Werkbundsiedlung Breslau

Ledigenheim by Hans Scharoun , (H31) now "Park Hotel Scharoun"

The Werkbundsiedlung Breslau was built in 1929 as a test settlement as part of the Werkbund exhibition Apartment and Workroom (WuWa) . The latter had in the settlement its focus, but was supplemented by additional presentations at the nearby exhibition center around the Centennial Hall and the log Niger Park . The Silesian department of the German Werkbund was responsible for the organization .

The in Wroclaw district Grüneiche built settlement is part of a series of Werkbund settlements and in connection with its direct predecessor, the Werkbundsiedlung Stuttgart to see. Contrary to this, only buildings by German or local architects were built in Wroclaw.

development

In contrast to the exhibition in Stuttgart , both progressive and more conservative architects were active in Wroclaw . However, only members of the Silesian department were involved. The driving force behind the exhibition was Heinrich Lauterbach . He promoted the establishment of a Silesian regional association of the Werkbund and took over the artistic direction with Adolf Rading .

The exhibition comprised 37 residential buildings: free-standing single-family houses, semi-detached and terraced houses, various types of apartment buildings, and 1: 1 models of an office building and a farmhouse that were later dismantled. Adolf Rading designed a modern high-rise , which was only realized with a disproportionate four-storey building due to concerns of the building authority under the city planning director and city planning officer Fritz Behrendt . This is particularly interesting as Einküchenhaus designed Ledigenheim by Hans Scharoun that the first level split belongs -Wohnbauten worldwide. The interiors of the buildings were also furnished with objects that were bought by Werkbund members, such as B. Anna Rading , Josef Vinecky and Li Vinecky-Thorn . Johannes Molzahn was responsible for designing the exhibition .

In contrast to the Weißenhofsiedlung , leisure green spaces were taken into account in the planning and even a day-care center was built. However, the entire complex seems to be chaotic and arbitrary, the arrangement of the individual buildings random and the structural engineering and planning errors considerable.

Involved architects

Surname	Works
Theo Effenberger (1882–1968)	Houses 21–22 (row of terraced houses), House 26/27 (double dwelling)
Moritz Hadda (1887–1942)	Houses 16–17 (row houses), house 36 (single-family house)
Paul Häusler (unknown)	Houses 18–20 (row of row houses), House 29/30 (duplex)
Paul Heim (1879–1963) and Albert Kempter (1863–1941)	House 1 (arcade house), house 2 (kindergarten)
Emil Lange (1884–1968)	House 9 (four-in-hand apartment building), House 28 (single-family house)
Heinrich Lauterbach (1893–1973)	Houses 13–15 (row houses), house 35 (single-family house)
Ludwig Moshamer (1885–1946)	Houses 10-12 (row houses), house 37 (single-family house)
Adolf Rading (1888–1957)	House 7 (collective house)
Hans Scharoun (1893–1972)	House 31 (single dormitory)
Gustav Wolf (1887–1963)	Houses 3–6 (eight-family house), house 32/33 (double dwelling)

Continued use

Kindergarten (H2), a few months before the destruction

After the Second World War, the single-family homes and small multifamily to private individuals for a period of 99 years were leased . They partially redesigned the buildings. One house was demolished to be replaced by a soccer field. However, this area was subsequently converted into a parking lot. The two large multi-family buildings were renovated at the beginning of the 21st century and converted into a hotel or a student residence.

Reconstructed kindergarten, shortly before completion of construction in December 2013

In July 2006 the wooden kindergarten burned down under unexplained circumstances. A few days before that, a request for a preliminary building permit for the construction of three terraced houses on the same property was received by the responsible city administration. However, this was not provided by the property owner. As a result, a procedure for entry in the list of monuments was initiated. Since the entry became legally binding regardless of the fire, the city administration obliged the owner to rebuild. In 2013 the reconstruction took place according to the original plans.

literature

Rudolf von Delius: Werkbund test settlement in Breslau . In: Decorative art, illustrated magazine for applied art, vol. 37 = vol. 32, 1928/29, pp. 273–281 ( digitized version ).
Edith Rischowski: The house as a unit. Houses and rooms of the experimental settlement in Breslau . In: Innen-Dekor, Vol. 40, 1929, pp. 400–432 ( digitized version ).
Apartment and workshop. Werkbund exhibition in Breslau 1929 . In: Der Baumeister, Vol. 27, 1929, pp. 285–307, plates 85 / 86–100.
Georg Münter: Apartment and workshop. An attempt to honor the Werkbund exhibition in Breslau in 1929 . In: Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst, vol. 13, 1929, pp. 441–453 (digitized version ).
Kaiser: The Werkbund exhibition: "Apartment and Workroom" Breslau 1929 . In: The construction newspaper. Combined with "Süddeutsche Bauzeitung" Munich, Volume 26, Issue 39, September 28, 1929, pp. 415-421 and Issue 40, October 5, 1929, pp. 423-429.
Alena Janatková, Hanna Kozinska-Witt (eds.): Living in the big city 1900–1939 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08345-6 .
Judith Lembke: The new world of yesterday , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from November 30, 2016
Federal Institute for East German Culture and History (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Federal Institute for East German Culture and History. Volume 3, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56102-2 .
Institute for Foreign Relations (Ed.): On the Way to New Living - The Werkbundsiedlung Breslau 1929 . Birkhäuser Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7643-5420-8
Deutscher Werkbund Hessen, working group “WUWA Breslau” Ed .: Helmut Hofmann. Architect and artist, student at the Breslau Art Academy 1928/1929. Exhibition catalog of the exhib. in Wrocław 1999. Frankfurt 1999, p. 16 ff. (without ISBN, bilingual German-Polish)
Jadwiga Urbanik / Grażyna Hryncewicz-Lamber: WuWA - apartment and workshop. Werkbund exhibition in Breslau 1929 , 2nd edition, Wrocław 2015, ISBN 978-83-938968-2-0 ( online ).