Suburban settlement (Potsdam)
The Potsdam residential estate Am Stadtrand (also known as the outskirts settlement) was built from 1932 to 1936 as an unemployment settlement; it was planned by Reinhold Mohr (1882-1978). The architect , who comes from southern Germany, created the largest ensemble of southern German mountain and peasant architecture outside of Württemberg. With this project, Mohr was considered an architect of classical modernism .
location
The suburban settlement is bordered on its northern side by the tram line built in the 1980s to the residential areas of Stern, the Drewitz development area and the Kirchsteigfeld built in the 1990s , which also separates it from the "Schlaatz" development area. The Wetzlar railway line runs south of the settlement and forms the structural separation from the Rehbrücke industrial site in Potsdam .
history
The construction of the settlement followed a social approach, its planning took place during the time of the global economic crisis . The construction also brought work for the future owners and the associated gardens were intended to be self-sufficient. The houses were built by unemployed craftsmen in the city and then raffled among them. Since nobody knew beforehand which house he would get, a high quality of construction was guaranteed in this way. The same principle was also in the subsequent expansion of the settlement, the branch on Nuthe beach on the application, which until 1939 at the riverside of the Nuthe directly to the Nuthewiesen was built. Both settlements belong to the southwestern residential area Waldstadt I. They are under monument protection. In the years after the fall of the Wall, many of the houses were reconstructed and modernized under strict monument protection regulations, and some new homes were also added. The settlement is also characterized by numerous allotment gardens (division system).