Facts about Vauban
citizens: ca. 5106
average age: ca. 28,7
cars per 1000 citizens: 164
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City District Vauban
Close to downtown, the Vauban city district was developed on a 38 hectare former French military barracks area. It is an attractive, family-friendly neighborhood for 5,000 inhabitants where emphasis is put on civic participation, building community, and environmentally sound living. Following the low energy standard in house construction is required, and the construction of passive or plus energy houses and the use of solar technology are standard
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Urban Development and Architecture
The urban development concept took the block structure of the Wilhelminian style town quarters and opened it up into separate rows of houses. The heads of these rows, determined by building lines and defined by arcades, line up along the main axis – the Vauban Allee. The residential roads branching off from here are further defined into individual street sections by “cross-bars”. The rows of houses may not exceed a height of 13 metres, the distance
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Traffic Concept
Quartier Vauban is not a car-free but a car-reduced town quarter! The hierarchical traffic concept consists of the surrounding roads with a speed limit of 50 km/h, the quarter’s main road, Vauban-Allee, with pay-and-display parking spaces (speed limit 30 km/h), the traffic-reduced residential roads without public parking spaces (walking speed), and foot and bicycle paths as well as completely pedestrianised areas. Among other reasons, the concept of the
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Environment
Ecological matters that were developed and agreed on in a collective process with the building-owners found their way into the land-use plan wherever possible. However, many of the essential aspects were handed on to the future house owners through the private law sales contracts. This included the obligation to raise the buildings in low-energy construction method in compliance with the Freiburg standard (characteristic energy value: 65 kWh/m2 a).
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Types of Residences
To allow for individual designs and to prevent the development of a monostructural residential area, building plots were pre-dominantly distributed to private building-owners (approx. 70%). The houses built by private owners can be divided into single building projects (on parcels with a width between 6 m and 9 m) and building projects of groups of building-owners who cooperated in the development of the building from the start. Normally these are
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History
In 1938 “Schlageter-Kaserne”, a military barracks, was established in St. Georgen, a part of town then recently incorporated into the city of Freiburg. After WWII the area was taken over by the French Forces and renamed “Quartier Vauban” in reminiscence of the French master fortification builder. When the French forces withdrew from here in 1992, the area went to the Federal Office of Assets Management. For the equivalent of 20.45 m Euros the city bought 34 ha
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