Meerbeck Colony

House in the Meerbeck colony

House in the Meerbeck colony

The Meerbeck colony is a 105 hectare former miners' settlement in Moers on the left Lower Rhine , part of the Wesel district .

Before construction of shaft 4 of the Rheinpreußen colliery began in 1900, Meerbeck was a village with around 200 inhabitants. When production started in 1904, construction of the settlement began. The first construction phase lasted until 1907, and another followed in 1913. A settlement for 10,000 people was built in the immediate vicinity of the colliery. There was no connection to the city of Moers, so an infrastructure with shops , a mining vocational school and a “welfare building” was built.

The settlement was in the Second World War by bombing at a nearby fuel work the coal liquefaction served, made so began a third phase in the 1950s.

Under local law, the Meerbeck settlement belonged to the municipality of Repelen , called Repelen-Baerl from January 1, 1910 , renamed Rheinkamp from August 1958 , and became part of the urban area of ​​Moers as part of the municipal reorganization since January 1, 1975 .

In August 1980, the Moers City Council decided to acquire part of the estate and to restore it true to the original. The money was originally intended for the construction of a town hall. The purchase was made at a price of DM 37 million (approx. EUR 19 million). A fundamental renovation was carried out by the beginning of 1996, which cost a total of 123 million DM (approx. 63 million euros).

Today, about 8,600 people live in Meerbeck, over 30 percent of them of foreign origin. On March 22, 2009, the Kocatepe Mosque in Römerstrasse was opened by the “DITIB Turkish-Islamic Community of Moers-Meerbeck e. V. “opened.

Web links

Commons : Kolonie Meerbeck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Karlheinz Tepper: At home in Meerbeck Verein 100 years Kolonie Meerbeck e. V., Jung printing house, Moers 2004
• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~19~11912
• Video by WDR (Westart) about the Meerbeck colony from August 20, 2013
• History of the Moers-Meerbeck fuel works

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 4 "  N , 6 ° 39 ′ 8"  E

Individual evidence

1. ↑ architects Karl - Heinz Gomilsek
2. ↑ Moers: Mosque will open on Sunday ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Moers: Mosque opened ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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.