Weissenhofsiedlung Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart

#Housing estate #Stuttgart #1927

Architects

Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, Adolf Rading, Hans Scharoun, Hans Poelzig, Bruno Taut, Victor Bourgeois, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Richard Döcker, Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, Adolf Gustav Schneck, Max Taut

Developers

Municipality of Stuttgart , Deutscher Werkbund

Address and directions

Am Weißenhof 14, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32; Bruckmannweg 1, 2; Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 114, 118; Hölzelweg 1, 5; Pankokweg 5, 7, 9; Rathenaustraße 1–3, 13, 15,
70191 Stuttgart, Germany

Public transport: Killesberg

Access: Public building, free entry during working hours

Today's use: Apartments, museum

A prototype of the modern settlement system

Description

Description

What all houses have in common is that they have a flat roof and stand on a fairly small area. Detailed descriptions of all houses are provided by the Weissenhof Museum. All existing and destroyed houses are listed.

The houses differ in the construction methods as well as in their sizes.

History

History

The city of Stuttgart's first plans for a new housing estate date back to 1925.

The entire complex was planned by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. A total of 33 houses were built as part of the "Die Wohnung" (The Apartment) building exhibition. International architects were deliberately invited to Stuttgart alongside German architects. The two best known are certainly Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret. Both of their houses were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List and one is used as the Weissenhof museum today. As the complex is a municipal investment, the houses were not sold after the exhibition, but rented out. This estate was the model for many other settlements around the world.

On the websites of the museum and the Friends of the housing estate are added plans with all the houses built in 1927. It is easy to find out, which houses were destroyed and which are preserved. 10 out of 33 houses were destroyed. Houses of following architects do not longer exist: Richard Döcker, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Adolf Rading, Bruno and Max Taut.

The Werkbund Estate Weissenhof is networked with other Werkbund estates. These include the WuWa in Wroclaw (formerly Germany), the Baba Estate in Prague (Czech Republic) and the Werkbund Estate in Vienna (Austria). All the estates were awarded the European Commission's Cultural Heritage Label in 2020.

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