Altmarkt (Oberhausen)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 8.4 ″  N , 6 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  E

Victory Column on the Altmarkt in Oberhausen (2013)
The Sacred Heart Church on the Altmarkt in Oberhausen (2013)

The Oberhausen Altmarkt is a square in the center of Alt-Oberhausen .

history

The land for the Altmarkt, which opened in June 1859, was given to the community of Styrum by the farmer Wilhelm Stöckmann (1801–1861). The Stöckmannstrasse running east of the square still reminds of him today.

When the new municipality of Oberhausen was formed in 1862, part of Styrum with the market square was added to it, which in the following years developed into the “center of the emerging city”. In 1876 a Victory Column was erected on the market square , a sandstone war memorial in memory of the battles between 1864 and 1871 , which paved the way for the founding of the German Empire . The figure of the goddess Victoria or Nike walks on the top of the monument . In the north of the Altmarkt, the Catholic parish church Herz Jesu was built between 1909 and 1911 ; the other three sides of the market square are mostly lined with shops, offices and restaurants. On the square itself there is a market every working day from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. , which gives way to the local Christmas market during Advent , which has been presented as the “Christmas forest” in recent years.

The Altmarkt was included in the themed route Oberhausen: Industry makes city on the route of industrial culture by the Ruhr Regional Association .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner Krötz: The industrial town of Oberhausen (Historical Atlas of the Rhineland, Supplement IV / 5). Cologne 1985, p. 8.

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