About Der Haus-, Wohnungs- und Grundeigentümer

Der Haus-, Wohnungs- und Grundeigentümer

Der Haus-, Wohnungs- und Grundeigentümer is the member journal of the Berlin-Lichtenrade property owners' association: the monthly "Information für die Mitglieder des Haus-, Wohnungs- und Grundeigentümervereins Berlin-Lichtenrade e.V. gegr. 1903" — the Mitgliederzeitschrift of one of Berlin's local Haus & Grund-tradition associations. Published by the Westkreuz-Druckerei Ahrens KG with a print run of around 5,000 copies (publisher's figure), the journal serves the private house, apartment and land owners of the Berlin south — the monthly paper of the organized private Grundeigentum in Lichtenrade and its surroundings.

Overview

Der Haus-, Wohnungs- und Grundeigentümer is the classic German Vereinszeitschrift: the member journal of a local property-owners' association. The format: a monthly member information (monatliche Information) for the members of the Haus-, Wohnungs- und Grundeigentümerverein Berlin-Lichtenrade e.V. — the association founded in 1903 in what is today Berlin's Lichtenrade district (Tempelhof-Schöneberg). The journal's function: the association's voice to its members — the monthly information on the topics of private property ownership.

The readership — the members: the private Haus-, Wohnungs- and Grundeigentümer of the Berlin south — the landlords, the owner-occupiers, the land owners organized in the century-old Verein. The distribution: the member journal reaches the membership directly — the around 5,000-copy print run (the publisher's average figure) maps the association's scale. The publisher — the Westkreuz-Druckerei Ahrens KG — is the Berlin printing house that produces the journal; the web address westkreuz.de belongs to the printer.

The Haus & Grund movement — the national context — deserves its telling. Since the 1870s the local house and land owners' associations sought nationwide organization; on 15 September 1879 their representatives met at the first congress in Dresden, and the Reichsverband proposal found broad approval. In 1911 the association entered the register; in 1919 it became the Zentralverband Deutscher Haus- und Grundbesitzervereine; after the Third Reich's Gleichschaltung it was re-founded in 1946; in 1991 the five new Länder associations joined. Today Haus & Grund Deutschland — the Zentralverband der Deutschen Haus-, Wohnungs- und Grundeigentümer e.V., motto "Eigentum. Schutz. Gemeinschaft." — sits in Berlin (Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße 33, 10117 Berlin) under president Kai H. Warnecke (since 2016), with 21 Landesverbände and 840 Ortsvereine representing some 957,000 of Germany's roughly 15 million private owners (2026). The movement's function — the 1879's — frames the Lichtenrade journal: the local member paper within the national organized Grundeigentum — the 1903 Verein as one of the movement's local pillars.

History

The 1903 founding — the Gründerzeit association — deserves its telling. In 1903, in the then-independent municipality of Lichtenrade south of Berlin, the house, apartment and land owners founded their Verein: the era of the suburban expansion, when the new Eigenheim quarters grew along the Dresdener Bahn and the owners organized for their interests. The 1903 generation — the Empire's property owners — built the local association that would survive the century: the Weimar years, the Third Reich, the war's destruction, the division. In 1920 Lichtenrade was incorporated into Greater Berlin (Groß-Berlin); after 1945 the district lay in the American sector; from 1961 to 1989 it was borderland at the Wall — the property owners of the south through the divided city's decades. The founding's function — the 1903's — rooted the journal's association: the century-old Verein still informing its members monthly — the continuity of the organized Grundeigentum in Lichtenrade.

The journal's history — the exact founding year of the Mitgliederzeitschrift is not publicly confirmed — follows the association's: the monthly member information as the Verein's communication organ through the decades — the Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich's Gleichschaltung, the post-war re-founding of the property movement (1946), the division and reunification of Berlin, the capital's property boom. The Westkreuz-Druckerei Ahrens KG — the Berlin printing house — publishes the journal today; the westkreuz.de address is the printer's home.

The Lichtenrade district's history — the 1920 incorporation into Greater Berlin, the post-war years in the American sector, the border location at the Wall, the post-reunification development — is the journal's backdrop: the property owners of the Berlin south through a century of the city's history. The journal's continuity — the monthly information for the members — is the association's continuity: the 1903 Verein still informing its members monthly.

Coverage and Content

The editorial program follows the property owner's year. The tenancy-law coverage — the Mietrecht — addresses the landlord's core legal field: the rents, the terminations, the modernizations — the monthly information on the law that governs the letting. The property-tax coverage — the Grundsteuer and the fiscal topics — addresses the owner's tax burden: the assessments, the reforms, the deadlines. The energy coverage — the energetische Sanierung, the heating laws, the building energy — addresses the owner's investment duties: the renovation, the efficiency, the regulations.

The association coverage — the Vereinsleben — carries the Verein's own news: the meetings, the consultations, the member services — the journal as the association's bulletin. The local coverage — the Lichtenrade and Berlin-south topics — addresses the district: the developments, the infrastructure, the neighborhood. The member journal — the Vereinszeitschrift's role — deserves its telling. The monthly member information is the association's nervous system: it carries the legal updates the landlord needs (the tenancy law, the tax deadlines), the association's own life (the meetings, the advice services, the member benefits), and the district's developments (the construction, the infrastructure, the neighborhood). For the private owner — often a single-property landlord, not a professional — the journal is the affordable expertise: the monthly briefing that translates the law and the market into the owner's practice. The journal's function — the monthly's — is the Verein's promise: the organized owners informed, advised and represented — the 5,000-copy paper as the membership's bond.

Organization and Ownership

Der Haus-, Wohnungs- und Grundeigentümer is published by the Westkreuz-Druckerei Ahrens KG — the Berlin printing house — for the Haus-, Wohnungs- und Grundeigentümerverein Berlin-Lichtenrade e.V. (founded 1903). The journal is the association's member information: the Verein's organ, produced by the printer-publisher. The print run — around 5,000 copies (the publisher's average figure, per the media data) — reflects the membership scale.

The Westkreuz-Druckerei — the printer-publisher — deserves its telling. The Westkreuz-Druckerei Ahrens KG — the Berlin printing house — is both the journal's producer and its publisher: the printer as the publisher, the classic model of the small association journal. The westkreuz.de address — the printer's web home — is the journal's listed website: the publishing contact runs through the print shop. The media data — the crossvertise listing — documents the print advertising offer: the local businesses reaching the property owners — the craftsmen, the energy consultants, the insurers — in the members' monthly paper. The printer-publisher's function — the Westkreuz's — keeps the journal's economics local: the association's paper printed and published in Berlin — the 5,000 copies from the Berlin press. The editor names, the exact founding year of the journal and detailed financial figures are not publicly confirmed. The association's institutional context — the Berlin property-owners' landscape, the Haus & Grund tradition — frames the journal without the journal's formal affiliation being publicly confirmed.

Digital Presence

The journal's web address — westkreuz.de — belongs to the publisher-printer, the Westkreuz-Druckerei Ahrens KG: the journal's digital home is the printer's site rather than a standalone magazine portal. The title is listed in the magazine directories (fachzeitungen.de) as the monthly member information of the 1903 Lichtenrade association; the media data (crossvertise) documents the print advertising offer.

The digital strategy follows the member-press logic: the print monthly for the member information — the journal to the members — the printer's web presence for the publishing contact. As the property owners' member journal — the 1903 Lichtenrade Verein's paper (the Westkreuz-published monthly, the 5,000-copy run) — Der Haus-, Wohnungs- und Grundeigentümer remains the local voice: the monthly information for Berlin's southern Grundeigentümer, in print for the members.