Mulhouse company of workers’ cities – Wikipedia

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The first achievement of the Mulhouse company of workers’ cities. Mulhouse archives collections.
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The Mulhouse company of workers’ cities (Somco) is an HLM company created on At the initiative of Jean DOLLFUS, boss of DOLLFUS-MIEG and Company to respond to demographic pressure due to the industrial development of the city of Mulhouse and in the philanthropic and paternalistic logic of the time [ first ] .

Among the twelve founders – actionaries of the Mulhouse company of workers’ cities, dollfus, koechlin, zuber, and four factories including two prints on fabrics and two spinning [ 2 ] .

Mulhousian square Around 1855. Mulhouse archives collections.

Built by the Somco in the second half of the XIX It is Century on the north/northwest outskirts of the city, the working-class city of Mulhouse is a district whose housing is intended as a priority for the workers of the spinning. .

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The selected dwelling model is an attached house on two sides with a garden called The Mulhousian square , and designed by the architect Émile Muller.

The property accession system, rental-sale, allows buyers to become housing owners in fifteen years in exchange for a deposit of 250 francs minimum and a credit of approximately 20 francs per month. The company wishes to sell the houses at the cost price. The worker who does not have the means remains tenant [ 3 ] .

Having become a public limited company of HLM in 1923, the SOMCO now has a real estate heritage which extends to all over Alsace and manages around 5,650 social housing units including a set of 61 social housing, the City Manifesto, of sixty houses city ​​offered to rents to the HLM scale and signed by some big names and young shoots of architecture: Jean Nouvel (AJN, Paris), Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture & Block (Angers, Nantes), Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal (Paris), Matthieu Poitevin and Pascal Reynaud (Art’M Architecture, Marseille), Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines (Paris) [ 4 ] , [ 5 ] .

  1. Myriam Ait-Sidhoum, A new workers’ city in Mulhouse » , on University Matner summer the Strabourg (consulted the ) .
  2. André Studer, History of the workers’ city of Mulhouse » , on CRDP-Strasbourg.fr , (consulted the ) .
  3. Françoise Tromeur, 1853, and the worker had the right of city » , on + United protection Robert Schummann the Stradbourg (consulted the ) .
  4. Nicole Gauthier, Mulhouse puts new in its HLM » , on Liberation.fr , (consulted the ) .
  5. City manifesto of Mulhouse .

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  • Henri Cetty, The workers’ family in Alsace , Rixheim, 1883.
  • David Changey, The ideal city: 1853 project , Master’s thesis, Strasbourg, 1992-93.
  • Georges Duveau, Working life in France under the Second Empire , Tours, 1946.
  • Stephan Jonas, The city of Mulhouse (1853-1870): a model of economic and social housing of the 19th century , Strasbourg, 1981.
  • Raymond Oberlé, Mulhouse, or the genesis of a city , Besançon, 1985. (ISBN  978-286339160 )
  • Achille Penot, The workers’ cities of Mulhouse and the Haut-Rhin department , Mulhouse, 1867.
  • Marie-Claire Vitoux, Pauperism and assistance in Mulhouse at XIX It is century (1800 – 1870) , Strasbourg, 1989. (ISBN  978-2868207357 )

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