Anaheim
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| Location of Anaheim, California | |
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| Foundation : | 1857 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | California |
| County : | Orange County |
| Coordinates : | 33 ° 50 ′ N , 117 ° 55 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) |
| Residents : | 336,265 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 2,651.9 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 130.7 km 2 (approx. 50 mi 2 ) of which 126.8 km 2 (approx. 49 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 48 m |
| Postcodes : | 92800-92899 |
| Area code : | +1 714 |
| FIPS : | 06-02000 |
| GNIS ID : | 1652663 |
| Website : | anaheim.net |
| Mayor : | Harry Sidhu |
Anaheim is a city in Orange County , California , about 40 kilometers southeast of Los Angeles , and has a population of around 352,497 (2017 estimate, US Census Bureau).
history
First settlement
The city emerged in 1870 from a settlement founded in 1857 by 50 families of German immigrants who came from San Francisco . They purchased from the owners of the "Rancho San Cajon de Santa Ana" - Juan Pacífico Ontiveros and his wife Martina - a 1165 acre (about 471 hectare) plot of land for $ 2 per acre to create a wine-growing area. A larger part of these first settlers originally came from the area around Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Middle Franconia , the first settler is said to have been Daniel Krämer from Bavaria . The part of the name “-heim” still indicates the German origin of the founders, “Ana”, on the other hand, refers to the nearby Santa Ana River .
Establishment in agriculture
Most of the settlers were artisans and had little knowledge of viticulture. In 1876 even ten Polish aristocrats and artists had moved to the town. On an area of 16 hectares, a school was then built around the first building, the future center of the town; in 1870 and 1871, the building of the local newspaper - the Anaheim Gazette - and a hotel followed. Until 1884, when viticulture had to be stopped due to increasing crop damage , the settlement was the largest wine producer in California. The loss of wine was compensated relatively quickly by growing walnuts, limes and oranges.
Oranges, the Klan and Disneyland
At the beginning of the 20th century , Anaheim had developed into a center of agriculture, many of its residents lived from growing citrus fruits , especially oranges, which is also where the name of Orange County is derived. Between 1924 and 1925 four members of the Ku Klux Klan were represented on the city council. Of the 10,000 inhabitants at that time, a good 300 joined the clan, which, as a Protestant association, was primarily against Catholicism and counterfeiters and - the country was in the middle of Prohibition - turned against illegal distillers . Armed clansmen patrolled the streets, and up to 20,000 people from all over the country came to the city, which is considered the model settlement of the clan, for an event organized by the secret society .
After a bribery action by the opposition movement Unison, Service, Americanism (USA) , through which they had obtained the list of all secret members in the city - including police officers and other city employees -, with the help of two of Anaheim's three newspapers , in 1925 the clan's four city council seats are regained.
In 1954, the Walt Disney Company in Anaheim, run by Walt Disney , acquired 65 hectares of land that had previously been used to grow walnuts and oranges. Just one year later, on July 17, 1955, construction work was completed and the Disneyland Resort opened as the company's first theme park.
Late 20th century
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According to a 1970 census by the United States Census Bureau , around 9.3% of Anaheim's residents were Hispanic and 89.2% were white. In the 1990s, the city expanded and designed the Anaheim Resort , which even today next to the Disneyland Resort nor the local Convention Center ( Anaheim Convention Center ) and the sports stadiums Honda Center and Angel Stadium hosts.
Population development
| year | Residents¹ |
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| 1980 | 219.494 |
| 1990 | 266,406 |
| 2000 | 327.920 |
| 2010 | 336.440 |
| 2016 | 351.043 |
| 2017 | 352.497 |
¹ 1980–2010: census results; 2016, 2017: United States Census Bureau estimate
Sports
Anaheim is home to the following sports clubs:
- Anaheim Ducks - Ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim until June 22, 2006); was able to win the Stanley Cup in 2007 .
- Los Angeles Angels - Major League Baseball baseball team (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim until late 2015)
Anaheim also hosted the 2005 Badminton World Cup .
