Reinshagen settlement
The Reinshagen settlement or Reinshagen settlement is a factory or workers' settlement built in the middle of the 20th century in the Bergisch city of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia , which is a listed building.
location
The settlement is located in the district and urban district of Ronsdorf , in the south of Wuppertal and in the immediate vicinity of the city limits to Remscheid in the residential district of Schenkstrasse at an altitude of about 280-290 meters above sea level . It is located within walking distance of the company premises on Reinshagenstrasse and Dickestrasse near the Ronsdorf train station . The individual houses are located in the streets Blaffertsberg and Hordenbachstraße , as well as in the short connecting street Im Vogelsiepen between these two streets . Park-like open spaces with old and tall trees are located between the buildings.
history
The development of the settlement is closely linked to the history of the Reinshagen cable works .
On April 1, 1874 in Ronsdorf of was Carl Reinshagen Sen. and Heinrichshütte Hoff the Bandfabrik Carl Reinshagen and Heinrichshütte Hoff founded that produced woven ribbons and trim products. In 1880 the company headquarters was relocated first to Barmen and in 1914 back to Ronsdorf, where a suitable site for the construction of the factory buildings was acquired by the Dicke family at the location that would later become Dickestrasse. Over the years the product range has been expanded; Telephone cables , resistance wires and insulated cables and wires were important pillars . The company traded under the name Kabelwerke Reinshagen GmbH since 1935 . Today it no longer exists in this form and under this name; it has meanwhile merged into the companies Draka Automotive GmbH and Delphi Deutschland GmbH under the umbrella of the parent company Delphi Corporation .
By 1939, the number of employees had risen to around 760, and the management, under the leadership of Gerrit de Haas , saw attractive living space as advantageous for “deserving” workers and employees in a time of housing shortage, which especially affected large working-class families To be close to the factory. For this purpose, the former premises of the fireworks factory Karl Lippold KG Am Blaffertsberg was acquired. The site was located in the city's green belt and, due to its proximity to operations, was ideal for building a factory settlement. In the years 1938, 1939–1941 and 1949/50 the settlement was built in three construction phases according to the plans of the local architects Hermann Deffke and René Stauhs and named after one of the company's founders.
The Reinshagen cable works were classified as "important to the war effort" within the National Socialist armaments industry of the Third Reich , and so the settlement was awarded the "Golden Flag of a Model Company". “The settlement built by the plant on Blaffertsberg” was described as “one of the most beautiful in all of Wuppertal”.
description
The settlement houses form a closed unit in their appearance. However, they differ in the size, division and floor plan of the apartments. All buildings of the settlement are oriented in its front parallel to the southeast and have two full floors and a (partially developed today) and with dark brown tiles roofed hipped roof with dormers . They accommodate (differently) four to six apartments ranging in size from 1 1/2 to four living rooms, which are accessed from the central staircase. The facades of the buildings, which were built with rather simple means and which are very similar in their external appearance, are rather simply designed while largely dispensing with decorative elements. The brickwork of the houses is plastered and painted uniformly beige . Only the basement floors and the house entrances, which can usually be reached via a small staircase, with differently designed entrance portals are set off from the rest of the facade in terms of color and design.
The three houses Hordenbachstrasse 10, 12 and 14, which were built in the third construction lot after the end of the Second World War , differ in the design of the entrance portals and do not bear the round arch friezes of the older houses. The front gardens are separated by walls. These, like the pillars next to the staircases, are made in an unplastered wall construction with rubble stones made of greywacke . The windows facing the street front look the same in shape and size and have brown lacquered wooden shutters. The park-like facilities between the buildings, with communal areas and playgrounds, are a testament to the garden city movement that was popular at the time .
In addition to the houses for workers and employees, there are also the business mansions Blaffertsberg 29 and the house for the former authorized signatory Im Vogelsiepen 4 , which are also part of the settlement but are not listed.
Today the houses are privately owned and partially owned . A construction densification planned in the meantime with additional houses between the existing buildings was postponed again.
Infrastructure
The nearest station is the Wuppertal-Ronsdorf station , about 700 meters away, on the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen – Solingen line , on which the Müngstener S-Bahn line (S 7) of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn operates today .
Bus stops with local bus routes (to Wuppertal-Elberfeld Remscheid and Remscheid-Lüttringhausen ) are approx. 300 to 400 meters away on Lüttrighauser Straße and Graben. At the latter stop there used to be a train station of the Ronsdorf-Müngstener railway , later a stop for the tram line that emerged from it via Clarenbach to Remscheid or Müngsten . A citizen's bus also connects the settlement with the center of the Ronsdorf district a good two kilometers away.
There is no infrastructure of shops and restaurants in the settlement and its immediate vicinity .
Monument protection
The following 13 buildings were added to the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal on November 23, 2000 :
- Blaffertsberg , house numbers 35–43 (only odd)
- Hordenbachstraße , house numbers 10–18 (straight only)
- In Vogelsiepen , house numbers 1–3
In addition, there are the associated outdoor facilities, fencing and boundary walls, along with stairs and path systems. The monument protection is not limited to individual buildings, but extends to the building ensemble as a typical example of the corporate philosophy of larger companies and the settlement architecture in the heritage style of the 1930s and 1940s.
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus-Günther Conrads, Günter Konrad: Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein | from 1850 to 1874. (No longer available online.) www.ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 1, 2016 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Geschichtswerkstatt-Ronsdorf ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Ronsdorf in the Changing Times, 1900–1997
- ↑ Gerrit de Haas. Retrieved February 1, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- ^ Barmer Zeitung, May 3, 1940
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 9.1 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 43.4 ″ E