Klapheckenhof settlement

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Site plan from before 1881, the 2nd and 3rd rows are marked as new buildings

The Klapheckenhof settlement is one of the oldest workers' settlements in Gelsenkirchen .

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North of Shaft II of the Wilhelmine Victoria colliery , the Wilhelmine-Victoria trade union built the settlement from 1870 onwards from three rows of ten houses standing close together. In the first row, which was completed in 1873, the outbuildings had a transverse gable roof. In the second (1881) and third (1885) row, on the other hand, the roof over the adjoining rooms was pulled down low. From 1886 another street was built on the southern side of the colliery and heap at Grawenhof. It too has the characteristic, deeply drawn roofs.

All the buildings had the cross-shaped floor plan, one and a half stories, and were made of bricks; on the weather side, the facades were plastered. There are two entrances on either side, so that each of the four apartments had its own entrance. The apartments were 65 square meters without ancillary rooms. There were a total of 206 apartments in all four streets. The rent was initially 12 Reichsmarks, then in 1964 64 Deutsche Marks.

The access roads lead directly past the houses and separate them from the garden plots between the rows. In keeping with the time of their construction, the houses were still built without running water and toilets; Toilets were housed in the stables in the garden and they were heated with coal or coke. In 1913, the taps on the streets became obsolete due to a modernization, in 1920 the kerosene lamps were replaced by electric light, and in the 1980s the coal stoves were replaced by gas heaters. In 1981 privatization began; most of the tenants bought their apartments and modernized them again.

The three streets directly at Klapheckenhof are now under monument protection.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '13.4 "  N , 7 ° 3' 14.8"  E