Vondern settlement

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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '55.7 "  N , 6 ° 54' 0.7"  E

Vondern settlement in 2008
Vondern community center (2008)
Former sales office of the GHH (2008)

The Vondern settlement is a former miners' settlement in Oberhausen - Osterfeld . The name derives from the neighborhood to the former manor castle Vondern .

The settlement was built between 1907 and 1913 on behalf of Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) to accommodate workers from the nearby new Vondern colliery , who had largely moved from the east of the German Reich and neighboring countries. Around 125 houses with more than 400 apartments were built. In contrast to most of the other GHH estates from the same period, the planners did not orientate themselves towards the layout of the streets and the arrangement of the houses on rectangular, geometric structures, but were inspired by the concept of the garden city , which resulted in curved streets, offset Houses and slightly varied apartment types. The residential buildings were supplemented by two architecturally remarkable buildings: the GHH's "Sales Institution IV" (1910) and the children's house based on a design by Bruno Möhring (1912).

These facilities were intended to improve the infrastructure of the settlement, which was largely cut off from the surrounding area by the Osterfeld collection and marshalling yard in the north, Vondern Castle in the east and the colliery area and the Emscher in the south. There was only a connection to the center of what was then the Osterfeld community via Bruchstrasse (today's Arminstrasse).

After mining at the Vondern colliery was discontinued in 1932 and the shafts also lost their function as outdoor facilities for the Jacobi colliery in 1965 , the settlement gradually lost its character as a miners' residence. After the colliery facilities were demolished, there was soon the threat of other buildings being demolished. The already its commitment to the preservation of the settlement Eisenheim known Roland Günter could Thyssen AG move, the new owner of the settlement in 1975 to make the now vacant Möhringsche children's house for an alternative use. It was taken over by the Arbeiterwohlfahrt and converted into a "community center".

Also the building of the sales establishment - long no longer used as a shop - has been preserved; however, during the Second World War, an extension containing the “officials' casino” for the employees of the colliery was destroyed. Their settlement was built a few hundred meters further east, beyond Vondern Castle; some of these Steiger houses have been preserved to this day.

The demolition of the colliery has changed little in terms of the settlement's “island location”, as the route of the A 42 motorway (“Emscherschnellweg”) now runs over its former site . Thanks to numerous new buildings in the area to the west of Arminstrasse, the settlement's infrastructure and transport links have improved. As part of the Emscher Future Master Plan , the settlement's access to the New Emscher, the Emscher Island and the Rhine-Herne Canal are also to be improved.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Günter, Janne Günter: The unknown Oberhausen . Wuppertal 1983, p. 42.
  2. ^ Emscher-Genossenschaft: Usage concept for the western Emscher island. (PDF; 3 MB) p. 50