Heimatsiedlung

How did the people of modernism want to live? The architects of the New Frankfurt dealt with this question particularly intensively - and with a total of 26 estates and large apartment blocks, they provided decisive impetus for the urban planning of classical modernism. One particularly fine example is the Heimatsiedlung estate in Sachsenhausen between Mörfelder Landstraße and Stresemannallee, which was built from 1927 and consists primarily of two types of houses. At the edge, four-storey houses shield the estate from the outside; inside, there are several three-storey rows of houses with small rear gardens. Particularly striking are the many different deciduous trees that have been planted in the housing estate and after which the streets are named: Beech and birch trees, for example, oaks and ash trees, chestnuts and lime trees. Incidentally, the controversial architect Franz Roeckle (1879-1953) was responsible for the design of this estate. A few years earlier, he had already been celebrated for the famous Westend Synagogue in Frankfurt, which he had designed in Art Nouveau style. However, he later became a member of the NSDAP.