{"id":76186,"date":"2023-10-31T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?post_type=magazin&p=76186"},"modified":"2026-09-27T20:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:39:55","slug":"gdr-garage-courts-the-legacy-of-typ-i-dresden","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/on-the-margins\/gdr-garage-courts-the-legacy-of-typ-i-dresden\/","title":{"rendered":"GDR garage courts: the legacy of the \u2018Typ I Dresden\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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On the edges of eastern German towns they stand in their thousands \u2013 once a simple parking space, today a contested piece of everyday culture.
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Once you start <\/strong>noticing them, you suddenly see them everywhere. They are in every larger town in eastern Germany, mostly on the outskirts. One grey concrete garage follows the next \u2013 hundreds of them, built to identical standards. The exact name for these GDR-era structures is \u2018Typ I Dresden\u2019. There is also a \u2018Typ II Dresden\u2019, which is slightly longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost all the garages have a pale blue metal door, often with an extra large lock welded on. That is how their owners try to foil the thefts they fear. The garages were all built in the 1970s in the GDR, and were often put up by their users themselves. So says the architect  Jens Casper<\/a>, co-author of the book \u2018Das Garagenmanifest\u2019, in an interview with Deutschlandfunk<\/a>: \u2018The housing association or the local council helped with getting materials and with financing. But the muscle power \u2013 the actual work \u2013 was very often done by people themselves.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having built the garages themselves, people also went there to look after their vehicles. Because there were fewer cars in the GDR, the network of repair shops was much smaller too. And even today many garages are still used by the same people who built them 50 years ago. According to Casper, this means people identify particularly strongly with their garages: \u2018It is said that the new blocks of flats built at the same time often had no loft or cellar where you could let off steam. So activities that would normally take place in the home moved into the garages.\u2019 It may sound surprising, but anyone who was \u2018socialised in the East\u2019 can tell stories from the garage courts: \u2018To this day, people party there, drink beer and swap news.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n

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Uwe M\u00f6llentiert poses <\/strong>next to his Trabant. He owns several garages in Freiberg.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n

At the same time, though, the garage courts<\/strong> have become a source of conflict. They are rarely privately owned; they often belong to the local authority. And while the garages are a place of community for some \u2013 perhaps a space for nostalgia, too \u2013 they take up land that could be used for other things. That is the case in the Stern housing estate in Potsdam<\/a>, where housing is urgently needed, or in the city of Jena. According to the broadcaster MDR, Jena decided<\/a>, for example, that 200 old GDR garages should be demolished. In their place, so-called \u2018climate oases\u2019 are to be created \u2013 much to the annoyance of the garages\u2019 current users.

But there is another way of dealing with the garages, as the city of Chemnitz shows. Chosen as a European Capital of Culture for 2025, it launched five flagship projects in preparation, one of them dedicated to the garage courts. Under the title \u2018#3000Garagen\u2019 <\/a> the aim was to \u2018make visible the personal and collective stories\u2019 around the garages. As part of this, a concert was organised in one of the garage courts, for example. More than a hundred students from Munich University of Applied Sciences also came to research and map the GDR<\/a> garages. A programme of events with numerous film screenings, gardening and art projects was planned.

For the architect Jens Casper, the garages are the site of a history that has yet to be written: \u2018We see a shortcoming in the fact that our society is becoming ever more diverse and this diversification of society is not reflected in the landscape of listed monuments.\u2019 He therefore argues for a different understanding of what counts as a monument: \u2018You can\u2019t see the garages merely as parking spaces for cars \u2013 they are much more than that and are good for much more. If they are described only as places to park cars, they are actually under-described.\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tobi leans against his car.<\/strong> He parks here regularly in the garage court. The Wartburg in the garage behind him is his too; he bought it after the 2002 flood and restored it. He owns several garages in this and two other courts.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n \n\n

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