Augsburg university district

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Coat of arms of Augsburg
University district
planning room (XVII) of Augsburg
Location of the university district planning area in Augsburg
Coordinates 48 ° 18 '30 "  N , 10 ° 54' 15"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '30 "  N , 10 ° 54' 15"  E
surface 4,001.9 km²
Residents 10,983 (Dec 31, 2013)
Population density 2744 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 86159
structure
Townships
  • 32 university district
Source: area population

The university quarter is the 32nd district of Augsburg and is referred to as planning area XVII. It is located south of the city center and has a population of around 11,000. The proportion of foreigners is 13.1% and is thus below the urban average (proportion 16.7%). The most important institution in the quarter is the eponymous Augsburg University, which has been located there since 1974. Previously, the old airfield was located on the extensive site . Therefore, many streets in the district bear the names of well-known pilots and flight pioneers.

history

Today's university district is one of the younger Augsburg city districts and was initially used as a company airport . For Bayerische Rumpler-Werke AG , a subsidiary of the Berlin Rumpler Flugzeugwerke GmbH , three production halls and an airfield were built on the site in 1916. After the First World War, civil air traffic was handled on the site. The company Rumpler aviation transported passengers and mail bags on the domestic German route Augsburg-Munich-Fürth / Nuremberg-Leipzig-Berlin and back. Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG (BFW, from 1938: Messerschmitt AG ), founded in 1923, acquired the halls of the former Rumpler works at the end of July 1926. In the era of National Socialism , the area around the airport a major military site was so big there was carpet bombing during the war.

The old airfield was the works airfield of the BFW and Messerschmitt AG until the end of World War II and was then used by the US armed forces . From 1955 to 1968, the airfield then served as a regional airport for civil aviation. In 1968 the airport was closed and a new district was planned. The new roads were given the names of well-known aviation pioneers (such as Louis Blériot and Salomon Idler ) or former production facilities (such as the Rumpler works ) and were intended to be a reminder of the past. In addition to the street names, there is no longer any reference to the original use of this district, with the exception of smaller runways.

university

Campus of the University of Augsburg

See main article: University of Augsburg

The University of Augsburg was founded in 1970 and emerged from the Philosophical-Theological University of the Bishops of Augsburg, which existed between 1551 and 1802 in Dillingen, and the University of Education of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich . The university campus was initially in Lechhausen or in the Hochfeld on Memminger Straße. An extensive campus has been built in the south of the city on the site of the old airfield since 1974, which has grown into a separate district to this day. In the meantime, only a small part of the university is located in the building of the former college of education in Lechhausen . Along with Bremen, it is the only German university whose premises are crossed by a tram and which has its own stop.

Churches

  • Catholic Church "To the Good Shepherd"
  • Evangelical Church "Stephanus"
  • Hagia Sophia in Edith Stein's house, Catholic university community
  • Baptist Church

Facilities

State Office for the Environment

The State Office for the Environment has had its headquarters in a new building in the university quarter since September 1999. The building and the outdoor facilities were planned according to the latest ecological findings, but the actual design is controversial.

Bucovina Institute

The Bukovina Institute is not far from the University's New Campus. The short distance should facilitate the exchange and communication with the scientists and students of the university.

literature

  • Günther Grünsteudel , Günter Hägele, Rudolf Frankenberger (eds.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 , ( online )
  • Wolfgang Bublies, Edgar Mathe: With the Augsburg Local Railway through industrial history. 2nd Edition. Settele, Augsburg-Haunstetten 1996, pp. 89ff.

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. ↑ Günther Grünsteudel , Günter Hägele, Rudolf Frankenberger (ed.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 .

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