Teutoburgia colliery settlement

Light, green and an apparently rural idyll for the workers and officials at the mine: between 1909 and 1923 - at the same time as the Bochumer Verein's Teutoburgia mine was commissioned - the settlement of the same name with 136 buildings and over 450 apartments was built based on the idea of ​​garden cities. An attractive colony, which is still considered one of the most beautiful mining settlements in the Ruhr area.

Despite the individual design of the buildings, only four basic building types were implemented in Teutoburgia, which reflect the social hierarchy of the residents: The oldest houses are on Baarestrasse and Laubenstrasse, the official and foreman houses were built on Schadeburgstrasse. A special feature within the settlement is the Teutoburgiahof, built after the First World War, which stretches as a block development around a street designed as an inner courtyard. In comparison to the older housing estates, simple designs combined into larger units were implemented here. The avenue-like Baarestraße forms the main axis of the settlement, from which all other paths branch off in harmonious loops; it once led directly to the colliery gate. During the Second World War, the settlement was hardly damaged. The few destroyed buildings were replaced by new buildings.

In 1983, VEBA Wohnen AG, as the owner at the time, guaranteed the tenants a permanent right of residence and the long-term maintenance of the settlement and received the "Builder's Prize" for the exemplary modernization of the colony, for which around 30 million marks in subsidies were made available. Teutoburgia has been under monument protection since 1991; a year later the Korte Düppe settlement was built on the edge of the colony, the architecture of which is based on traditional buildings.