Andreasvorstadt

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Andreasvorstadt
State capital Erfurt
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 4 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 190 m above sea level NN
Area : 2.85 km²
Residents : 16,859  (Dec. 31, 2016)
Population density : 5,915 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes : 99089, 99092
Area code : 0361
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Location of Andreasvorstadt in Erfurt
The quarters of the Andreasvorstadt

The Andreasvorstadt is one of the historical suburbs and a current district of Erfurt .

It is located north of the old town in front of the Andreastor and extends between Hannoversche Straße (former Bundesstraße 4 ) and Gera (in the south also beyond to Magdeburger Allee ) from Andreastor in the south to Riethstraße in the north. Nordhäuser Straße runs through the middle of the district as an important traffic axis. It is the smallest in area, but most populous of the Erfurt suburbs with 15,556 inhabitants (December 31, 2010) on an area of ​​2.85 km². The majority of the population, around 13,000 inhabitants, is concentrated in the southern third of the Andreasvorstadt, which is characterized by a very high population density. The predominant structure here is the well-planned streets of apartment buildings that were built between 1880 and 1910. The northern part of Andreasvorstadt, on the other hand, is not characterized by residential development, although there are streets with homes. The campus of the University of Erfurt , the Nordpark and the Erfurt Clinic take up large areas here .

The Andreasvorstadt is a comparatively young district with approaches of student character. Its name is derived from the Andrea Gate, which in turn comes from the St. Andrew's Church after St. Andrew .

geography

The Andreasvorstadt borders the Erfurt old town to the north and is that part of the former Erfurt urban area between the fortified city in the south, Marbach in the west, Gispersleben in the north and Ilversgehofen in the east. According to the current definition of the district boundaries, the following districts are located on Andreasvorstadt: Gispersleben on Grenzweg in the north, Berliner Platz and Rieth as prefabricated building areas in the northeast, Ilversgehofen an der Gera in the east, Johannesvorstadt on Magdeburger Allee in the southeast, the old town on City ring in the south, the Brühlervorstadt on Heinrichstrasse in the southwest and Marbach on Hannoversche Strasse in the west.

The terrain is mostly flat and partly hilly. The Gera on the eastern edge is the most important watercourse in the Andreasvorstadt, and the Schmale Gera also flows through the Mühlenviertel in the east of the Andreasvorstadt. In addition, several small valleys such as the Borntal run towards the Gera from the west. The breakdown of the Alacher Höhe to the Gera valley is clearly noticeable in the Andreasvorstadt. It is most visible in the form of the Auenschanze between Baumerstraße above and Auenstraße below with a height difference of about 25 meters. The terrain profile of the Andreasvorstadt is also reflected in some street names (Bergstrasse, stairsstrasse). The highest point is the Bindersleben knee in the south-west at around 220 meters, the lowest is the Gera at the cycling track in the north at around 180 meters.

In the past, the area of ​​the Andreasvorstadt was used for agriculture, before building began in 1873. Today, most of the 2.84 km² is built on, and there is also the Nordpark on the Gera, the largest urban green space in Erfurt. On the western edge of the Andreasvorstadt on Hannoversche Straße there are also open spaces that are used for agriculture, but the development here is increasingly expanding.

