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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STUTTGART. 471 Predominant Rents of Working-class Dwellings. Number of Rooms per Tenement. Two rooms with cooking-place Three rooms with cooking-place .. Predominant Weekly Rent. 2s. 4cl. 3s. to 4s. 4s. Id. to 5s. 9c?. 7s. to 9s. 3(7. This “ cooking-place ” is not a kitchen, see ante. These rents are much higher than those at any other town in Germany, except Berlin and are only slightly lower than rents in the imperial capital, the Stuttgart index-number being 97 (as compared with Berlin = 100). In the adjacent small towns of Cannstatt and Untertiirkheim, where there are many important industrial works, the rents of two and three-room dwellings are lower by Is. M. and 2s. 6(7. per week respectively. Many workpeople in Cannstatt and Untertiirkheim, however, live further out still, in the villages in the open country, where they are able to rent a little land. Specially low railway fares are offered to workmen who travel to or from Stuttgart every day. Weekly tickets valid for six days and entitling the holder to travel to and fro once daily between two stations 5 kilometres (a little over 3 miles) distant, cost 7^c7., and the extra cost for every additional kilometre is 1 \d. per week, while single-journey tickets cost half the above rates. Workmen’s simple return tickets cost \d. per kilometre. These cheap rates are only a third of the usual local fares. The variation of rents in different parts of the municipal district may be illustrated by the following classification of the annual rents of all the dwellings of one, two and three rooms (as a rule with kitchens), which changed hands during 1905 in Stuttgart and the suburbs :— One room. Two rooms. I Three rooms. Stuttgart (with Heslach), origi nal area. Ostheim Westheim Cannstatt... Berg Gablenberg Gaisburg... Untertiirkheim ... Wangen ... s. d. 3 3 2 11 2 11 2 9 2 3 2 2 3 2 s. d. 6 1 s. d 9 5 The lower figures of the Ostheim and Westheim districts are explained by the fact that the rents are largely those of dwellings erected by a “ public utility ” building society. (See post. p. 474.) An attempt to establish the relationship between working-class income and rent was made in 1897 by the Stuttgart Trade Federation, which collected returns from 2,665 persons, representing all trades and industries, with the following result :— ^ Annual Rent. Weekly Wages. Up to 12 s. Over 12.?. to 15«. Over 15«. to 18«. Up to £5 ... Over £5 to £7 10s. Over £7 10s. to £10 Over £10 to £15 ... Over £15 to £20 ... Over £20 to £25 ... Over £25 Total 17 6 15 17 20 5 1 2 66 3 48 72 125 34 12 294 Over 18«. to 21«. 2 28 97 226 92 33 15 Over 21«. to 24«. 3 17 81 357 145 73 19 493 I 695 Over 24«. to 27«. Over 27«. to 30«. I 8 57 250 118 68 27 529 1 22 151 94 60 21 349 Over 30«. 6 63 86 55 12 222 Total. 16 121 354 1,201 574 302 97 2,665

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