Office of Sodingen
The Amt Sodingen was an administrative district in the area of today's city of Herne from 1902 to 1928. It comprised the rural communities of Sodingen (with Gysenberg), Börnig and Holthausen near Castrop .
geography
The office formed the far west of the Dortmund district . Neighboring offices and cities were clockwise, starting in the north, the office of Bladenhorst of the district of Bochum , the office of Castrop of the district of Dortmund, the office of Harpen of the district of Bochum and the urban district of Herne (until 1906 the offices of Herne and Baukau).
surface
Information from 1897 is available on the area of the three municipalities belonging to the office. At that time, the municipalities of Börnig had an area of 3.41 km 2 , Giesenberg-Sodingen an area of 2.73 km 2 and Holthausen near Castrop an area of 5.22 km 2 .
history
The office was re-established in 1902 by spinning off the office of Castrop. The communities Börnig, Giesenberg-Sodingen (called Giesenberg ) and Holthausen bei Castrop (often with the spelling Kastrop ) belonged to him. On May 30, 1913, the community of Giesenberg-Sodingen was officially renamed Sodingen .
In 1910, the Sodingen Office acquired a site on the wooded hill of the Beimberg in order to create a park above Sodingen, which was called Kaiser Wilhelm Park from 1913 and Volkspark from 1919.
When the Sodingen colliery Mont Cenis wanted to use the hill to erect an iron water tower, the building for the elevated tank was combined with an observation tower at the suggestion of the Sodingen bailiff. The office contributed financially to the establishment. The Essen architect Alfred Fischer was commissioned to design the tower . The reinforced concrete structure called Kaiser Wilhelm Tower was built on the park area in 1912/1913 and, with a height of 31.5 meters, provides a good view of the surrounding area. The tower was inaugurated as part of a folk festival for the 25th anniversary of the eponymous monarch in July 1913.
On April 1, 1928, the Sodingen office was dissolved. Börnig and Sodingen were incorporated into the urban district of Herne . The main part came from Holthausen to Herne. Parts of the area came to the urban district of Castrop-Rauxel .
From 1902 to 1928, the administrative office was located in the Sodinger Amtshaus, which was centrally located in Sodingen on the market square. It was built there in 1894 as a residential building. The building has been preserved and is used as a community youth center.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Hildebrandt [edit.]: Herne - from Ackerstraße to Zur-Nieden-Straße: City history in the mirror of street names . Ed .: Stadt Herne, Der Oberbürgermeister (= Publications of the City Archives Herne . Volume 1 ). Herne 1997 (entry: Am Volkspark ).
- ↑ a b Jörn-Hanno Hendrich: Alfred Fischer-Essen: 1881-1950; an architect for industry . University library Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen 2012, DNB 1022617729 .
- ↑ a b The data come from the board at the foot of the tower to station 18 of the wasser) xkurs herne , Stadt Herne, 2002.
- ^ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817 - 1967 . Aschendorff, Münster (Westphalia) 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 .
- ↑ Manfred Hildebrandt [edit.]: Herne - from Ackerstraße to Zur-Nieden-Straße: City history in the mirror of street names . Ed .: Stadt Herne, Der Oberbürgermeister (= Publications of the City Archives Herne . Volume 1 ). Herne 1997 (entry: Am Amtshaus ).