Eastern ring area

52.269166666667 10.5425Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 9 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 33 ″ E

City district Eastern ring area City of Braunschweig
Location of the Eastern Ring District in Braunschweig
District Mayor:	Susanne Hahn ( SPD )
District:	No. 120
Residents:	26,608 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Surface:	4.00 km²
Population density:	6,378 inhabitants per km² (December 31, 2009)
Post Code:
View over the eastern ring area. In the center: Stadtpark , Prinzenpark and the Nussberg . In the background Riddagshausen with Kreuzteich , Mittelteich and Schapenbruchteich .

The eastern ring area in Braunschweig is a district and urban district with around 26,000 inhabitants. It extends from Helmstedter Strasse in the south to Rebenring in the north. In the west it is bounded by the Oker and in the east by the Prinz-Albrecht-Park (called “Prinzenpark” for short) with the Nussberg , which is still part of the city district . The city park is located in the east of the district .

history

The city quarter in its current form goes back to plans and designs by Ludwig Winter . It takes its name from the Wilhelminischer Ring , a ring road planned in 1882 around the historic city center , today's city center district . However, the Braunschweiger Ring was never completed and is interrupted in the southwest by the Bürgerpark . The Paulikirche forms the center of the district . It was built between 1902 and 1906 on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse, today 's Jasperallee .

In addition to the ring, this avenue forms another main axis of the eastern ring area and connects the state theater with the city park. The most feudal houses with small front gardens were found here. Berliner Straße Unter den Linden served as a model for the avenue . There is a memorial stone at the city park, which is exactly one kilometer away from the State Theater and on which generations of schoolchildren have learned to estimate this distance.

This is where the avenue originally ended, but was extended through the city park in the 1930s to connect the Braunschweig Cathedral , which served as a Nazi sanctuary at the time, with the " Franzschen Feld " on the Nussberg , a former military training area, that the SA used for marches.

During the Second World War, numerous gaps were torn in the magnificent promenade, which were filled with more pragmatic buildings in the following years. This is most noticeable in the different storey heights, since in the 1950s neither the building material nor the aesthetic awareness of the heights of the Wilhelminian style was available. Jasperallee is named after the former prime minister of Brunswick Heinrich Jasper .

The eastern ring area is one of the most sought-after residential areas in Braunschweig. The numerous old buildings that were built around 1900, the countless trees and the extensive parks in the east make this district so attractive. Despite its large parks, the city district is today the most densely populated city district of Braunschweig with 6340 inhabitants per km².

Sights and miscellaneous

In addition to the churches of St. Pauli and St. Matthäus, the district's sights include numerous Wilhelminian-style houses on Jasperallee. The Brunsviga culture and communication center is also located in the eastern ring area.