Asseln (Dortmund)

Woodlice City of Dortmund Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	77 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.4 km²
Residents :	8832  (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1,051 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1928
Postcodes :	44309, 44319
Area code :	0231
Statistical District :	31
Location of Asseln in Dortmund

Asseln is the statistical district 31 and at the same time an eastern part of the city of Dortmund . As of December 31, 2018, 8,832 people lived in the Brackel district.

The place is considered a popular, middle-class residential area and is relatively rural. The fields south and north-east of the outskirts represent two of the last larger natural areas in the Brackel district. Asseln is still home to several cattle and agricultural holdings.

geography

Asseln is about 8 kilometers east of Dortmund city center on Hellweg , the old east-west connection. The center of Asseln is at an altitude of 77  m above sea level. NHN . With the exception of the eastern transition to Wickede in the Hellweg area, Asseln's residential development is clearly demarcated from its neighboring districts.

As the main traffic axis, the Asselner Hellweg divides the place into the northern and southern parts , which are located on the slope of the Dortmund ridge .

The north of Asseln, also called Unterasseln , is characterized by mixed housing developments. In addition to single houses, row houses and small apartment buildings, there is also a relatively high number of half-timbered houses. There are also a few farms here. There are higher residential developments (up to five floors) only between Kocklinckeweg and Asselburgstrasse.

The south of Asseln, also known as Oberasseln , has grown rapidly since the 1950s. Here, to the west and south of the listed miners' houses of the Holstein colony, mostly bourgeois one and two-family houses were built on some very spacious plots.

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  Photo of woodlice looking south

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  The Asselner Hellweg around 2006

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  The Asselner Hellweg on August 15, 2011

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  Half-timbered houses in Asseln

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  Agricultural building in Asseln

history

The Luther Church from "Hagedorn" around 1960

The Asselner Hellweg around 1960

Between 1999 and 2005, several outstanding archaeological finds were made at various excavation sites west of the Asseln residential area. The oldest finds come from the Neolithic Age, the so-called Rössen culture, which existed around 6500 years ago. The Rössen settlement included simple settlement pits, house posts and two large clay extraction pits that have left traces in the natural clay soil. In addition to numerous shards of household vessels, a polished stone ax was discovered with which trees could be felled for house building.

Furthermore, several Bronze Age graves from around 1000 BC were found. According to the rite of that time, the dead were burned, the ashes were buried in urns and a dome-shaped mound was piled up over them. To prevent the earth from flowing away, the hills or a circular moat were bordered. As a rule, these graves had a diameter of ten to twelve meters, whereas the Asseln graves were up to 17 m in diameter. As a north-west German peculiarity, the graves almost always had an opening that pointed to the east, so that they looked like keyholes. At least one such keyhole grave can also be clearly seen in woodlice. In a grave, besides burnt bones, there were also two smaller incidental vessels and a beautifully decorated, bronze spout knife, which was only found in this form once or twice in Westphalia.

The Asseln graves from the time of the Great Migration were even richer. Grave goods were found here, such as a bronze belt buckle, an approximately 20 cm long hairpin, two fibulae together with a pearl necklace, a bronze bangle with circular eye decorations and an eleven centimeter high pointed beaker made of hand-blown green glass with red glass thread, which came from a Franconian workshop and the Roman workshop Craftsmanship was modeled. All of these finds are an important piece of the mosaic for a time period that has been very rarely documented in Westphalia.

Most of the finds excavated in Isola from the 6th / 7th centuries. Century were shown together for the first time from August 4 to October 28, 2007 in the Dortmund Museum for Art and Cultural History (MKK). The personal evaluation of the finds gave an insight into the history of a leading family over three generations. Their graves and the objects found in them testify to a multi-layered and differentiated society. The most interesting story is the story of a woman who was most likely born in Bohemia in the 6th century and who came to Northern Italy with the Lombard conquest, where she met her husband and went to Asseln with him. This was the rich warrior that archaeologists first found. Both together they were probably the ruling couple of the Asseln settlement. Their history and the other finds are described in detail in the book The Lords of Asseln .

