Current building culture and energy-saving ordinance-compliant new development areas

After the first 2/3 of your post, I would have thought you were building on 1000 sqm or more. Then only 460 sqm - I guess everything is relative. Whether they are that much smaller in the picture... In our area, the smallest is 410 sqm. I am curious when it's finished, especially since the very small ones are all clustered together (courtyard structures, not just lined up along a street). Karsten, they are so tiny because a) it earns more money that way and b) normal people can’t afford bigger ones anymore.

Here is an overview of the Gesamtkunstwerk:



and a site plan of one of the construction fields, showing the property sizes:

Although it looks terrible, one must not forget that in such new development areas the planting is still missing. With larger trees and bushes in 10 years, it will be somewhat better.

57-50 are quite okay. But the problem of living quality, or for that matter of the aura, is the narrow and too massive building. If 460 sqm plot, then a maximum 10 by 12 house belongs on it. The term of aura is not so dumb after all. It means that every living being has an area around itself that is no longer body, but is perceived as body. Don't get too close to me. This certainly applies to living as well. The Neue Heimat blocks from 1972 make sick souls. Karsten

After the first 2/3 of your post, I would have thought you were building on 1000 sqm or more. Then only 460 sqm – I guess everything is relative.

I felt exactly the same. We are also in that range, we were actually searching for 500 sqm - 600 sqm. As someone who moved from Lower Saxony to Franconia over 15 years ago, you have no chance with all the local native models. The price per sqm here is now in the four-figure range close to the city, in the commuter belt 400€ and up. You are glad if you a) even find one and b) can afford it. Logically, everything is through real estate agents. Building gaps with old buildings are even rarer. 400 sqm is nominally actually too little for me, but it still depends a bit on the location and neighboring buildings and what the architect conjures up there.
Advantage of a smaller garden -> less gardening work [emoji6]
Advantage of a new development area especially for young families: quick connections, many opportunities for the kids.
Crazy world in the end. My sister built 40 km southeast of Hamburg three years ago, about 5,000 inhabitants. My brother-in-law would have liked 500-600 sqm, the municipality says “there is nothing under 800 sqm.” So 870 sqm, price: 78,000€
That only works for us if you really move far out, roughly 80 km into the middle of nowhere and a village with a milk can and streetlight...

You will be surprised, but apparently you have that.

Most of the plots in the last picture with the many houses are exactly 450 sqm,

but we only have a semi-detached house – there is significantly more garden than in the photos.

And in the last construction phase up there, I would have wanted at most one plot on the edge, the one with the relatively large garden towards the edge.

I also once dreamed of 600-800 – I love gardening and designing and.... but I also know that I wouldn’t have the time alone to maintain it the way I would find beautiful. So now I’m content with our 460 and make the best of it that I can also manage alone. Now and hopefully also in 20 years.