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