Eastern Spessartviertel

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Spessart district from the east

The Eastern Spessartviertel is a district in Dietzenbach . Under its former name "Starkenburgring" it developed into a social hotspot in the 1980s . Since specific measures were carried out from 1997 onwards, the quarter has been a successful example of redevelopment under its new name. 3280 people live in the houses of the large housing estate. With over 1000 children and young people, it is an above-average young district. The majority of the residents belong to the lower class within the social structure . Around 95% of the residents have a migration background from 80 nations.

Residential complex

The Eastern Spessart district has around ten hectares of floor area and consists of five high-rise buildings, where nearly 10% of the population Dietz Bach's life. The five houses together form an apartment owners association . Each house has its own address: Wertheimer Weg 2–4, Marktheidenfelder Weg 2–4, Rohrbrunner Weg 2–4, Mespelbrunner Weg 2–4 and Lohrer Weg 2–4. There are a total of 1019 apartments, which are located in two houses with 17, two with 12 and one with 9 upper floors. The high population density of around 100 inhabitants per hectare (WE / ha) is due to the building construction. There is no commercial space in the residential complex. The 1- to 4-room apartments between 35 and 90 square meters, which are mostly privately owned, are used by owners and tenants for residential purposes.

The housing company Dietzenbach mbH, 66% of which is held by the city of Dietzenbach and 34% by Nassauische Heimstätte , is the sole owner of around 90 apartments.

history

Development until the 1980s

In 1965, the Society for Regional Spatial Planning in the narrower Untermain area presented an initially non-binding regional development plan that included a settlement focus in Dietzenbach. Two years later, the Untermain regional planning community issued binding regional planning , which assumed an annual population increase of 30,000 people in the Rhine-Main area who were to settle in the surrounding area. South of Frankfurt am Main , Dreieichenhain , Dietzenbach and the city of Rodgau were declared to be major settlement areas.

The client in Dietzenbach was a private housing association that marketed the apartments under the name Rosenpark . The acquisition of land by this company and the circumstances in which the building permit was granted later became the subject of an investigation by the municipality, which was discontinued without any results.

A large number of new buildings were built in the 1960s and the number of residents rose from around 6,000 in 1961 to around 23,000 in 1976. The largest new complex was built between 1970 and 1974, the high-rise buildings at numbers 90 to 106 in Starkenburgring. This system was built at a time when Dietzenbach was in the growth area of ​​the Rhine-Main region with population forecasts of up to 70,000 inhabitants. Today Dietzenbach has half of the population.

The construction was considered completely wrong in terms of urban planning . No infrastructure was planned for the 6000 residents ; there were no green spaces, social facilities, meeting places, shops or restaurants.

“In the monotony of stacked concrete, the inhospitableness of the quarter is not yet exhausted. The planners and builders have made sure right down to the last detail that no one can even touch the thought of staying in the Starkenburgring longer than is inevitable. "

- Adolf Kühn: “Whoever lives here needs a concrete mind”; in: FAZ from April 18, 1981

After completion it became apparent that, in addition to the general problems of the economic and oil crisis in Germany, fewer private investors could be found and the population forecasts were also wrong. The occupancy of the apartments therefore turned out to be difficult, so that low-priced enticing offers primarily attracted financially weak residents and the goal of a balanced tenant population was not achieved. Many apartments could not be rented out, so that there was a considerable vacancy rate . Accordingly, the commitment of the 700 owners at the time, who had invested here mainly for profit, was reduced, and the facility was largely left to its own devices. A highly problematic social hot spot developed in the following years. These serious urban planning deficiencies prompted the city to announce an urban planning competition, which took place in 1976. As a Dietzenbach model, the procedure was widely received in urban planning literature. The competition was aimed at urban planners and architects , but also at students in corresponding fields. The jury included expert judges such as the Munich city planner Gert Albers and the Kassel socio-economist Lucius Burckhardt, as well as judges such as mayor Hermann Kocks , planning association director Reinhard Sander and district administrator Walter Schmitt . In addition, the factions of the city parliament were involved as a local political advisory council. The prize money was DM 60,000 (in today's purchasing power € 77,098).

