In the 1920s, the Eigene Scholle housing estate was built on both sides of Lahnstrasse in the north-east district. The developer was the cooperative "Gemeinnützige Siedlervereinigung Eigene Scholle zu Wiesbaden" (GmbH), registered in 1924.

A total of 37 detached semi-detached houses and five single-family houses were built in three construction phases from 1924-28, surrounded by generously proportioned gardens, which served not only for recreation but above all for self-sufficiency. In this respect, the Eigene Scholle estate, like the Eigenheim estate, is committed to the ideals of the Lebensreform movement and the associated garden city movement. The designs were produced by Wiesbaden architects Friedrich Werz and Paul Biedermann. Most of the houses became private property in 1930-32; the cooperative was liquidated in October 1942.

In the first construction phase, completed from 1925, 20 simple, two-storey semi-detached houses with high hipped roofs and symmetrically designed, roughcast façades were built on Lahnstrasse and Fasaneriestrasse, and six semi-detached houses and one detached house on Am Mühlberg. These single-storey buildings were designed with high ogee-arched roofs and two-storey dormers in a historicizing manner, following the traditionalist style of Heimatschutz architecture. From summer 1925, the second construction phase on the right-hand side of Fasaneriestraße leading out of the city saw the construction of six semi-detached houses, again with a simple and almost uniform design, this time with gardens facing the street. The buildings in the third construction phase consisted of five semi-detached houses with hipped roofs and two flanking detached houses with tent roofs. The ribbon-like dormer windows reflect the tendencies of so-called Neues Bauen.

In 1945, the Eigene Scholle estate was confiscated by the Americans and only returned to its owners in the 1950s. Since then, it has undergone numerous changes. The Eigene Scholle estate has been a listed building since 1988. In 2012, the interest group "IG Reisbrei-Siedlung" was founded to support the design and further development of the Eigene Scholle estate in line with its listed status.