Old town (Emden)

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Old town
City of Emden
Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 14 ″  E
Residents : 8677  (March 31, 2009)
Postcodes : 26721, 26725
Area code : 04921
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Location of the city center in the city of Emden

The old town of Emden encompasses the core area of ​​the city where Emden was created in the Middle Ages . There the terp can still be seen in the course of the road. The city expanded from this terp in the Middle Ages.

During the Second World War , the old town with many buildings from earlier centuries was almost completely destroyed by targeted Allied air strikes as part of the morale-bombing strategy - only the Pelzerhaus from the 16th century (although renovated before the war, albeit with original parts) spared. The reconstruction after the war followed the expediency, but at least clinker was used almost exclusively , which had also dominated the old townscape.

In the old town is the Great Church , which used to be the Moederkerk (ndl .: "mother church") of Reformed Protestantism in the Netherlands and northwest Germany. After the war, the church was partially rebuilt in a new style with funds from Swiss donors and is therefore popularly known as the Swiss Church. The Johannes a Lasco library has been located in the historic rooms of the church since 1995 . At the foothills of the old town are the downtown shopping areas and the city's pub district around the Neuer Markt.

To the east of the Emden town hall , which can still be counted as part of the old town, the Groß-Faldern district begins. The Ratsdelft with its tourist attractions can still be counted as part of the old town. In 2004, the construction of the water town at the port gate began on the western part of the Ratsdelft.

The city of Emden statistically calculates the old town as the city center and therefore does not show any separate population figures. The city center, which consists of six separate districts, has a total of 8,677 inhabitants.

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  1. ^ City of Emden: Statistics Info 02/2009 . S. 5 ( statistics info / online document [PDF]).