St. Leonhard's garden
St. Leonhards Garten is a modern residential area in Braunschweig , which is arranged around an oval square and was built in place of the former tram depot and depot. The area is located in the Eastern Ring area amidst a founder time stamped buildings. The building area was developed as a federal model project as part of the Experimental Housing and Urban Development program of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development and was completed in 2012.
Urban planning concept
The city of Braunschweig worked out guidelines for the development and house design in consultation with the architects and clients. The townhouses on the square were built as three- and four-story row houses. The material of the facade on the street side was also prescribed, with clinker brick cladding being used . However, the backs were not included and mostly covered with plaster. The parcel width for individual family houses is usually six meters. In addition, apartment buildings and semi-detached houses were built. The design and color of the facades and the height of the buildings vary from ten to twelve meters.
The houses are arranged around a shared space with a public green area with a playground. The square has a length of 180 meters and a width of 45 meters. The green strip is about 160 meters long and 19 meters wide. The edges of the green belt were planted with rows of trees. In front of the houses there is a private green strip (front gardens) five meters wide. In addition to the St. Leonhards Garten square, the new Bennemannstrasse access road with multi-storey apartment buildings was also built.
When giving the name, the word garden was not used in the direct sense. Furthermore, the component St. Leonhard refers to the nearby town of St. Leonhard .
history
The tram depot was located on the site for decades and was relocated to a new building at the freight yard in the 2000s. The concept for a subsequent use of the area for residential purposes was determined with the help of an urban planning ideas competition. The collection of ideas took place from 2005 to 2006, from 2007 to 2008 the concept was developed and from 2009 to 2012 the implementation took place.
A total of 50 townhouses and approx. 100 apartment units were built in a row in the entire building area.
The development of the building area was recognized in October 2012 as part of the “National Prize for Integrated Urban Development and Building Culture” competition. A group of houses also received the example of the BDA Lower Saxony Prize 2012. In 2015, the St. Leonhards Garden 7 town house completed in 2011 received the Peter Joseph Krahe Prize.
literature
- Alexandra Schäfer, Klaus Hornung, Klaus Theo Brenner: St. Leonhards Garden. New living in Braunschweig. Documentation for the Stadtbahndepot competition. Federal model project for experimental housing and urban development . Ed .: Thomas Hoffmann-Kuhnt. Verl. Competitions Aktuell, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 978-3-934775-53-4 .
- Braunschweig, Department of Urban Planning and Environmental Protection (Hrsg.): Handbook for building in St. Leonhards garden . Braunschweig 2008 ( braunschweig.de [PDF]).
- Alexandra Schäfer (Ed.): St. Leonhards Garden: Idea 2005–2006, Concept 2007–2008, Realization 2009–2013. [stylish urban living] . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2012, ISBN 978-3-941737-67-9 ( appelhans-verlag.de - summary).
- Hannes Müller: Braunschweig . In: Building communities as an urban development tool . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-09460-7 , case studies, p. 135-149 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-09461-4_4 ( alltitles.ebrary.com - table of contents).
Web links
- St. Leonhards Garten on braunschweig.de
- Website of the federal model project
Individual evidence
- ^ Winner of the town houses in St. Leonhards Garten
- ^ Peter Joseph Krahe Prize 2015. braunschweig.de, accessed on September 29, 2016 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 39.5 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 40.6 ″ E