Holstein colony

The Holstein colony is a former colliery colony in the southeast of Asseln . It is named after the Holstein colliery and is now a listed building .

location

The Holstein colony was immediately south of the colliery area. The boundaries form the street Auf dem Bleck in the north and the letter route in the south and west. The settlement is accessed through Distelbrinkstraße and In den Ostgärten. The current street names are given in each case.

history

Already in the sinking phase (1874) the Hörder-Verein had built wooden workers' barracks south of the colliery site for the workers of the Holstein colliery. These were then gradually replaced from 1894 by a total of 28 two-storey four-family houses in solid construction; In 1906 the Holstein colony and a Steigerhaus, which forms the southern boundary of the settlement, were completed. As with almost all other housing developments at the time, the cross-shaped layout of the floor plan resulted in identical house sections on all four sides. Each family practically had a (rental) house with its own entrance, its own stable and its own garden.

The network of paths, which at first glance appears simple, and the buildings still form a cohesive unit today: narrow, right-angled residential streets lead from the two access roads to the houses. The Holstein colony, which is typical of its time and the Hörder Verein, thus represents a uniformly closed, urban whole.

The horizontal and vertical structure of the facade is typical of the architecture of the houses in the Holstein colony. The horizontal structure of the facade is made by three cornices, namely by the base cornice, the cornice between the ground floor and the upper floor and the cornice on the eaves, the vertical structure is made by pilaster strips. From them you could already read the living space distribution inside the house from the outside; but they also had a supporting function.

Externally, the houses in the Holstein colony stand out due to the unplastered north and east facades and plastered south and west facades (weather sides). This state has been laid down in the design statutes. Another noticeable feature of the unplastered north and east facades are wall joints of different colors. The joints of the dividing elements (ledge, pilaster strips) were colored black by adding ash, the joints of the surface lining were colored rust-brown by adding iron oxide.

The former owner of the colony, the city of Dortmund, wanted to demolish the settlement houses in the 1970s and have a waste incineration plant built on the site. However, the Holstein colony is still standing because the residents successfully resisted. The Holstein Colony has had a design statute since 2003, which has since been revised.

Colony houses at the Rühlen

In 1920/21 further settlement houses were built west of the Holstein colony, intended for officials and workers of the colliery. The Hörder Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein built 10 Steiger and 22 workers' apartments in the street An den Rühlen according to the plans of the architect Karl Pohl, who designed the exemplary Sommerberg / Winterberg estate in Hörde from 1914 to 1916. To the south of it, several two- and four-family houses with Neo-Biedermeier facade decoration were built in 1923, which were connected by low intermediate buildings (architect Dietrich Koster).

literature

• Gabriele Unverferth, home and history association Dortmund-Asseln eV (ed.): Life in the shadow of the winding tower. The Holstein colony in Dortmund-Asseln . Regio-Verlag, Werne an der Lippe 2005, ISBN 978-3-929158-18-2 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 22.8 "  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 36.6"  E