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Eisenheim Workers' Settlement

Name: Eisenheim Workers' Settlement
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Location: Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. OLGA Park, Oberhausen – Schwarzes Tor Viewing Tower, Olga Park loop from Eisenheim

9.47km

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2. Osterfeld Colliery – OLGA Park, Oberhausen loop from Neumühl

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3. OLGA Park Oberhausen – Schwarzes Tor Viewing Tower, Olga Park loop from Oberhausen-Sterkrade

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U.S.3.2.

November 30, 2020

Is considered the oldest workers' settlement in the Ruhr area. The short tour of the settlement is like traveling back in time.

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Stefan P

July 14, 2019

Many panels tell the story and stories of the settlement

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February 26, 2023

The Eisenheim settlement in Oberhausen is considered the oldest workers' settlement in the Ruhr area and one of the oldest surviving workers' settlements in Germany. Eisenheim is the first German workers' settlement to be listed as a historical monument.

The first houses on the roughly seven-hectare site were built in 1846 by what later became Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH), initially for their ironworkers. Miners from the Osterfeld colliery were only added after the second stage of expansion after 1865. Around 1900 about 1200 people lived in 51 one and a half and two storey houses.

After partial destruction in the Second World War, plans arose to demolish the "ugly old buildings", completely replace the settlement with new buildings and thus "wipe out the colony era."[3] The social structures that had grown within the settlement were not taken into account. The residents' resistance was supported in the early 1970s by a Bielefeld student group led by Roland Günter. The first workers' initiative was founded in the Ruhr area, which was to become a model and an incentive for many other such initiatives in the region. After a long struggle, the remaining 38 houses were saved from demolition and placed under monument protection in 1972. The sociological studies that were produced in this context are among the "classics of social science of the 1970s" and were decisive in the "paradigm shift towards a public sphere more focused on the social effects of architecture and urban planning".

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siedlung_Eisenheim

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Elevation 10 m

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Eisenheim Workers' Settlement

1. OLGA Park, Oberhausen – Schwarzes Tor Viewing Tower, Olga Park loop from Eisenheim

2. Osterfeld Colliery – OLGA Park, Oberhausen loop from Neumühl

3. OLGA Park Oberhausen – Schwarzes Tor Viewing Tower, Olga Park loop from Oberhausen-Sterkrade

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