VBW Building and Living
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | December 21, 1916 |
| Seat | Bochum |
| management | Norbert Riffel (Managing Director), Frank Thiel (Chairman of the Supervisory Board) |
| Number of employees | 134 (2017) |
| sales | approx. 78.83 million euros (2017) |
| Branch | Housing industry |
| Website | vbw-bochum.de |
| Status: 2017 | |
The VBW building and living GmbH is a housing company with a focus in Bochum . It has its own portfolio of 12,663 residential units plus 724 managed apartments from third-party stock, making it the largest provider of apartments in Bochum. The VBW is a member of WIR - Wohnen im Revier , a cooperation of municipal housing companies in the Ruhr area.
Ownership structure and shareholders
VBW Bauen und Wohnen has stakes in the following companies:
| Shareholdings of VBW Bauen und Wohnen | percent |
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| Object development company EGR / VBW mbH, Bochum | 50% |
| WSG Wohnungs- und Siedlungsgesellschaft mbH, Düsseldorf | 40% |
VBW Bauen und Wohnen has the following shareholders:
| Shareholder of VBW Bauen und Wohnen | percent |
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| Stadtwerke Bochum Holding GmbH | 68.89% |
| VONOVIA SE | 19.87% |
| Sparkasse Bochum | 10.65% |
| Bochumer Wohnstätten Genossenschaft eG | 0.31% |
| Non-profit housing association to Bochum eG | 0.23% |
| Association of Catholic Churches in the city of Bochum | 0.05% |
history
1916-1932
The company was founded in 1916 as Bochumer Heimstätten GmbH . The society, supported by the city, industry and religious communities, had the task of “providing disadvantaged families and people with appropriately furnished apartments in specially built houses at a cheap price”. This was intended to alleviate the housing shortage that existed before 1914. As one of the first properties, the company acquired the Rottmannshof in Grumme , where in 1921 the first settlement for miners with 132 apartments, the so-called "Böckenbergsiedlung", was completed. In 1932 the Bochum Heimstätten Society was recognized as a non-profit organization.
1933-1945
During the Nazi era, society was brought into line, which prevented free action on the housing market. More single-family houses and 60 rental apartments were built in Altenbochum by 1939 . With the beginning of the war, the company stopped all construction projects and limited itself to the management and maintenance of property and property. On November 4, 1944, the most devastating bomb attack on Bochum also destroyed the headquarters of the Heimstätten Society in the Lueg House (Kortumstrasse 16). During the Second World War, it lost about a third of the cultivated living space.
1946-1959
In the course of the reconstruction after the war, mainly inexpensive mass housing construction was carried out. In 1952, construction of the MSA estate in Bochum-Gerthe began with 483 apartments. In the following years more settlements, u. a. the Buseloh settlement in Altenbochum with 408 apartments for SBZ refugees , so that at the end of the 1950s the number had grown to 5,000 apartments.
1960-1975
With the beginning of the coal crisis in 1957 and the resulting closings of many mines in Bochum, the need for apartments fell. Only when Opel settled in Plant I and Plant II / III in 1962 did the demand for housing in Bochum rise again, which is why settlements and the like. a. were built in Langendreer and Laer .
1976-1990
On July 25, 1976, the Bochumer Heimstätten GmbH merged with the Vereinigte Baugesellschaft GmbH Bochum-Langendreer, which was founded in 1927, and was called the Vereinigte Bochumer Wohnungsgesellschaft mbH . Further residential areas such as the Sonnenleite in Langendreer and the cycling track in Weitmar were built. In 1977 the VBW redeveloped the Dahlhauser Heide miners' settlement in Hordel , built between 1906 and 1915, on behalf of the city of Bochum .
1991 - today
Since 1991, the company will operate the result of the discontinuation Wohnungsgemeinnützigkeitsgesetz as VBW building and living GmbH . Selling the entire housing stock is discussed again and again. However, most local parties have stated in their election manifestos that this measure is out of the question for them. Nevertheless, in 2006, 250 apartments were sold to the Bochum-based company group Häusser-Bau GmbH for 11 million euros. In 2007, VBW Bauen und Wohnen was the main sponsor in the further development and modernization of the Hustadt large housing estate in the Querenburg district . This was done as part of the “Urban Redevelopment West” initiative .
Foundation, endowment
As part of the 100th anniversary of VBW Bauen und Wohnen GmbH, the VBW Foundation was established on June 8, 2016. This promotes charitable initiatives and projects in the field of youth and elderly care, education and upbringing as well as welfare. The organs of the foundation are formed by the board of directors and the board of trustees, both of which are volunteers.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c vbw-bochum.de: Annual Report 2017
- ↑ a b VBW Bauen und Wohnen facts and figures
- ↑ vbw-bochum.de: History
- ^ City sells apartments - VBW also , tenants' association Bochum from July 26, 2006
- ↑ Website: huisthu.de
- ↑ Urban development concept for the Inner Hustadt in the Querenburg district as part of the urban development program “Urban Redevelopment West” , from May 2007
- ↑ vbw-bochum.de: Annual Report 2016
- ↑ Database of the Ministry of the Interior
- ↑ vbw-bochum.de: Foundation statutes