Neuburg (Freiburg im Breisgau)

Neuburg Freiburg im Breisgau
City district Freiburg (FR) Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany
Basic data
District of Freiburg
District number:	12 (district: 120)
Geographic location :	48 ° 0 '0 "  N , 7 ° 51' 13"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '0 "  N , 7 ° 51' 13"  E
Height :	270  m above sea level NN
Area :	1.64  km²
Residents :	4,713 (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	2874 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :	16%
Postal code :	79104, 79106
Area code :	0761
Internet presence:	www.freiburg.de

Neuburg is a district of Freiburg im Breisgau located directly north of the old town , to which the Schlossberg located east of the old town also belongs. To the east the district borders on the wooded Schlossberg on the Oberau , to the north on Herdern , to the west the Rhine Valley Railway separates it from the Stühlinger district .

The name of the district of Neuburg is only slightly anchored in the population. The areas to the east of the Habsburger Strasse, which cut through the district, are commonly viewed as part of Herdern , while the areas to the west are referred to as the institute district.

history

The first development of Neuburg took place soon after Freiburg was founded in the 12th century. The hospital for the poor and the foundling house were also to be found in this northern suburb. The suburb had its own city wall. During excavations in 2016, settlement remains from the 11th century were uncovered. The oldest wine press in southern Germany and part of a musical instrument from the 12th century were also found.

The suburb was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War , and after the French occupation of Freiburg in 1677, Vauban had the suburb razed to make way for the northern part of the fortress ring around Freiburg, which was to encircle the old town like a corset in the following decades. In addition, a fortress pale was created to give the gunners on the bastions a free field of fire.

The 25km west location of Freiburg Alsatian town of Neuf-Brisach (Neuf-Brisach) returns as the ideal form of a Vauban fort a very good intuition as Freiburg fortress ring might have looked like at the time.

The French withdrew from Freiburg in 1745 and blew up the entire fortifications. The rubble grew slowly and was sometimes even planted with vines. The area was not repopulated until around 1825. The area was now named Ludwigsvorstadt in honor of the Grand Duke of Baden . In the 20th century, at least in the official name, the medieval name Neuburg was used again.

When Freiburg was bombed in November 1944 , the district was almost completely destroyed.

Infrastructure

Building of the publishing house Herder in Freiburg-Neuburg, left rear Herdern

The resident population of just over 4,000 people is comparatively low. Large parts of the western half of the city district are taken up by the campus of the university , which has located its mathematical and natural science faculties and the rectorate in the so-called institute quarter. In the larger part of the Herder publishing house to the north of this area, which was previously also occupied by a large printing company of the publishing house, is now the faculty for the environment and natural resources of the university. The university's archaeological collection, which contains ancient originals and plaster casts based on ancient sculptures, is housed in the former paper warehouse of the printing works.

The district office of the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district has its seat in the eastern half of the district . a. a hospital , two trade schools , the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg , the traditional Haus Heiliggeist , the Herder publishing group , the Freiburg penal institution and other authorities. Two green spaces also belong to the district: the city ​​garden and the old cemetery , which was Freiburg's burial place from 1683 to 1872. In 1725 and 1753–57 the St. Michael's Chapel was built in the cemetery. To the north of the cemetery is the Protestant Ludwig Church, which was built at a different location after the Second World War to replace the first Protestant church in Freiburg, which was destroyed in the war. On the eastern edge of the cemetery is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in neo-Gothic style.

The district is integrated into the public transport network of Freiburg by tram line 4 along Habsburgerstrasse . Bus route 27 to Herdern also runs through the district.

literature

• Hermann Flamm: On the topography of the suburb of Neuburg . In: Schau-ins-Land 41 (1914), pp. 34–36.
• Joseph Ludolph Wohleb: On the history of the old Freiburg suburb of Neuburg . In: Alemannische Heimat 5 (1938), No. 23/24.
• Hans-Josef Wollasch: On the social history of the Freiburg district of Neuburg . In: Schau-ins-Land 88 (1970), pp. 173-182.
• Walter Vetter: Freiburg. A guide to art and history. Rombach, Freiburg 1986, pp. 129-133. ISBN 3-7930-0496-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sarah Noeltner: Friborg: Freiburger story: excavations in the district of Neuburg promote oldest wine press in southern Germany revealed. Badische Zeitung, March 18, 2017, accessed on March 18, 2017 . 
2. ^ ^{A b c} Hans Sigmund: Freiburg North: Stepwise Approach , Badische Zeitung of December 27, 2010, accessed on January 23, 2011

Web links

Commons : Neuburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• History of Neuburg