Spar- und Bauverein Wülfel and the surrounding area

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The corner house at Ahornstrasse 6 from 1927

The Spar- und Bauverein Wülfel und Umgebung bei Hannover , also called Wülfeler Arbeiter Spar- und Bauverein , was a housing cooperative founded in Wülfel in the 19th century , which had some remarkable residential buildings built in what is now the Hanover district of Mittelfeld . The headquarters of the cooperative was temporarily the building Hohe Linde 2 in Mittelfeld .

history

The village of Wülfel, which had previously formed the Small Free Village together with Laatzen and Döhren for centuries since the Middle Ages , had developed into an industrial suburb of its time in the course of industrialization since the mid-1850s through its connection to the railway network and the Hanover – Kassel line from 1853 still developed as the royal Hanover residence city of Hanover. While speculative workers' housing was developed in particular between Wiehbergstraße and Hildesheimer Straße , 19 men came together to remedy the housing shortage during the founding period of the German Empire : On February 15, 1895, they founded the savings and construction association Wülfel and , primarily workers Surroundings. After the blacksmith H. Reissig was elected to its board of directors and the locksmith Heinrich Fuge as its chairman of the supervisory board , the housing cooperative already had 60 members in April of the same year. Karl Pagelsdorff (born February 5, 1870 in Stargard, † March 2, 1935 in Hanover) took over management for around three decades .

In the early 20th century, the association began with other builders with the Aufsiedelung of the then yet to district belonging Wülfel today's district midfield in the streets drift field and Maple Street . Some historical photographs have been preserved in the cooperative's archive with images of some of the buildings erected in this area in 1900 .

Among the rented houses of the Bauverein in the area of ​​today's Mittelfeld, which were usually multi-storey at the time, the structured facade of the ensemble Ahornstrasse 11-17 from the year of construction 1910 impresses with its varied roof landscape. Until shortly before the start of the First World War , around 1,000 people in 30 houses had found an affordable roof over their heads due to the cooperative's lively activities, but the war initially brought construction to a standstill.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment in 1920, the cooperative's commemorative publication said:

"Our hopes of helping to overcome the housing shortage caused by the war have, to our regret, not been fulfilled - despite all the hard work and work."

Page from the address book of the city of Hanover from 1942, including information on the Spar- und Bauverein Wülfel and the surrounding area on Ahornstrasse

Not least in the course of the German hyperinflation and the withdrawal of subsidies by the Prussian Ministry for People's Welfare , the Wülfeler Bauverein was unable to realize 5 further planned apartment buildings for a long time. Nevertheless, at the time of the Weimar Republic, workers' housing was added in the 1920s on the west side of Ahornstrasse and on Hohe Linde .

Since many apartments at the time were not equipped with either half or full bathrooms, the Bauverein's managing director Karl Pagelsdorff arranged for a bathhouse to be built between the existing rows of houses in Mittelfeld.

From 1927, multi-family houses belonging to the Spar- und Bauverein Wülfel and the surrounding area, for example, have retained the corner building at Ahornstraße 6 , as well as a largely plastered row of buildings from Ahornstraße 1 and Am Mittelfelde 86 - 88, as well as the clinker building that was built in 1927 with echoes of the New Objectivity Roßkampstraße 8 under a saddle-hip roof .

The last administrative seat of the building association was in house number 2 on the street Hohe Linde, which was also built in 1927 .

At the time of National Socialism and in the middle of World War II, the address book of the city of Hanover from 1942 testifies to the large number of workers and invalids as tenants, for example in the buildings at Ahornstrasse 1 - 18, which belonged to the former Bauverein . A short time later, in the year of the most devastating air raids on Hanover , the savings and construction association Wülfel und Umgebung merged with the civil servants housing association for Hanover and the surrounding area on April 23, 1943 to form the Heimkehr housing association .

After the war, the son of the late managing director Pagelsdorff, the successful rugby player Willi Pagelsdorf at FC Schwalbe "[...] played a key role in rebuilding the infrastructure in Wülfels and Mittelfeld". After the Pagelsdorffweg , which was laid out in midfield in 1950 , was named after his father, Willi Pagelsdorf - with just an f in his name - became the father of the later Bundesliga coach Frank Pagelsdorf .

  • House Ahornstrasse 1

  • House Ahornstrasse 2

  • House Ahornstrasse 11

  • Houses at Ahornstrasse 15 and 13

  • Entrance to house Ahornstrasse 18

  • House Hohe Linde 1

  • House Hohe Linde 2

  • Houses Am Mittelfelde 86 and 88

literature

  • oV : The savings and construction association Wülfel and the surrounding area. In: 1900 2000. 100 years of the Heimkehr eG housing cooperative, anniversary publication with 80 largely illustrated pages, ed. from the housing association Heimkehr, Bad Schwalbach: Grünwald-Verlag, 2000, v. a. P. 28ff.

Archival material

Archives from and about the Spar- und Bauverein Wülfel and the surrounding area can be found, for example

  • as historical photographs in the archive of the Heimkehr housing association

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k o. V .: The savings and construction association Wülfel and the surrounding area. In: 1900 2000. 100 years of the Heimkehr eG housing cooperative, anniversary publication with 80 largely illustrated pages, ed. from the housing association Heimkehr, Bad Schwalbach: Grünwald-Verlag, 2000, v. a. P. 28ff.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Wolfgang Neß : Midfield. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 2, vol. 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 114f.
  3. ↑ a b c Compare the information on Ahornstrasse in the address book from 1942
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Wülfel. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 685f.
  5. ↑ a b o. V .: I want to stay here ... , in- house mail number 1 from 2015, last accessed on January 13, 2017
  6. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Pagelsdorffweg , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 191
  7. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: Hohe Linden , in ders .: The street names ... , p. 120
  8. ↑ a b o. V .: Pagel's mother worried about the son's reputation on the website of the Hamburger Morgenpost from December 30, 1998

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 4 "  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 31.4"  E