Essen Margaretenhöhe

This time my curiosity, +Ingress scanner and the living place of my grand uncle led me to the Siedlung Margarethenhöhe, mostly only called Margarethenhöhe. It is considered as Germany's first garden city with regards to the architecture and forms the centre of Essen's district Margarethenhöhe, where in 7.529 people (Status: 31.12.2005) live on an area of 147,09 hectare.





The estate itself is seen as a good example for humane habitation and has 935 buildings and 3092 accommodation units, which are administrated by the Margarethe Krupp Foundation on 115 hectare of which 50 hectare wooded land have been determined as irreclaimable. It was kind of a welfare program for the steel workers of Alfred Krupp. Instead in small huts they could reside in a very nice and green environment with small, beautiful houses.

Surely the motivation wasn't only driven by pure philantropy but also by the finding that the Industrialization reached a stage where "knowledge workers" began to make a huge difference. If you treat your experts on a strategic important field well, they won't easily switch their workplace to a new employer who just offers a little more money but no real compensation for having your family move out of this known, beloved and friendly city quarter.

Today the steel workers are just a minority. But that was good for me. Presumably some IT-experts submitted nice portal suggestions to +Niantic and thus I had a very good tourist guide app, when I strolled through the streets.



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