Waack residential group

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The eastern of the two residential buildings in the Waack residential group

The Waack residential group consists of two residential buildings in the New Building style in Celle in Lower Saxony . They were built in 1928 according to the plans of the architect Otto Haesler and are now a listed building .

architecture

The Waack residential group consists of two parallel, four-story residential buildings facing north-south. Originally there were 14 two-storey maisonette apartments with 140 and 180 m² of living space in the buildings . The individual apartments were divided into a bedroom and a living area, which were connected by an internal staircase. In addition to the kitchen and bathroom, there were three living rooms and four bedrooms. As a template for the Waack residential group, Haesler used the Rector's house he had built , with which he implemented the single-family dwelling in a block of flats.

The facades, which are the same in both buildings, are richly structured by corner balconies, balconies, narrow exit balconies and slightly protruding bay windows. The rainwater from the flat roof is drained through the inside of the building so that the facade structure is not impaired by downpipes . An underground corridor runs between the two residential buildings, which was laid out at the request of the client Hans Waack and which was used as a bunker during World War II .

history

The western block of flats with garage entrance

The houses are named after the building contractor Hans Waack, who had them built on a plot of almost 500 m². He commissioned the architect Otto Haesler with the planning. The spacious apartments were designed for high demands, as the Higher Regional Court of Celle required large apartments for senior civil servants.

The building application submitted in 1927 with an application for funding through house interest taxes in the amount of 200,000 Reichsmarks was approved under the condition of a gable roof instead of the planned flat roof. The matter led to a deliberation in the city council. Left groups rejected the building because of the expensive apartments, middle-class groups demanded a gable roof and the SPD abstained. After construction work began in 1928, the mayor of Celle, as a proponent of the flat roof, rolled out the building permit procedure again. Only when the client had demonstrated in a further building application that the flat roof construction is more cost-effective, the flat roof was approved and built.

In the 1950s, with the exception of one apartment, the two-story apartments were each converted into two independent apartments. The buildings have been owned by Südheide eg since around 2006. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus in 1919, the apartment blocks were extensively renovated in 2019 and 200. The Otto Haesler Initiative criticized the redesign of the balconies.

literature

  • Simone Oelker: Waack group of houses with flat or gable roof? Pp. 138–139 and The doubled family house pp. 140–142 in: Otto Haesler. A career as an architect in the Weimar Republic. Munich, 2002.
  • Cellesche Zeitung (ed.): Untererm Flachdach in: 100 Years of Bauhaus , 2018, pp. 78–84.

Web links

Commons : Wohnhausgruppe Waack  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architectural treasure is being renovated in Cellesche Zeitung from October 16, 2018
  2. ↑ Dagny Siebke: A year later, Haesler buildings are making progress in Cellesche Zeitung on April 14, 2020
  3. ^ Dagny Siebke: New balconies "Slap in the face for monument protection" in Cellesche Zeitung from May 7, 2020

Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 12.5 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 11.4"  E