Streithof

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The Streithof is a country house built as a courtyard in the Broich-Speldorfer Wald in Mülheim an der Ruhr .

The property was built in 1905–1907 by the Düsseldorf architect Wilhelm Zaiser as the retirement home for Emil Kirdorf , the general director of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG , and is considered a pioneer of the Heimatstyle . Kirdorf is quoted as follows on the naming that comes from the miners' uprising in 1905 :

“ These conditions made me a champion in the dispute that was forced upon us [...]. To commemorate this time [...] I decided, with my wife's consent, to name the new building 'Streithof', hoping that it will become a place of peace and happiness for my family and for me and my descendants. "

The two-wings mansion sat the architect next to a courtyard, around which he draws grouped, stables, a car shed, the harness room and houses for staff. He kept the facade of the main building simple, as well as the interior design of the entire property. The only concession to the pompous style customary at the time was the winter garden desired by Kirdorf.

The most famous guest of the Streithof was Adolf Hitler , who visited his friend and supporter Kirdorf several times on his Mülheim property. Hitler's last visit in 1937 on the occasion of Kirdorf's 90th birthday was accompanied by a great public stir.

After Kirdorf's death in 1938, the Streithof was initially empty, was looted at the end of the war and then served as British officers' quarters for a few years. In 1951 the building became the property of the German Red Cross (DRK), which set up a retirement home there. In 1972 the unprofitable senior citizens' residence was converted into a specialist clinic for addicts. The facility initially remained under the sponsorship of the DRK, but was then transferred in 1999 to the Duisburg Psychotherapeutic Institute in Bergerhausen under the direction of Hans-Werner Gessmann .

literature

  • Vaterstädtische Blätter (weekly for homeland studies and homeland maintenance on the lower Ruhr), year 1910, No. 2.
  • Barbara Maas: In the House of the Commerce Council. Villa architecture and upper-class living culture in the industrial age. The example of Mülheim an der Ruhr . Edition Werry, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1990, pp. 64–71.
  • Katrin Gems: Broich-Speldorfer Wald- und Gartenstadt AG . In: Witnesses of the city's history. Architectural monuments and historical places in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Edited by the Mülheim an der Ruhr History Association. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-784-0 , pp. 101-102.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 39.9 ″  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 59.2 ″  E