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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PLAUEN, 409 Housing and Rents. Flauen is one of the few of the great industrial towns for which the results of the housing census undertaken in December, 1905, by most of the urban authorities in Germany have so far been published in any degree of detail. This town is therefore one of the comparatively small number for which it is possible to show, for so recent a date as December, 1905, the proportions in which the population is distributed among the dwellings of different sizes. The newness of the town and the suddenness of its growth are shown by the fact that of a total of 22,874 occupied dwellings enumerated on December 1st, 1905, 11,567, or more than half have been constructed since 1895. About five-sixths of all the dwellings consist of flats or tenements. The following Table shows the distribution of the population according to the number of rooms which constitute the dwelling :— Number of Rooms. Number of Dwellings. One room Two rooms Three „ Four „ Five „ Six Seven „ and over 769 4,291 5,308 7,332 4,160 733 281 Total 22,874 Number of Persons boused in suck dwellings. Total. 1.369 14,519 22,432 36,147 21,970 4,545 1,851 Per cent, of Population. 102,833 1-3 142 21-8 35 2 213 44 1*8 100-0 From this it appears that 71 per cent, of the population are housed in dwellings consisting of two, three or four rooms. For the general bulk of the working classes in Flauen the dwelling consists of a flat containing two or three rooms, and there is little to distinguish a flat of this size occupied by a working-class family from similar flats occupied by the middle classes, unless it be that the former seldom has a separate kitchen, the principal room being used as a kitchen and living room combined. Thus the bulk of the Flauen tenements of two to four rooms were found to consist of : No. of dwellings. (a) one general living room and one bedroom ... ... 3,630 (Ò) one general living room and two bedrooms ... 3,058 (c) one general living room, two bedrooms and a kitchen 3,772 10,460 The above three classes of dwellings represent 59 per cent, of all dwellings in Flauen of which the occupiers were tenants (i.e., not owners), excluding dwellings with which business premises were combined. In 5,709 dwellings, or about one of every four, in Flauen the occupier was found to be letting one room or more either furnished or unfurnished. Among these letters of rooms, 1,558 were women not otherwise defined, while 2,061 are described as “ workpeople ” or else as “ subordinate postal or railway officials.” The accommodation most frequently let is a furnished bedroom, i his was found to be the case in 3,668 of the 5,709 dwellings of which portions were sub-let. That sub-letting is attended with a certain degree of overcrowding may be inferred from the fact that in 597 bedrooms belonging to dwellings of which certain rooms were sub-let the occupants at night numbered more than six persons. A working-class family intending to sub let usually rents a four-roomed dwelling, so that for the purpose of determining the rent most usually paid by working-class families in Flauen it will be best to

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