Plate settlement
The Tellersiedlung is located in the Oberrad district of Frankfurt , which is characterized by gardening and vegetable growing. The settlement is located in the south-eastern outer area on the edge of the city forest. It was designed exclusively for horticultural companies and built during the New Frankfurt era according to the designs of Ernst May and Franz Roeckle .
Origin and development
The settlement was built in 1927 as part of the Frankfurt settlement and was planned by Ernst May. The urban layout on the almost square area of around nine hectares follows a rational concept. There are ten deep plots of land on both sides along the straight, straight road Im Teller . The development consists of ten two-storey semi-detached houses (thus a total of twenty semi-detached houses) and the greenhouses in the rear part of the property. The houses on one side of the street are offset from those on the opposite side of the street. The buildings were planned by the architect Franz Roeckle. They have flat roofs and are characterized by a cubic architecture.
The originally municipal land, which was leased to the horticultural companies, was privatized over time. The parcels, which used to have an average size of around 3000 square meters, have been partially merged or divided. Even though numerous houses were changed through renovations and alterations, the urban appearance of the settlement was retained. Almost a hundred residents live in the settlement.
literature
- German Architecture Museum Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Ernst May and the New Frankfurt 1925–1930. Wilhelm Ernst & Son, Berlin 1986.
- Dietrich Wilhelm Dreysse: May settlements. Architectural guide through eight new Frankfurt estates 1926–1930. Fricke-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-88184092-3 . / 2nd, updated edition, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1994.
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 38.2 ″ N , 8 ° 44 ′ 15 ″ E