Landwehr Colony

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Apartment building

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The Landwehr Colony is a colliery settlement belonging to the Zollern colliery in the Bövinghausen district of Dortmund .

The Zeche Zollern was created as a model mine of the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (GBAG), the Landwehr colony was built in parallel as a model settlement in the immediate vicinity. Like most of the colliery, the buildings were designed in the style of historicism and underline the ensemble character of the entire complex, which is also registered as such as a monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .

The first building in 1898 was a two-family house for Steiger on Grubenweg, which leads to the factory gate. In 1900 the director's villa was built for the operator on Rhader Weg. More apartment buildings followed on these two streets by 1904, making a total of eight civil servants' houses with 29 apartments. The individual design was complex; curved gable, bay window and ornamental framework. This part of the estate was planned and executed by Paul Knobbe , the GBAG architect, and machine inspector Wenzel Köller.

In the second part of the settlement, on the eponymous Landwehrbach , are the 23 workers' houses planned by Knobbe alone with a total of 87 apartments. Following the idea of ​​the garden city, five different house types alternate here, mostly for four families. The houses are mutually aligned with the street , have small front gardens and old plane trees. The properties are much larger and offered kitchen gardens and stables for self-sufficiency.

Due to the small number of residents and the immediate vicinity of the Bövinghausen settlement, no separate infrastructure in the form of churches, schools or shops was planned.

In 1983, the then owner Viterra modernized the apartments in cooperation with the city of Dortmund and the tenants.

In 2001 the settlement was included in the monument protection of the Zollern colliery.

Extensive privatization took place at the end of 2002, and most of the property was sold to previous tenants.

The LWL-Industriemuseum offers guided tours through this settlement from its central location in the Zeche Zollern, supplemented by the New Landwehr Colony that was created a few years later and the Fuchsweg self-help settlement that was established in the 1950s .

Together with the colliery, the settlement belongs to the Route of Industrial Culture and is an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Culture (ERIH).

Web links

Commons : Kolonie Landwehr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~19~11937

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No. A 0373. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 12, 2014 (size: 180 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '8.5 "  N , 7 ° 19' 51.9"  E