Dinslaken-Lohberg

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Lohberg is a district of the Lower Rhine, district town Dinslaken, and at its core a miners' settlement, which is known for its now disused colliery.

History

Lohberg was born in 1907 in the Hiesfelder peasantry at the foot of the upper Lohberg for the workers and employees of Lohberg.

The architecturally interesting settlement was built on the concept of a garden city until 1924. Further plans that would have led to a much larger settlement, were placed on ice.

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To supply the Dinslakener hoop rolling mill with coking coal the directors Fritz Thyssen, Thyssen and Joseph August Thyssen and Bergassessor Arthur Jacob founded on December 30, 1905, the union Lohberg. 1907 began the sinking of the shafts Lohberg 1 and 2 on the highway between Dinslaken and Hünxe, as well as the construction of the mining camp.

Over time, the mine grew: There new shafts were sunk, workers from Korea, the former Yugoslavia and Turkey and has the capacity increased until it reached its peak of 3,135,415 tons of coal in 1979.

By the end of 2005, numerous Lohberger worked at the mine, which is now part of the composite Lohberg Osterfeld, so the district was still closely associated with the mining industry. On 1 January 2006, the mine was shut down most of the last about 1400 employees was transferred to other mines or went into early retirement.

In 2007, the architectural firm Dortmund won stegepartner competition " mine area Dinslaken Lohberg ". The design of stegepartner provides a shell to build the district of Alt- Lohberg on the mine site on.

Population and Culture

In 2005, the Market Square, the cultural center of the district, renovated and new business was settled. This will provide an improved image of the district, which was formerly known as " seedy " part of town. This " image enhancement " is also to serve the renovation of the " Single home", the former with its 6,500 square meters offered accommodation for the miners of the mine Lohberg, was thereafter hired by associations and shopkeepers. Since the completion of the conversion work, the floor space of the Single home serves as a center for district culture, services and commerce.

In Lohberg approximately 6,000 people ( as of 31 December 2009), of which, due to the high proportion of migrant workers of the mine, about 40 % have a Turkish background. In Lohberg there are consequently two mosques Turkish clubs and several Turkish shops.

Churches and mosques

Lohberg has both two churches and two mosques.

The church of St. Mary is part of the parish of 1 December 2007 the newly founded parish of St. Mary in Lohberg Bruckhausen - Hunxe and is named after the adjacent Marie School, is given in the lessons from the second to the fourth grade.

The Martin Luther Church was built in 1952-1954 and since 2007 belongs to the district of the great Protestant Parish Dinslaken.

The Selimiye Mosque of the Turkish- Islamic Cultural Association Diyanet belongs to DİTİB and is directly adjacent to the Mosque of Dinslakener community of the Association of Islamic Cultural Centres ( VIKZ ).