Die Entwickelung der Fabrikindustrie im lateinischen Amerika

Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 1728770173

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-105075

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Gemmingen, Max http://d-nb.info/gnd/101562608

Title:: Die Entwickelung der Fabrikindustrie im lateinischen Amerika

Place of publication:: Halle a. S.

Publisher:: Gebauer-Schwetschke

Year of publication:: 1910

Scope:: 197 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: IV. Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung

Collection:: Economics Books

BREMEN. 103 There are whole streets of these small one-family cottages in Bremen, alike in the old districts and the new, and they give to the town so clear an impress that comparison with other German towns is impossible. In the streets of quite modern construction, houses intendel for two families are more common ; but the size of the tenements and the general scheme of the rooms are much the same as in the older houses. Here, too, the street door opens into a corridor, beyond which lies the kitchen, which either gives access to the back yard, or, if the house have a basement, to a balcony. The two or three living and bedrooms run through from front to back, the " good room ” facing the street, and the centre room, should one exist, being, as before, lighted from the corridor, though the existing building regulations proscribe this room. On the upper floor there is one room extra above the corridor, making a tenement of three or four small rooms and a kitchen. Occasionally the rooms alongside the corridor, both upstairs and downstairs, are intercommunicable. Should there be an attic the space is divided between the tenants, and the same applies to the cellar where it exists. A double house of this type cost its owner £439, though now worth more, and its two tenements were let for £12 10s. each per annum. Where there is a basement- story its rooms may form a separate tenement, or they may be allotted to the tenements above. It is not uncommon for a tenant on the ground floor to have his kitchen in the basement, and here may at times be found a wash-house which serves for all the house. In one house of the kind visited £6 10s. per annum was paid for a basement tenement consisting of a living-room, a kitchen, and a dark pantry ; and in another £8 15s. was paid for two rooms and kitchen below and a room above. The conveniences are found within the house or in the backyard, according to the age of the property. The following are the proportions of rooms in typical two-story houses of modern date :—" Good room ” or parlour, 12 feel 6 inches deep, 10 feet 9 inches wide, and 10 feet 6 inches high ; large bedroom, same measurement ; small bedroom, 10 feet 9 inches by 6 feet 6 inches by 10 feet 6 inches ; kitchen, 7 feet 10 inches by 7 feet 10 inches by 10 feet 6 inches. Many of the houses in these modern working-class streets have small gardens in front and not uncommonly verandahs as well, in both respects imitating the one-family houses of the middle classes. The usual building material is either good red or yellow brick or common brick plastered and painted a light colour. A peculiarity of the housing of Bremen are the “ Gänge "or" Passages ” found both in the Old or Hew Towns, but principally in the latter, where the more primitive and more dilapidated of the “ Passages ’’ are found. Some of the " Passages ” consist of double rows of cottages, and others are built in single rows, the windows of one row looking on the back walls of the next, and invariably they are very narrow, 5 feet being no uncommon width. Occasionally a " Passage " is reached from a street which is in itself not much wider than a " Passage," or in architecture superior to it. Thus Great Krummen Street leads into “Small Krummen Street,” and out of "Small Krummen Street” issue several typical "Passages,” one of them being 5 feet wide, though consisting of a double row of cottages. Some of the Passages are blind alleys, while others are connecting links between parallel streets ihe houses in these "Passages” are nearly all single-family houses, and, being back to back, the conditions of light and ventilation are not favourable, though they Would be much more unhealthy than they are, except foi the fact that most of the buildings are low. _ , . . . , , The fabric is of brick or half-timber work, and, as a rule, is in an advanced state of decay. The internal arrangements are, for the most part, primitive in the extreme. The door leads into a space which is neither corridor nor kitchen yet which serves for both. On the other side of the ground floor will be found a living-room (sometimes dignified by the name “good room ) and a bedroom, seldom well lighted—not only because neighbours houses are only a lew feet away, but because the rooms are low and the windows proportionately small. Upstairs, beneath a high-pitched roof, is the attic, bare to the ti es, and serving as a spare bedroom and general store place. In the larger of these ‘ Passage houses the three lateral room arrangement already referred to (the middle room lighted from the corridor or kitchen) sometimes prevails, and the attic is divided into two apartments. The water supply is outside in the Passage, and one

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