The Krochsiedlung was built between 1929 and 1930. The joint project of the architects Paul Mebes, Paul Emmerich, Johannes Koppe, Adolf Muesmann and Max Fricke is located in the Leipzig district of Gohlis. The Jewish banker Hans Kroch, who also commissioned the Krochhaus on Goethestrasse, co-financed the project.
The Krochsiedlung was planned as the first construction phase of a planned residential town called "Neu-Gohlis". The nearby Church of Reconciliation was to be the center of the new settlement. However, the project was never completed. At the time, the residential area embodied modern living culture that helped to alleviate the housing shortage in the late Weimar Republic. The three- and four-story apartment buildings still contain 1018 apartments with winter gardens typical of the Bauhaus style, which were extensively renovated in the 1990s.
In order to maintain the architectural and historical heritage of the Krochsiedlung, the “Citizens’ Association Krochsiedlung eV” was founded in 1991.