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Wesselkampstraße, Fuldastraße, Werrastraße,
Eisenheimer Straße, Berliner Straße
46117 Oberhausen-Osterfeld
Geodaten
RVR-Geodatenserver
ÖPNV
Von Oberhausen Hbf mit Straßenbahn 112 oder Bus SB90 bzw. SB96 bis "Eisenheim"
LVR-Industriemuseum
Museum Eisenheim
Berliner Straße 10a, 46117 Oberhausen
geöffnet Ostersonntag bis 31. Oktober
sonn - und feiertags 10 - 17 Uhr
ganzjährig Führung nach Vereinbarung
Eisenheim (lit: Iron Home) – the name says it all and explains why the first working-class housing estate in the Ruhrgebiet was built here in 1846. The Eisenheim estate was not all built at the same time, for the 51 houses were constructed in several building phases. At the start of the 1890s coalminers began to move in here alongside the ironworkers, and by the turn of the century it contained around 1200 people. After the end of the Second World War the estate began to decline. There was only a half-hearted attempt to rebuild the bombed houses. The oldest seven houses on the estate – they had been built for the colliery foremen – were replaced by new buildings containing several stories. At the start of the 1970s plans were made to demolish the whole estate. But thanks to the now legendary and highly imaginative campaign of resistance put up by the residents, the Eisenheim estate was not only preserved but modernised, and the remaining 38 houses put under a protection order.
