Aldenburg (Wilhelmshaven)

Aldenburg City of Wilhelmshaven Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '15 " N , 8 ° 4' 35" E
Area :	1.48 km²
Residents :	3978 (2017)
Population density :	2,688 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 31, 1938
Incorporated into:	Wilhelmshaven
Postal code :	26389
Area code :	04421
	Location of Aldenburg in the city of Wilhelmshaven

Aldenburg is a district of the independent city of Wilhelmshaven in Lower Saxony . The district includes the districts of Aldenburg, Wiesenhof, Stadtparkkolonie and Fort Schaar .

location

The Aldenburg district, which emerged at the beginning of the 19th century, is located in the west of Wilhelmshaven. It is roughly bounded by Kurt-Schumacher-Straße, Friedrich-Paffrath-Straße, “Am Wiesenhof” and the Schaarzeile.

The residential area "Elsa-Brandström-Straße" is currently being built north of the cemetery.

Origin of name

The place was named after the Counts of Aldenburg-Bentinck , who had their seat at the nearby Kniphausen Castle . Street names such as Bentinckstrasse and Kniphauser Strasse are reminiscent of the ruling house.

history

Aerial view of the southern part of Aldenburg, looking south. In the middle of the picture, the Altengrodener Weg diagonally. The “nucleus” of Aldenburg can be seen on the right-hand side of the picture, in contrast to the multi-family houses of the Wiesenhof on the left-hand side.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the community builder Ibo Koch acquired large pieces of land from the community of Accum on the large bend of the old Maade north of the Wurtensiedlung Schaar . From 1909 a residential colony with villas was built on the site. 72 houses were built by the beginning of the First World War . A central point in the new residential colony was the Weltfrieden inn .

Aldenburg belonged to the community of Fedderwarden for a long time , from 1933 to the newly formed community of Kniphausen and was ceded to the city of Wilhelmshaven on March 31, 1938 together with the southern areas of the community.

In the mid-1960s, the Wiesenhof district was built and in the late 1970s, a residential area was built on the site of the former Fort Schaar . Both districts are now part of the Aldenburg district.

The Wiesenhof district was created between the old districts of Aldenburg and Neuende because there was a housing shortage in Wilhelmshaven in the 1960s. In particular, the rapidly growing Heppenser Groden naval base with its new posts attracted naval members and their families to the city. The development of the overall concept for the new residential town on the green meadow was carried out on behalf of the real estate company Jade by the Düsseldorf architect Josef Lehmbrock . 340 apartments for members of the Navy in multi-family houses with three or four floors as well as a corresponding infrastructure were planned in the first construction phase. A supply center with a supermarket and other service providers was built in the middle of the new residential area. There were as far as possible no through streets, instead side streets opened up the new district. On March 23, 1965, the groundbreaking ceremony for the first construction phase was carried out by the City Director Walter Schumann, who was also Chairman of the Jade Supervisory Board . The costs for the first construction phase amounted to around 22 million DM.

Infrastructure

Wilhelmshaven Clinic

The municipal hospital Klinikum Wilhelmshaven is located in the northern area of the Aldenburg district . The hospital, which opened in 1967 on Friedrich-Paffrath-Strasse as the Reinhard Nieter Hospital (RNK), has 617 inpatient and 58 semi-inpatient beds. Since 1976 it has been an academic teaching hospital of the University of Göttingen . With around 1400 employees, the hospital is one of the largest employers in the city of Wilhelmshaven. In accordance with a city council resolution from October 2014, the previous, Catholic-run St. Willehad Hospital was taken over by the city on November 7, 2014 and incorporated into the Reinhard Nieter Hospital . The combined hospital was renamed Klinikum Wilhelmshaven . The clinic is to be expanded in the next few years with a new building on Friedrich-Paffrath-Straße.

Residents

development

On December 31, 2007, the Aldenburg district had 4002 inhabitants according to the population register. Within the last 10 years the population in the district has shrunk by 11.0%. Compared to the city as a whole (- 7.3%), Aldenburg lost more inhabitants in percentage terms. Even up to 2017 you can see that the population has continued to decrease.

Share of foreigners and migrants

The proportion of foreigners increased from 2.2% in 2007 to 5.9% in 2017, which is well below the Wilhelmshaven average of 9.6%. The proportion of migrants is 16.8%, compared to an urban average of 21.8%.

colonization

The Aldenburg district is 147.6 hectares in size. The population density is 27.1 inhabitants per hectare, with a significantly higher figure in the Wiesenhof district of 44.6 inhabitants / hectare.

Age

The average age of the residents of Aldenburg is 48 years. This means that the population of this district is significantly older than the Wilhelmshaven average (46.1 years). In 2017, it should be noted that the proportion of people over 65 is relatively high at 36.4%. This is more than twice as many as the minors with 14.1%.

marital status

With 46.4% predominantly the one-person households in the district. Although the proportion of married couples is 46.9%. 16.7% of households live with children.

Population movement

The year 2017 shows that the deaths are higher than the births in this district. This year the difference is -10 inhabitants. The outflows are also higher than the inflows: the district has lost 28 residents.

Aldenburg cemetery

Grove of honor for the bomb victims

Cenotaph for the victims of National Socialism

The municipality of Bant created the park-like cemetery Aldenburg in the northern area of Aldenburg. On the left and right of the old Maade cemetery, the honor grove for the victims of the civilian population and the memorial for the victims of National Socialism were built after the Second World War .

Web links

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

District profiles on wilhelmshaven.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986-1987, Volume 1, page 24
↑ ^a ^b District profiles on wilhelmshaven.de , accessed on November 17, 2019
↑ 50 years of the Wiesenhof district - "Living in the Wiesenhof - that was something." In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of April 30, 2015, page 8.
^ Klinikum Wilhelmshaven - About the company , accessed on May 2, 2015
↑ Klinik Wilhelmshaven: Catholic becomes urban , accessed on December 18, 2014
^ City of Wilhelmshaven: Aldenburg district. December 31, 2007, accessed November 25, 2018 .
^ City of Wilhelmshaven: Aldenburg settlement. December 31, 2007, accessed November 25, 2018 .
^ City of Wilhelmshaven: Aldenburg district. December 31, 2017, accessed November 25, 2018 .

[Heimatlexikon-1] Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986-1987, Volume 1, page 24

[Stadtteilprofile-2] District profiles on wilhelmshaven.de , accessed on November 17, 2019

[3] 50 years of the Wiesenhof district - "Living in the Wiesenhof - that was something." In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of April 30, 2015, page 8.

[4] Klinikum Wilhelmshaven - About the company , accessed on May 2, 2015

[5] Klinik Wilhelmshaven: Catholic becomes urban , accessed on December 18, 2014

[6] City of Wilhelmshaven: Aldenburg district. December 31, 2007, accessed November 25, 2018 .

[7] City of Wilhelmshaven: Aldenburg settlement. December 31, 2007, accessed November 25, 2018 .

[8] City of Wilhelmshaven: Aldenburg district. December 31, 2017, accessed November 25, 2018 .