02906 Niesky: In the small Saxon town of Niesky, 20 minutes by train from Görlitz, the then largest European timber construction company "Christoph & Unmack AG" (C&U) built four factory and model housing estates in timber construction with a total of 317 flats in 114 houses. Of these, around 100 model houses with more than 250 flats are still well preserved as housing estates today, most of which are in their original condition and most of which are listed buildings. They were realised between 1918 and 1940.
Bundesland: Saxony
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01109 Dresden: Hellerau is considered one of the early examples of modernism. With a spirit of experimentation, it brought together the various life-reforming currents of the spirit of optimism of the early 20th century. Hellerau is considered the "nursery" of the Werkbund and is a manifestation of its ideas. Completion: 1955
01189 Dresden-Coschütz: 18 units, completion. 1999, Fritz Matzinger residential courtyard: there are a number of housing estates, particularly in Austria, that were realised according to the Matzinger residential courtyard concept (see also "Offenau residential courtyards"). Timber panel construction, a great deal of personal labour, cost-effective.
01326 Dresden-Pillnitz: 9 residential units, 40 residents. Ecological apartment buildings according to passive house standard. Architectural partnership Reiter and Rentzsch, Dresden. Occupation: 2001
04249 Leipzig-Knauthain: 665 WE, urban planning: Joachim Eble Architektur, decentralized settlement units; solar orientation (90% of the WE are SSW or SSO oriented) and integrated into the open space concept of so-called landscape chambers; resource-saving use of building land with minimized development effort in the area of residential development; ecological land use with high nature and open space quality on the compensation areas close to the settlement.
09111 Oederan Chemnitz: 622 RESIDENTIAL UNITS. Model project for the Chemnitz technology and business park solaris, as well as the Stadtbau- und Wohnungsverwaltungsgesellschaft. 17 blocks of flats were renovated, 7 of them were equipped with 100 sqm collector surface each. Year of construction: 2000
