Saarbrücken „Nauwieser Viertel“
In the Nauwieser Viertel redevelopment area, diverse measures for the benefit of the elderly and the co-existence of the generations were carried out. Many activities were combined with the vocational qualification of young people. New housing, businesses and social facilities have come into being in the neighbourhood.
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Context
Source: Weeber+Partner
Nauwieser Viertel in Saarbrücken (pop. 177,000) borders on the city centre. The Gründerzeit neighbourhood with fragmented mixed usage has been a redevelopment area since 1980 and meanwhile accepted into the Soziale Stadt ('Social City') programme.
The project was funded and evaluated between 1989 and 1992 as a model plan in the research project "Elderly People and their Neighbourhood" in the federal research programme "Experimenteller Wohnungs- und Städtebau“ - ExWoSt - (experimental residential and urban development).
The intention of the concept was to link housing and urban development measures with the transfer of assistance and care services into the urban districts and area-wide mobile social services.
There are two neighbouring projects which have the aim of co-existence of young and old. These are Mehr-Generationen-Wohnen (Multi-Generation Housing) and the Education and Employment Centre of the SOS-Kinderdorf e.V.
Project description
Source: Weeber+Partner
For the new plan for the Gründerzeit neighbourhood Nauwieser Viertel, a disused 2600m2 industrial area - the Gottlieb grounds - was converted. The development and renewal company ESG purchased the grounds in 1989.
A multi-generation housing complex arose through the modernisation of flats, the conversion of warehouse buildings and a new building. The building complex comprises 45 one to four-room flats. The building is fitted out suitable for the disabled and prams thanks to the installation of a lift and a ramp. 16 flats have been designed as barrier-free. For meeting and communication, two yards and a common room have been created.
Particular importance was placed on a careful, resident-oriented urban renewal right from the beginning. As part of the preparation with active involvement, the future residents had a right of co-determination in the selection of the tenants and in certain building measures. This p reliminary phase and the first years of the residential project were accompanied by social pedagogy. The Education and Employment Centre of SOS-Kinderdorf (originally known as "Centre for Young and Old") borders directly on the residential project. The facility was there even before the building was constructed. It was extended during the transfer and offers youths vocational orientation in areas of social and personal services such as home economics or senior citizen and disability assistance. Breakfast, lunch and an afternoon café for senior citizens are available there. Especially the residents of the multi-generation housing projects take advantange of this. The catchment area for outpatient services is the entire city area. A mothers' centre has opened as an open meeting place as part of the SOS-project and is not only for mothers. The open meeting place with its indoor play area is open every day. A second hand shop with children's clothes and a babysitting agency are integrated. There are also special services such as German courses with childcare.
Around 10 million D-marks were invested which included public funding from the federal government and the capital market. The form of the funding made it possible to allocate a good share of the flats to tenants whose income is 60% over the limits in social house building.
Project chronology
Year | Event |
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1980 | Designation of the redevelopment area |
1989 | The development and renewal company ESG purchases the Gottlieb grounds |
1989 to 1992 | Model plan in the ExWoSt research project named "Ältere Menschen und ihr |
1992 | Wohnquartier" (Elderly people and their neighbourhood) |
1993 to 1997 | Beginning of the building measures |
1995 | New Education and Employment Centre of the SOS-Kinderdorf moved into |
1996 | Flats in the multi-generation housing project moved into |
2000 to 2003 | Project in the Soziale Stadt programme with four work groups: urban development, open area planning, local economy, recreation and culture |
Aims
Source: Weeber+Partner
- Particular attention paid to the needs of the elderly
- Multi-generation living
- Socially sustainable neighbourhoods
- Services for the elderly
- Meeting places .
Types of measures
Source: Weeber+Partner
- Accompaniment by social pedagogy
- Conversion and new construction of buildings for multi-generation housing
- Construction of a new Education and Employment Centre of the SOS-Kinderdorf
- Set-up of a mothers' centre not only for mothers
Innovations
Source: Weeber+Partner
Thanks to an integrating procedure, it was possible to improve the living conditions for elderly people in the neighbourhood and to provide targeted funding for multi-generation neighbourhoods and assistance. The projects support independent living in old age and also neighbourly contact. Cross-generation networks were created which provide mutual support in the combination of outpatient services and employment initiatives for young people. The integration of social and urban development goal-setting and the needs of different generations as part of the urban renewal are to be highlighted in general.
Sources
- Gabriele Steffen, Dorothee Baumann, Antje Fritz: Attraktive Stadtquartiere für das Leben im Alter (Attractive urban neighbourhoods for life in old age). In: Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, Bauforschung für die Praxis (Building research for practical application), Volume 82, Stuttgart 2007
- SOS Kinderdorf e.V. (2004): Die SOS-Einrichtungen im Saarland (The SOS facilities in Saarland). Merzig-Hilbringen.
- Federal State Capital of Saarbrücken/Social Office/Assistance for the Elderly and Counselling for the Disabled (1997): The model project "Mehrgenerationen-Wohnen-Nauwieser Viertel". Mehr-Generationen-Wohnen und generationenübergreifende Hilfen als Beitrag zur Verbesserung der Wohn- und Lebenssituation im Alter (Multi-generation housing and cross-generation assistance as a contribution to improving the residential and living situation in old age). Project Report. Saarbrücken.
- Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (1995): Wohnen im Alter – zuhause im Wohnquartier (Life in Old Age - At Home in the Residential Neighbourhood). Research Programme of the Experimental Housing and Urban Development. Bonn.
- Institute for Practically Oriented Research and Education, Peter Pfahler (1992): Generationenübergreifendes Wohnen und Nachbarschaftshilfe zwischen Alt und Jung im innerstädtischen Altbauquartier Nauwieserviertel – Gemeinwesenprojekt Gottliebgelände (Cross-generation living and neighbourhood assistance between young and old in the inner city old building neighbourhood of Nauwieser Viertel - Gottlieb grounds community project). Saarbrücken.
- Morpho-Logic, Ingrid Burgstaller, Michael Gebhard (1991): Nauwieser Viertel. Siedlungs- und wohnökologische Aspekte. Teil I: Space – Syntax – Analyse (Nauwieser Viertel. Settlement and residential ecological aspects. Part I: Space - Syntax - Analysis). Munich.
Demmel and Mühlbauer (no year): Nauwieser Viertel. Siedlungs- und Wohnökologische Aspekte. Teil II: Katalog Wohnökologischer Elemente (Nauwieser Viertel. Settlement and residential ecological elements. Part II: Catalogue of residential ecological elements). Munich.
Further information
- Brochure "Älter werden in Saarbrücken" (Growing Old in Saarbrücken), Federal State Capital of Saarbrücken, 2006.
- http://www.sozialestadt.de
The projekt site ist to be found at postal code: 66111 - town: Saarbrücken - street: Nauwieser Platz 9.
Poject site on Google-Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/C5VrSjfGgws
Last update: 05.03.2018