Gartenstadt Wandsbek
Hamburg, Germany
An early German garden city, founded by ten men who had seen an exhibition of the German Garden City Association less than a month before!
| Garden City Type: | Mixed (housing association / municipality / other) |
| Country: | Germany |
| City: | Hamburg |
| Years of construction: |
1910 Start construction
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| Initiator/client: | Gartenstadt-Gesellschaft Wandsbek |
| Architect or related: |
unknown |
| Heritage status: | No |
| General condition of Garden City: | Good condition |
General description
At the beginning of 1910, an exhibition toured Germany that impressed everywhere. The German Garden City Association tried to import the garden city idea, which had originated in England, with lectures, drawings and photographs. Less than a month later, on Jan. 31, ten men founded the "Gartenstadt-Gesellschaft Wandsbek," bought a few acres of land and by November of the same year had already completed the first eight semi-detached houses!
Because land prices in Hamburg were unaffordable, they had chosen an area on Prussian territory. Today, however, the garden city settlement is more or less in the middle of Hamburg."
Architecture / Urban planning
The settlement borders Bramfeld to the north, Tonndorf to the east, Dulsberg and Barmbek-Nord to the west and the Hinschenfelde district of Wandsbek to the south.
The settlement borders Bramfeld to the north, Tonndorf to the east, Dulsberg and Barmbek-Nord to the west and the Hinschenfelde district of Wandsbek to the south.
Garden associations are located along the Osterbeek, which forms the border with Bramfeld .
Sources
- Website URL
Wikipedia [in German]
