Am Grünen Zipfel
by RIEMERSCHMID, Richard, Photo
Hellerau is a northern quarter in the city of Dresden. It was the first garden city in Germany. Based on the ideas of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928), businessman Karl Schmidt-Hellerau (1873-1948) founded Hellerau in 1909. The idea was to create an organic, planned community. Several well-known architects participated in its construction, including Richard Riemerschmid.
The development lies on gently sloping ground and is laid out as a series of curvilinear streets of an overall organic type form. Materials are typically cream rendered walls on a stone base, with red tile roofs and green windows (mainly with shutters). The landscape is dominated by tall conifers.
The photo shows a typical row of residential houses in the Gartenstadt Hellerau, Dresden, called “Am Gr�nen Zipfel” (“At the green tip”).