Reutershagen

Reutershagen City of Rostock Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 54 ″  N , 12 ° 4 ′ 26 ″  E
Height :	22 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.7 km²
Residents :	17,978  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density :	3,154 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1935
Postal code :	18069
Area code :	0381
Location of Reutershagen in Rostock

Reutershagen , named after the Low German writer Fritz Reuter , is a district of Rostock .

Houses on Wiener Platz

The swan pond with the art gallery in the background

history

In the course of the garden city movement , which was hampered by the First World War , some areas in the Rostock area were incorporated on July 14, 1919: Barnstorf, Bartelsdorf, Bramow, Dalwitzhof, Damerow, Kassebohm, Riekdahl and Schnatermann. The settlement of Reutershagen began in autumn 1919 south of the then newly laid tram route to Marienehe . In the garden town settlement originally planned as the “Barnstorf-Bramow Small Settlement”, the first houses were built in 1920 on Siedlungsweg (today Liningweg) and the central settlement area (today Druwappelplatz ). The plots, each with approx. 800 m² individual area, are paired with semi-detached houses. Owing to the idea of ​​the garden city movement, the concern was the self-generation of the vegetables in the garden and the courtly animal husbandry. In addition, the fields behind the houses were leased by the residents for growing grain and potatoes. Furthermore, the Hawermannweg was also built to the north and east of the tram route. The name Reutershagen is only documented from 1922 and therefore this year is celebrated as the year Reutershagen was created.

In the next construction phase, the district was expanded from 1934 to include a workers' settlement for the new Marienehe plant of Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke . This area north of the tram route in particular bears the name Alt-Reutershagen today. One and two-family houses with gardens define the townscape. The streets are named after characters from the works of Fritz Reuter.

From 1937 on, the composers' quarter was built south of the tram route and from 1939 the quarter around Wiener Platz (then known as the Ostmärkisches Viertel ). The brick facades of the houses are characteristic of both quarters . There are both blocks of flats and loosened up developments with row, double and single-family houses. The majority of the first residents of both quarters were also workers and employees of the Heinkelwerke.

The green spaces around the swan pond, which was dammed up in 1938, were not finally completed until 1961 due to the war. Here, on May 15, 1969, the newly built art hall was opened as a museum for contemporary art.

On the opposite side of the tram route from Old Reutershagen, the districts of Reutershagen I were built from 1953 to 1957 and, from 1958, Reutershagen II as the first new districts in Rostock after the Second World War. In Reutershagen I - still built with classic masonry - buildings in the style of socialist classicism determine the cityscape, in Reutershagen II, the panel construction was used for the first time in Rostock . A total of 9,772 apartments were built for around 25,000 residents.

In 1975 the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Andrew was built. It was one of the few new church buildings in the history of the GDR . In 1991 the Reutershagen grammar school was founded.

Reutershagen is a popular district because of its loose development, its proximity to the city center, good shopping opportunities and the many green spaces around the swan pond. The southern composer's quarter is particularly popular, with its many semi-detached houses being generously populated and merging into the Gartenstadt / Stadtweide district .

Web links

Commons : Reutershagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population by city area on rathaus.rostock.de
2. ↑ Karsten Schröder (ed.): Within your walls there is harmony and general well-being. A history of the city of Rostock from its origins to 1990. Koch, Rostock 2003, ISBN 3-929-54468-7 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hieke, Wolfram, Papenhagen, Neumann, Schimler, Haeske: Reutershagen in pictures and stories. 2nd Edition. Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2014, ISBN 3-942-67342-8 .