Hordel
Hordel is a neighborhood in Bochum- center on the northern border with Herne. It was incorporated to Bochum on April 1, 1926. A smaller portion was then awarded Wattenscheid. On the road underpass " On Blumenkamp " is located at 43 meters above sea level, the lowest point of Bochum.
The place at which the subsequent Hordel arose was in Germanic times the settlement area of the tribe of Bructeri. These lost it in the course of the 7th century to the incident of northern Saxony. After protracted fighting the Franks were under Charlemagne, the Saxons - including the Bructeri - Gaus - subdue and pacify. Christianity was introduced in the year 802 with the founding of the monastery becoming.
In 1798, resulted in a civil status holder in the top office in Bochum for the rural community Hordel
Thus lived 1798 in Hordel 91 people.
From the first decades of the 20th century, the name Oberhordel and Unterhordel are common. Oberhordel mainly comprises the settlement Dahl Hauser Heath. Unterhordel the northwestern part is called in the metropolitan area of the church building. In the 19th century Hordel was inhabited exclusively in today's Unterhordel. Later Oberhordel, at today's Berta road, only the Well House Dahlhausen was built in 1792. Gut has been built in classical half-timbered style on the site of a medieval castle. The former moat dried up due to mining subsidence and the building suffered severe subsidence damage. Behind it is a horse farm with gastronomy. East of the goods at Huell Bach there was the mill Dahlhausen with a pond. The map of the commune " quit on the field Sept. 30, 1823 " had the Geometer Zabel, does for the rest of the total area otherwise only fields, meadows and forest. The area east of the present road was wooded heath Hordeler accordingly.
To Hordel 1823 was already inhabited in the triangle between Hanover Street, Huell Brook Street and Huell Bach. Traces are still visible today. The then vacant Röhling Hauser road is already in its present course - coming from the north - detectable. It does not led to the Hanover road, but it crosses and crossed the settlement and bends behind the preserved farm to the east. The route is still visible in the aerial photograph. The bordered by Hanover Street and Huell Bach settlement area opened to the east beyond the children's garden plot. During the Hüll Bach evades today in its straight concrete bed with a hook to the south, he snaked in ancient times more in direct east-west direction. With its diversion he evaded the later dump the Hannover colliery.
Has opened up the old Hordel in east-west direction across the street, which corresponds to the course of Hanover Street. To the north there was the forerunner of the Röhling Straße. A southern bypass followed approximately the current Huell Brook Street. Although they also handed up to the Gutsgebiet approach, but turned her head toward the south to the Kabeisemannsweg and led into the old gold Hamme at the confluence of Center Street. A direct connection with Hamme, the former dog Hamme, and Bochum, as it is self-evident today, did not exist.
In 1854, the first slot of the Zeche Hannover was sunk, and the bill became expanded into a large pit after the takeover by Krupp. To bind the miners mines Hanover and Hannibal to the operation, was scheduled the workers' estate Dahl Hauser Heath built at the beginning of the 20th century ( 1906-1915 ), which is also popularly called " Kappskolonie ". The architecture in the Dahl Hauser Heath corresponds to a garden center and oriented aware of pre-industrial designs, the so-called "home style ". The rural character of the settlement is caused by the lattice- like facade design and the drawn down low eaves, reminiscent of altwestfälische farmhouses. The predominant house type is the two-family house with kitchen and living room downstairs and two bedrooms upstairs. The connection to the neighbor's house is made by the barn. In these houses lived the simple colliery workers. There are also several " Steiger houses" which are primarily found at the crossroads. This feature in the ground and first floors each have an extra room. Today, the stables and accessories are in the majority of the houses from the street side not visible, extended by generous extensions and conservatories to the rear. It is also interesting that in some homes despite an absolutely symmetrical from the outside facade of the living space is divided between the two halves of the house in the ratio 60/40.
The streets and roads in the village are very winding and identify difficult for the settlement of strangers. The settlement itself is again divided into areas that were assigned to the different hierarchical levels of the mine officials. The houses at the official place assigned to the mine officials. These were, however, not to officials in the modern sense, but to officers, because the mines were in private ownership and staff were with real civil servant status can only be found within the state mining supervision. Until the 60s of the 20th century, the colony was a distinct village, which was provided even by barriers on access roads.
By Hordel the Hüll Bach, in which, in the Hordel Hofsteder Bach and the Marbach open flows. Both streams are still partly used as sewers. Currently, the streams will be restored to a natural state as part of the project conversion of the Emscher system. The running on the surface of the concrete slab Marbaches for quite some time already leads no more water, but their course despite major overgrowth with bushes and undergrowth still clearly visible.
Three former railway lines run along the Hordeler city limits. In the north of the so-called " Old Salt train" of pan - Eickelmann to Bochum - Riemke, in the northwest of the former route of pan - Eickelmann to Gelsenkirchen -Wattenscheid and in the southwest the iron ore railway, transformed today and for the whole length as cycling and walking, the available stands. The running parallel to Erzbahn on a short piece " Carolinenglück train" is used as a working path of the ThyssenKrupp Group.