Altengroden
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Altengroden
City of Wilhelmshaven
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 18 ″ N , 8 ° 5 ′ 41 ″ E
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| Area : | 2.28 km² |
| Residents : | 3487 (December 31, 2017) |
| Population density : | 1,531 inhabitants / km² |
| Postal code : | 26386 |
| Area code : | 04421 |
 Location of Altengroden in the city of Wilhelmshaven
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Altengroden is a district of the independent city of Wilhelmshaven in Lower Saxony .
location
The Altengroden district is bordered to the west by Ostfriesenstrasse / Friedrich-Paffrath-Strasse, north by the A29 motorway , east by Freiligrathstrasse and south by Rüstringer Stadtpark . Kurt-Schumacher-Straße, which runs in an east-west direction, divides the district into Altengroden-Nord and Altengroden-Süd. Altengroden-West in a new development area on the western edge of Altengroden. Altengroden-Ost is a small industrial area on the eastern edge of Freiligrathstraße.
Origin of name
The name Altengroden is originally the name for an area of the former Maadebucht which was diked in the high Middle Ages between the dike lines of the church row, Heppenser row (Ölhafendamm), Altengrodener row (Altengrodener Weg) and Neuengrodendeich (Freiligrathstraße). The farmers of the same name, Altengroden, which belonged to the Neuende community at the time, came into being on this site . In 1826 there were 31 buildings listed for the peasantry.
history
Altengroden-North
The Altengroden-Nord district was first created in connection with the expansion of the navy in Wilhelmshaven from 1938 onwards. The expansion of the city of Wilhelmshaven was already outlined in the 1937 Hallbauer plan for the city of 300,000 . While workers' settlements were planned for the districts of Voslapp and Fedderwardergroden at the same time , apartments were planned for Altengroden for members of the Navy as well as for civil servants and employees of the navy shipyard . In February 1939, the building design was approved by the Wehrmacht High Command in Berlin . The building contract was awarded to the Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mbH to create housing for Reich citizens in Berlin. 2500 apartments were to be built for 45 million Reichsmarks. Of these, 1,000 apartments were planned for Altengroden-Nord, and 1,500 apartments were to be built in Altengroden-Süd in a further construction phase. The houses are characterized by brick buildings with dormer windows, bars and brick ornaments. A school, sports fields and a street with shops were to be built next to the apartments.
The official groundbreaking took place on May 31, 1939 in the Klinkeburg. After the outbreak of World War II , the plans were modified, but construction continued with priority . In order to complete the apartments as quickly as possible, a construction freeze was even imposed in the neighboring communities. Nevertheless, the construction work was slow. At the beginning of 1941, the only partially completed apartments were made makeshift for bombed-out Wilhelmshaven families. The first apartments were officially occupied in April 1941, despite the lack of road construction. In 1943 the street on Goedenser Weg with shops around the distinctive onion dome could be moved into. A bakery, a drugstore, a hairdressing salon and a butcher shop found space there. Nevertheless, by the end of the war in 1945, just 500 apartments had been completed, many of which had already been damaged by bombs or were still under construction.
After the Second World War, planning was resumed for a total of around 1,000 apartments, but these plans could not be completed until 1960. The streets named after chiefs or famous people from Frisian history were built by 1954 . In 1955 the Evangelical Apostle Johannes Church on Werdumer Straße was inaugurated and in 1961 the Altengroden school was built on the site of the Ruscherei.
Altengroden-South
Altengroden-Süd, which is located south of Kurt-Schumacher-Straße, was built between 1959 and 1962. Planning began in 1956 with the preparation of a development plan . City director Walter Schumann was then able to secure a building program for 500 apartments for the city in the following year with allocations from state and federal funds. For the construction project, an overall design for the pending development was then sought in an urban planning architectural competition . Since it was not possible to agree on an individual design at the end of the competition, no first prize was awarded, but two second prizes to the architects Simmat, Oldenburg and Schwerdtfeger, Hanover . In addition, a revision of the submitted drafts was requested. This is how the modified design by the architect Stefan Schwerdtfegers was finally implemented. The final draft now envisaged around 200 apartments in three-storey groups of houses and around 300 single-family row houses . Construction began on April 7, 1959 with the three local housing associations: the Rüstringen building association , the Wilhelmshavener savings and construction company and the Jade housing company . In 1962 the last residential units could be completed. Subsequently, single-family houses were built around the Schubertring.
In the southwest of Altengroden, further houses were built around Hermann-Ehlers-Strasse and a villa colony around Neuender Busch from 1963 .
The streets in Altengroden-Süd were named after composers, in Altengroden-Südwest after German politicians.
Residents
development
Altengroden is one of the larger districts of Wilhelmshaven with 3487 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2017). The population is declining: in 2000 there were 4231 inhabitants.
