Krochsiedlung

The Krochsiedlung (also called Neu-Gohlis) is a 16 ha (40 acres) residential development in the Neues Bauen architectural style in Gohlis, a district of Leipzig, Germany.

owned by the Jewish banker Hans Kroch, announced a competition in 1928 for the construction of a 75-hectare "New Gohlis residential town".

[1] To carry out the first construction phase, Mebes and Emmerlich formed a planning partnership with the Leipzig architects Max Fricke and Johannes Koppe and the Dresden Adolf Muesmann.

The planned further phases, which aimed to create a residential town four times as large with 4,500 apartments for around 15,000 residents, would have been the largest housing estate built in the Weimar Republic.

This however was never implemented as a result of the Great Depression, which also affected the Kroch bank, followed by Adolf Hitler's rise to power.