Eving colony welfare building

The welfare building in Eving

Facade detail

The welfare building in the old colony of Eving is a listed building in the Eving district of Dortmund .

The building on Nollendorfplatz was built between 1903 and 1906 according to plans by the architect Paul Knobbe as a center of operational welfare for the mines Minister Stein and Fürst Hardenberg . Since the houses of the miners' settlement were originally not equipped with baths, a bathing establishment for women and men was set up in the welfare house. At the same time, a facility called a child custody school was opened to look after the miners' children.

Other facilities for company welfare in the welfare building were:

• a household school (popularly called pudding academy)
• an industrial and cooking school for the miners' daughters
• a single home
• an official casino for colliery employees
• a library with reading room
• a laundry and hot iron
• a sales point of the company consumer cooperative

After the First World War , a focus was placed on health care and maternal advice, and from 1926 the kindergarten and after-school care sector was expanded. Since the mid-1960s, the welfare building was used by an educational institution for mentally handicapped children, and later by the Max Wittmann School.

After the Minister Stein colliery was closed, the building was extensively renovated. It served as the seat of the German Radio Academy North Rhine-Westphalia and the Dortmund Open Canal . It is entered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .

Web links

Commons : Former welfare building Alte Kolonie Eving  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The building at the history and culture association Eving
• IBA project welfare building Eving
• Description of this settlement as part of the Route of Industrial Heritage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ulrich Bücholdt: Paul Knobbe (1867–1956). Architecture in the Ruhr area from the colliery to the villa. Retrieved September 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ No. A 0212. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 18, 2014 (size: 180 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 10.5 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 28.6 ″  E