Since October 2010 the two reconstructed graves of the Lords of Asseln can now be seen permanently in the Department of Prehistory and Early History of the MKK. The splendid burial chamber identifies the lady as a woman of the world - which she was. The grave goods floating above the female figure, such as colorful pearls and a finely crafted fibula, tell of prosperity and a good life. Her husband is a bit more down to earth, in keeping with Westphalian tradition in a tree coffin and with a complete arsenal of weapons. With him it is the damascene sword that impresses. Beyond the tombs, around 100 remarkable finds from other graves can be seen in a showcase. Arrowheads, bone combs and knives still tell of a boy about twelve years old. The fact that an apparently rich woman was buried with a ploughshare could even have something to do with the fact that she once had to prove her innocence - an examination as she is said to have passed the Holy Kunigunde.

In 2004, a stretch of road from the 1st century was uncovered on the excavation site. The path ran about 600 m south of today's Hellweg in an east-west direction and climbed an edge of the terrain that was barely perceptible to the naked eye. As a result, it dug into the terrain as a ravine and was almost 200 m long and up to six meters wide. The width of the exposed stretch of road and the lanes dug into it indicate a regular road. However, this was not about the course of the Hellweg at that time, but a path came to light that connected a settlement off the Hellweg to the Hellweg in terms of traffic. The path ran parallel to Hellweg and led back to Hellweg in the west and east. This extremely rare finding gives a clear indication of a complex settlement structure in woodlice in the 1st century.

Was first documented pill bugs around the year 880 in a land register of the Werden Abbey as "Ascloon" (from ahd .: ask = ash and ahd./mnd .: Loh = coppice), so a place at the Aspenwood. Its first mention is just as old as that of the city of Dortmund. From the document we know a lot about the first Asselner known by name: His name was Alfdag, ran on half a hoof, which was owned by the Werden an der Ruhr monastery , and had to pay 20 bushels of barley, five bushels of brewer's oats, eight denarii army schillings and two Deliver bushels of flour as a donation to the monastery. This meant that Alfdag had to pay the most of all taxpayers in the Dortmund area who sat on half a hoof. This suggests the special quality of the soil on the northern slope of the Dortmund ridge .

Street names such as "Auf der Burg", "Asselburgstraße" or "Zum Burgkamp" indicate an earlier castle complex. In the absence of corresponding finds, however, it can be assumed that in all probability there was no castle in Iseln as it is today, but “only” a large main courtyard fortified with a moat, the origins of which go back to the time of Charlemagne and whose outlines are based on the ancient Cadastre from 1827 are still clearly visible.

In Asseln there are no original documents from the time when the congregation converted to the Lutheran faith. It can be proven that Duke Wilhelm von Kleve, as patron saint of the Asseln Church, made the proposal on March 16, 1560 to fill the vacant pastor's position in Asseln with Stephanus Erlemann. As usual in the county of Mark in these turbulent times, Erlemann began to proclaim the new faith immediately or shortly after taking office. It is also documented that Erlemann's successor Melchior Distelbrinck (senior) signed the confession of the Lutheran faith in 1612 at the first Brandenburg-Lutheran provincial synod in Unna.

In the 19th century woodlice gained increasing importance as a coal location. In 1874, the Hörder-Verein sacked the Holstein colliery south of the village center as a further mine for supplying coal to its iron and steel works. In 1877 the colliery went into operation with 477 employees, in 1911 it had 2,267 employees. Asseln's population increased accordingly from 1620 (1871) to 6103 in 1910. The Holstein colliery was connected underground with the Schleswig colliery , which was on the border with the western neighboring town of Brackel ; the breakthrough took place in 1911 at the 500-meter level. A surface connection was established in 1885. The works railway, which led from the Hermannshütte in Hörde to the sister facility in Schleswig, was extended to Asseln; the line got a siding to the train station Wickede-Asseln of the line Dortmund-Süd - Welver . Since the groundwater of the two pits contained a lot of brine, there were even considerations to open a “spa”. Holstein was closed on August 1, 1928.

