Wallmersiedlung

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Wallmerstrasse 112 downwards

The Wallmersiedlung even settlement in Wallmer or settlement Wallmer called, is a native of the interwar period housing estate in Stuttgart District Untertürkheim , now called impersonal entity under monument stands. The residential area consists of two areas, the older phase of construction from the years 1925 and 1926, yet the traditional home style represented, while the younger from 1929 to 1931 in the Bauhaus style , or in the style of New Objectivity or of the new architecture was born. Today the apartments belong to the housing cooperatives Stuttgarter Wohnungs- und Städtebaugesellschaft mbH (SWSG) and Baugenossenschaft Gartenstadt Luginsland eG , which they have recently renovated extensively and equipped with bathrooms at a later date.

The Wallmersiedlung at the foot of the Kappelberg and Württembergs connects to the historic Untertürkheim town center to the north and is named after a local field name - like the Wallmerstraße leading through the settlement, which was named in 1929 . This is derived from the hip , i.e. the slope of the roof at the gable, and is related in a figurative sense to the local terrain.

Settlement Im Wallmer I

The older, northerly part of the settlement was built in the local style.

The older part of the settlement, also called Im Wallmer I , was built in an open field and borders Dietbachstrasse in the north. It comprises the four rows of houses Wallmerstrasse 126, 128, 130, 132 and 134, Fiechtnerstrasse 51, 53, 55, 57 and 59, Fiechtnerstrasse 52, 54, 56, 58 and 60 as well as Sattelstrasse 75, 77, 79, 81 and 83 - that means a total of 20 buildings. When they were built, these three-storey houses still had a traditional steep pitched roof and originally had no balconies . Government architect Friedrich Mössner and architect Theodor Dolmetsch were responsible for the first construction phase.

Settlement Im Wallmer II

Houses in the New Objectivity style on Sattelstrasse

The newer part of the settlement, also called Im Wallmer II , is much larger than the first construction phase with 52 individual buildings and is bordered on the one hand by Sattelstrasse in the northeast and on the other hand by Wallmerstrasse in the southwest. The area is about 1.8 hectares and rises about ten meters to the northeast. The total of eight flat roof building blocks in a row construction are around ten meters high and have three residential floors and half a, i.e. recessed, attic floor.

The rows consist of four, seven or twelve individual buildings and are separated from each other by communal green spaces. The end to the north is formulated by a total of six four-story head buildings. The house at Sattelstrasse number 61 serves as a thoroughfare for Biklenstrasse and is therefore designed without a ground floor. This doorway also represents a symbolic entrance gate to the settlement when coming from the northeast . The minimum distance between the rows of houses was only allowed to be one and a half times the height of the building. that is 15 meters. This distance was strictly observed. The parallel alignment of the building blocks in a north-west-south-east direction as well as the hillside location nevertheless guarantees all apartments optimal access to light, air and sun and was considered particularly modern at the time. Here, the living rooms are conveniently located to the southwest, while the bedrooms and utility rooms are oriented to the northeast. The protruding staircases in turn give rhythm to the slope side, while balconies arranged in pairs, also vertically connected by protruding bulkheads, form the valley-side accents. Only the traditional folding shutters on the perforated facades softened the strictness of the row of houses , which was modern at the time of construction .

The architect in charge was Richard Döcker , who had designed two buildings for the experimental Weißenhofsiedlung of the German Werkbund as early as 1927 . Originally even this Werkbundsiedlung was supposed to be built on the slopes of Untertürkheim. Also in 1929 and 1930, as part of the large housing construction program of that time, a fourth Bauhaus settlement was built in Stuttgart with the island settlement in the neighboring district of Wangen and the settlement of Ziegelklinge in the southern district .

Since there was also a great shortage of money in Stuttgart as a result of the global economic crisis , the city invested mainly in the construction of smaller rental apartments . The settlement in Wallmer II therefore comprises a total of 316 three-room apartments, each with around 55 square meters. In addition, the residents originally had a shared bathing establishment , a central laundry room and a grocery store in the corner building at Wallmerstrasse 122. The following table gives an overview of the arrangement of the buildings, with the higher end buildings being underlined:

Sattelstrasse 59 , 57, 55, 53, 51, 49, 47
Sattelstrasse 69 , 67, 65, 63 Sattelstrasse 61 / road through Biklenstrasse Sattelstrasse 59/1, 57/1, 55/1, 53/1, 51/1, 49/1, 47/1
Fiechtnerstrasse 46 , 44, 42, 40 Fiechtnerstrasse 36, 34, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24
Fiechtnerstrasse 45 , 43, 41, 39 Fiechtnerstrasse 35, 33, 31, 29, 27, 25, 23
Wallmerstrasse 122 , 120, 118, 116 Wallmerstrasse 112 , 110, 108, 106, 104, 102, 100

Web links

Commons : Wallmersiedlung (Stuttgart-Untertürkheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Street names in Stuttgart - origin and meaning in Stuttgart contributions, Issue 10 , Kurt Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1974, unpaginated
  2. ↑ www.wirtemberg.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 19.1 ″  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 58.6 ″  E