Ehrenfeld (Bochum)

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The Ehrenfeld is a quarter in the north of the Wiemelhausen district in Bochum . The quarter is directly connected to the southern city center and can be reached from there via Königsallee. Although Wiemelhausen belongs to the Bochum-Süd district, from a political point of view the Ehrenfeld belongs to the Bochum-Mitte district .

history

The Ehrenfeld was until the mid-19th century a barely-developed forests and meadows with few houses, which belonged to the municipality and Wiemelhausen popularly the name Small točke wore. The owner of the area was the house rake under the owner Otto von Schell . After the Franco-German War of 1870/71, the residents agreed on the new name Das Ehrenfeld for the region in March 1874 .

After lengthy negotiations towards the end of the century, von Schell left the building contractor Clemens Erlemann (1865–1937) properties between today's Oskar-Hoffmann-Straße and the Bergisch-Märkische railway line, so that the first buildings in a new district were built at the turn of the century. After Erlemann was able to acquire the remaining space in the house of Rechen in 1904, development work began in early 1905 for a first section of Königsallee and the construction of the first residential buildings. In quick succession a Catholic and Protestant church, the administration building of the General Knappschaftsverein (completion June 1910) and in 1908 a theater were built on the site. By the First World War , the entire development plan for the district was completed.

Erlemann wanted to create a middle-class district for middle and upper classes of the population. The starting point for this should be a square with star-shaped streets and a boulevard. The square, which was originally designed as the center of the Ehrenfeld, is today's distribution circle Romanus-Platz, the boulevard is the Königsallee. The streets of the Ehrenfeld have not grown, but have been planned according to urban development.

Current situation

Schauspielhaus Bochum

The district is characterized by its proximity to the city center and contains various important institutions: including the theater , the main administration of BOGESTRA , the tax office Bochum-Süd, the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See , the employment office of the city of Bochum and a branch of the Germans Bundesbank and the drama school in Bochum, which is affiliated to the Folkwang University of the Arts .

railway station

B.-Ehrenfeld stop

The Bochum-Ehrenfeld stop runs two tracks in an east-west-east direction that share a platform; both are used in S-Bahn traffic. The stop is not barrier-free. The 355 bus also stops there.

line Line designation Line course
S 1 Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Mülheim (Ruhr) - Duisburg - Düsseldorf Airport - Düsseldorf - Hilden - Solingen

Banks

Headquarters of the GLS community bank

The GLS Gemeinschaftbank eG has its headquarters in Ehrenfeld. The Sparkasse Bochum is represented by three offices. The main office of Volksbank Bochum Witten is located on the eastern edge of the former Friederika colliery . The other banks have withdrawn.

education

schools

Drusenberg School

In order to develop a quarter that is also attractive in terms of family politics, a primary school and a grammar school were established before the First World War ; Both buildings were designed by the Bochum city ​​architect Karl Elkart . A second high school followed soon after the war. Today there are three primary schools and two grammar schools in Ehrenfeld :

The Drusenberg School building has been a listed building since 1988.

Entrance area of ​​the Bergmannsheil University Clinic in Bochum

Institutions affiliated with the Ruhr University Bochum

Founded in 1962 Ruhr-University Bochum was indeed outside of downtown Bochum in Querenburg as Campus - University created; Nevertheless, two institutions associated with the university have their headquarters in the Ehrenfeld:

House of the History of the Ruhr Area
  • The House of History of the Ruhr Area sees itself as an interdisciplinary research facility; it brings together the Ruhr Area Library Foundation , the archive for social movements and the institute for social movements . In 1980 the house received the status of a university institute.

Vocational education

Freemasons

Two Masonic lodges work in the Ehrenfeld :

hospice

The Caritas operates in the converted villa Gröppel the Hospice of St. Hildegard , accompanied in the seriously ill and dying people in their last stage of life and receive comprehensive medical care; the admission takes place regardless of belief or origin as well as the social position or political opinion of the patient. The facility has 11 rooms that can also be individually furnished.

Art in public space

Erich Schmidtbochum Bergmann
Monument to Tana-Schanzara on the place named after her

In Ehrenfeld are sculptures and sculptures , which were created by well-known national and international artists. The financing came from the public sector , various companies or private civic engagement.

religion

As in other similarly structured metropolitan areas, various religious communities have settled in the Ehrenfeld, with Erlemann including one church for each of the two major denominations in the concept of his planning from the start.

Churches

Melanchthon Church Bochum

To ensure the bourgeois character of the planned new district, Erlemann donated a piece of land to the Evangelical and Catholic Churches; These donations were linked to the condition that construction work should begin before January 1, 1912, otherwise the land would have reverted to the donor. With considerable financial efforts, the first two parishes of the Ehrenfeld were established very quickly :

St. Meinolphus-Mauritius Bochum

Both churches were badly destroyed in World War II and rebuilt after the war.

Independently of Erlemann's plans, two Protestant free church churches were also built:

mosque

The Islamic Community Bochum e. V. has been running the Eyup Sultan Mosque since 1976 . Every year on Open Mosque Day (October 3), guided tours of the building and explanations about Islam are offered.

Buddhist center

The Buddhist Center Bochum of the Karma Kagyu Line eV moved to Ehrenfeld in 2012; it organizes regular meditation evenings and offers regular lectures and information on Diamond Way Buddhism .

Trivia

  • Since Bochum's Ehrenfeld is not a separate district, one lives “in” Ehrenfeld and not “in” Ehrenfeld (such as in the Cologne district of the same name ).
  • In Bochum, even before gentrification , it was said : "Whoever is self-respecting lives in Ehrenfeld!"
  • The city ​​magazine Prinz selected Ehrenfeld in July 2010 as the most attractive city quarter in the Ruhr area.
  • Since 2009 the district magazine Der Ehrenfelder has been published in Ehrenfeld and distributed to the households in the district.
  • The “Bochum OFFline” program has been published every month since 2012, depicting the activities of the creative scene in Ehrenfeld, Griesenbruch and Rottstrasse.

literature

  • Marina von Assel: Art at every turn in Bochum. A guide to modern art on public streets and squares , Bochum 1992
  • Dietmar Bleidick, Dirk Ernesti: Historisches Ehrenfeld , Bochum 2009
  • Wilhelm Fenselau: Ehrenfeld yesterday and today: an illustrated book from Bochum , Bochum 1990
  • Peter Zimmermann: Historical Ehrenfeld , Bochum 1981
  • City magazine Der Ehrenfelder

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Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '  N , 7 ° 13'  E