On April 1, 1928 Asseln was incorporated into Dortmund.

The colony Holstein residential area in the south of the village, completed in 1906, and the gatehouse of the Holstein colliery and parts of the chew building are evidence of this time . A citizens' initiative was founded in 1975 to preserve the Holstein colony; Since 2003 there has been a new design statute for the colony. On the former colliery site, right next to the cover of the air shaft, i.e. exactly where it used to go down, a yellow balloon 80 m was erected from May 22 to 30, 2010 as part of the SchachtZeichen campaign of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 Altitude abandoned - as a symbol of industrialization and structural change in the region.

population

As of December 31, 2018, 8,832 people lived in Asseln.

Structure of the Asseln population:

• Minor quota: 16.2% [Dortmund average: 19.4% (2016)]
• Old age quota: 37.8% [Dortmund average: 30.0% (2016)]
• Proportion of foreigners: 6.3% [Dortmund average: 18.2% (2018)]
• Unemployment rate: 6.1% [Dortmund average: 11.0% (2017)]

The average income in the north of Asseln corresponds roughly to the Dortmund average, while the income in the south of Asseln is above average.

Population development

year	Pop.
1987	8776
2003	9088
2008	8827
2013	8714
2016	8804
2018	8832

religion

Today there are three parishes in Asseln:

• Catholic parish of St. Joseph Asseln
• Ev.-Luth. Parish of Asseln
• Evangelical Free Church Community Dortmund-Asseln

The few Catholics who still existed in Asseln after the end of the Reformation did not set up their own community structures. Rather, they belonged to the Kurler Church, like the three Catholic families who lived in Asseln between 1840 and 1858. As a result of the recruitment of new workers from more distant areas, not only did the population of woodlice rapidly increase from around 1880, but also the number of Catholics grew from year to year. Therefore, on October 11th, 1891, the Kurl parish council approved the construction of a Catholic church in Asseln and on March 29th, 1892 commissioned the master mason Ferdinand Ernst from Soest with the new building. The construction plan and cost estimate came from the architect Wichers from Bochum, who also took over the construction management. Construction work began on April 13th, 1892 and on May 15th, 1892, the Paderborn Vicar General Heinrich Wigger laid the foundation stone. The solemn inauguration of the St. Joseph Church by the Paderborn Auxiliary Bishop Dr. Augustinus Gockel took place on August 2nd, 1893.

The Evangelical Luther Church was inaugurated on June 13, 1906. The church is a cross-shaped hall church and was built in the style of historicism ; the interior decoration in Art Nouveau is still completely preserved. From the old church, which was demolished in 1904, the late Romanesque tower, which was originally a watchtower or defense tower, and the choir with early Gothic construction elements were included in the new building. The integration of the two old components into the new building, carried out by the architect Gustav Mucke , has a serious disadvantage: Not only because of the uniform exterior cladding with ashlar, but also because of the matching interior design, they were integrated so seamlessly that today's viewer can see the historical elements in both Areas hardly noticed at first sight.

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  Evangelical Luther Church Asseln

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  Catholic Church of St. Joseph Asseln

politics

Currently (December 2012) no citizen of Asseln is represented in the Dortmund City Council; A total of eight people from Asseln - SPD (4), CDU (2), Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen (1) and Die Linke (1) - belong to the DO-Brackel district council.

societies

Many citizens of Asseln are active in the numerous local clubs and associations. The large clubs (over 300 members) include, for example, sports clubs such as TuRa Asseln and TV Asseln, but also the welfare association Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) and the settler community “Kahle Hege”. The better-known clubs include the TC Grüningsweg tennis club, the Wickede-Asseln-Sölde riding and driving club and the DO-Asseln e. V. After the dissolution of the old trade association, a new association, the IGA, Asseln interest group for trade, craft and trade, was founded in autumn 2009.

