Schüren, Dortmund — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Schüren?

Rubble-stone walls mark the old village. They were built from the Schüren quarry, a ground monument where Ruhr sandstone was already being cut in the Middle Ages for churches across Dortmund. The first Ruhr miner is named here.

Konrad von Schüren appears in a document of 1296, which puts coal in the village long before industry arrived. Heavy industry came later and went. The Gustav Schade machine works supplied the mines from Schüren and its site has been cleared, with the Am Rosenplätzchen housing built there since 2007, while the Phoenix-Ost ironworks west of the village was dismantled and sold to China.

What is the history of Schüren?

A rent roll names Schüren in 1220. The entry reads de Scure iuxta Tremonam, and the place appears again in 1265 as in villa Schuren, with a Richbertus de Schůren in 1302 and a Suiberti de Schuren in 1322. Spellings multiplied after 1485.

Schuiren, Schueren and Schuyren are all recorded, and the name itself means a place by barns. The county of Mark taxed eight farms. According to the Mark treasury book of 1486 the eight taxable owners in the Bauerschaft paid between one and six gold gulden, the largest being Hof Rosterge at six, while Petermanns Hof owed the Elsey monastery thirty-two thalers and a pound of pepper.

Fourteen taxpayers appear in 1705. The cadastre for the Rentei Hörde lists them, and in the nineteenth century Schüren was a rural commune in the Landkreis Hörde and the Amt Aplerbeck. Dortmund took it on 1 August 1929.

Where is Schüren?

Schüren lies in the south-east of Dortmund within the Stadtbezirk Aplerbeck, crossed by the Emscher, with Aplerbeck east, Berghofen south, Hörde west and Wambel north.