Carl Funke settlement

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Colliery house on the western side of the street
Apartment building on the east side of the street

The Carl Funke settlement is a colliery colony in the Heisingen district of Essen , a large number of which are listed buildings.

history

The colliery colony, named after the entrepreneur Carl Funke , was built between 1900 and 1901 by the Rheinische Anthrazit-Kohlenwerke AG, which emerged from the Heisinger Tiefbau union, for the miners of the nearby Carl Funke colliery . The reason was the scarce living space in Heisingen, as the population rose sharply due to the immigration of workers, mostly from the east, for the coal mining industry, which is emerging in several places . The immigrants mostly came from rural areas and so the colony was supposed to give the colony a new sense of home and to bind the workers to the company.

In the 1980s the settlement was on the verge of demolition, but was placed under monument protection in 1987 and was thus able to be preserved.

The Carl Funke settlement stands out from other Essen colliery settlements in that it has a special significance for the history of urban development in the form of a park-like setting in romantic, historic architecture.

character

The Carl Funke settlement consists of twenty houses for a total of 92 families, which are located on both sides of the avenue-like street that leads directly to the colliery and at the foot of the ridge on the northern bank of the Ruhr in Heisingen. The two one and a half storey house types on the western row of houses and two houses on the eastern side of the street are listed buildings.

One type of western house, each intended for four families, was built in a contemporary style similar to a villa and is based on the Heimat style . It has a half-timbered construction in the jamb and gable area . The other type of house on the western side of the street, also intended for four families, has a façade of plastered surfaces framed by bricks. The stairwell is at the side. Gardens and small stables were created for both types of houses.

On the opposite, eastern side of the street, larger two-story apartment buildings were built into the steep slope, also with gardens and stables, but architecturally less demanding.

The Carl Funke settlement is part of the Route of Industrial Culture and is now located near the Ruhrtalradweg on the Baldeneysee, which has been dammed here since 1933 .

literature

  • Renovation of the miners' settlement Carl Funke, Wahl, GP; The Mappe, 1988, ISSN  0025-2697 ;

Web links

Commons : Siedlung Carl Funke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 3.3 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 24.5 ″  E