settlement areas. Settlers, who were both users and owners of the settlement sites, often formed communities of settlers .
Today, the former stable buildings and land are no longer primarily used for self-sufficiency.
One subform is the settlement house with a cross plan, which was first presented at the World Exhibition in 1855 . This became formative for the Ruhr area .
literature
- F. Schuster: A furnished settlement house . Frankfurt am Main 1925.