Three races for the AMA Supercross Series are regularly held at Angel Stadium Anaheim .
Attractions
The most famous attraction in Anaheim is the amusement park Disneyland , founded in 1955 by Walt Disney , which has had over 500 million visitors since its opening. Knott's Berry Farm amusement park is also just a few miles away .
In addition, since 2005 the "Blizzcon" has been held in the Anaheim Convention Center every year except 2012 . There the computer game developer Blizzard Entertainment announces new games or expansions for the games Warcraft , StarCraft or Diablo . There are also other events, such as a dance or costume competition, as well as a final concert with the house band "The Artists formerly known as Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftains".
The Anaheim Convention Center is also the venue for the NAMM Show , America's largest music fair , which takes place annually in January ; MineCon also took place there in 2016 .
Series and Movies related to Anaheim
- Movies
- Series
- Mighty Ducks - The Powerteam (26 episodes, cartoon)
Town twinning
Anaheim has partnerships with the following cities:
sons and daughters of the town
- Michael Anderson (* 1969), jazz trumpeter
- Lonzo Ball (born 1997), basketball player
- Drake Bell (* 1986), film actor and pop-rock singer
- Ashley Benson (* 1989), actress and model
- Rebecca Black (born 1997), singer
- Moon Bloodgood (born 1975), actress
- Rudolph Boysen (1895–1950), plant breeder
- Jeff Buckley (1966–1997), singer and guitarist
- Austin Butler (born 1991), actor
- Seth Carr (* 2007), actor
- Milorad Čavić (* 1984), Serbian swimmer
- Rosalind Chao (born 1957), actress
- Don Davis (* 1957), film music composer
- Leo Fender (1909–1991), inventor of the first solid-body electric guitar
- Lauren Lappin (* 1984), softball player
- Duane Peters (born 1961), professional skateboarders , punk rock - Composer and singer
- Kelly McCormick (* 1960), water diver and Olympic medalist
- Marcus Mumford (* 1987), singer and front man of the band Mumford & Sons
- Rodney Morris (born 1970), pool player
- John O'Gallagher (* 1964), jazz musician
- Alyson Reed (born 1958), actress
- Elizabeth Ryan (1892–1979), tennis player
- Amon-Ra St. Brown (* 1999), football player
- Equanimeous St. Brown (born 1996), American football player
- Osiris St. Brown (born 1998), football player
- Mark St. John (1956-2007), rock musician
- Milo Ventimiglia (born 1977), actor
- Marie Wilson (1916–1972), actress
Groupings
- No Doubt (founded 1989), rock band
literature
- Rainer Vollmar: Anaheim - Utopia Americana. From wine country to Walt Disney land. A city biography. Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07308-6 , ( geographic knowledge 126).
Web links
proof
- ↑ Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2017 , census.gov, accessed on November 29, 2018 (English)
- ↑ a b c d History of Anaheim, California , us-history.com, accessed November 29, 2018.
- ^ Rancho San Cajón de Santa Ana
- ↑ a b c d Armor, Samuel; Merritt, EB: History of Orange County, California , 1921, Historic Record Company, p. 53, accessed November 29, 2018.
- ↑ a b Utopian Dreams in Anaheim: The Polish Commune of 1876 , kcet.org, accessed on November 29, 2018 (English)
- ^ Anaheim - A piece of German history not far from Los Angeles , usatipps.de, accessed on November 29, 2018
- ↑ a b c The Ku Klux Klan in Anaheim , anaheimcolony.com, accessed on November 29, 2018 (English)
- ↑ Dictator of the Magical Kingdom , spiegel.de, accessed on November 29, 2018
- ↑ Historical Census Statistics On Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For Large Cities And Other Urban Places In The United States , census.gov, accessed November 30, 2018.
- ↑ The Anaheim Resort , anaheim.net, accessed November 30, 2018 (English)
- ^ Website Anaheim - Sister City Commission , accessed August 1, 2017