Augsburg Bear Cellar

Bärenkeller planning room (III) in Augsburg
Coordinates	48 ° 23 '50 "  N , 10 ° 51' 0"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '50 "  N , 10 ° 51' 0"  E
surface	3,135.2 km²
Residents	7329 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density	2338 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	86156
structure
Townships	23 bear cellar
Source: area population

The Bärenkeller is a district of Augsburg . It consists of the 23rd district, which also has the status of III. Planning area of the city of Augsburg. The Bärenkeller has about 7,300 inhabitants and covers about 3.14 km².

location

The Bärenkeller borders the Oberhausen district to the east , Kriegshaber to the south , the city of Neusäß to the west and the city of Gersthofen to the north .

history

Church of St. Konrad in the Bärenkeller

The name "Bärenkeller": People from Augsburg know the Bärenwirt traffic junction in the Oberhausen district. There monks had run the "Golden Bear" brewery a good 600 years ago. Because there was no storage facility for the beer at this point, the clergy dug a multi-storey cellar a little further out of town in the slope edge of a high terrace, in order to allow their brew to mature there until it was poured into barrels. The story of the dancing bears allegedly housed there by traveling jugglers is wrong.

Bärenkeller was founded as a district in 1932, but especially during the Nazi era since 1933, the settlers' houses, which were ideologically propagated at the time, and also smaller apartment blocks were built on according to plan. Several greats of the Nazi regime, including Hermann Göring , were briefly imprisoned by the US armed forces in the Bärenkeller immediately after the Second World War , before they were brought to Luxembourg and waited there for the Nuremberg trials. After that, many of the confiscated houses were occupied by higher-ranking American military until the apartments in the new "American" Augsburg districts of Centerville, Cramerton, Sullivan Heights and Fryar Circle were completed.

In the course of the founding and development of the district in the 1930s, a Catholic church was also planned there. An emergency church existed in the district from 1936 to 1939, and with the construction of the St. Konrad parish church in 1938 and 1939, the Bärenkeller received a district-defining sacred building designed by the architect Michael Kurz .

characterization

The Bärenkeller is divided into an apartment block and a cottage area. This spatial structure also reflects the social gradient in the Bärenkeller; While some very wealthy doctors and business people live in the housing estate, there are many unemployed people and ethnic German repatriates living in the housing estate. They see their stay there only as a transition and usually move away again after a short time, which is why there is a strong population fluctuation there. Some of the apartment blocks there are very old; until well into the 2000s, a few did not have bathrooms in the individual apartments, but still had shower rooms in the basement. In the meantime these houses have also been renovated. There are three allotment gardens in the Bärenkeller, including the oldest in Augsburg, called “Am Viehmarkt”.

Attractions

The oldest inn in Augsburg is located in the Bärenkeller at Hirblinger Strasse 181. It is currently called "Zum Bärenkeller" again and includes a restaurant with a beer garden. The house, which, due to numerous renovations and modernizations, does not show its age, is a listed building and has five basement floors, some of them from the 14th century (the two bottom floors are under water). He is the namesake of the district. It was an “inn at the gates”, where travelers had to stop in the Middle Ages if the city gates were already closed. Guest rooms are no longer offered, however, the apartments on the upper floor are rented out regularly.

In addition, there is the Catholic Church of St. Konrad in the Bärenkeller with its social center and cared-for senior citizens' living quarters, as well as the Protestant Church of the Redeemer.

A swimming pool with several pools, including a pure swimmer pool, is located in the Bärenkeller - the Bärenkellerbad, which opened in 1976. For many years this swimming pool was open all year round, with several pools under an air dome . After the air dome was irreparably damaged by the weather, the Augsburg city council decided to dismantle this hall and to operate the entire area only seasonally as an outdoor pool with a sunbathing lawn and sports area, a wide and a large water slide . The pools have been heated with solar energy since 1999.

Transport links

The Bärenkeller can be reached with bus lines 21 , 27 and 502 (regional bus to Wertingen). In the past, the Bärenkeller even had a small train station ( Hirblinger Straße ), which has been closed to passenger traffic since the early 1990s and is now only used as a waiting point for local trains. A reactivation of the stop as part of the Regio-S-Bahn Augsburg for better connection of this peripheral district to the center is in planning.

Bundesstraße 17 , which was completed in 1995, runs through the Bärenkeller . From 1943 to 1959, the Augsburg trolleybus also served the district.

societies

• Aktiongemeinschaft pro bärenkeller e. V. (networking and district marketing)
• ATTiS - " Campaign of animal lovers and opponents of animal experiments in Swabia" An animal welfare organization
• German Scouts St. Konrad ( DPSG ), the scouts in the Bärenkeller
• Ice hockey community Woodstock Augsburg-Bärenkeller eV
• Association for Social Affairs St. Konrad e. V.
• Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe eV rescue services
• Shooting Society Fortuna 1970 Augsburg eV
• SpVgg Bärenkeller 1946 Augsburg e. V. - football club, gymnastics and karate
• Stadtwerke SV - tennis
• Historical archers Augsburg eV

Trivia

Play media file

Video recording of Hermann Göring in the Bärenkeller district of Augsburg (after his capture)

After his capture, Hermann Göring presented himself to the American press and a film team in full parade uniform in front of a house in the Bärenkeller (which no longer exists today).

Web links

Commons : Augsburg-Bärenkeller  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

action group pro bärenkeller eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Structural Atlas of the City of Augsburg 2013 (PDF) December 31, 2013, accessed on June 21, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Statistics Augsburg interactive. December 31, 2018, accessed April 1, 2019 . 
3. ↑ https://www.augsburg.de/freizeit/baden/freibaeder/baerenkeller-bad (Bärenkeller Bad)