Siedlungsbau der 1920er Jahre | Radtour

In the organizer's words:

Blauer Hof, Weiße Stadt and Germaniasiedlung - housing estates of the 1920s

We cycle through excellent housing estates on the Schäl Sick. In no other city was so much non-profit housing built in the 1920s as in Cologne. Small and large cooperatives, in particular the GAG, created housing estates for different sections of the population. The architects Wilhelm Riphahn and Caspar Maria Grod set standards for GAG in Buchforst with their housing estates Blauer Hof from 1926 to 1927 and Weiße Stadt from 1929 to 1932. According to the motto: "Lich, Luff and Bäumcher" or "form follows function" - for people.

Between 1920 and 1928, GAG built a large housing estate on the site of the former "Germania" coal mine, combining different architectural concepts of the time. Here we visit the museum apartment and gain an insight into the everyday life of people over 100 years ago.

Expert: Asja Bölke
Category: by bike
Duration of the tour: 2.5 hours

Meeting point: Buchforst Waldecker Straße stop (out of town)

Exciting clues: A large number of buildings in the "White City" and the "Blauer Hof" estate in Buchforst are registered monuments, as is most of the Germania estate. The artist Heinrich Hoerle was responsible for the color scheme of the Blauer Hof. The modernization of the Germania Siedlung was awarded the German Builder-Owner Prize.

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