#Housing estate #Karlsruhe #1929
Süddeutsche Wohnungsbau AG Karlsruhe
Ebertstraße 2, 4, 6; Klosestraße 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44; Schnetzlerstraße 7, 9, 11; Schwarzwaldstraße 24-29
76137
Karlsruhe,
Germany
Public transport: Hauptbahnhof
Today's use: Apartments, shops
Description
This housing estate is considered as the more bourgeois version of the Karlsruhe Dammerstock housing estate. So the houses were built as perimeter blocks and not as row buildings, opened to the street. However, in order for the block to appear more open, Alker created passageways into the inner courtyard. He has also designed the corners lower in height and provided roof terraces. As a result, he reduces rooms at this corner location, which would be less well lit and ventilated.
Inside, the house is also more traditional, especially that the hallways in the apartments are larger compared e.g. with the Dammerstock. They can be connected with the living room through a sliding door, creating a even larger room.
The ground floors along the main road Ebertstraße are used for shops.
Description
This housing estate is considered as the more bourgeois version of the Karlsruhe Dammerstock housing estate. So the houses were built as perimeter blocks and not as row buildings, opened to the street. However, in order for the block to appear more open, Alker created passageways into the inner courtyard. He has also designed the corners lower in height and provided roof terraces. As a result, he reduces rooms at this corner location, which would be less well lit and ventilated.
Inside, the house is also more traditional, especially that the hallways in the apartments are larger compared e.g. with the Dammerstock. They can be connected with the living room through a sliding door, creating a even larger room.
The ground floors along the main road Ebertstraße are used for shops.
History
We do not have any information yet, when the construction works for this housing estate started. The plans must be from 1929, the tenats moved in in 1930.
The official name was apartment block Wohnblock Süddeutsche Wohnungsbau AG Karlsruhe. Colloquially it is named according to the architect Alker-Block.
History
We do not have any information yet, when the construction works for this housing estate started. The plans must be from 1929, the tenats moved in in 1930.
The official name was apartment block Wohnblock Süddeutsche Wohnungsbau AG Karlsruhe. Colloquially it is named according to the architect Alker-Block.
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