quarter

Quarter
(not official)
Block groups
(official)
Area (km²) Population (2000) Population (2007) Population (2015) Population density
Single-family housing estates
Augsburger Strasse + Heinrich-Hübschmann-Ring
411 0.47 8th 303 476 1,013
Hungerbach settlement, university [student dormitories],
clinic, north park
412 1.03 1,056 1,602 2,204 2.140
Auenviertel 421 + 422 + 424 0.28 3,531 4.101 4,436 15,843
Mühlenviertel 423 + 425 0.20 2,481 2,794 3.231 16,155
Flower district 431 + 432 0.59 2.411 2,610 3.111 5,273
Borntalviertel 433 + 434 + 435 0.27 3,642 3,542 3,556 13,170
Development on Gutenbergplatz with a view through Albrechtstrasse in the Borntalviertel
Apartment buildings from the 1920s on Reinthalerstraße in the Borntalviertel
Old new buildings in the Borntalviertel
Houses on Veilchenstrasse in the flower district
New single-family houses in the university garden (flower district)
Formerly cooperative housing from around 1900 on Karlstrasse in the Auenviertel
Residential houses on Storchmühlenweg in the Mühlenviertel
View of the Waidmühlenweg in the Mühlenviertel
Entrance of the university with Audimax
The former building school, today the architecture department of the FH
The Gutenberg High School
The Luther School
The Luther memorial at the school
The Rosa-Luxemburg-Monument at the valley knot
The cycling track in Andreasried
The north park

Borntalviertel

The Borntalviertel is located in the very south-west of the Andreasvorstadt. It is bounded by Heinrichstrasse in the west, Borntalweg in the north, Biereyestrasse in the east and Binderslebener Landstrasse in the south. The Borntalviertel was essentially built in three construction phases. In the far east, between Blumenstrasse and Gutenbergplatz, there are three blocks of houses with the typical development of four-storey tenement houses from around 1880 and 1910 with historic façades that are typical of the Erfurt suburbs . In a second construction phase between 1920 and 1940, the middle part of the Borntalviertel between Gutenbergplatz and Stolzestraße as well as the development on the south side of Gutenbergstraße, also in multi-storey apartment construction in forms of the architecture typical of the time, a mixture of the design language of the Bauhaus and the homeland security style . Usually only three storeys were built here and larger gardens were created behind the houses to improve the living situation. Various housing cooperatives were active as builders here. The western part of the Borntalviertel up to Heinrichstrasse was not built on until the 1950s and 60s. This is where the old new buildings typical of the GDR were built by the Erfurt housing association Borntal .

The Gutenberg School on Gutenbergplatz is located in the Borntalviertel , was built in 1909 and has been used as a grammar school since 1991. It became known through the rampage in Erfurt on April 26, 2002. It was then closed, renovated until 2005 and used again since then. At the entrance there is a memorial for the 17 victims of the rampage. Further educational institutions in the quarter are the Moritzkindergarten and the Froebelkindergarten. The district's football club is FC Borntal Erfurt, which was founded in 1950 and at times played in the GDR district league (3rd division).

The Borntalviertel takes its name from the Borntal, on whose southern slope towards the Petersberg the quarter is located. The fertile Borntal was mentioned for the first time as a field name as early as 1456 and was used by the nurseries of NL Chriesteren for growing flower seeds.

Flower district

The flower quarter connects to the north of the Borntalviertel. It stretches between Blumenstrasse in the southwest and Nordhäuser Strasse in the northeast. The flower district was also built in several construction phases. The oldest part from Bergstrasse to Veilchenstrasse was built between 1880 and 1910, some houses a little later and includes the typical four-storey apartment buildings. There are also some smaller buildings on Mühlhäuser Straße from the first period of suburban development immediately after 1873. In the 1920s and 30s, the development on the north side of Veilchenstraße was made up of individual apartment buildings. This was followed in the 1950s and 1960s with old new buildings between Blumenstrasse, Veilchenstrasse and Mühlhäuser Strasse. Since 2008, on the remaining open space between Veilchenstrasse in the south and the university in the north, a new single-family housing estate called Universitätsgarten has been built, for which an allotment garden on Amploniusweg was demolished. In the west of the flower quarter on Dahlienstraße there is the Sankt Andreas allotment garden , while in the north of the flower quarter there are still some agricultural areas (fodder meadows).

At the end of Blumenstrasse is the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm School, a primary school with after-school care. It was built as a prefabricated building in GDR times and has been a European school with extended foreign language classes since 1999. The flower district takes its name from the fact that most of the streets here are named after types of flowers in order to tie in with the tradition of flower seed growing in this area.

