Dwellings and generational change in owner communities

Spellerberg, Annette; Woll, Tobias

doi:10.3828/tpr.2014.21

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“…This mode of suburban single-family home development very much reflects the notion of the freedom individual homeowners have as promoted by the Wüstenrot building society. This approach did not contribute to the establishment of the closely-knit neighbourhood that persists in former homestead settlements (Spellerberg and Woll 2014); the focus of the building society was on self-provisioning homebuilders. In addition to financing and building consultancy, representations of actual homes in building society magazines contributed to the production of affordable homes with optimised layouts.…”

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Idealizations of the Kleinhaus: On the Typology of the Small Single-Family House in Germany, 1920s–1960s

Lorbek

2018

Architectural Histories

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In the 20th century, detached single-family houses proliferated in Germany. Continued publication of built houses as idealised, model homes in magazines for non-professional housebuilders contributed to the popularity of detached single-family housing, influenced the architecture of single-family homes, and contributed to shaping the culture of habitation. Through their customer magazines, aimed at non-professional housebuilders, German building societies played a crucial role in the constitution of self-provided detached housing. With a focus on the Kleinhaus (small house), this paper uses mediated representations of built houses to trace the evolution of single-family houses in Germany from the 1920s to the 1960s, as they were represented in Mein Eigenheim, a customer magazine of the Wüstenrot-Gesellschaft der Freunde (GdF) building society. During the Weimar era (1919-1933), the GdF magazine highlighted the affordability and modest size of the Kleinhaus. Following the financial crisis of the late 1920s and the rise of Nazism, the economy of self-sufficiency, centred on vegetable gardens, became a popular theme. During the 1950s, under the influence of increasing material progress, the significance of the Kleinhaus changed. The gardens lost their economic function and became extended living spaces. In the late 1950s, the Kleinhaus lost its dominant position on the housing market, with the emergence of new building types such as the bungalow and larger homes with two full storeys, which better catered to the desires of an affluent and increasingly individualised society.

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Idealizations of the Kleinhaus: On the Typology of the Small Single-Family House in Germany, 1920s–1960s

Lorbek

2018

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“…While new construction and the detached housing stock from the post-war era in the east and west of Germany differ, the single-family homes built during the interwar and Nazi period are similar. According to previous studies (Pergande /Pergande 1973;Hafner 1996;Kornemann 1996;Spellerberg/Woll 2014), the detached housing stock from the era between 1918 and 1949 is mainly located in what were initially leasehold developments in small cities and rural areas. These developments were endorsed and initiated by the municipalities, but in suburban areas on city fringes construction was more piecemeal, to some degree informal and consisted largely of selfbuild homes (Kuhn 2006).…”

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Land-management strategies and the detached housing stock in shrinking municipalities – evidence from Germany

Berndgen-Kaiser

Köhler

Lorbek

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For some years, increased attention has been paid to the single-family housing stock in Germany and the further designation of building land by municipalities. A Germany-wide anonymous survey of municipalities sheds light on the municipalities’ land management strategies with regard to declining populations and their anticipation of future problems for the further use of the single-family housing stock. The results of the quantitative survey are supplemented by qualitative interviews with municipal experts from case studies that were selected on the basis of criteria such as population decline, old-age dependency ratio, the share of single-family homes and vacancy rates. The aims of the survey and the interviews are to assess municipal representatives’ perceptions of population decline and of the necessity of undertaking measures to deal with shrinkage. Research questions are: What measures do municipalities consider appropriate to counter population loss and falling demand for housing in shrinking regions? How important are single-family housing areas in the perception of German municipalities? The results indicate that a continued designation of building land seems to be one of the most important measures used to cope with insufficient demand. The aim is to attract new inhabitants, particularly to shrinking cities. However, this approach reinforces current problems because it lowers demand for the housing stock and increases the risk of vacancies.

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“…Neben dem Selbstbau war die Selbstversorgung der Bevölkerung durch Gartenbewirtschaftung und Kleintierhaltung eine wichtige Zielsetzung der Siedlerbewegung. Die Siedlungen sind daher häufig durch vergleichsweise kleine Häuser, Seitenanbauten und große Gärten gekennzeichnet (Kuhn 2001, S. 195;Spellerberg und Woll 2014). Zu Zeiten der Wohnungsnot in den 1950er-und 1960er-Jahren erlebte der Bau von Kleinsiedlungen eine neue Blüte.…”

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2020

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Gemeinschaftliches Wohnen verbreitet sich in Städten und in ländlichen Räumen in Folge des demografischen Wandels und mangelnder Wohnangebote. Der Beitrag fokussiert auf selbstorganisierte gemeinschaftliche Wohnprojekte, die as Ziel guter Nachbarschaft, gemeinsamer Freizeitgestaltung und Unterstützung verfolgen. Vor allem Menschen (Frauen) nach der Familienphase gründen Initiativen, umnach einem langwierigen Prozess und finanziellem Engagementmit "Wahlverwandten" zusammenzuwohnen. Die statistisch kaum erfassten Projekte differieren stark, top-down-Lösungen können als Ergänzung erwartet werden.

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Dwellings and generational change in owner communities

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Idealizations of the Kleinhaus: On the Typology of the Small Single-Family House in Germany, 1920s–1960s

Idealizations of the Kleinhaus: On the Typology of the Small Single-Family House in Germany, 1920s–1960s

Land-management strategies and the detached housing stock in shrinking municipalities – evidence from Germany

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