Kreinberg settlement

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Typical house in the Kreinberg settlement

The Kreinberg settlement in Schwerte is a factory settlement for the railway workers of the nearby repair shop. The settlement is named after the mountain on which it is located.

In 1922, the new Schwerte-Ost railway repair shop opened as a replacement for several old locations; parallel to the construction work there, the construction of a nearby factory settlement began in 1920. In August 1921 the first families were able to move in. By 1935 a total of almost 800 apartments for over 3,000 residents had been built. The settlement was planned by the Reichsbahn-Oberrat Behnes, and a street is named after him. The apartments were brokered by the Railway Housing Cooperative (EWG), which was founded in 1910 and is still active today. In addition to the ideas of the cooperative, aspects of the garden city movement were also implemented, on the one hand in the arrangement of the apartment blocks and open spaces and on the other hand through consumer establishments and social welfare. The apartments had a large eat-in kitchen, a bathroom, and two to three rooms. There was garden land with a stable for self-sufficiency.

The Kreinberg restaurant with hall and bowling alley was built in 1930 and also served as a cooperative home.

The extensions carried out in 1938 planned the Schwerter architect Carl Hermann Josef Schmitz.

After the Second World War, which the settlement survived without being destroyed, it was expanded to 1,000 apartments for around 4,000 residents.

In 2001 the entire settlement was placed under monument protection.

The street names in the settlement go back on the one hand to field names, on the other hand they honor well-known personalities from the locomotive industry: Wittfeldweg (after Gustav Wittfeld ), Von-Borries-Weg (after August von Borries ) or Garbepfad (after Robert Garbe ). A special structural feature are the two gate passages on Am Quickspring street through two large apartment buildings. The reason for this construction was the prevailing winds in the southern area. A similar gate situation can be found at the eastern end of the settlement (Lichtendorfer Straße).

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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '  N , 7 ° 35'  E