Johannenhof settlement

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The line front on Lauerstrasse with gatehouses that characterizes the district
Typical house in the Johannenhof settlement
Central place

The Johannenhof estate is a workers' estate between the Duisburg districts of Hochheide and Homberg on the left bank of the Rhine, designed by the architect Vallentin in 1914 . Today the settlement is a listed building and is part of the route of industrial culture .

Originally the settlement was planned for the administrative officials of the Rheinpreußen colliery , while the colliery workers lived in smaller and less elaborately designed residential units in the Rheinpreußen settlement to the west behind the colliery railway . By the time the Johannenhof was completed, mining in the Homberg community had declined to such an extent that there was a lack of potential tenants and therefore better-off workers, foremen and foremen could move in.

In the 1970s, both settlements were threatened with demolition. While part of the houses in the Rheinpreußen settlement were demolished and the vacant lots were filled with modern high-rise buildings, now called the White Giants , the Johannenhof was completely preserved. This is thanks to a citizens' initiative and the bankruptcy of the then client in 1973.

In the center of Johannenhof there is a rectangular area, originally designated as a playground, around which the linked rows of houses are arranged symmetrically, like a courtyard. The gable designs on the street corners are particularly emphasized. The houses are provided with low stable extensions, have front gardens as well as rear green areas, every four to five residential units the entrance facade turns outwards. The entrance to the settlement is formed by two gatehouses on the long row front of Lauerstraße above the two parallel streets in north-south direction. Comparable gatehouses also encompass the corners of the central area.

In contrast to the typified houses of the neighboring workers' settlement with plastered and half-timbered designs, the facades here are based on the contemporary bourgeois living style, neo-baroque and neo- biedermeier . In a total of six different floor plans, however, the experience from the workers' settlements was used. On the ground floor there was a room, a living room and scullery as well as the toilet and the stable in the extension. In the attic there were two more rooms, plus the stairwell. The approximately 80 m² residential units are grouped into blocks of two, four and six, the corner houses have larger living areas of 100 to 120 m². The roofs are designed in a wide variety of ways (transepts, dwarf houses and dormers ), the gable surfaces are partially covered with wood. The entrance areas were designed comparatively simply, they only consist of stairs, cheek, front door and house number.

The complex comprises a total of around 100 buildings that have been protected as historical monuments since 1979 and have now been partially privatized.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 10.6 "  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 43"  E