Afrikaviertel (Neustadt)

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Africa quarter from the north

The Afrikaviertel is a district of the Palatinate city ​​of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Geographical location

The district is 170 to 260  m above sea level. NHN height west of the city center on the northern slope of the 490  m high Noll head and south of Speyerbach tals that there to the hill country on the German Wine Route and the Rhine valley opens out. The federal highway 39 runs in the valley . Via this, accessible via the Karolinenstrasse or Saarlandstrasse, the district is connected to national traffic, east to the city center and the Autobahn 65 , west towards Kaiserslautern . The Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway , which runs parallel to the B 39, also leads there .

The branch of Hauberallee from Wittelsbacher Straße has marked the Afrikaviertel with a boulder made of red sandstone since August 9, 2019.

Sandstone boulder Afrikaviertel in Neustadt

history

Ludwigsbahn around 1900, in the center of the picture (with turret) today's Leibniz-Gymnasium in the Afrikaviertel

The district from the 2nd half of the 19th century was named after the streets of the settlement, which were mainly named after the then popular German explorers of Africa . Two families campaigned for the naming after they returned from what is now Namibia and Tanzania and settled here.

At the beginning of the 21st century, residents pushed through that the street named after Carl Peters was rededicated; the namesake was considered a racist who, as Reich Commissioner in German East Africa (1885–1888), was nicknamed "Hänge-Peters" because of his brutal actions against natives. In consideration of the increased addresses, only the first letter was changed, the street is now called Karl-Peters- Strasse after the German criminal lawyer who died in 1998.

From 1912 on, the Jewish old people's home stood in Hauberallee. When it was set on fire during the November pogroms in 1938 and burned down to the ground, two elderly inmates, Fanny Bender and Camilla Haas, were unable to escape and were killed.

Buildings

The most important building complex in the district is the Leibniz-Gymnasium in the northeast with the address Karolinenstraße 103 . The neo-baroque Hauberanlage west of it with stairs and a fountain niche was named after the Neustadt honorary citizen Ludwig Heinrich Hauber (1827-1902) , like the Hauberallee that begins there . He had the park built in 1899 as a Karolinenhain in memory of his wife Karoline, who had died the year before .

In the western area of ​​the district is the Georg von Neumayer monument, a stone stele that was dedicated to the polar explorer in 1911.

In 2016, residents of the quarter founded the non-profit Afrika-Viertel-Verein Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , which takes care of the preservation and maintenance of the Axtwurfanlage nature park , the Hauberanlage and the Georg von Neumayer monument. The chairman is (as of 2019) Manfred Oesterle.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  2. ↑ Neustadt: sandstone boulder for Africa quarter. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Waltraud Werdelis: Saint Peter instead of Hang-Peters . In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen November 19, 2014.
  4. ↑ The Jewish old people's home. Memorial for Nazi Victims in Neustadt, accessed on April 21, 2017 .
  5. ↑ The Hauberanlage. Neustadt city administration, accessed on April 18, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Website of the Afrika-Viertel-Verein Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, menu item About us , accessed on November 25, 2019.

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '  N , 8 ° 7'  E