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Their other dimensions would not differ materially from those given in the
following concrete examples of four-roomed tenements visited for which rents of
from £11 10s. to £15 per annum were being paid.
Tenement A (on second floor of house in Wigandstrasse, suburb of
Kleinzschocher). This consisted of a vestibule having on one side the kitchen
and two bedrooms, each with a window looking into a backyard, and on the
other side a living room with two windows looking into the street. The rooms
measured as follows :—
Living room 14 feet by 11^ feet.
Bedroom, 1 18 „ 9 „ »
Bedroom, 2 11 „ 5 „
Kitchen 11 „ 7¿ „
Tenement B (on second floor of house in Reuterstrasse, suburb of
Lindenau). This also consisted of a vestibule having on one side the kitchen
and two bedrooms, each with a window looking into a backyard, and on the
other side a living room with two windows looking into the street. The rooms
measured as follows :—
Living room 15 feet by 9J feet.
Bedroom, 1 19 „ 7J „
Bedroom, 2 13 „ 5 ,,
Kitchen 13 ,, 6J ,,
Tenement C (on first floor of house in Gutsmuthstrasse, suburb of
Lindenau). This consisted of a vestibule having on one side the kitchen and
one of the bedrooms, each with a window looking into a backyard, and on the
other side the living room and another bedroom, the former with two windows
and the latter with one window looking into the street. The rooms measured
as follows :—
Living room 15| feet by 11J feet.
Bedroom, 1 17 „ 7 „
Bedroom, 2 15^ „ 8J „
Kitchen 11J „ 7 ,,
The water-closets are situated on the stair landings, as a rule in the
proportion of one to each family, taking the house as a whole. The cellar
space is divided into as many compartments as there are tenements, and one
such compartment, capable of being secured by lock and key, is assigned to
each tenant for the storage of fuel, potatoes, &c. In the back-yard is a
washhouse for the use of the tenants in common, and the loft space directly
beneath the roof is fitted with rails for the drying of laundry.
In a three-roomed tenement, all the rooms are, as a rule, in the front of
the house, the central room occupying the space over the entrance door of the
building. The most general range of rents for working-class tenements of three
rooms is from 185 to 215 marks per annum, or 3a. 6d. to 4a. 2d. per week.
The following table shows the predominant range of weekly rents for
working-class dwellings of three and four rooms respectively :—
Predominant Rents of Working-class Dwellings.
Number of Rooms per Tenement.
Predominant Weekly Rent.
Three rooms
Four rooms
3s. 6f?. to 4s. 2d.
4s. 5d. „ 5s. 9d.
The rent index number for Leipzig, compared with 100 in Berlin, is 51.
So far as can be judged from the annual statistics of unoccupied dwellings
in Leipzig, the supply of tenements, especially of the smaller sort, more than
keeps pace with the demand,. so that the Municipal Statistical Office has, in
recent years repeatedly called attention to a tendency to “ overproduction of
dwellings. When, in October, 1905, it was found that the number of
