Spar- und Bauverein Dortmund
| Spar- und Bauverein eG Dortmund
|
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| legal form | Registered cooperative |
| founding | March 4, 1893 |
| Seat | 44137 Dortmund, Kampstr. 51 |
| management | Franz-Bernd Große-Wilde, Chairman (full-time); Michael Ruwe, Deputy Chairman (part-time); Martin Trockels, board member (part-time); Michael Langenkämper, Chairman of the Supervisory Board |
| Number of employees | 110 (plus 10 trainees) |
| sales | 53.8 million euros |
| Branch | Housing industry |
| Website | sparbau-dortmund.de |
| Status: 2017 | |
The Spar- und Bauverein eG Dortmund was founded in 1893 and is the largest cooperative landlord in North Rhine-Westphalia with around 12,000 apartments in the "Greater Dortmund area" ( Dortmund and in the neighboring Unna-Königsborn and Holzwickede ) . The "Sparbau" is both a housing cooperative and a savings facility for its 19,820 members. In addition to the compulsory membership in the auditing association , the savings and construction association is a member of the "Marketing Initiative of the Housing Cooperatives Germany eV" and the VdW Rhineland Westphalia .
history
Spar- und Bauverein eG Dortmund is one of the oldest housing cooperatives in Germany. On March 4, 1893, the establishment of the “Zum Schwarzen Raben” restaurant was decided “as a self-help facility to alleviate the housing shortage”. The founding chairman was Wilhelm Unverhau (1868–1935). After him and the later chairman of the supervisory board, city councilor Dr. Walter Boldt (1856–1948) each street was named in the “Uhlandblock” in Dortmund's northern part of the city. The foundation goes back to individuals, but also to empire-wide socio-political developments and decisions. On May 1, 1889, the law on trade and business cooperatives, or cooperative law for short, came into force. It brought more legal security for cooperatives. By limiting liability, the fears of wealthier members that they would have to pay for the entire debt in the event of bankruptcy have been dispelled. In the 1890s, the second phase of the industrial revolution began in Germany . The idea of self-help when building apartments fell on fertile ground in Dortmund because the Ruhr area developed into the heavy industrial center of the German Reich during this time and the housing shortage was great among the many migrating workers.
The first apartments were built at Lange Str. 111/113 in the west of the city center. After 10 years, the Spar- und Bauverein, which did not build single-family houses but built multi-storey apartments, had already built 590 apartments, but by this time more than 3000 members, mostly families of miners, railway and postal workers, wanted to be supplied.
By the end of the First World War, the cooperative had around 2,000 apartments, mostly in urban areas such as the Althoff and Borsig blocks. Since hardly any new buildings could be built during the war years and also in the following inflationary period, the housing shortage in Dortmund continued to increase, so that in 1924, when the new building could start again, 9,300 members of the savings and construction association hoped for an apartment.
By the time the war broke out in 1939, around 2,000 apartments had been built. The savings and construction association was thus one of the largest housing cooperatives in Germany. During the Nazi dictatorship, however, the company was also brought into line and non-system-compliant employees were removed from the committees. It is a “stair joke of history” that in 1934 non-profit housing was introduced, which was one of the cornerstones of social housing until it was abolished in 1990. After the end of the Second World War, only 34 of the 4,338 apartments remained undamaged. Wherever possible, the members took to self-help, organized material and repaired apartments. Only with the currency reform of 1948 could the systematic reconstruction or new construction begin.
In the 1950s and 1960s, when the largest state funding programs for social housing were launched, the savings and construction association built almost 4,000 new apartments in the entire Dortmund urban area. In the 1970s, the housing shortage of the post-war period was largely eliminated. The modernization of stocks was now in the foreground of the work at the savings and construction association, but new construction continued. Due to the relatively balanced housing market, non-profit housing was abolished in 1990. With the decision in favor of the pure rental cooperative or tax liability, there was also new scope for action. The savings and construction association founded a care and administration GmbH as a subsidiary. This made it possible to continue the core business of housing management for the members in the same way as before.
The savings and construction association is currently also devoting itself to the topics of residential projects , multi-generational living and service living with and for older residents.
Residential and building stock
The savings and construction association built multi-family houses and residential complexes in the architecture typical of the time or epoch. As a location-based housing association, the savings and construction association today covers almost the entire city. The town-defining block developments with spacious, horticultural courtyards are outstanding. The Althoff block deserves special mention here, as it is a model for urban living and is recorded as an ensemble on the Dortmund list of monuments over the individual buildings. Thanks to special modernization efforts and the cooperative tenant structure, industrially manufactured apartment blocks from the 1970s, which are considered difficult to rent in what is considered to be a relaxed housing market, can easily be kept on the housing market.
literature
- Spar- und Bauverein eG (Author) 100 years of history - 100 years of the future , 100 years of Spar- und Bauverein eG Dortmund, hardcover, Dortmund 1993
- Karl-Heinz Bieling (Ed.), Speeches - 100 Years of Spar- und Bauverein eG Dortmund, self-published, Dortmund 1993, 54 pages, hardcover
Web links
Spar- und Bauverein eG Dortmund
Individual evidence
- ↑ inventory map
- ↑ Annual report 2016
- ^ Housing cooperatives Germany
- ↑ Cooperative archive : Wilhelm Unverhau dies ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Upswing of the cooperatives (1890–1913)
- ^ History put on the wall Ruhr Nachrichten Dortmund, March 5, 2008, accessed on January 7, 2014
- ↑ a b c d 100 years of history - 100 years of the future , 100 years of Spar- und Bauverein eG Dortmund, hardcover edition, Dortmund 1993
- ↑ Housing projects
- ↑ Current apartment offers ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ inventory map
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '53.2 " N , 7 ° 27' 24.7" E