Rivetho

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Rivetho

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legal form Registered cooperative
founding 1998
Seat 46117 Oberhausen (Rhineland) Ripshorster Str. 375
management
  • Ralph Brunotte, Michael Karrer, Karl Heinz Kohnen, Volker Wilke (Board of Directors)
  • Brigitte Karhoff (Chair of the Supervisory Board)
Branch Housing industry
Website www.riwetho.de
Status: 2014

Drawing "Settlement Ripshorster Straße"
View into Werkstrasse (2010)
Information board "Route of industrial culture"
Kindergarten settlement "Neu Oberhausen" around 1912

Riwetho eG - Cooperative for self-managed, multi-cultural, social and ecological living is a location-based housing association in Oberhausen . It emerged in 1998 from a residents 'initiative to buy the “Ripshorster Strasse” estate of Thyssen AG, which is in danger of being demolished, on the edge of Neue Mitte Oberhausen , and sees itself as a residents' cooperative and model of a self-administered housing estate. Riwetho is registered under GnR 253 in the commercial and cooperative register of the Duisburg District Court. In addition to the mandatory membership in an auditing association, there are memberships inAssociation of the Housing and Real Estate Industry Rhineland Westphalia and in the Housing Association .

Housing stock

The housing stock of the cooperative consists of the "Ripshorster Strasse" settlement, also known internally as "Ripse", between Neue Mitte Oberhausen, the Rhine-Herne Canal and Haus Ripshorst , and comprises 22 houses with 68 apartments. It is the surviving housing stock of the former factory settlement "Neu Oberhausen", which was built in construction phases 1889, 1910 and 1927 for members of the steel and rolling mill "Neu Oberhausen" of Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH). The original planning for the construction of the community center and consumer institution was no longer realized due to the global economic crisis . After the Second World War, destroyed or damaged houses were rebuilt, but not the community facilities, the kindergarten and the grocery store. In 1969 the eight houses on Osterfelder Strasse fell victim to the demolition plans of the later owner Thyssen AG.

At the beginning of the first construction phase, floor plans of the settlement and the houses were presented at the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 . All houses are entered in the list of architectural monuments in Oberhausen according to the construction phases . The "Ripshorster Straße" settlement is part of the route of industrial culture and is a stop on the Oberhausen themed routes : Industry makes the city and, together with the GHH settlements of Eisenheim , Stemmersberg and Grafenbusch, a stop on the workers' estates themed route .

The image of the settlement has served as a film set several times. In 1982, ZDF shot the 13-part series “The Pawlaks - A Story from the Ruhr Area” due to the original condition of the settlement at the time. Werkstrasse was set up as a film set for Sönke Wortmanns Wunder von Bern in 2002. The film is reminiscent of the sensational victory of the German national soccer team at the soccer world championship in 1954 and at the same time portrays a family in post-war Germany.

Establishment of a cooperative

In 1968 Thyssen AG took over the majority of the shares in Hüttenwerke Oberhausen AG , the main factory of GHH, and operated the demolition of the settlement. Apartments that became vacant were no longer rented. In 1980, a residents' initiative consisting of former employees and students who had moved there came into being, who campaigned for the preservation and occupied vacant housing estates. Years of eventful negotiations with Thyssen and the city of Oberhausen finally led to the establishment of a cooperative in 1998 and an agreement in 2001. The residents' cooperative Riwetho eG bought the settlement and committed itself to modernizing the settlement houses and renovating the settlement streets and supply lines. The listed, publicly funded modernization of the houses is nearing completion. Thanks to the professionally guided self-help activities of the residents, the rents could still be kept low.

The name "Riwetho" is derived from the first letters of the three residential streets Ripshorster Strasse, Werkstrasse and Thomasstrasse. The linguistic proximity to the former South African township of Soweto is intended.

Club and community center

The association "Riwetho eV - Interest group for the preservation of the workers' settlement Ripshorster-, Werk- and Thomasstraße" was founded in 1987. The association's application to the International Building Exhibition Emscherpark (1989–1999) to promote the estate as an innovative residential project with social, cultural and ecological approaches and thus to contribute to its preservation was not accepted. Towards the end of the IBA Emscherpark, however, the construction of a barrier-free community house on the site of the former kindergarten and grocery store in Werkstrasse, which will be managed by the residents' association after completion in 2003, was able to begin as part of the project call for “take initiative”.

literature

Web links

Commons : Settlement Ripshorster Straße  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "More than tenants", accessed on March 5, 2014
  2. ↑ "Excursion tips Rhine-Ruhr" ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rheinruhronline.de
  3. ↑ Route of Industrial Culture
  4. ↑ Film images
  5. ↑ Modernization is making progress WAZ Oberhausen from February 17, 2008, accessed on March 6, 2014
  6. ^ "Contemporary witness for community sense in Oberhausen" , DerWesten / Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, local edition Oberhausen, January 6, 2016, accessed on January 23, 2016

Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~19~119031

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 36.1 ″  N , 6 ° 53 ′ 27.5 ″  E