Augsburg-Hochfeld

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Coat of arms of Augsburg
Hochfeld
planning room (IX) of Augsburg
Location of the Hochfeld planning area in Augsburg
Coordinates 48 ° 20 '50 "  N , 10 ° 54' 0"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '50 "  N , 10 ° 54' 0"  E
height 485– 499  m above sea level NN
surface 1,932.9 km²
Residents 9180 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density 4749 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 86159
structure
Townships
  • 13 high field
Source: area population

The Hochfeld is a district of Augsburg . The high field has about 9,200 inhabitants and is the IX. Planning area and 13th district of Augsburg.

location

The high field is located south of Augsburg city center . The Hochfeld district is bounded in the north by the Augsburg – Munich railway line and the Bismarck district on the other side . In the east it meets the landscape park Siebentischanlagen at Brunnenbach , in the west it is bounded by the Augsburg – Lindau railway line . The south is now built on with the Augsburg trade fair , and the university quarter was also built on the area of ​​the old airfield . The border here is Firnhaberstr. and Werner-von-Siemens-Str.

history

Originally the high field was a free, undeveloped field on the Augsburg high terrace with its fertile loess soil. In 1868 the Israelitische Friedhof was laid out between Alten Postweg and Haunstetter Straße. In 1884 the 3rd Infantry Regiment "Prince Karl of Bavaria" was stationed in the newly built Prince Karl barracks .

20th century

The high field was not settled until the 20th century, which was prompted by the establishment of the railway depot , which was built in 1902–1906 east of the Augsburg – Lindau railway line opened in 1847 (as part of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn ). Residential houses were built for railway officials and workers, and larger block developments were soon added by housing cooperatives.

After the end of the First World War , due to the blatant housing shortage, the city councilor Otto Holzer built small apartments and the Römerhof by 1923, which were demolished in 1964 and 1995 due to the poor building fabric and replaced by new buildings.

After the economic downturn in the 1920s, more, better equipped courtyards were built. The Augsburg architect Gottfried Bösch deserves special mention here. One of the peculiarities of his block buildings is, for example, the so-called “Augsburger Erker”, a small, triangular component protruding from a west-facing facade, which can capture southern light with the help of an angled window and make the apartments brighter and more homely.

The Hochfeld, which is increasingly characterized by population growth, only received a center in 1934 with the construction of the Catholic parish church of St. Canisius , according to plans by the Augsburg architect Fritz Kempf . The foundation stone was laid on October 8, 1933, and it was consecrated on September 16, 1934.

On the reliefs on the lintels there are symbols of the Nazi womanhood , the German Labor Front and the Hitler Youth , from which the swastikas were removed after 1945.

In the years 1936/1937 residential buildings in row construction were built in the south of the high field for the workers of the nearby Bavarian aircraft works . The construction of the 474 apartments was hailed as a “social feat of the community”. Reliefs on lintels with a propagandistic image program give hints of the prevailing zeitgeist . Street names after aviation pioneers such as August von Parseval , Max Immelmann , Max von Mulzer and Manfred von Richthofen refer to the historical aviation industry of the Hochfeld .

The end of the Second World War resulted in the eviction of around 650 apartments by the American occupying forces . Until November 1951, up to 2,500 displaced persons from the Baltic states were quartered in the "Camp Baltic Hochfeld" . Between 1952 and 1957, the Hochfeld was the fastest growing district of Augsburg due to further developments - such as apartment blocks for young families by Wilhelm Wichtendahl or the war victims' settlement by Walther Schmidt . The population increased from 6,700 to 12,200 during this time.

In 1954 the Kerschensteiner School (elementary and secondary school) was inaugurated. The Protestant Paul Gerhardt Church with kindergarten was built in 1962–1964. From 1965, the Bebo-Wager vocational school and the Siemens factory (today Sigma-Technopark) were built on the site of the former sports grounds of TSV Schwaben Augsburg and other clubs. As a compensation, the district sports facility south was built east of Haunstetter Strasse. In 1978 the Reischlesche Business School and the technical college / vocational school were housed in a new building complex in the south of the district. As a reaction to the high juvenile delinquency in Hochfeld, the Hochfeld citizens' campaign and a community center with a youth club were created in 1979.

On May 4, 1987 Pope John Paul II consecrated the seminary of St. Hieronymus during his visit to Germany, which was built on Stauffenbergstrasse according to plans by the architect Alexander Freiherr von Branca . The Ernst Lehner Stadium has also been located here since 1996 .

21st century

From 1998 the southern building of the Prinz-Karl-Kaserne was converted into the Prinz-Karl-Palais. A community center for the regional church community, a student residence hall and a center for assisted living were built on the site, which is now known as the Prinz-Karl-Viertel.

The railway systems - long shut down - are gradually finding new life. The Augsburg Railway Park , the revitalization of old locomotive sheds for cultural purposes and a railway museum , however, indicate that the Hochfeld can recover after a phase of decline, fallow land and the deterioration of buildings.

traffic

Bundesstrasse 300 runs to the east and south of the high field .

Local public transport is served by two tram lines and one bus line operated by the Augsburg public transport company , as well as regional bus lines. In addition, the Haunstetter Strasse , Messe and Morellstrasse stops provide an excellent connection to Deutsche Bahn public transport .

Architectural monuments

literature

  • Luigi Monzo: Building churches in the Third Reich. The inversion of the church's renewal dynamics using the example of the St. Canisius Church in Augsburg designed by Fritz Kempf. In: the Münster: magazine for Christian art and art history. 68.2015 / 1 (April), pp. 74-82.
  • Bernt von Hagen: Monuments in Bavaria. VII.83: City of Augsburg. Karl M. Lipp, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-87490-572-1 .
  • Barbara Wolf: Residential architecture in Augsburg - communal residential buildings in the Weimar Republic. Architekturmuseum Schwaben, Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-496-01250-1 .
  • Günther Grünsteudel , Günter Hägele, Rudolf Frankenberger (eds.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 .
  • Ulrich Heiß: Architecture in Augsburg 1900–2000. Edited by the Swabian Architects and Engineers Association. Klaus and Stoll, Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-928691-31-7 .
  • Ernst Erhart: Railway junction Augsburg - the hub of rail traffic. GeraMond, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-932785-23-1 .
  • Carmen Roll, Ralf Gössl, Martin Herdegen: Parish Church of St. Canisius Augsburg-Hochfeld. City Parish Office St. Canisius, Augsburg 2004.

Web links

Commons : Augsburg-Hochfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ Ines Lehmann: Places of pilgrimage for right-wing extremists? In: Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. August 12, 2011, accessed September 5, 2011.
  4. ^ Christian Mühlhause: Life in the high field I. The maker . In: Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. February 28, 2011, accessed September 5, 2011.
  5. ^ Christian Mühlhause: Life in the high field II. The pragmatist . In: Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. February 28, 2011, accessed September 5, 2011.