Wehofen

Wehofen is a district in the north of Duisburg . It is located in the Walsum district , has 7,412 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) and covers an area of 2.37 square kilometers .

geography

The districts bordering on the district DU-Walsum-Wehofen are in the north Dinslaken - Hiesfeld and -Barmingholten, in the east Oberhausen - Barmingholten and - Holten , in the south DU- Röttgersbach (until December 31, 1974 to DU-Fahrn) and in the west DU -Walsum- Aldenrade .

history

Wehofen first written in the 11th century as "Widehoive" or "Widehouwen" and was for centuries a small peasantry in the municipality Walsum with few farms. At the beginning of the 20th century, the German Emperor's union , which belongs to the Thyssen Group , began to build a mine in Wehofen. The Wehofen colliery began mining coal in 1913. At the same time, a settlement for the miners and their families was built as planned. In 1918, 877 apartments were available for a workforce of 1,545. Until 1928, this one mine in the Walsum area was active alongside the second “Alt-Hamborn” mine in Walsum. In 1928 coal production was stopped due to the global economic crisis and in 1933 the mine closed completely.

Wehofen belonged to the district of Dinslaken until January 1st, 1975 as a district of Walsum . With its dissolution, Walsum was assigned to the city of Duisburg (former postcode 4103 Walsum III, later 4100 Duisburg). Parts of the Fahrn, which belonged to Hamborn from 1975, also belong to the Wehofen district today . The largest part is made up of the Eickelkamp settlement, which was built in the 1960s by what was then August-Thyssen-Hütte for its employees on former arable and pasture land.

Wehofen settlement

In order to preserve the appearance of this typical colliery settlement, many of the old houses and the layout of the settlement are now listed. The Wehofen settlement was built in a strictly grid-like manner on square areas. Most of the streets run from northeast to southwest or northwest to southeast, in some peripheral areas they are curved (e.g. Kirchwiesenweg) and in the southern area, which is intended for employees, they are also straight. The road crossings are generously laid out, otherwise it was built to save space. The houses are laid out as plastered brick shells with low connecting structures between the individual building groups. The connecting structures were designed as stables and as passages to the block interior, behind the houses there were other farm buildings. Group houses predominate, house after house, but each has a separate entrance with a loggia or external staircase. The elaborate roof design is particularly noticeable, alternating saddle, hip and half-hip roofs. There are also spaces at the crossroads, small front gardens, lots of tree plantings (also in the street space) and communal green spaces. The trees were planted to match the street names and in some cases are still preserved today, for example on the streets "Unter den Linden" and "Unter den Kastanien". Many sidewalks and public areas have meanwhile been turned into parking lots, changing the original character of the open spaces. In the meantime, a project has been started to adapt the appearance of this settlement to the original street scene.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Population statistics for the city of Duisburg

↑ See also Helmut Uebbing: ways and waymarks . 100 years of Thyssen . Siedler, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-88680-417-8 , p. 287.

Web links

Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~17~11724
Monument primer of the Wehofen settlement: Part 1 (PDF; 2.7 MB) and Part 2 (PDF; 2.5 MB)
Private homepage about Wehofen
Streets in the district of Wehofen (onlinestreet.de)

[EinwohnerStatistik-1] Population statistics for the city of Duisburg