42 - Municipal housing of the 1920s

To counter the housing shortage after the end of the First World War, building cooperatives and the city of Offenbach attempted to accommodate as many people as possible by building small detached houses with gardens for self-sufficient people. One of these housing projects were the "Zeppelin houses" built on Bachstrasse, Friedensstrasse and Landgrafenring (formerly Friedrich-Ebert-Ring) from 1921. With their distinctive roof shape, Baurat Sander and building inspector Klingelhöfer implemented cost-saving replacement construction methods with slag concrete and plank constructions for fully extended roofs. When the food and financial situation improved in 1924, four-storey houses with inexpensive rental apartments for workers and studio apartments for artists in the attic were also built in the small garden city around the school on Friedensstraße in 1924-26.