High-rise building (Detmerode)

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Step high-rise (2016)

The levels of high-rise , partly short stages house , was called a cityscape formative building in Detmerode , a district of Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony . It was built from 1965 to 1967 according to plans by Paul Baumgarten and demolished in 2018.

Architecture and building description

The step high-rise stood as a distinctive, widely visible solitary structure in the entrance area of ​​the Detmerode district. It was built by the local Neuland housing company on the Kurt-Schumacher-Ring 226–234 property. The building, aligned on the north-south axis, was 5 storeys high on the side facing the Detmerode district and rose in steps to 13 storeys. The 135 m long and 15 m wide building had a total living area of ​​10,908 m². The size of the 172 apartments varied from one to five rooms. The facade was characterized by circumferential loggias , on the middle floors there were a number of storage rooms as a cellar close to the apartment.

history

Step high-rise (1973)
East side at start of demolition (2018)
State on December 1, 2018
State on December 15, 2018

In 1964 the first draft for the step high-rise was made, but it was not implemented. Construction began on June 8, 1965. In 1966, while the construction phase was still in progress, the first tenants moved in. The topping-out ceremony took place on October 21, 1966 . In 1967 the step high-rise was completed and completely occupied. Originally planned, green roof terraces were not implemented for cost reasons.

The aerated concrete (Thermocrete concrete) used in the construction offered comparatively good sound and heat insulation, but proved to be not durable, so that the step high-rise was demolished in spring 2018 due to unrecoverable construction defects. On December 18, 2018, the last section of the high-rise was laid down.

Around 100 doors, as well as windows and other utensils, found a new use in 2018 for the art installation Behind closed doors in the architecture pavilion of the Institute for Architectural Art at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

For the successor building, Neuland organized an architectural competition in 2015/16 , in which the design by the architects Bayer & Strobel from Kaiserslautern emerged as the winner. In order to meet the high demand for housing in Wolfsburg, the new building will have 220 apartments.

literature

  • Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 106, 110-111.
  • Stephanie Giesecke: One last look into the stepped high-rise. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Friday Packet for October 19, 2017.
  • Ulrich Fischer: The first residents in the step high-rise. In: Detmerode yesterday and today. Wolfsburg 2008, pp. 33–34.

Web links

Commons : Detmerode step high-rise  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 doors of the high-rise building become an art project. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of June 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ Description of the draft at bayerundstrobel.de, accessed on October 28, 2017

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 51.9 "  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 11.2"  E