Spinnstuhl settlement

The Spinnstuhl settlement is located in Gelsenkirchen - Hassel . It is regarded as a regionally significant example of the new building of the 1920s.

Solitary buildings inside and on the edge, row houses, windows and front doors, staircase endings, green areas, tree plantings, central square

In the settlement built between 1926 and 1928, seven solitary buildings arranged in the shape of a V are grouped in the center at the eponymous place “Spinnstuhl”. On the other area there are five rows of terraced houses in groups of two to four units. Four more solitary buildings stand on the outside of the symmetrical settlement. These two-story multi-family houses have a strikingly protruding staircase, the three-story multi-family semi-detached houses inside the settlement have two staircases of the same type, and the stairwell is integrated in the row houses. Between all 91 buildings there are generous open spaces with meadows, trees and gardens, there are semi-public and private areas assigned to the apartments. The back of the row houses and the green areas are accessed by a network of footpaths. The settlement is traversed by two curved streets on which the row houses align. The central square “Spinnstuhl” and the cross street of the same name are at right angles to it. The design of the settlement also included pairs of trees, which were oriented towards the apartment entrances, as well as avenues of trees around the central square.

The architect of the settlement was Josef Rings , who also built daytime facilities for the Dahlbusch colliery and the Feldhaushof settlement in the Ruhr area . The Spinnstuhl was built by the “Allgemeine Bauverein Essen AG” cooperative, now Allbau AG. Later the housing stock was owned by the state mining company.

The original 402 apartments had essentially three types of construction, which varied only through the location of the stairwells. The small apartment had a bathroom, room and kitchen. The two larger types have a kitchen as a passage to two bedrooms, a living room as well as a hall and a private bathroom. There were communal laundry rooms and drying rooms in the basements. During renovations in the 1990s, many apartments were merged into larger units, the windows replaced and insulation installed. The originally high proportion of small apartments has been significantly reduced as a result.

The facades of the buildings are smooth and light-colored plastered, cornices on the base and eaves enliven the plain to austere-looking fronts. The coffered, single-colored (red, blue, green) and original front doors are protected by a straight canopy. Above that, a strip of windows across all floors illuminates the stairwell. The two or three-sash apartment windows on the facade level are evenly arranged and - with the exception of the solitary buildings - no longer have bars. Until the renovation, the bathrooms had short horizontal light strips. The façades are otherwise only interrupted by downpipes; they are separated from the flat roofs with a small protrusion.

The solitary buildings inside and on the edge of the settlement as well as the settlement arrangement and the open spaces are under monument protection, the row houses are listed as worthy of protection. In two interior areas there are garage courtyards made up of prefabricated garages that did not belong to the original concept.

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Web links

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~19~119421
• Design statute of the city of Gelsenkirchen for the settlement (PDF file; 6.3 MB)

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 37.4 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 19.3 ″  E