St. Barbara Settlement
| Complete St. Barbara settlement | |
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[[File:  | 250px | The Santa Barbara Settlement in March 2018]]The Santa Barbara Settlement in March 2018 |
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| Data | |
| place | Darmstadt |
| Client | United States Armed Forces |
| Architectural style | Modern |
| Construction year | 1956-1957 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 50 '1.3 " N , 8 ° 38' 35.9" E |
The entire St. Barbara settlement in Edisonstrasse is an ensemble of buildings in Darmstadt .
History and description
The entire St. Barbara settlement includes the historically unique residential buildings south and west of Edisonstrasse on the western edge of the villa colony in Darmstadt-Eberstadt . Edisonstrasse, west of Heidelberger Landstrasse, was named after the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison . The single, double and terraced houses were built in the American style and are stylistically modern . In 1957, the houses reserved for US Army officers were completed. At the same time, the confiscation of private housing in Darmstadt by the US Army ended. In 2008 the last members of the army left the settlement. After that, the houses were renovated and have been used for civil living since then. The five small cul-de-sacs originally belonged to Edisonstrasse. After the Americans left, these were renamed Fred-Hill-Weg, Ella-Fitzgerald-Weg, Louis-Armstrong-Weg, Nina-Simone-Weg and James-Brown-Weg.
Monument protection
The entire plant St. Barbara settlement is of architectural and urban history reasons under monument protection .
literature
- Roland Dotzert: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt , Konrad Theiss Verlag gmbH, Stuttgart, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , p. 561ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Darmstädter Echo, Monday, February 19, 2018, p. 9.