House and Garden 
STREET VIEW IN THE COLONY BAUMHOE 
the sympathy with the often great troubles of the 
working man. 
“The purpose of work should be the c'ommon 
welfare—then work will bring a blessing; then work 
is a prayer. Let every one in our employ from the 
highest to the lowest found his home in happiness, 
gratefully and modestly. This will he the fulfil¬ 
ment of my highest wish.” This house has on the 
ground floor four and in the attic two rooms. 
The firm of Krupp was first of all forced into 
providing rooms for its workmen when the rapidly 
increasing population made lodgings in Essen and 
the neighborhood very scarce. 
rite first dwellings were erected in the years i86i 
and 1862. They contained on the ground floor and 
upper floor three rooms each. 
In 1863 eight simple rows of houses containing 136 
lodgings were erected in Alt Westend. They con¬ 
tained each sixteen lodgings with two or three 
rooms in one block, of which four each have 
a staircase. Water-closets for each 
lodging are either on the landing or 
ne.xt to the kitchen. During the 
“seventies” under the energetic 
management of Alfred Krupp the 
greatest activity in erecting houses 
for workmen was displayed and the 
colony Nordhof, the dwellings in the 
Kupen-Str., since demolished, and the 
dwellings in Schederhof were erected, 
fl'hese dwellings were mainly without 
cellar and store-rooms and only nar¬ 
row wooden staircases led to the upper 
floor. The water-closets were outside 
of thehouses. Duringtheperiod from 
1871 to 1874, working men’s colonies 
were erected in Neu Westend, Baum- 
hof, Schederhof, and Kronenberg. 
The colony Neu Westend consists 
of sixteen double houses with six 
dwellings each, of two to three rooms, 
with the water-closets on the land¬ 
ings. 
The colonv Baumhof is erected on 
an estate in the south of the city and 
its buildings have been built in a more 
rural style, partly with stabling and 
each with a garden. The number of 
lodgings is 154, of three, four or five 
rooms. The houses built at first 
contained lodgings for four families. 
"Fhe buildings erected in 1890 con¬ 
tain on two floors four lodgings of 
three to four rooms, with a sepa¬ 
rate entrance. Besides this, some 
buildings of three floors have been 
erected with lodgings of four to five 
rooms, each lodging with separate 
water-closets on the landing. 
The colony Schederhof consists of large rows of 
houses of three floors with six lodgings, two on each 
floor, "fhe 492 lodgings of this colony have two, 
three or four rooms. As no gardens could be given, 
an extensive park was arranged and also gardens 
provided for letting to the tenants. 
In the colony Kronenberg the buildings are 
partly three stories high with thirty to forty lodgings. 
Every lodging has its own entrance and separate 
water-closet. Avenues of trees and a park located 
in the centre of the colony, together with the gardens 
surrounding the houses, give this colony a rural char¬ 
acter. In 1899 there were 1,509 lodgings of two, 
three and four rooms. 
All these colonies are built and arranged very 
simply on the principle of the late owner of the 
firm, Alfred Krupp, “that all poor people and fam¬ 
ilies which have to save money should have healthy 
dwellings at the cheapest price possible.” 
A DWELLING HOUSE FOR TWO WIDOWS—COLONY ALTENHOF 
