Alt-Scharnhorst

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Alt-Scharnhorst
City of Dortmund
Coat of arms of Alt-Scharnhorst
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 71 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.23 km²
Residents : 8817  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 2,084 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 44328
Area code : 0231
Statistical District : 66
Stadtbezirk Aplerbeck Stadtbezirk Brackel Stadtbezirk Eving Stadtbezirk Hombruch Stadtbezirk Hörde Stadtbezirk Huckarde Stadtbezirk Innenstadt-Nord Stadtbezirk Innenstadt-Ost Stadtbezirk Innenstadt-West Stadtbezirk Lütgendortmund Stadtbezirk Mengede Stadtbezirk Scharnhorstmap
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Location of Alt-Scharnhorst in Dortmund

Alt-Scharnhorst is a district in the north-east of Dortmund at an altitude of 71  m above sea level. NHN with 8,817 inhabitants. The district is often referred to as Scharnhorst in connection with the large Scharnhorst-Ost housing estate. Today Alt-Scharnhorst is a very diverse district. There are both high-quality single house developments (mainly on the southern or south-eastern outskirts), middle-class row house settlements, and settlements with considerable social difficulties.

Scharnhorst is one of the 13 socially disadvantaged districts.

Initially, this statistical sub-district was called Scharnhorst-Alt .

Emergence

The history of today's Dortmund district of Alt-Scharnhorst is closely linked to mining. After the Scharnhorst colliery, named after General Scharnhorst , was built in what was then a rural area from 1871, several colliery settlements were built in the area to accommodate the miners. The population grew from about 100 people in 1890 to 5678 people in 1939. A separate district called Scharnhorst was created in 1918 when Brackel and Wambel were incorporated into Dortmund and included the parts of these communities north of the Dortmund – Hamm railway line.

In the years after the Second World War, the MSA settlement was built with funds from the Marshall Plan . From 1954, the first of a total of 800 own homes and 521 rental apartments were occupied; Ultimately, the population rose to over 11,000 people.

Due to the great housing shortage, a new large housing estate was built on the site east of Flughafenstrasse from 1965, which is known as Scharnhorst-Ost (Neu-Scharnhorst).

population

Structure of the Alt-Scharnhorst population:

  • Share of the population under 18-year-olds: 16.1% [Dortmund average: 16.2% (2018)]
  • Population share of at least 65-year-olds: 21.9% [Dortmund average: 20.2% (2018)]
  • Proportion of foreigners: 13.4% [Dortmund average: 18.8% (2019)]
  • Unemployment rate: 9.2% [Dortmund average: 11.0% (2017)]

The average income in Alt-Scharnhorst is around 20% below the Dortmund average.

Population development

year 1987 2003 2008 2010 2013 2016 2017 2019
Residents 8955 8474 8329 8261 8276 8517 8592 8817

traffic

Alt-Scharnhorst is bounded to the south and west by the Dortmund – Enschede railway (Westmünsterland-Bahn) and the Dortmund – Hamm railway . With the DB Dortmund-Kirchderne and Dortmund-Scharnhorst stops and the Gleiwitzstraße tram stop , Alt-Scharnhorst is well connected to the local public transport network. Furthermore, with the connection between Dortmund-Scharnhorst and Bundesstraße 236  n and Brackeler Straße, there is an excellent connection to the city center, to Bundesautobahn 1 , Bundesautobahn 2 and the nearby Bundesstraße 1 .

line course Tact
U 42 DO-Grevel - Droote - Scharnhorst center - Flughafenstrasse - Gleiwitzstrasse - Kirchderne - Franz-Zimmer-Siedlung - Schulte Rödding - Bauernkamp - An den Teichen - Burgholz - Eisenstrasse - Glückaufstrasse - U  Brunnenstrasse - U  Brügmannplatz - U  Reinoldikirche Light rail - U  Stadtgarten Light rail - U  Städtische Clinics - U  DO-Möllerbrücke Train - U  Kreuzstrasse - Theodor-Fliedner-Heim - An der Palmweide - Am Beilstück - Barop parking garage - Eierkampstrasse - Harkortstrasse - Hombruch indoor swimming pool - Dortmund, Grotenbachstrasse
This line runs on the trunk line II 		10 min

Personalities

The journalist and resistance fighter Kurt Julius Goldstein was born in Scharnhorst and spent part of his childhood there.

Others

In Alt-Scharnhorst there are three churches, the Catholic St. Immaculata Church, the Protestant Church of the Resurrection and the New Apostolic Church Scharnhorst.

  • The Scharnhorst colliery in the 1970s

  • The MSA settlement Dortmund-Scharnhorst in the 1950s

  • The Church of the Resurrection

Web links

Commons : Dortmund-Alt-Scharnhorst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures in the statistical districts on December 31, 2019 (PDF)
  2. ↑ Population share of the under 18 year olds Statistical Atlas 2019 (PDF file)
  3. ↑ Population share of at least 65-year-olds Statistical Atlas 2019 (PDF file)
  4. ↑ Nationalities in the statistical districts on December 31, 2019 (PDF file)
  5. ↑ Unemployment rates by statistical district on June 30, 2017 (PDF file)