Altenbochum

Altenbochum district of Bochum
Coordinates	51 ° 28 ′ 15 "  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 47"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 15 "  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 47"  E
height	120  m above sea level NHN
surface	4.33 km²
Residents	12,133 (Dec. 31, 2016)
Population density	2802 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation	Apr 1, 1926
Post Code	44803
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district	center
Markings	Goy
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Historical view of Wittenerstrasse at the height of the Lukaskirche, looking north towards the city center

The large mourning hall at the Freilrafendamm cemetery

The Scharoun Church

Memorial stone in Velspark to the bombing of Bochum on November 4, 1944

Altenbochum is a district in Bochum's Mitte district and is located directly southeast of Bochum city ​​center .

Location and history

Altenbochum was mentioned for the first time in 890 in the records of the Werden Abbey . There used to be a manor house in Altenbochum , Haus Goy , to which a small but independent judicial district belonged until Napoleon's time. It was demolished in the 1960s.

Wittener Strasse ( B 226 ), which was expanded into a Chaussee as early as the 1790s and is now used by urban rail lines 302, 305 and 310 , as well as bus lines 345 and 355, runs through Altenbochum as an arterial road from Bochum city center to the south-eastern neighboring town of Witten .

The incorporation to Bochum took place on April 1, 1926 through the law on the new regulation of the communal borders in the industrial districts of Rhenish-Westphalia .

On Altenbochumer hall is also the Bochum main cemetery, the cemetery Freigrafendamm . The buildings in its entrance area were built during the National Socialist era and survived the Second World War largely unscathed. They clearly reflect the National Socialists' architectural style and their relationship to the veneration of the dead. One of Bochum's higher education institutions, the Evangelical University of Rhineland-Westphalia-Lippe, is located in the vicinity .

The urban nursing home of the same name is located on the Glockengarten street , named after an earlier bell foundry at this point. It is the largest nursing home in Bochum and opened a so-called dementia garden in 2006, which aims to improve the care of Alzheimer's patients.

Also at the bell garden , on the site of the old poplar courtyard, there is a lesser-known architectural gem, the only sacred building designed by the architect Hans Scharoun . Built from 1964 to 1966, the "Johanneskirche in Altenbochum" of the Christian Community has been a listed building since 1999 . Hans Scharoun had already drawn the first drafts for sacred buildings during his student days. Only many years later did new designs become reality through a coincidental cross connection between the Schmincke family and the Johannesgemeinde in Bochum. Employees from the former Bauhaus, such as Otto Ritschl and Fritz Winter, contributed to the interior design through paintings and Wilhelm Wagenfeld through the seven altar candlesticks. The Scharounkirche initiative was set up as a foundation within the GLS Treuhand for the renovation . As a prelude to the fundraising campaign to preserve this interesting modern building, a photo exhibition by the young photographer Jonas Holthaus took place in 2009. The Scharoun Church can be visited after registration. In autumn 2016, the renovation by the architects Detlev Bruckhoff and Andreas Gehrke, which was also a completion of the church on the basis of sketches and discussion notes by Scharoun, was completed.

Another church worth seeing is the historicist Liebfrauenkirche .

Before the Second World War, there was a quarry between Velsstrasse and Wasserstrasse, in which the rubble of Bochum's inner city was tipped over in the post-war period. Today the Velspark is laid out at this point, a memorial stone reminds of the quarry and the reconstruction.

The geological garden , which has been designated as a natural monument since 1974, was laid out in 1971 on a quarry site further west that was formerly used by the Friederika colliery .

population

On December 31, 2019, 12,069 residents lived in Altenbochum.

Structural data of the population in Altenbochum:

• Minor quota: 11.8% [Bochum average: 14.6% (2019)]
• Old-age rate (60 years and older): 34.1% [Bochum average 28.3% (2019)]
• Proportion of foreigners: 8.8% [Bochum average 14.4% (2019)]
• Unemployment rate: 6.5% [Bochum average 8.9% (2017)]

Sports

The football activities “Am Pappelbusch” take place in Altenbochum. The sports clubs SC Post Altenbochum and Sportfreunde Altenbochum merged in June 2016 to form FC Altenbochum 1920/28 eV with three senior teams in the district league, district league A and district league B, as well as 14 youth teams and an old league team!

The basketball and volleyball department of VfL Bochum 1848 eV play their home games in the sports hall at Lohring.

District magazine almag

The Altenbochum district magazine almag, which reports on all district-related topics, has been published since December 2014.

Personalities

• Tomasz Wałdoch (* 1971), a former Polish soccer player and today's soccer coach, lives with his family in Altenbochum

literature

• Heinz Winter: City of Bochum: - Altenbochum . Bochum 1997.

Web links

Commons : Bochum-Altenbochum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Almag - district magazine Altenbochum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistical yearbook of the city of Bochum 2017 ( [1] ).
2. ↑ The population figures are given according to statistical districts and not according to the districts, the figures for this are in the article population development of Bochum .
3. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 208 .
4. ↑ http://www.scharoun-kirche.de/
5. ↑ Foundation fund "Initiative Scharoun Church" ( Memento from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
6. ↑ A festive tent is our God. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 8, 2016, p. 12.
   http://www.scharoun-kirche.de (with images)
   Dietrich Scholle, Birgit Gropp (arrangement): The buildings by Hans Scharoun in Westphalia . (= Westfälische Kunststätten ( ISSN  0930-3952 ), Volume 120.) Westfälischer Heimatbund , Münster 2016, pp. 37–47. (with pictures)