Settlement of Flöz Dickebank

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Central place in the settlement
View into the gardens of the estate

The Flöz Dickebank settlement is a colliery colony in Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf . It is named after the "Dickebank seam", one of the "Bochum layers" among the numerous Ruhr seams . The original name of the miners' settlement was Ottilienaue .

history

The settlement was built from 1868 for the miners of the collieries Holland , Alma and Rheinelbe . The three mines merged in 1873 to form Gelsenkirchener Bergwerksaktiengesellschaft .

Became known seam thickness bank by the resistance of the people against the planned demolition and reconstruction in the 1970s. In 1974 the Gelsenkirchen city administration and the owner Rheinisch-Westfälische Wohnstätten AG decided to demolish the estate . Instead of the workers' colony with its two- and four-family houses, 4- to 12-storey prefabricated buildings were to be built.

In the Dickebank the resistance of the population formed, which organized itself in a citizens' initiative . In 1976 the congress for the preservation of workers' settlements took place here. The residents were supported by the urban warfare movement that was emerging at the time . In 1975 students at the Berlin Film Academy documented the residents' resistance in the partisan film Flöz Dickebank .

Despite evictions and walling up of individual houses, the tenants did not give in and eventually won the battle for their houses. From 1979 the settlement was modernized and has been preserved until today. The tenants still organize political events and joint meetings in a communal building. The estate has been a listed building since 2008 .

In 2012 the owner at the time, Deutsche Annington , sold the estate to the Bochum company Häusser-Bau. On this occasion, some residents bought the house they lived in.

The Flöz Dickebank settlement is now part of the Route of Industrial Culture .

location

The streets include Virchowstraße between Bochumer Straße and Ottilienaustraße, Ulmenstraße, Flöz Dickebank and Flöz Sonnenschein. On the opposite side of Bochumer Strasse there are houses on Stephanstrasse and Rudolfstrasse that were specially built for Steiger .

Web links

Commons : Siedlung Flöz Dickebank  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Factory settlements in the Ruhr area - Flöz Dickebank Gelsenkirchen , accessed on May 6, 2019.
  2. ^ Klaus Johann: Dispute in the Flöz Dickebank settlement in Gelsenkirchen , WAZ, Gelsenkirchen edition, November 4, 2013, accessed on May 6, 2019.

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 47 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  E