In 1906, the Wilhelmina State Mine is taken into production and the mine management is urgently looking for staff. To hire workers, good housing is needed.
Spacious homes are being built on the Heistraat for highly trained mining personnel, such as mine engineers, mine supervisors and mine officials. The designs are from the Bouwbureau der Staatsmijnen. Many types of houses are also being built in other places in the Mining Region, close to the three other state mines.
In the Heistraat, these houses have been built together in a playful way. The houses show a high degree of quality and detailing. The houses of the ordinary miners can be found on Parallelstraat.
They are excellent working-class houses with their own gardens, which is very special for this time. Later on, all kinds of shops and facilities were created in the Heistraat neighborhood. The Casinolaan is named after the now demolished Employee Casino.
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