The cores are divided into two categories. First, there is a chronological order according to area restructuring before and after industrialization. Secondly, there is an order of recommendations and consideration of changes with future significance.
Strengthening goals: corporate structure and closing gaps
Interconnection: Expansion of infrastructure to nearby cores, symmetrical connections to the Elbe and networking
- Open development from the 50s to 80s
- Block construction
- Multi-storey residential buildings, west
- five and six storey, prefabricated buildings on Trajuhnscher Bach/Lerchenberg
Small settlements in the 1930s
- Periurban location
- Small single and semi-detached houses, open design of the Lerchenbergsiedlung
- Stadtrandsiedlung, Apollensdorf Nord
Village character
- one and two-story farmsteads: e.g. B. Apollensdorf, Trajuhn, Labetz, Wiesigk, Pratau
- Original village facilities Rundling Street Village, today additions with younger residential buildings
Principles
Preserving and strengthening the village and urban structures as a coreless structure and the large public green spaces does not create any connection to the city. As such, with a route to the Fläming Nature Park and connection to the cycling and hiking trails with the creation of small-scale businesses and leisure activities, would provide a connection to the region's unique fauna and flora and create an attractive transition to neighboring villages. This provides flexibility to accommodate business-savvy long-distance tourism. By intertwining new and old cores through mixed building areas and separating out special areas in the city, there is still room for new technology locations. In view of the shrinking city, one should still show courage for open spaces and fill them with new green architecture, see them as recreational areas, even as a large park. For example, the Green Belt, the former fortress wall, will be highlighted again in more detail.
Margins
The boundary in the south of Wittenberg is determined by the topographical features of the Elbe. Clear settlement structures with paved paths close the city like a ribbon with the flood plain. Through a constant flow of waterways, creating attractive regional offers.
Founding: Emergence of new cores, revival of historical references to places and places and creation of new potential
Taking into account the city of Wittenberg's tradition for its humanities, the strengthening or new establishment should be active at the same time.
Connections are within and outside the city, for example between Leucorea Wittenberg, Vorwerk Domain Bleesern and the Freischütz Pratau; as well as the old village centers of Lindenfeld, identifying the old infrastructure and adapting it to the house structure of the Lerchenbergsiedlung, and in Piesteritz the consolidation of public necessities, such as the indoor swimming pool, sports field and the creation of attractive market offerings on the ring road to the city center, skating rink, youth club in the countryside and the like. The aim is to establish a new center at the train station on the fault line in the city of Wittenberg. The Elstervorstadt border. In the west, the industrial development and residential areas expanded to Apollensdorf and Piesteritz, when residential development reached its limit on the main south-north axis. The Elstervorstadt remains a special area in the east. It was only built after the liberation wars for the refugees and homeless people, after which it was nicknamed the fishing village because the houses were nailed together from boards in times of need. Due to the major break in the railway line and the federal highway, the Elstervorstadt forms a remnant of rows of houses without a solid core and still has no connection to the old town. In the south, established village structures with agricultural land remain. Since there was mainly arable land and orchards for supply in the west of the old town, no core developed here, but rather a cluster of buildings on a connecting road.
Conclusion
Today Wittenberg is a network of partly loose structures. Cores are to be strengthened, connection to the south by means of a ferry connection and expansion of the settlement structure of the Elstervorstadt, designate green areas as parks and single-family house areas, connection to infrastructure and designation for tourism. As the surrounding villages in the north and east of the city grow together since the heyday in the 16th century as a knowledge location, there is no clear limit. It leads to a partially attached structure in the area of the Wilhelminian period belt, Wittenberg West, Piesteritz, which are characterized by structural typologies and closed spatial edges. Although after industrialization, the surrounding village centers near Friedrichsstadt, Lindenfeld, Lerchenberg, in the northern part of Piesteritz and Schlossvorstadt were built over and this led to an unreal development structure. The current settlement location between the Lerchenbergsiedlung, the Stadtrandsiedlung and Trajuhn does not reveal any noticeable entrances to the town, and its rows of houses and parcels of land expand the town and counteract the process of shrinking. This also applies between Schlossvorstadt and Rothemark. In the north-west the natural forest formed a demarcation.
Archival source for this design study: Marco Gernt, Logik und Kreativität prägen das Leben. Architektur & Stadtentwicklung. Was braucht die Stadt?, Master of Architecture thesis, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, 10 January 2007, chapter IV.4.4, pp. 36 (studio archive, German). The people credited below contributed to the work. This text describes a design proposal, not a verified completed project.
SOURCE 2006
- Maren Berbig | Marco Gernt, Germany