Old Colony Evening

Eight unusual types of houses, running water and stove heating in all apartments, separate entrances, separate stables and gardens - and all of this at rents that are about half those on the free housing market: the workers at the United Stein and Hardenberg colliery would actually have it clear can hit worse. In the old Eving colony in Dortmund, they found the best living conditions for the time.

The Eving colony was created by the Vereinigte Stein und Hardenberg colliery for the foreign workers who were increasingly recruited during the boom at the end of the 1890s. In the years 1898 and 1899, 76 houses with 270 apartments were built. To the east of the "Alte Colonie" the "Neue Colonie" was built in 1900 with 200 apartments in 49 houses. The old colony stands for the settlement construction of the turn of the century, which replaced the earlier factory and colliery settlements characterized by an even row of houses with an overall urban planning. The tree-lined streets refer to the center of the settlement marked by the welfare building on Nollendorfplatz, which was built between 1903 and 1906. Numerous facilities of company social policy for the miners and their families were housed there.

As part of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Emscher Park, the renovation and a diverse new cultural use took place. The welfare building on Nollendorfplatz is still the center of the old Eving colony. Information boards on the history of the house and the workers' settlement provide further information there. The house is barrier-free accessible.