Mining settlement

This article deals with the type of settlement mining settlement. For the district of the municipality of St. Kathrein am Hauenstein in Austria, see Bergbausiedlung (St. Kathrein am Hauenstein) .

A mining community , coal mines or miners' settlement is a settlement in the vicinity of, mines built for their employees and their families. The type of houses reflects the position of the mine workers. In addition to dormitories , workers 'houses, steiger houses and officials' houses, director's villas were also built.

Examples of mining settlements are:

• Teutoburgia colliery settlement in the Ruhr area
• Von der Heydt in Saarland
• Maybach miners' settlement in Saarland
• Barbara settlement in Austria

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  Sleeping house in the former Von der Heydt mine

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  House of the Redener mining officials' settlement "Schlossstrasse"

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  Teutoburgia settlement in Herne

See also

• Mining town
• Colliery colony

literature

• Michael Mitterauer : Basic types of old European social forms , Frommann-Holzboog, 1979.
• Delf Slotta : 60 years (1949-2009) Housing Foundation . Online (PDF file) , accessed July 2, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ^ Miners' settlement Maybach on the website of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Saarland ; accessed on August 6, 2020