Grundteilungsgesetz

Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 1738045803

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-113913

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Grundteilungsgesetz

Place of publication:: [Berlin]

Year of publication:: 1914

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Digitisation:: 2020

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Title:: Nr 035 A / Grundteilungsgesetz / Vorläufig festgestellter Bericht

Collection:: Economics Books

72 BARMEN. There are, however, certain features associated with defective housing else where in Germany which are practically non-existent in Barmen. One of these is the " back-house,” the nature of which is fully explained in reports on other towns. Only about one tenement in ten of the working class type is situated in such a house in Barmen. The proportion of basement tenements, moreover, is so small as to be negligible, viz., 176 in a total of 36,311 dwellings. The pro portion of attic tenements also is small, only 47 per cent, of the two-roomed and 2 9 per cent, of the three-roomed tenements being situated higher than the third storey. Barmen resembles most other German towns in the fact that practically the whole of its population lives in flats. Thus, of the 36,311 dwellings which were occupied at the date of the housing census, only 1,160 or less than 3 per cent, consisted of a whole house. In addition to the two or three rooms which constitute the usual working class dwelling, each occupier of such a tenement has allotted to him a portion of the cellarage and has a right to the use of the loft for drying clothes. In some cases part of the cellar-space is fitted up as a washhouse for common use, and in the more recently built houses, where each tenement has a balcony at the back, the latter is not infrequently used for drying. Seven or eight appears to be the most usual number of rooms on each storey of a tenement house. To illustrate the arrangement of the tenements and their rooms the following examples may be taken. Example I.—On reaching the stair landing on the first or any succeeding floor one finds on either side a door. Through these doors admission is obtained to corridors, one belonging to the right-hand, and the other to the left-hand, tenements. A description of the tenements on one side will suffice in this case, as the arrangement of the four rooms constituting the two tenements is the same on both sides. The first of these consists of a front room and a back room, each entered by a door from the corridor. The back room has a window looking into a backyard, and the front room a window looking into the street. The second tenement consists also of a front room and a back room, and is entered by a door from the corridor leading into the back room, admission to the front room being obtained by means of a door connecting the t\\ o rooms. Here also the back room has a window looking into a backyard and the front room a window looking into the street. It may be mentioned that the front rooms of the tenements just described are connected by a common door, as also are the back ones. These doors are kept locked, so as to separate the tenements, but admit of being used to form tenements bavina different arrangement or number of rooms. Similar use can be made of a locked door connecting the front rooms of the tenements on the immediate rio-ht and left of the landing. In this class of house there are on each landing two w.c.’s ; also a tap and metal trough affording the water supply. ' ’ 1 1 ‘ Example IL—In this case, which is apparently less common than the above, there are three tenements on each floor, two on the left of the landing and one on the right, and there is only one corridor, which is entered by a door on the right of the landing. The first of the left-hand tenements consists of two front rooms, and the second of two back rooms. Each of these tenements is entered by a door from the corridor leading, in each case, il Z room nearer the landing. Each room in the back tenement has a window looking into a backyard, and each room in the front tenement a window looking into the street. The third tenement on the floor, viz., the one to the right °of the landing, consisting of three rooms, two front and one back, is entered^ a door leading into the back room. J he back room has a window looking into the backyard, and each of the front rooms a window looking into the street provid%dtttrha%nd%°l^roa:C^rl%%it%r'"^ ^conies are

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