Old Wolfsburg

Old Wolfsburg City of Wolfsburg Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 32 "  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 11"  E
Residents :	387  (Dec. 31, 2015)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1938
Postal code :	38448
Area code :	05361
Location in Wolfsburg

Alt-Wolfsburg (formerly Wolfsburg ) is a district of the city of Wolfsburg , which was formed from the estate of Wolfsburg located there .

history

Merian - copperplate engraving from Old Wolfsburg and Castle 1654

Schlossstrasse near Wolfsburg Castle

The settlement emerged from the 16th century from individual farm and residential buildings that were directly related to Wolfsburg. The settlement consisted of today's Schlossstrasse, which is around 500 meters long. Adjacent were two spacious agricultural properties belonging to the manor of the castle owners, von Bartensleben and later von der Schulenburg . The other buildings had functions such as the office house, poor house, fisherman's house, blacksmith's workshop, restaurant, church and pastorate.

In historical sources the Gutssiedlung is as Vorburg referred. Before the Thirty Years War it had 15 buildings, in 1742 25 buildings. This situation remained almost unchanged until the creation of the modern city of Wolfsburg from 1938.

In 1923 a memorial was erected for those who fell in the First World War ; Bundesstraße 188 is now between the Alt-Wolfsburg district and the memorial .

On October 17, 1928, the Wolfsburg manor district was merged with the rural community of Heßlingen , with the proviso that the two forest exclaves located near Hehlingen were united with the rural community of Hehlingen. The community of Heßlingen, also in the district of Gardelegen , province of Saxony , belonged from 1932 to the district of Gifhorn , province of Hanover, and in 1938 it became part of the newly founded city ​​of the KdF-Wagen .

With a purchase contract dated July 12, 1938, Günther Graf von der Schulenburg sold the Wolfsburg estate to the Gesellschaft zur Preparation des Volkswagens mbH (Gezuvor); the castle was excluded from the sale. The manor kindergarten, which was previously only operated at harvest time, was sponsored by the National Socialist People's Welfare . The school was closed in 1940, and from then on the students attended the newly built school east of Heßlingen.

After the war, the old school was in operation again until 1953. The kindergarten was operated by the city of Wolfsburg from 1945 onwards, and in 1946 this transferred the responsibility of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO). In the post-war period, in the pavilion of the baroque garden built in 1912, the Schlosspark-Restaurant was opened and it existed until 1952. In 1953, classes began in the newly built elementary school VII., Today the elementary school in Alt Wolfsburg . In 1956 the newly built Schloßklause restaurant was opened; later an Italian restaurant, Al Castello and later called Il Cavaliere , was located in its premises .

In 1962/63, today's AWO day care center was built at Am Gutshof , previously it was located in the former farm kindergarten, which has since been demolished. In 1963 the estate was given up by the city of Wolfsburg; it was last leased. In 1964, many of the buildings belonging to the former estate were demolished. The Catholic parish hall was also opened in 1964, followed by the Catholic kindergarten and St. Bernward Church in 1965 . The Fritz-Thiedemann riding arena was also built in 1965, and in 1967 the old riding arena, which had not been demolished, was renovated. In 1966, classes began in the Am Lerchengarten special school , which has been the Peter Pan School since 2000.

Around 1970 new residential buildings were built north of what is now Nordstadtstrasse. In 1987 an agricultural museum was opened in the former shower barn. In 2004, the palace gardens were included in the state garden show taking place in Wolfsburg , and some of the garden show exhibits have been preserved to this day. From 2015 to 2018, a green area west of the St. Bernward Church with several residential buildings and an underground car park was built on.

politics

Politically, Alt-Wolfsburg, together with the districts of Kreuzheide , Teichbreite and Tiergartenbreite, forms the village of Nordstadt . The local mayor is Immacolata Glosemeyer ( SPD ).

Attractions

St. Marien church tower

• Wolfsburg Castle with Municipal Gallery , City Museum, Art Association , Heidersberger Institute , “Schlossremise” restaurant and several major events such as “International Summer Stage” in June, “Country Party” in spring and summer, and “Advent in the Castle” in December.
• Castle park with
  • Baroque garden
  • Sculpture park
• Some buildings from the former estate
  • Brown barn, now contains the agricultural department of the city museum
  • Inn, today Hotel Alter Wolf
  • Stable, today from uue Riding and Driving Club Wolfsburg V. used
  • Forsthaus, today the seat of Subud Deutschland e. V.
• Memorial for the victims of the two world wars from the villages of Wolfsburg, Heßlingen and Rothehof - Rothenfelde

Art in the cityscape

• Blue Poplars 1991 by Stefan Pietryga (Schönaich) - Sculpture Park
• Solme for Wolfsburg 1992 by Robert Schad (Freiburg) - Bleichwiesen
• Baum-Mantel 1992 by Ulrich Möckel (Beckum) - Sculpture Park
• Sculpture in the tea house 1994 by Erwin Wortelkamp (Hasselbach) - Baroque garden
• Two bird baths 1994 by Fumiyo Moriguchi (Japan) - sculpture park
• Three Bottles in the Green 1996 by Azade Köker (Berlin) - Sculpture Park
• Sound body 1997 by Ulrich Eller (Norderheistedt) - Sculpture Park
• Dancing Columns 1998 by Henner Kuckuck (Berlin / New York) - Schulenburgallee / corner of Oebisfelder Straße

Churches

St. Bernward Church

• St. Marien Church on Schlossstrasse, rebuilt in 1580, Evangelical-Lutheran
  The St. Marien Church was built by the lords of Wolfsburg, the Lords of Bartensleben , as a patronage church andconsecrated in1434 by the Bishop of Halberstadt . At that time it was a small chapel, from which a larger new building was built in 1580. The church was a replacement for the former castle chapel in Wolfsburg, which was then used for residential purposes. In the church crypt there are 27 sarcophagi by von Bartensleben and von der Schulenburg .
• St. Bernward Church on Schulenburgallee, Roman Catholic , designed by the construction department of Volkswagenwerk AG and built from 1963 to 1965.

literature

• City of Wolfsburg, Institute for Museums and City History (Ed.): Wolfsburg Castle - History and Culture. Wolfsburg 2002. ISBN 3-930292-62-9 .
• Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. 2011. ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 12/13, 17, 19, 103, 141, 143, 145.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 230 .
2. ^ Willi Schulz: Wolfsburg, center of a changing landscape. Wolfsburg 1969, p. 83.
3. ↑ Stephanie Giesecke: Rotten to luxury homes. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of March 28, 2018.
4. ↑ The war memorial in Alt-Wolfsburg.