Share of foreigners and migrants
The increase in foreign residents is also noticeable in Altengroden. Compared to 2007, when the proportion of foreigners was 0.9%, the proportion of foreigners in 2017 was 4.5%, which is comparable to the neighboring district of Neuengroden , but is well below the Wilhelmshaven average of 9.6%. The proportion of migrants is 12.7% with an urban average of 21.8%.
colonization
With 227.7 hectares, Altengroden is almost as large as the Bant district . In terms of population density, however, Altengroden only achieved a third of the Banter value. Arithmetically, 17.4 inhabitants per hectare live in Altengroden.
Age
Most of the district's residents are between 15 and 64 years old. The proportion of minors is 14.1%. The group of senior citizens is clearly overrepresented with a share of 28.7%. This means that Altengroden has the fourth highest value of all parts of the city. In the Altengroden-Süd district, 34.3% of the population are 65 years or older. This value is even higher than that of Siebethsburg. The average age of Altengroden residents is 47.2 years, which is equivalent to the value for the entire city.
marital status
Married couples represent the largest proportion here. At 46.9% they are above the single population (37.6%). Only 16.7% of Altengroden residents have one child or more, which explains the excess of one-person households.
Population movement
In 2017 there was a death surplus of 10 people in Altengroden. The 29 births were compared to 39 deaths. The district was also unable to achieve a positive result in terms of spatial population movements. The outflows add up to 447 - the inflows, however, only to 419. The best result was achieved in the Altengroden-Süd district. Here there was a profit of 14 inhabitants. The balance for Altengroden in total: - 28 inhabitants.
Attractions
Frenzy
At Ubbostrasse 1 is the Ruscherei , historically a Gulf house . The historic pasture farm burned down except for the house from the 18th century. The remains could be saved from demolition and were expanded from 1980 to 1981 according to plans by Ingo Sommer , the long-time head of the building construction office, to a community meeting place. The name Ruscherei is derived from the Low German term Ruschen , which means rushes and suggests that the farm was originally located in an area where rushes grew. Today the citizens' meeting place is the meeting point for around 20 groups and associations that regularly hold their meetings there. The Ruscherei has a historic main building with a bar, hall and tea room as well as a large outdoor area with stables and pasture areas for a few ponies, sheep, chickens and geese. An aviary with various ornamental birds is also available. The former Göpel der Ruscherei has now been expanded as a barbecue area. The outdoor area also houses the tournament-ready boules and pétanque play area of the free boules playing community Ruscherei and, since 2010, a “garden for everyone” in which you can garden and harvest in so-called interactive beds. The Ruscherei is honorary Altengroden by the development association Ruscherei e. V. led.
Apostle John Church
The Apostle Johannes Church in Altengroden was consecrated on November 27, 1955. It was created according to plans by the architect Gerhard Langmaack . Helmut Uhrig designed a relief on the west side of the church that shows Jesus washing the feet , as well as a Jesus figure above the altar.
Störtebeker Park
The approximately two hectare large Störtebeker Park is a small amusement park and is located in the east of the district on Freiligrathstrasse. It offers children and adults a slightly different range of leisure activities. The park was created as part of employment projects as a play and learning park that playfully deals with nature, environmental protection and regional history. The park is open in the summer season between April and October.
literature
- Ingo Sommer: The city of 500,000, Nazi urban planning and architecture in Wilhelmshaven , p. 96 ff. Publisher: Vieweg Braunschweig / Wiesbaden , Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1993. ISBN 3-528-08851-6 .
- Ingo Sommer: Altengroden a Chronicle, ed. from the Bürgererverein Altengroden eV with funding from Sparkasse Wilhelmshaven, Brune Druck- und Verlags - GmbH , Wilhelmshaven 1984.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986–1987, Volume 1, pp. 30 ff.
- ^ City of Wilhelmshaven: Altengroden district as of 2017. December 31, 2017, accessed on November 25, 2018 .
- ^ City of Wilhelmshaven: Altengroden district. December 31, 2007, accessed November 25, 2018 .
- ^ City of Wilhelmshaven: Altengroden district. December 31, 2017, accessed November 25, 2018 .
- ^ City of Wilhelmshaven: Altengroden district. December 31, 2017, accessed November 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Ruscherei - Garden for Everyone (PDF; 684 kB), accessed on November 8, 2013.
- ^ Förderverein Ruscherei Altengroden eV , accessed on November 8, 2013.
- ↑ Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon . tape 1 . Brune Mettcker, Wilhelmshaven 1986, ISBN 978-3-930510-00-9 , pp. 47 .
- ^ Störtebeker Park - Wilhelmshaven , accessed on November 8, 2013.
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