The area to be planned did not include the apartment blocks themselves, but the area surrounding them. The Starkenburgring formed the southern boundary line of the planning area. Around 6000 people should also live in the new planning area. In addition, however, commercial space for 2,500 to 3,000 jobs should be planned. The approximately 138 hectare area should contain only 85 hectares of construction area. 18% of the area was reserved for public green spaces , 7.5 hectares of which for the city park (today's Hessentagspark ). Trade, other services and entertainment should be created centrally (today's City Hall Center) but also decentrally in the individual residential areas.

More than 250 planning drafts were submitted for the competition. The results were discussed in four citizens' assemblies (summer 1975, November 2, 1976, December 16, 1976 and November 2, 1977). The jury divided the work into groups of similar designs and decided on a broad distribution of the prizes. With the local elections in Hesse in 1977 , the majority situation in the city changed. The new majority parliamentary group , the CDU , decided to implement the F 181 proposal. On this basis, the submitters, J. and E Rump, Bad Soden, were commissioned to draw up a master plan.

In the 1980s in particular, the issue of crime at the Starkenburgring was often a topic of public reporting. But even in the 1990s, after the redevelopment activities began, the Spessart district remained a criminal focal point after the police had observed it. In 1998, a police spokesman pointed out that the security situation around the former Starkenburgring had meanwhile improved. With a permanent presence the officials would have "set signals" there; Incidentally, the majority of the residents are quite ready to help fight crime.

Demolition or renovation?

In 1997, the city signed a framework agreement on "coordinating neighborhood management" with the Nassauische Heimstätte Gesellschaft für innovative projects im Wohnungsbau mbH (NHGIP). The aim was to renovate the “social hot spot” of the “Spessartviertel”. At the same time, however, there were also voices calling for the skyscrapers to be torn down. The demolition plans were supported by the FWG , which stated that “there is not a single example in Germany that such a residential complex has been successfully renovated”. To support the demolition plans, the “Initiative Besser Leben und Wohnen” was formed in November 1997.

With a majority from CDU and SPD , the magistrate decided in 1998 to continue the renovation together with the NHGIP; The former Hessian Interior Minister Horst Winterstein (SPD) became the manager for this renovation . The renovation project was included in the federal social city program. The renovation concept included making the entrance areas of the houses more friendly, providing concierge and janitorial services and installing a video-controlled security system. The parking deck was to be replaced by a market square and a community center. The city took over the permanent right of use for the outdoor facilities and should be able to upgrade the area. The costs for the measures should amount to about 6.2 million DM, of which the owners had to raise 2.8 million DM. The city bore costs of almost 1.2 million DM, the rest - about 2.2 million DM - went to the state of Hesse .

Concept from the end of the 1990s

Since 2009 there has been an innovative district marketing concept in the Spessartviertel under the label "S / 4". The concept sees the quarter with its special resident structure as a potential and aims to make it fit for the future with the help of its residents. For this purpose, an online neighborhood platform based on the model of a virtual social network has been set up, which the residents can use for exchange and organization. The aim is to integrate virtually created groups and relationships into everyday life in the neighborhood.

The renovation is considered a success: By 2012, crime in this residential area was halved.

2000s

The quarter remains a hotspot for acts of violence and crime. A special highlight was an action at the end of May 2020. Rescue workers were attacked by the fire brigade and police during an extinguishing operation by around 50 people. The police assume a targeted ambush.

Renaming of Starkenburgring in Spessartviertel

District marketing logo

In the past, all of the district's high-rise buildings had the address Starkenburgring. Due to the negative image and the resulting discrimination against the residents, the city ​​council decided in 1993 to rename all streets and paths in this district. Since the names mostly contain city ​​names from the Spessart , the name Spessartviertel has established itself for this quarter. Since the focus is in the east of the district, the name eastern Spessart district was adopted.

Publicity

The Eastern Spessart Quarter appears again and again in public.

Press and television

There are more frequent reports in the local press about the problem with the property managers. So far, no property management company has managed to assert itself in the long term. On the contrary: there were repeated complaints, fraudulent elections or even fights during the owners' meetings. The attempt by the district town of Dietzenbach to set up its own property management company also failed.

There was a negative climax in the summer of 2005. After riots against police officers and fire fighters, 26 criminal proceedings were initiated for particularly serious breaches of the peace , property damage and arson .

In the film For my children, I do everything , scenes were recorded on the parking deck, the house entrance and in the hallway of the high-rise buildings in the eastern Spessart district.

