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Kriegshaber
planning area (VII) of Augsburg
Location of the Kriegshaber planning area in Augsburg
Coordinates 48 ° 22 '36 "  N , 10 ° 51' 30"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 22 '36 "  N , 10 ° 51' 30"  E
surface 4,510.6 km²
Residents 17,146 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density 3801 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 86156
structure
Townships
  • 18 warlords
Source: area population

Kriegshaber is a district in the west of Augsburg with about 17,200 inhabitants and is the VII. Planning area of Augsburg, which in turn consists of the 18th district of the same name.

location

Bärenkeller borders in the north, Oberhausen in the east, Pfersee in the south and the towns of Neusäß and Stadtbergen in the west .

The Hettenbach Canal flows through the east of the district .

history

War owner as a village on the " Chaussee von Günzburg " at the gates of Augsburg, before 1830

The first traces of settlement by Celts can be seen from finds from the Hallstatt period no later than 500 BC. Known. The founding of the village can be dated with some certainty in the 6th or 7th century, as a proven Alemannic burial ground suggests.

In the Middle Ages, the Reichsstraße led from Augsburg via Günzburg to Ulm through this village. It is today's “Ulmer Straße”. Kriegshaber was first mentioned under the name Chrechesavar around the year 1000, and several modifications followed. Since 1550 the community was finally known under the name Kriegshaber . After the Jews were expelled from Augsburg in the 15th century, many of them found a new home in Kriechshabern , as the place was called around 1428. They worked mainly as traders. Their presence is still documented today through the Kriegshaber synagogue on Ulmer Strasse and the Jewish cemetery , which was first mentioned in 1627 .

Up until 1805 the place was part of the Habsburg margraviate of Burgau and was therefore in the front of Austria , which the "Zollhaus" building is reminiscent of. In 1807 the first school was opened there. In 1868 the Catholic Church was consecrated Most Holy Trinity . The Kriegshaber volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1874. Its own hospital opened in 1885. As early as 1910, the Augsburg tram was expanded to Kriegshaber.

During the First World War , the previously independent community, which had 4,764 inhabitants, was incorporated into the city of Augsburg on April 1, 1916 , as it was called at the time, due to excessive indebtedness, which it got into, in particular, through spending on schooling and the poor . There were also fears that epidemics would break out, as there was neither a drinking water supply nor a sewer system in Kriegshaber. In contrast to Augsburg, industrialization had not developed well because, for example, there was a lack of the hydropower used in Augsburg . So one voluntarily asked for an incorporation and was not, for example, before Lechhausen or later Haunstetten, incorporated into the city by force . The area newly added to the city of Augsburg was quickly developed as a residential area.

As a result of the incorporation, an electricity and drinking water supply as well as a sewerage system were installed. The city used the land that was brought in, as there was space here to build the West Hospital , a children's clinic and later the Augsburg Central Clinic .

For a long time, the district was characterized by barracks and military grounds. The former Wehrmacht barracks were taken over by the US Army in 1945 and formed the US Garrison Augsburg . This consisted of the anti-aircraft barracks in the west of Kriegshabers, the Reese barracks in the center and the Sheridan barracks in the south in the Pfersee district . Large housing estates for American soldiers and officers were built on the “Great Parade Grounds”. As a result of the end of the Cold War, the US Army left Augsburg completely and the buildings and areas are gradually being rededicated. New building areas emerged (for example on the site of the former Reese barracks, Reese Park) and the number of residents has risen sharply. At the same time, when many families moved in, Kriegshaber became the district with the lowest average age.

In 2016, Kriegshaber had a population of over 18,500.

economy

The former German NCR headquarters in Augsburg-Kriegshaber, 2005

In October 1946, the bombed-out European headquarters of the NCR Corporation (then in Germany under the name NRK) relocated to Kriegshaber. For this purpose, the company rented part of the Michel-Werke building complex on Ulmer Strasse and built a large industrial center with the NCR high-rise in the open area behind.

The Augsburg architect Carl Weber won the competition to plan the new administration and production building. In the 1960s and 1970s, NCR had 5,000 employees at the Augsburg site (7,000 according to other sources). In the 1980s and 1990s, however, the location was greatly reduced again. In 2004 NCR sold the last remaining properties and in autumn 2015 NCR moved to the Augsburg-Lechhausen district . The buildings formerly built by the NCR in Kriegshaber were demolished in the following years, except for one.

US Housing Areas

In the south of Kriegshaber are two of the four larger " Housing Areas " that the US Garrison Augsburg built as housing estates for the families of the US soldiers stationed here for many years after the Second World War : Cramerton (near the Jewish cemetery ) and Centerville (between the Supply Center or the Bürgermeister-Ackermann-Straße and the Westfriedhof ). The other larger housing areas are in Stadtbergen (Fryar Circle) and Pfersee ( Sullivan Heights ).