Auenviertel

To the east of Nordhäuser Strasse is another old building district, the Auenviertel. It extends from it in the west to the Gera in the east, Moritzwallstrasse / Schlüterstrasse in the south and Baumerstrasse / Karlstrasse in the north. The Auenschanze , a hill ledge that was raised for military reasons and which today defines the topography of the district, is striking here . There is a difference in height of almost 25 meters between Baumerstraße and the neighboring Auenstraße, which is overcome by two stairs (stairs street and Oskar street).

The development of the district is relatively homogeneous and was built between 1880 and 1910 in the form of four-storey apartment buildings in closed quarters. However, there were no other residential buildings in the courtyards of these districts. In the past they were used for small businesses (workshops, stables, etc.), while today some of these back buildings have been demolished and converted into green spaces. The quarters in the Karlstraße area were created by building cooperatives as early as 1900, which has been commemorated by a memorial to Ferdinand Schmidt, the first chairman of the building cooperative, in Karlstraße since 1911. The development on the east side of Adalbertstrasse was not built until 1920 to 1922. In the Auenviertel, large areas of old buildings were renovated in the 1970s in order to alleviate the housing shortage in Erfurt. The facades were de-stuccoed so that these buildings can still be recognized today by their smooth, undecorated facades. In 2012/2013, the “Auenhöfe” residential complex was built on the wasteland between Adalbertstrasse and Waldemarstrasse, based on a design by the Weimar architect Anke Schettler. Three- and four-story apartment buildings are being built on Adalbertstrasse, behind which four rows of single-family townhouses will be built up to the Gera.

In 2007 the Auenviertel was the most densely populated area in Erfurt. Although the development is in principle no more dense than in comparable districts of Erfurt, there are practically no large open spaces in the Auenviertel.

The Department of Architecture and Urban and Spatial Planning of the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences is located in the south-east of the district in the building of the former Prussian building trade school from 1901 on Schlüterstrasse. The Moritzschule is located on Auenstrasse in the south, a primary school in a building from the time the Auenviertel was built. Other facilities in the district are the kindergarten at Nordpark and the Fritzer youth center on Talstrasse. There used to be a brewery on stairs street, the Auenkeller founded in 1865.

On the outskirts in the northeast is the Luther School, a large school building from 1912 that combines elements of Art Nouveau and neoclassicism. Between 1956 and 1976, in addition to the regular school, the district's children's and youth sports school was housed here. It was replaced by a special needs school that now uses the building alone. In front of the school is the Luther memorial, which was also built in 1912. It contains a bronze relief by the Art Nouveau artist Wilhelm Mues .

The streets in the district are partly named after kings of the Holy Roman Empire . The quarter gets its name from its location in the Aue der Gera and its main street, Auenstraße.

Mühlenviertel

On the other side of the Gera, in the east, the Mühlenviertel is the last old district in the Andreasvorstadt. It is bordered by the Gera in the west and south, the Magdeburger Allee in the east and the Papiermühlenweg in the north. Like the neighboring Auenviertel, it was built between 1880 and 1910, although there are also smaller tenement houses on Magdeburger Allee from the period immediately after the fortress' banned mile was opened in 1873. More than the other quarters of Andreasvorstadt, the Mühlenviertel was characterized by the mixture of residential use (on the streets) and commercial (in the inner courtyards). The quarter is traversed by the Schmalen Gera , and the Gerbergraben in the area of ​​Gerberstraße also existed here until around 1900, so that numerous systems could be operated by water power. Hence the name of the district and its streets is derived.

