Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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282 KÖNIGSBERG. front or at the back. Two of the tenements are in the front of the building, and the third is at the back, all three consisting of a combined living and bedroom and a kitchen. The dimensions of the rooms forming the two front tenements are :— Living and bedroom ... ... 15 feet by 13\ feet. Kitchen ... ... ... ... 15 feet by 8 feet. The first of these tenements is entered by either of two doors leading from the corridor, one into each room. The second is entered by a door leading from the corridor into the kitchen. The third tenement —the one at the back—is also entered by a door leading from the corridor into the kitchen. The dimensions of its rooms are Living and bedroom ... ... 14^ feet by 13^ feet. Kitchen ... ... ... ... 11| feet by 9 feet. Every tenement has the exclusive use of one of a row of water-closets situated in the corridor. In addition there is the usual cellar space and drying-loft accommodation. Among the three-roomed dwellings two kinds may be distinguished. The first and most common kind consists of a room with a stove (the " best room”), a stoveless bedroom, and a kitchen. The second type differs from the first only in having a stove in the bedroom as well as in the " best room ” and the kitchen. Among the 4,619 three-roomed buildings of which the rents were ascertained 2,761 belonged to the first, and 1,858 to the second category. Of the former, or more common, kind 1,277 or 46 per cent, were let at yearly rents of from £ll to £13, which, expressed in weekly rents, would correspond to a range of 4s. 3d. to 5s. 0d. The nature of the accommodation provided at a rent falling within these limits will be seen from a consideration of the arrangement and dimensions of the rooms on the first floor of one of a large number of similar houses in the Grosse Sandgasse in the H aberberg quarter of Königsberg. The ten rooms on this floor constitute four tenements, viz., two of two rooms each looking into a yard at the back, and two of three rooms each looking into the street in front. Here we are concerned with the latter only. Each of these contains a small vestibule, measuring 6J feet by 4J feet, the two vestibules being situated one on each side of the landing. Having been admitted by the tenant into the vestibule, the visitor is faced by a door leading into the kitchen, while a second door at his side leads into the living room, which communicates with the bedroom. The kitchen is not large, and its possibilities in point of space have been sacrificed for the sake of the vestibule, which is regarded as giving an air of refinement to the flat. The dimensions of the rooms forming one of the tenements are somewhat smaller than those of the rooms forming the other. The following are the dimensions of the rooms of the larger tenement. The kitchen measures 13 feet by 6J feet, and the living room, which is large, 17J feet by 12J feet, while the bedroom occupies a space roughly corresponding to that of the kitchen and vestibule combined, but somewhat wider at one end than at the other. All three rooms have a height of 9 feet 4 inches, and are well lighied by windows looking into the street, the living room having two windows, and the kitchen and bedroom each one. Thus ample opportunities for ventilation are provided, but in Königsberg, as in other parts of Germany, these oppor tunities appear not to be greatly appreciated if one may judge by the small use that is made of them. On the landing are four water-closets (with flushing tanks), one for the separate use of each tenement. In addition there is the usual provision of cellarage, and of facilities for the drying of laundry in the loft. The rent of this tenement is 255 marks per annum, or 4s. 1 Id. per week. Coming to what may be called the superior type of three-roomed tenement —that which consists of two heatable rooms and a kitchen—one naturally finds a somewhat higher range of rents. Thus of the 1,858 tenements of this kind for which the rents were ascertained, 1,048, or 56 per cent., were let at £12 to £15 15s. per annum (4s. Id. to 5s. 10d. per week). In point of structure and size of rooms a tenement of this kind differs little, if at all, froiq

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