Billy goat station

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The former billy goat station, today a residential building

The billy goat station is a residential and farm building in Osterholz-Scharmbeck in Lower Saxony , which was built in 1928 as a breeding station for goats . It was created according to a design by Hans Martin Fricke in the New Building style . The functional agricultural building is one of the few Bauhaus buildings in northwest Germany . The building has been a listed building since 1983 .

description

The building is on the outskirts of Osterholz-Scharmbeck outside the residential area near the Bremen – Bremerhaven railway line . It is a two-storey residential building with an adjoining stable wing . It has the typical building layout of the Low German hall house widespread in the area , which can also be seen from the outside. The residential building is a stone building with a flat roof and rounded corners on the facade. On the façade side there are windows with no cornices and a narrow, vertical ribbon of windows to illuminate a small stairwell . The facade is plastered and kept in white, as is typical of the Bauhaus. The elongated stable wing is a white plastered stone building on the ground floor, on which an upper floor made of dark wood is placed. The outer contour of the building has remained largely unchanged. Today it is privately owned and used as a residential building.

history

For a long time nothing was known about the history of the building. In 1983 it was placed under protection as an architectural monument , although the architect was not known at the time. At first, Ernst Becker-Sassenhof was presumed to be a representative of the New Building, whose main activity was in nearby Bremen .

Only the processing of the estate of the Bauhaus student Hans Martin Fricke provided information on the development of the building. The research was initially carried out at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar , which carried out the exhibition The Bauhausler Hans Martin Fricke - Furniture Design, Architecture, Free Art in 2016 and 2017 in the Schiller Museum in Weimar . In addition, as of 2016, Fricke, as one of four Bauhäuslers ( Karl Schwoon , Hermann Gautel , Hin Bredendieck ) from East Friesland and the Oldenburger Land, started a two-year research project at the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg , from which the local exhibition The Bauhaus in Oldenburg - Avantgarde in the province in 2019. In Fricke's estate in Weimar there was a draft drawing of the billy goat station that he had made , which proves his authorship. He made them for the housing company Niedersächsische Heimstätte , whose Bremen branch he was employed by in 1928. The draft is signed by Fricke's superior Otto Conrad Friedrich Bräutigam, so that he is also the draftsman. One of Fricke's tasks during his year-long job at the Lower Saxony Home Office was the design of housing developments and development plans for various locations in the Bremen area. The billy goat station is one of the few examples in which the Lower Saxony Heimstätte used the design language of New Building.

literature

  • Svenja Zell: Rural settlement and farm workers housing construction of the twenties and the activities of the Lower Saxony homestead. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony , year 2000, issue 3, pp. 124–126.
  • Rainer Stamm : The Bauhaus in the provinces. Hans Martin Fricke's “billy goat station” in Osterholz-Scharmbeck. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony , year 2019, issue 1, pp. 45–49. ( Online )
  • Rainer Stamm: Hans Martin Fricke. Bauhaus member, Nazi functionary and architect of the reconstruction. In: Gloria Köpnick , Rainer Stamm (ed.): Between utopia and adaptation. The Bauhaus in Oldenburg. (Exhibition catalog) Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2019, pp. 62–63.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b see literature: Svenja Zell: rural settlement and farm workers' housing construction of the twenties and the activities of the Lower Saxony homestead
  2. ↑ * The Bauhaus member Hans Martin Fricke - furniture design, architecture, free art , information on the exhibition on klassik-stiftung.de
  3. ↑ Research project: The Bauhaus in Oldenburg in the Landesmuseum 2017 ( Memento from June 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Between utopia and adaptation. The Bauhaus in Oldenburg from April 27 to August 4, 2019 in the Augusteum

Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 2.6 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 12.2 ″  E