Residential complex Werkblock

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Residential complex Werkblock

The Werkblock residential complex in Bremerhaven - Lehe , Twischkamp district, Werkstrasse 14–20, Am Twischkamp 11–15, Hökerstrasse 13/15 and Jahnstrasse 46–50, was built in 1929/30 according to plans by Friedrich Ostermeyer (Hamburg) and Gustav Claas (Geestemünde) .
The building complex has been a listed building in Bremen since 2009 .

history

The Lehe district in the Prussian Wesermünde grew steadily. In 1917 there were 31,653 residents in Lehe, in 1924 there were already 41,000. After the First World War , the rental apartments were mainly financed by non-profit building associations and cooperatives with state subsidies (interest reductions).

The four- to five-storey, brick-built residential complex with 122 apartments was built in 1929/30 in the modernist style of the 1920s by the non-profit building association Geestemünde . The four wings are grouped around a rectangular, closed inner courtyard.
The State Office for Monument Protection stated: “In the area of ​​social housing, the work block is the only successful example of the so-called" new building "of the 1920s in the state of Bremen ... the special features of this style such as the complete renunciation of ornament, the design of the floors and the sharp, cubic closure of the building corners and the flat roof were implemented without compromise. ”
Due to structural defects, some facades on the north and west sides and in the inner courtyard had to be plastered in 1932 become. In the 1930s, several large apartments were divided into two-room apartments as required. In 1965 there was a single-storey store expansion for consumption in an easterly direction.

Further well-designed rental housing complexes in the modernist style of the 1920s are available in Bremerhaven u. a. in the area of Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse 187 to 193 and Fritz-Reuter-Strasse 42 to 61.

literature

  • Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries; Volumes I to III from 1827 to 1991 . Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 , ISBN 3-927857-37-8 , ISBN 3-927857-22-X .
  • Kunz: About the housing construction in the area of ​​the city of Wesermünde in the last 10 years . In: Tjaden (ed.): Housing construction after the war in the cities on the Lower Weser: Bremen, Wesermünde, Bremerhaven , Düsseldorf 1929.
  • Th. Michaelis: Ten years of non-profit building association Geestemünde . Düsseldorf 1929.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  2. ^ Monument database of the LfD: 3276
  3. ^ Monument database of the LfD Bremen: 3069

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 57.2 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 59.9"  E