Workers' settlement Dahlhauser Heide

A house in the Dahlhauser Heide settlement, also known as the "Cap Colony", was reserved exclusively for a privileged minority: the employees of the Krupp company were offered a homely idyll with their own infrastructure, which at the same time placed the residents under the strict discipline of the company. Anyone who broke the rules or lost their job was thrown straight onto the street.

Between 1906 and 1905 Krupp had the colony built for the miners of the Hanover and Hannibal collieries. With two consumer institutions, a beer hall, two kindergartens and two schools, the settlement had a distinctly independent infrastructure from the start. The living standards, which were progressive for the time, such as the spacious gardens, were reserved exclusively for Krupp's employees. At the same time, the company's patriarchal welfare policy was linked to a strict regulatory discipline that also included political control: anyone who owned social democratic newspapers, for example, had to expect to be fired. In general, the coupling of rental and employment contract resulted in a great deal of uncertainty for the residents. The loss of the job also meant the termination of the rental agreement.

At the end of the 1970s, the Dahlhauser Heide was placed under monument protection by the state conservator. Since then, extensive modernization measures to improve the quality of living have been carried out while maintaining the external appearance of the settlement.