Terrace houses in Hamburg's Josephstrasse

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Terrace houses in Hamburg's Josephstrasse 2015
Resident initiative to preserve the terrace houses at a symposium on monument preservation in Hamburg June 2016
Demolition of the terrace houses except for the outer walls (2019/20)

The terrace houses in Hamburg's Josephstraße , with the house numbers 10a + b and 12a + b, are the last terrace houses in the Hamburg district of Wandsbek .

History and description of the building

1899 establishment

From 1899 two opposite, three-story rows of houses were built across the street. Access was via a passage between the front buildings and the connecting courtyard. Factory workers, carters, craftsmen and servants were housed here. Both rows of houses together contain 24 small apartments. The facility is located in the old factory area of Neumann-Reichardt-Straße, which is protected from the environment . Their construction should help to alleviate the housing shortage of the workers in the early days . In the front buildings, parallel to the street, lived better-earning traders, minor officials and master craftsmen. Because of the stronger incidence of sunlight and because of the larger floor plans, the rent was higher here.

2012–2015: Conflict over conservation

In 2012, an application for a preliminary building permit was rejected once. It was disputed whether the buildings, which had been massively altered in appearance as a result of the war, were still recognizable historical structures. The monument expert Geerd Dahms, who had prepared an expert opinion on behalf of the VHW cooperative, assessed the building fabric as clearly not worthy of protection.

The housing cooperative Hamburg-Wandsbek from 1897 eG (WHW) as the current owner aimed to demolish the terrace houses. Sigrid Curth from the Wandsbek history workshop asked: "If profit considerations cannot stand back, even in cooperatives, where then?" In addition, the front building at Josephstraße 10 , which was rebuilt after the war, and a two-story building with a flat roof at Josephstraße 12 are to be demolished. This replaces the front building that used to be there, which was destroyed in the war. The property with parcel number 1701 is also built on with a row of houses parallel to the street ( Josephstraße 14-18 ), the demolition of which is undisputed. The residents of the houses in Josephstrasse support the demolition of the entire group of houses (Josephstrasse 10–18) and demand the construction of 33 social housing. They backed up their demand with a demonstration. The Hamburg tenants' association supports the construction of publicly subsidized apartments on Josephstrasse. On the entire 3,000 m² plot of land, 66 apartments (33 of which are social housing) are to be built in a four-storey construction with a stacked storey, as well as an underground car park with 27 spaces.

The red-green coalition in the district wanted to keep the workers' apartments built around 1900 and only release the remaining area for development. At the meeting of the planning committee of the Wandsbek district assembly on April 14, 2015, it was decided with the votes of the red-green majority to initiate a procedure to issue a conservation ordinance. After its conclusion, the district assembly resolved in its meeting on February 25, 2016 the "Urban Planning Preservation Ordinance Wandsbek I" to protect the area that represents the historical core of the former Prussian city of Wandsbek. In his report (p. 5), Geerd Dahms considers this urban planning conservation ordinance to be historically untenable, as the "area character mainly consists of the heterogeneity of the development over a period of approx. 100 years". The historical core of Wandsbek is also much further to the west. The WHW von 1897 eG nonetheless, with the support of the Association of North German Housing Companies eV (vnw), offered the district a compromise, according to which the dilapidated rear buildings could have been gutted and used as a multi-parking system and thus preserved in their external appearance. This was not implemented by the district, so that the Wandsbeck housing company filed a complaint with the Higher Administrative Court. A court decision on the regulatory review application is pending.

2018: Consensus on the development on Josephstrasse

After constructive discussions, the district office and the building cooperative were finally able to find a solution that reconciles the needs of new residential construction and the maintenance of essential elements of the townscape and urban design. The historical outside walls of the "terrace houses" facing the courtyard will be preserved and new apartments will be built behind them. The interruption of the building parallel to the street, which is typical for terraced houses, is retained. The entrance to the terrace courtyard is marked by new so-called head buildings, which are separated from the rest of the new building, as a typical element of the terrace structure. In this way, essential urban planning goals are achieved and both the typical terrace structure and essential components of the appearance are preserved.

The construction of the new section on Josephstrasse 10 to 12 b began at the beginning of 2020 and should be completed by the end of the year. The front houses have five storeys, the outer walls of the terrace houses in the cut have been preserved and integrated into the new building project of a total of 79 apartments.

Web links

Preservation or demolition? Dispute over Josephterrassen escalates in the Hamburger Abendblatt on April 14, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wandsbek's last terrace houses before the demolition, Abendblatt.de of March 16, 2015. Accessed on August 19, 2015
  2. ↑ Expert opinion (.pdf)
  3. ^ Last terrace houses before the demolition, Hamburger Abendblatt of March 16, 2015, p. 11.
  4. ↑ http://www.bild.de/regional/hamburg/hamburger-buergerschaft/spd-stoppt-wohnungsbau-in-wandsbek-40173138.bild.html
  5. ↑ http://www.hamburger-wochenblatt.de/wandsbek/lokales/demo-fuer-den-abriss-d23324.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hamburger-wochenblatt.de  
  6. ↑ https://www.mieterverein-hamburg.de/export/sites/default/.content/dokumente/mieterjournal/mieterjournal-2016-1.pdf
  7. ↑ Calendar of meetings of the Wandsbek district assembly: April 2015 Citizen information system of the Wandsbek district assembly. Retrieved August 19, 2015
  8. ^ Josephterrassen: Demolition request for the time being from the table Abendblatt.de of April 17, 2015. Accessed on August 19, 2015
  9. ↑ Meeting of the Wandsbek district assembly on February 25, 2016, Item 9.05 Sitzungsdienst-wandsbek.hamburg.de , accessed on April 6, 2016.
  10. ↑ Urban Development Preservation Ordinance Wandsbek I Sitzungsdienst-wandsbek.hamburg.de , accessed on April 6, 2016.
  11. ↑ An area steeped in history was preserved Wandsbek informativ , April 2016, p. 4. Retrieved on April 16, 2016.
  12. ↑ http://www.whw1897.de/media/pdf/gutachterliche_stellungnahme.pdf
  13. ↑ https://www.vnw.de/presse/presseinformationen/neubauten-in-wandsbek-richtfest-hier-kompromiss-dort/
  14. ↑ http://www.bild.de/regional/hamburg/hamburg/genossenschaft-verklagt-stadt-auf-sozialwohnungen-49271792.bild.html
  15. ↑ Press release from the Hamburg-Wandsbek district office of October 9, 2018
  16. ↑ Construction will be finished soon, Hamburger Wochenblatt of June 24, 2020, p. 3

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 25.4 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 44.7"  E