Barop

Barop City of Dortmund Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E
Height :	99 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.96 km²
Residents :	7500 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	3.825 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	August 1, 1929
Postcodes :	44225, 44227
Area code :	0231
Statistical District :	61
	Location of Barop in Dortmund

Groß Barop settlement core

Margaret Chapel from 1348 in Klein Barop

Margarethenkapelle, choir

Rüpingsbach before renaturation in Barop

Barop ( Low German : Borop) is the statistical district 61 and at the same time a south-western part of the city of Dortmund . It is located near the Technical University of Dortmund in the Hombruch district .

geography

Barop is located about four kilometers southwest of Dortmund city center at an average altitude of 99 m above sea level. NHN . However, since the settlement areas extend from the Rüpingbach valley to the Ostenberg, there are significant differences in altitude. The district consists of several larger settlement areas.

In the west are the more rural districts of Groß-Barop (Low German: Grautborop) and Klein-Barop. This area is predominantly characterized by bourgeois one- to two-family houses and a large number of historic half-timbered buildings. In addition, a large number of student apartments were built, especially in Klein-Barop. Groß-Barop and Klein-Barop are included in the statistical district of the University.

The largest settlement area in Barop is the more urban area around Krückenweg, Stockumer Straße and Dortmund-Barop train station . This area is characterized by very mixed residential developments. While the central residential areas here are predominantly characterized by multi-family houses, single house developments predominate on the outskirts. The residential area adjacent to the Bolmke around the Helenenbergweg is characterized by spacious single-family houses and villas.

Since 2001, Barop has also incorporated the Schönau district, which was built in the style of a garden city .

All neighboring towns are also Dortmund districts, Eichlinghofen joins to the west and Menglinghausen to the south-west . In the southeast, Barop borders on Hombruch , in the east on Renninghausen and in the northeast, the Schönau, which also belongs to Barop, is already connected to the Dortmund city center. In the north the federal road 1 borders the district, the areas north of this road belong to Dorstfeld .

The Emscher and the Rüpingsbach , which flows into the Emscher in Schönau, flow through Barop .

history

A Germanic settlement in the area of Barop is documented by archaeological finds from around 500 AD. In 1229 Barop was first mentioned in a document under the name Bardorpe and since the early Middle Ages it served as a knight seat of the Badorpe family of ministers (later Barop).

In around 1920, Eichlinghofen , Menglinghausen , Persebeck and Salingen were incorporated. On August 1, 1929, Barop was incorporated into Dortmund.

The Margaret Chapel

→ Main article: Margaret Chapel (Barop)

The oldest surviving building in the district is the Margaret Chapel from the 14th century, originally a branch of St. Reinoldi in Dortmund. The St. Margaretha chapel was built according to the model of the Westphalian hall churches with the choir just closed. The building was first mentioned in a document in 1348. In 1655 Barop became an independent Protestant parish. In 1829 the original nave was demolished and rebuilt while preserving the choir. On the east side there are some weathered tombstones from around 1800.

Destruction and rebuilding

In 1647 a fire almost completely destroyed the district. After the inauguration of the Elberfeld – Dortmund railway line by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft on December 20, 1848 , a settlement center and urban structures developed around the station . Towards the middle of the 19th century, the Barop office comprised a large part of the surrounding areas within the Dortmund district and later the Hörde district . In 1888 there was a division into smaller offices, such as the office in Kirchhörde . With the dissolution of the district of Hörde in 1929, Barop was also incorporated into Dortmund and, with the community reform in 1975, it was finally incorporated into the newly formed district of Hombruch. Since 2001, the previously independent district of Schönau north of Klein-Barop has also belonged to Barop.

Due to the proximity of the university, several student residences were built in Barop from the 1970s onwards, which shape the image of the settlement along Emil-Figge-Straße and on Ostenberg. In addition, the Ostenberg elementary school is located between the Groß- and Klein-Barop, which was completely rebuilt in 2004 and 2005 after the old building from the 1920s had become dilapidated.

population

On December 31, 2019, there were 7,500 inhabitants in Barop.

Structure of the Baroper population:

Share of the population under 18 years of age: 12.8% [Dortmund average: 16.2% (2018)]
Population share of at least 65-year-olds: 21.9% [Dortmund average: 20.2% (2018)]
Proportion of foreigners: 11.6% [Dortmund average: 18.8% (2019)]
Unemployment rate: 6.1% [Dortmund average: 11.0% (2017)]

The average income in Barop corresponds roughly to the Dortmund average.

Population development

year	Pop.
1987	7415
2003	7684
2008	7595
2010	7493
2013	7524
2016	7480
2018	7528

traffic

Barop S-Bahn station

The most important traffic connections in Barop are the Stockumer Straße , an east-west connection between Hörde and Bochum in the south of the district and the Krückenweg , which connects Barop with the Dortmund city center. In December 2009, a junction named after the district was opened on the A 40 (No. 44 "DO-Barop", on the west side of the Schnettker Bridge ), but geographically it can still be assigned to Eichlinghofen.

Barop is crossed by the U 42 light rail line , which also provides a connection to Dortmund city center and beyond to Grevel . An important traffic junction for the south-west of Dortmund is the Barop Parkhaus stop , where several city bus routes stop in addition to the tram. A little further south there is also the Dortmund-Barop train station , where the S-Bahn line 5 from Dortmund to Hagen stops. A relocation of the train station near the Barop Parkhaus stop has been under discussion for a long time, as it is currently hardly integrated into the city transport network. However, implementation is not expected in the near future.

economy

In the area of what is now the Hombruch district, the area of which belonged to Barop at the time, coal was mined as early as the 18th century, and the train station, which still exists today, was built near the Louise Tiefbau colliery to remove the coal . Several heavy industry companies also settled in the vicinity. Coal production in the Baroper Revier was discontinued with the closure of the Glückauf-Tiefbau colliery in 1925, and the Baroper machine factory was wound up shortly afterwards in 1932.

But the name Hoesch has also been associated with Barop for many years: Hoesch AG bought and operated several steel and rolling mills also in the south of the district. It was not until 1989 that the Baroper pipe works closed as the last Hoesch company in the district.

Today, several medium-sized companies from the metalworking and energy technology sectors as well as a shopping center are located on the former Hoesch site east of the train station. Further north there is a switch factory , which has been closed since the end of 2013.