Victoria Settlement

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Victoria Settlement block of flats

The Victoria settlement is a workers' settlement in Lünen-Nord . It was built between 1909 and 1912 for the workforce of the Victoria colliery based on designs by the Dortmund architects D. & K. Schulze . It is a listed building.

The design of the settlement is based on the garden city movement . In addition to multi-storey blocks of flats and row houses, it is mainly semi-detached houses in partly loosened, partly dense development that define the picture. The original settlement concept included the integration of shopping opportunities for the population, as well as restaurants and charities.

In 1947 there was mass illness from poisoned drinking water, which affected 238 people and killed eight, mostly children. The cause was probably a defect in the drinking water pipes through which pit water from the adjacent Victoria colliery and water from the Lippe flowing past could penetrate and contaminate the drinking water.

literature

  • Kristiana Hartmann, Bettina Heine-Hippler: D. & K. Schulze 1901–1929. (= Dortmunder Architekten , Volume 1.) Recklinghausen 1989.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 9.3 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 15.6 ″  E