#Apartment block #Leipzig #1935
Kurt Arthur Peuschel , Marie Schenk , Marie Laue
Wachauer Straße 1, 5, 7, 9
04299
Leipzig,
Germany
Public transport: Südfriedhof
Today's use: Apartments
Description
All four buildings have been given their own design, but more or less they correspond to a uniform style. The architect team Kleitz & Zimmer designed similar window sizes, balconies, corner windows on the corner buildings and gable roofs. The architects designed the no longer existing Leipzig exhibition palace Union, which had a reinforced concrete structure. For these buildings, an iron company was commissioned for the statics, which makes it clear that the basic construction for these houses is also reinforced concrete.
Description
All four buildings have been given their own design, but more or less they correspond to a uniform style. The architect team Kleitz & Zimmer designed similar window sizes, balconies, corner windows on the corner buildings and gable roofs. The architects designed the no longer existing Leipzig exhibition palace Union, which had a reinforced concrete structure. For these buildings, an iron company was commissioned for the statics, which makes it clear that the basic construction for these houses is also reinforced concrete.
History
Four houses in this short street were built in 1935 and 1936. House No. 3 dates from 1914 and differs with its architecture from the younger houses. These buildings are another example, that not all principles of modern architecture from the 1920s ended with the Nazi regime in Germany. Some of the windows of these houses are even bigger than from houses in Leipzig from the Weimar Republic. A typical symbol of the time after 1933 are the gable roofs, back than called the German way to construct a roof instead of flat roofs.
According to the documents the devolopers of three house are known. No. 1 was fianced by Kurt Arthur Peuschel. Construction works started in 1935. House No. 5 was paid by Marie Schenk was the last of the four houses built in 1937. No. 7 was built betwwen May 1935 and July 1936 and responsible for this building was Marie Laue. Both women are are referred to as widows who probably use their inheritance to build these houses. According to Leipzig address books, all homeowners lived in these houses. Only for house No. 9 is not mentioned any developer. It was built from the end of 1935 until June 1936.
Since these are privately financed buildings, their distinctiveness in the building activity of National Socialist Germany is very much to be appreciated. According to Nazi ideology, only smaller houses or single-family houses should be built. With the architectural forms, apart from the gable roof, all those involved chose a clear reference to the architecture of the Weimar Republic.
All developers used a team of architects called Kleitz & Zimmer. Unfortunatly we do not have more information about those two architects.
History
Four houses in this short street were built in 1935 and 1936. House No. 3 dates from 1914 and differs with its architecture from the younger houses. These buildings are another example, that not all principles of modern architecture from the 1920s ended with the Nazi regime in Germany. Some of the windows of these houses are even bigger than from houses in Leipzig from the Weimar Republic. A typical symbol of the time after 1933 are the gable roofs, back than called the German way to construct a roof instead of flat roofs.
According to the documents the devolopers of three house are known. No. 1 was fianced by Kurt Arthur Peuschel. Construction works started in 1935. House No. 5 was paid by Marie Schenk was the last of the four houses built in 1937. No. 7 was built betwwen May 1935 and July 1936 and responsible for this building was Marie Laue. Both women are are referred to as widows who probably use their inheritance to build these houses. According to Leipzig address books, all homeowners lived in these houses. Only for house No. 9 is not mentioned any developer. It was built from the end of 1935 until June 1936.
Since these are privately financed buildings, their distinctiveness in the building activity of National Socialist Germany is very much to be appreciated. According to Nazi ideology, only smaller houses or single-family houses should be built. With the architectural forms, apart from the gable roof, all those involved chose a clear reference to the architecture of the Weimar Republic.
All developers used a team of architects called Kleitz & Zimmer. Unfortunatly we do not have more information about those two architects.
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