The vocational Ludwig-Erhard-Schule is located in the south of the Mühlenviertel. On the south-eastern edge of the Mühlenviertel is the valley junction, a traffic junction that has only existed in its current form since the 1960s. There used to be no bridge over the Gera in Schlüterstraße and the city ring led in both directions through Talstraße. Since 2009, the place at the valley note has been named after Rosa Luxemburg . In addition to a monument to Luxembourg from 1971, there is a small park with a fountain. The memorial was created by Anke Besser-Güth and was originally intended to be erected in the SED's district party school , which, however, was given the name Ernst Thälmanns. Instead, the monument came to its current, rather hidden location. A public bathing house was located on the site until the Talknoten was rebuilt. There is also a culvert at the bridge in Schlüterstraße , where the Schmale Gera has been routed under the flood ditch since 1898 .

In the east of the Mühlenviertel there was a plant of the Lingel shoe factory founded here in 1885 or, in GDR times, Plant III of the Paul Schäfer shoe factory , which was closed in 1993. After the demolition began in 2008/09, there were disputes between the investor and the building authorities, so that the latter withdrew and a half-demolished ruin has since stood opposite the Luther Church on Magdeburger Allee. In October 2010 street art artists designed the facade of the ruin with extensive graffiti and made the building one of the few street art works of art in Erfurt. The factory was completely demolished in spring 2011.

Northern Andreasvorstadt

Important facilities of the city of Erfurt are located north of the old building district in the south of the Andreasvorstadt. The campus of the University of Erfurt extends west of Nordhäuser Straße north of the Blumenviertel . It was created in 1953 with the establishment of the Erfurt University of Education and became the seat of the university in 2001. Subsequently, the new building of the University and Research Library Erfurt / Gotha was built here. Across from the university on the eastern side of Nordhäuser Straße is the Erfurt Clinic , the former Medical Academy of Erfurt . It belongs to the Helios clinics . The Nordpark with the Nordbad Erfurt, which reopened in 2010, is located even further east between the clinic and the Gera .

At the end of the 1930s, the Hungerbach settlement , another quarter of the Andreasvorstadt , was built north of the university and clinic . There is a turning loop and a depot of the Erfurt Stadtbahn. To the north of Riethstrasse are some sports facilities, including the Andreasried cycle track , which opened in 1885 and is the oldest cycling track in the world that is still in use and marks the northern end of Andreasvorstadt. To the west of Nordhäuser Straße, the district stretches even further north, to Grenzweg, the old border between Erfurt and Gispersleben . There is an industrial area and a newly created single-family house area around Heinrich-Hübschmann-Ring.

Population development

The population of Andreasvorstadt in 1990 was 17,000. By 2000, the number had fallen by a quarter to 13,000. The main reason was the poor housing situation in the unrenovated old districts of the Andreasvorstadt, which often did not have bathrooms or central heating systems. The main goals of those moving away were other parts of Erfurt, especially the growing village suburbs (strong wave of suburbanization during the 1990s), but some turned their backs on the city due to the poor economic situation. The renovation measures on the building fabric began shortly after reunification and in 2010 they achieved a relatively high degree of area coverage. However, there are also vacant, unrenovated buildings, for example in the busy intersection of Nordhäuser Strasse / Bergstrasse and generally on the main roads.

A building census in 2006 showed that there are 1312 buildings in Andreasvorstadt, which contained 9212 apartments, of which 1160 or 13% were vacant. However, only 48 houses with 298 apartments were completely empty. By 2009 the number of apartments increased slightly to 9,299, the number of buildings also rose to 1,362, while the vacancy rate fell to 1,082 apartments (11.6%). The number of complete vacancies even fell by around 30% in the three years and is now 34 buildings with 208 apartments.

In 2001, the university campus on Nordhäuser Strasse started teaching, which became the determining demographic factor in Andreasvorstadt. Many students moved into the quarter, and with the introduction of the second home tax in Erfurt in 2003, it was also achieved that these students register their main residence in Erfurt and are thus recorded in the population statistics. In the future, the population of the Andreasvorstadt can still increase by almost 10%, assuming a very low vacancy rate. This would approximate the population of 1990 again. However, this is only possible by building new apartments, especially in the vicinity of the university and further north on Heinrich-Hübschmann-Ring, since the required living space per capita is much higher today than in 1990 and in GDR times, which means that Today fewer people live in an apartment that has remained the same size than before.

