Dahlhauser Heide

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Dahlhauser Heide

The Dahlhauser Heide is a workers' settlement in Hordel , a district in the northwest of Bochum . It was made by the Fried. Krupp AG was established between 1906 and 1915 on the grounds of the Haus Dahlhausen manor . Krupp had already acquired the site in 1890.

The settlement for the employees of the Krupp collieries in Hanover and Hannibal was planned by the architect Robert Schmohl , who has been in charge of the Krupp construction office since 1892. First and foremost, two-family houses with a kitchen and living room on the ground floor and two bedrooms on the upper floor predominate. The design in the Heimat style is reminiscent of Westphalian farms due to the low eaves and the ornamental framework on the facades. There are stables between two houses and extensive kitchen gardens behind the houses. In popular parlance, the settlement was given the name "cap colony" because of the vegetable and especially cabbage cultivation.

For the Steiger , six separately located, two-storey multi-family houses equipped with more comfort were built at the "Beamtenhof".

A total of 339 semi-detached houses of over 40 different types were built in the settlement. Together with the officials' offices, this resulted in 715 residential units.

Based on the concept of the garden city , the streets are curved. Some of the street names come from the coal fields or seams of the same name , for example Sechs-Brüder-Straße or Sechs-Schwestern-Straße. The settlement included two consumer establishments , a beer hall, two kindergartens and two schools. The arrangement of the streets, the central park, the separately designed "Beamtenhof" and the equipment with the infrastructure facilities mentioned make the Dahlhauser Heide settlement appear like a grown village.

In order to preserve the garden city character, a design statute was issued in 1980 , which in particular protects the house elements visible from the street from changes. The houses are to be retained in their original basic form. This applies, for example, to the facade, which must not be significantly changed in its structure or details (windows, shutters, exterior color, etc.). Almost every house has a front garden typical of the time. In the 1970s it was initially intended to put the estate under monument protection . Ultimately, however, in the opinion of the official monument preservation authorities, the design statutes offer sufficient protection against changes, so that a formal entry in the list of monuments was dispensed with.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Route of industrial culture

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 55 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 32 ″  E