The oldest association in Asseln is the Kyffhäuserkameradschaft, which was founded on June 23, 1867 under the name "Warrior and Landwehr Association" and to which around 90 members still belong to this day.

sports clubs

In Asseln there is the sports club TV Asseln 1885 e. V. , Which offers gymnastics and popular sports , trampoline jumping, karate, volleyball and handball, as well as the TuRa Asseln ( gymnastics and lawn sports club 1912 e.V. Dortmund-Asseln ) , who mainly works in the field of football . TuRa Asseln's first team has been back in the district league B, Dortmund district, since they were relegated in 2012. There is also the Freizeitfußball-Asseln e. V . This takes care of the preservation of the old lawn. The recreational footballers provide a team that competes against other recreational teams from April to October of the year.

The Wickede-Asseln-Sölde riding club has regularly enjoyed success in sport since 1924. With Fritz Ligges he produced an Olympic champion.

Furthermore, the tennis club TC Grüningsweg eV is located in the east, bordering Wickede

traffic

The Asseln-Mitte stop on the S4

The main traffic axes in Asseln are the Hellweg in east-west direction and Asselner Straße in north-south direction. The U43 urban railway from Dorstfeld to Wickede runs along the Hellweg, and the Rhine-Ruhr S4 S-Bahn runs south of the Hellweg from Lütgendortmund to Unna. The stop "Dortmund-Asseln Mitte" offers access. This means that the traffic connections from Asseln to Dortmund city center, Dortmund Central Station and the motorway junctions can be described as very good.

The airport in Dortmund ( Wickede ) lies southeast of isopods.

Grüningsweg school center

Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium in Asseln

The Asseln school center is located on Grüningsweg. Here are the Max Born Realschule , which is housed in the western half of the main building, which was inaugurated in 1974, as well as the Immanuel Kant Gymnasium , which, in addition to the eastern half of the main building, is still above the building of the former Asseln secondary school (today " Upper level building ") and has a new building erected in 1998, which connects both buildings.

Both schools share the former main school gym in the east and a triple gym built in 2016. The Realschule has around 800 students and the Gymnasium around 1000 students.

From the 2015 summer holidays , extensive modernization measures were carried out at the school center. While the IKG stayed at the site and used the parts of the building that were not currently being renovated, the MBR was temporarily relocated to Wickede . On May 2, 2019, the Max Born Realschule was able to move into its newly renovated building again.