The population structure is clearly shaped by the university, with the 20 to 30-year-olds making up the largest population group, with the proportion of women being significantly higher than the proportion of men (analogous to the university's student profile). The birth rate (around 180 births per year) is therefore around 50% higher than the death rate (around 120 deaths per year), the migration balance (around 1200 new arrivals and 1100 departures per year) is also positive, which is why Andreasvorstadt continues to grow (as far as the available living space allows). Around 500 foreigners live in Andreasvorstadt, which makes up around 3.5%.

Data from the city administration of Erfurt as of December 31st.

year population Development
(1990 = 100%)
Development in Erfurt
(1990 = 100%)
1990 17,000 100.0 100.0
1995 14,452 85.0 93.4
1996 13,837 81.4 91.9
1997 13,167 77.5 90.6
1998 13,142 77.3 89.3
1999 13,200 77.6 88.0
2000 13,130 77.2 87.6
2001 13,217 77.7 87.4
2002 13,234 77.8 87.2
2003 13,823 81.3 88.0
2004 14,285 84.0 88.4
2005 14,593 85.8 88.5
2006 14,911 87.7 88.4
2007 14,952 88.0 88.5
2008 15.205 89.4 88.5
2009 15,397 90.6 88.8
2010 15,556 91.5 89.2
2011 15,769 92.8 89.8
2012 16,020 94.2 90.4
2013 16,330 96.1 91.1
2014 16,611 97.7 91.7
2015 17,014 100.1 93.3
2016 16,859 99.2 93.9

Economy and Transport

While the districts in the south of the Andreasvorstadt are now purely residential areas, two of the city's most important employers are located in the north with the hospital and the university. Around 1,600 people work at the clinic alone.

The main thoroughfare in the district is Nordhäuser Straße . Important cross streets from her are Bergstrasse, Blumenstrasse, Mühlhäuser Strasse and Riethstrasse. The tram lines 3 and 6 run on Nordhäuser Strasse and provide good public transport connections. The Mühlenviertel is accessed by lines 1 and 5 on Magdeburger Allee and the Borntalviertel by line 4 on Binderslebener Landstrasse.

Politics and elections

Since the Andreasvorstadt forms a district, but not a district according to § 45 of the Thuringian municipal code, there are no political bodies for it, such as the district council or the district mayor.

The Andreasvorstadt is part of the Erfurt II state electoral district , for which Susanne Hennig (Die Linke) sits in the fifth Thuringian state parliament. She received 28.6% of the vote here. The Andreasvorstadt was traditionally a working-class district, but today all social classes are found here with an overrepresentation of young people, especially students, while the affluent upper classes are clearly underrepresented. The western parts of the Andreasvorstadt (Borntalviertel, Blumenviertel) are a bit more bourgeois and the eastern parts (Auenviertel, Mühlenviertel) are a bit more left-wing, and the average age is slightly higher in the west than in the east. This is also reflected in the district's election results, which are not only characterized by a low voter turnout, but also by a strengthening of the SPD and the Greens and, in contrast, a weak CDU. The results of the Left Party and FDP, on the other hand, are within the Erfurt average.

Political party City Council 2009 State Parliament 2009 Bundestag 2013 Europe 2009
voter turnout 36.9 41.6 53.9 37.1
CDU 19.1 21.5 30.1 20.9
The left 17.6 27.6 23.1 21.5
SPD 34.8 20.9 18.4 20.8
Green 14.4 14.2 9.7 15.7
FDP 4.4 7.7 2.0 6.1

Web links

Commons : Andreasvorstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. block group map ( Memento of 17 June 2012 at the Internet Archive ). In: erfurt.de, accessed on November 24, 2017 (PDF; 3.5 MB).
  2. Satellite measurement with Google Earth, there may be slight deviations (<3%)
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