Kirdorf Colony
The Kirdorf colony - also known as the Kirdorf settlement and Gitschiner Strasse settlement - is a mining settlement in the Dortmund district of Eving . It was built by Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (GBAG) in 1912-13 in the style of a garden city for workers and employees of the minister stone colliery and named after its general director Emil Kirdorf . In 1935 an architecturally adapted expansion took place in the western area. The settlement today consists of 119 apartments in 70 one and two-family houses with a varied structure, as well as 89 apartments in two-storey, non-structured multi-family houses that were built to replace houses that were destroyed in the war. The overall impression of the settlement has been protected by a conservation statute since 2004. Since 2002, the owner Viterra Wohnen , now Deutsche Annington , has been privatizing the one and two-family houses to tenants.
Conservation statute
In 1984/85 the Dortmund City Council commissioned the administration to prepare the Kirdorf colony to be included in the list of monuments. But there was no entry. The process marks the frequent conflict of interests between modernization, privatization and monument protection. As early as 1982-85, the buildings of the western extension had been extensively modernized (colored plaster, new roof covering, heating installation and insulating glazing). In 1985, the owner, still trading as VEBA Wohnen , announced a full modernization of the one and two-family houses in the core area, but this did not take place until 1991-92 (among other things, the heating with coal stoves was replaced by heat and hot water from a coal-fired power station in the settlement ). It was only with the announcement of the tenant privatization that the city's efforts to protect the settlement's buildings began again, "in order to preserve the unmistakable appearance of the colony in the case of upcoming modernization and renovation measures (note by the house buyers)", as stated in the reasons for the conservation statutes which was decided on June 15, 2004 by the city council. The more extensive monument protection of the houses has been replaced by the protection of the overall appearance of the colony, which “(should) be preserved despite modernization in the 90s.” In 2008, the “landmark” of the colony was entered in the list of architectural monuments in the Eving district Kirdorf, the kiosk on the central Wrangelplatz, a former transformer house of the Minister Stein colliery.
privatization
Since 1998 VEBA Wohnen and, after a renaming, Viterra Wohnen have been running an extensive privatization and sales program. The one- and two-family houses were sold according to the principles of the " GSB Society for the Protection of Miners ' Apartments" mbH (GSB). It is one of the peculiarities of the Ruhr mining industry that the occupation rights of the mining industry and the Minister Stein colliery, which was closed in 1987, continue to exist and that miners continue to be preferred and their rights of residence are particularly protected. Houses can therefore be sold to tenants, close relatives or confidants, which makes the feared tenant displacement more difficult. In addition, under the moderation of the head of the planning department Ullrich Sierau and the municipal housing office, the agreement "Key points for the future development of the Kirdorf colony" was drawn up, which affirmed both the high level of protection against dismissal for non-buyers and the goal of maintaining the attractive appearance of the settlement and the Viterra Wohnen, the Dortmund tenants' associations and the community of interests of the Kirdorf tenants, which had been formed in 1993 because of the high costs of the new thermal power station, was signed. (In the course of the privatization, the tenant representation becomes the "Interest Group of Kirdorf Settlers", which will publish a commemorative publication in July 2012 for the 100th anniversary.)
Name dispute
In 2009 a public dispute over the name of the settlement "Kirdorf" began because the industrial manager had been a sponsor of Hitler. Other, "democratically legitimized" namesake were suggested. The critics were countered by the fact that Emil Kirdorf had only given Hitler and the NSDAP access to large industrial circles in old age and long after the name foundation was established. Furthermore, the settlement name is so firmly anchored in linguistic usage that a renaming, even if it is considered more appropriate for political reasons, would not prevail. As a compromise, the erection of an explanatory memorial plaque was proposed, but this has not yet been implemented.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Conservation statute for the Kirdorf colony ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 5.6 MB). Retrieved April 2, 2012.
- ↑ Colony Kirdorf in Eving: Agreement makes provisions for the privatization process ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press portal of the city of Dortmund. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
- ^ The brown past of Emil Kirdorf: Confusion about the missing panel , VVN-BdA NRW
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 15.2 " N , 7 ° 29 ′ 23.1" E