Personalities

• Fritz Ligges (1938–1996), Olympic champion in show jumping
• Karl-Heinz Wegmann (1934–1989), shot putter and weightlifter
• Elisabeth Wilms (1905–1981), film producer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures in the statistical districts on December 31, 2018 (PDF)
2. ^ Henriette Brink-Kloke, Karl Heinrich Deutmann (ed.): The Lords of Asseln: an early medieval burial ground on Dortmund's Hellweg; in the Museum of Art and Cultural History . German Kunstverl., Munich / Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-422-06761-2 .
3. ↑ Rudolf Kötzschke (Ed.): Die Urbare der Abtei Werden ad Ruhr (= Publications of the Society for Rhenish History XX: Rheinische Urbare ). Vol. 2: A.  The land register from 9. – 13. Century, ed. by Rudolf Kötzschke, Bonn 1908, reprint Düsseldorf 1978; Vol. 3: B.  Stock books, lifting and interest registers from the 14th to the 17th century, Bonn 1908, reprint Düsseldorf 1978; Vol. 4, I: Introduction and Register, I. Name Register , ed. by Fritz Körholz, Düsseldorf 1978; Bd. 4, II: Introduction, Chapter IV: The economic constitution and administration of the large manor in Werden, subject register, ed. by Rudolf Kötzschke, Bonn 1958, here especially vol. 2, p. 68.
4. ↑ Erich Wisplinghoff : Dortmund in the tradition of the monastery Werden. In: Gustav Luntowski, Norbert Reimann (Ed.): Dortmund. 1100 years of city history. Dortmund 1982, pp. 7–19 (p. 14; Wisplinghoff restricts the period of origin to the years between 880 and 884, more likely between 881 and 883. Ultimately, it is the year 882, whereupon Asseln in 1982 in the Celebrated its 1100th local anniversary from May 22nd to June 9th.)
5. ↑ Paul Derks: The castle, place and field name Altena and its relatives. Names - name history - name interpretation. (PDF; approx. 630 KB) A research report. In: Elise, Essener Linguistic Scripts electronically. University of Duisburg-Essen, pp. 31–205 , accessed on April 27, 2012 (issue 1/2000). 
6. ↑ Landesarchiv NRW, Rhineland Department in Düsseldorf, part of the inventory "Kleve-Mark, Akten", serial number 1390: "Registrum presentationum Marckensium", sheet 79 (back)
7. ^ Hugo Rothert: Church history of the county Mark. Gütersloh 1913, p. 375.
8. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 211 .
9. ↑ Population structures annual report 2016 (PDF file)
10. ↑ Population structures annual report 2016 (PDF file)
11. ↑ Nationalities in the statistical districts as of December 31, 2018 (PDF file)
12. ↑ Unemployment rates according to statistical districts on June 30, 2017 ( memento of the original from June 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file) 
13. ^ Brigitte Spieker: Parish of St. Joseph. in: Paul Monday; Elisabeth Tillmann (Ed.): The Catholic Church in Dortmund. Their history and their parishes. Paderborn 2006, pp. 336-337.
14. ↑ Internet presence of the IKG. Retrieved February 3, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Refurbishment of the Asseln school center from September 2015 , IKG website, accessed on February 5, 2016
16. ↑ Andreas Schröter: Students and teachers of the Asseln Max Born Realschule are back at the old (new) location. Ruhr-Nachrichten, May 2, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2019 . 

literature

• Henriette Brink-Kloke, Karl Heinrich Deutmann (Ed.): The Lords of Asseln. An early medieval burial ground on Dortmund's Hellweg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-422-06761-5 .
• Klaus Coerdt: woodlice. 450 years of the Reformation in Asseln 1560–2010. Self-published 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812491-3-2 .
• Klaus Coerdt, Werner Augustin: woodlice. Historic and modern streets and street names. 2nd Edition. Self-published 2008, ISBN 978-3-9812491-0-1 .
• Klaus Coerdt, Werner Augustin: woodlice. Our Hellweg - traffic route from antiquity to modern times. Self-published 2008, ISBN 978-3-9812491-1-8 .
• Karl-Günter Häusler: woodlice. The Catholic School in Asseln 1882–1939. Self-published 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812491-2-5 .
• Karl-Günter Häusler: woodlice. The Evangelical School in Asseln 1603–1939. Self-published 2013, ISBN 978-3-9812491-4-9 .
• Patrick Könemann: The burial ground of the Roman Empire and the early migration period from Dortmund-Asseln. in: Excavations and finds in Westphalia-Lippe, Volume 12, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8053-4988-8 , pages 204-275
• Günter Knippenberg: woodlice. History of a Hellweg village. Self-published, 2001.
• Günter Knippenberg: Dortmund-Asseln. Woodlice in ancient times. Regio-Verlag, Werne 2003, ISBN 3-929158-15-9 .
• Norbert Reimann: A short history of the Brackel office. Stadtsparkasse Dortmund 1985.
• Bernhard Sicherheitsl: The Merovingian cemetery of Dortmund-Asseln (Volume 50 of the series Soil antiquities of Westphalia). Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-8053-4350-3 .
• Gabriele Unverferth (ed.): Life in the shadow of the winding tower. The Holstein colony in Dortmund-Asseln. Regio-Verlag, Werne 2005, ISBN 3-929158-18-3 .

Web links

Commons : Dortmund-Asseln  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Asselner Verein Gemeinschaft e. V. (with further links from the affiliated associations)