Cramerton is named after General Kenneth F. Cramer (1894–1954), who was stationed in Augsburg for a year. Centerville is probably so because of its central location between the US barracks.

The housing estates, which were previously sealed off, consist of large apartment blocks ( row buildings with flat roofs: 45 in Cramerton, 28 in Centerville) and were built according to American taste: very clearly laid out and originally without green spaces, with parking spaces directly in front of the houses. The apartments were generously proportioned and built without a hall: the apartment door leads directly into the living room.

In the 1980s, the housing areas were greened. After the Americans left, the now vacant apartment blocks were renovated. Street names such as Tylerstrasse, Madisonstrasse, Hooverstrasse, Lincolnstrasse, Columbusstrasse or Luther-King-Strasse still refer to the American era.

Churches

The oldest church in Kriegshaber is the Catholic Trinity Church . It was built by Max Treu in 1866/67 . The three-aisled basilica has a retracted choir and a transept. The northern tower has a pointed helmet. In 1945 the Trinity Church was destroyed and rebuilt in 1950 by Michael Kurz . The Catholic Church of St. Thaddäus , located towards the city center, whose construction began during the Second World War , was consecrated in 1948 and finally completed in 1956 with the consecration of the six bells.

In 1961 the Protestant Church of St. Thomas - architect Olaf Andreas Gulbransson - was consecrated. It stands on the northern edge of the Osterfeldpark, which was created after the construction of the bypass road ( Bundesstraße 17 ) on the former football field of TSV Kriegshaber. The associated St. Thomas Chapel in Kriegshaber is a former American church that was built in 1954 for families of soldiers and was used by all represented religious communities until the US garrison of Augsburg left in 1998 . It is located in the Cramerton housing estate. Since 2003 the St. Thomas Chapel has belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Thomas.

traffic

Crossing of federal highway 17 (Dayton-Ring, lower lane) with federal highway 300 (to the west, left) or Bürgermeister-Ackermann-Straße (to the east, right)

The old Reichsstraße “Ulmer Straße” and Kriegshaberstraße, the intersection of which historically represented the origins of the village of Kriegshaber, are no longer relevant for long-distance traffic today, but are still relevant in the city center.

The four-lane Bürgermeister-Ackermann-Strasse (named after the SPD politician Friedrich Ackermann ) has been running through Kriegshaber from west to east since 1959 . It crosses the Wertach at the Ackermann Bridge, which collapsed in 2016 and was renewed in 2017 . Since the 1980s, the four-lane, freeway-like and recessed federal highway 17 has been running from north to south, which is called the Dayton-Ring in this section to Augsburg's twin town Dayton (Ohio) .

At the point where the B 17 crosses the old main street of Kriegshaber, the Ulmer Straße, there is no entrance or exit. Here the B 17 is laid below ground level and covered. To the south of this is the Osterfeldpark on the former site of TSV Kriegshaber, which is separated from the B 17 into a western and an eastern half. A footbridge connects both parts of the park.

Local public transport is provided by a tram line , a city bus line and regional bus lines. There is a connection to local public transport operated by Deutsche Bahn at Oberhausen station .

Architectural monuments

Clubs and organizations

  • TSV Kriegshaber - football and gymnastics club
  • FF Kriegshaber - Kriegshaber volunteer fire department
  • KF Kriegshaber - Kolping Family Augsburg-Kriegshaber
  • BRK Kriegshaber - Bavarian Red Cross readiness / comradeship in the district of Kriegshaber
  • Chess Club Kriegshaber in the old customs house / Children and youth chess in Kriegshaber

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. ↑ From village to small town . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . April 3, 2016 ( augsburger-allgemeine.de ).
  4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 600 .
  5. ↑ From village to small town . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . April 3, 2016 ( augsburger-allgemeine.de ).
  6. ↑ Martin Broszat, Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Hans Woller: From Stalingrad to currency reform. On the social history of upheaval in Germany. Walter de Gruyter, 2009, p. 583.
  7. ↑ Kriegshaber - 70 years of Augsburg district memoirs of Heinz Wember, accessed on November 22, 2019.
  8. ↑ NCR moves into the former Weltbild headquarters. In: immobilien-zeitung.de. www.immobilien-zeitung.de, accessed on December 27, 2015 .
  9. ↑ The NCR high-rise will be demolished Augsburger Allgemeine on December 18, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2019.
  10. ↑ Kriegshaberblatt . No. 21 . Augsburg February 2019, p. 14 .
  11. ↑ Kriegshaberblatt . No. 21 . Augsburg February 2019, p. 14 .
  12. ↑ Kriegshaberblatt . No. 21 . Augsburg February 2019, p. 14 .

Web links

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