On May 29, 2020, there was a nationwide attack on police officers and rescue workers. About 50 men set fire to several garbage cans and an excavator. The police and fire brigade that had been summoned were greeted by the rioters by throwing stones. The perpetrators had previously set up stone camps for this purpose. A large-scale deployment of 35 firefighters and 50 police officers brought the fire under control and arrested three suspects. There was damage of at least € 150,000.

Neighborhood TV project

The original idea was developed by residents of the eastern Spessart district. The idea was to use the “television” medium to send information about dual waste disposal directly to the living room in several languages. Neighborhood TV was a joint pilot project of the surrounding area and the city of Dietzenbach when it was set up in 1996. The transmitter was fed into the cable network of the residential complex.

Neighborhood TV focused on improving the residents' chances of influencing and acting. It referred to a partial aspect of residential area-related integration - the provision of information and the establishment of communication as prerequisites for cooperation and participation. In 1996 there was a report on neighborhood TV on ZDF.

The project was discontinued at the end of 2002. Some older programs are available on YouTube.

Art project 365Spessartviertel

A view of the eastern Spessartviertel (in the background)

A timelapse video was created for this art project by Cengiz Hendek, which covers the period from June 2011 to May 2012. The camera was aimed at the eastern Spessart district in Dietzenbach and a picture was taken about every minute. The video takes about 11.5 hours and can be seen on YouTube .

The video material shows, for example, the course of the seasons, but also individual events such as the New Year or the fasting month of Ramadan.

literature

  • Kurt Gathof: Comparison of spatial-social structures of living: an investigation of the behavior of residents of small towns in the catchment area of ​​metropolitan areas: illustrated using the example of Wegberg (Mönchengladbach conurbation) and Dietzenbach (Rhine-Main area), issue 94 of Rhein-Mainische Forschungen , ISSN  0080-2662 , 1981, ISBN 978-3-923184-00-2

Web links

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ Kurt Gathof: Comparison of spatial-social structures of living , p. 41.
  6. ↑ Adolf Kühn: Whoever lives here needs a concrete mind ; in: FAZ from April 18, 1981.
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from March 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
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  12. ^ " Stabbed the opponent"; in: FAZ from January 25, 1986, p. 49
  13. ^ "Unknown people shoot down Yugoslavs"; in: FAZ of July 11, 1990, p. 33
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  16. ^ Niemann: Demolition cheaper than renovation - association relies on legal opinion on the social hotspot "Rosenpark" / social plan necessary ; in: FAZ of December 12, 1997, No. 289, p. 78
  17. ↑ Separated from the rest of the city - Dietzenbach's social hotspot "Rosenpark": city council decides on redevelopment ; in: FAZ of June 5, 1998, No. 128, p. 81
  18. ↑ Suburbs - Ruins of Hope ; in: Der Spiegel from February 2, 1998.
  19. ↑ "Rejection would be a catastrophe for the city" - the redevelopment concept for the "Rosenpark" receives a narrow majority / "Better arguments"; in: FAZ of July 20, 1998, No. 165, p. 48
  20. ^ Dietzenbach: From the ghetto to the model town | In the Turkish community the policeman is a friend ; pictured on February 25, 2012.
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  28. ^ Annette Schlegl: Dietzenbach: scuffles, injured, police . In: fr-online.de . ( fr.de [accessed December 18, 2016]).
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  30. ↑ Rosenpark property management is a thing of the past . In: https://www.op-online.de/ . January 25, 2014 ( op-online.de [accessed December 18, 2016]).
  31. ↑ Crime: After the riots in Dietzenbach, a good two dozen criminal cases . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 22, 2005, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 18, 2016]).
  32. ↑ Ambushed; in: FAZ of May 30, 2020, p. 41
  33. ^ Administrator: Neighborhood TV in the Dietzenbacher Spessartviertel. In: www.stadtteilarbeit.de. Retrieved December 18, 2016 .
  34. ^ Cengiz Hendek: Neighborhood TV on ZDF - Dietzenbach. December 3, 2016, accessed December 18, 2016 .
  35. ↑ Cengiz Hendek: Neighborhood TV Fire Brigade Dietzenbach - Help Made Difficult. November 13, 2016, accessed December 18, 2016 .
  36. ↑ 365Spessartviertel - HENDEK ARTS. Accessed December 9, 2018 (German).

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 45.4 ″  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 6 ″  E