Government district

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Government district
City of Emden
Coordinates: 53 ° 21 ′ 50 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 3 ″  E
Postal code : 26721
Area code : 04921
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Location of the city center in the city of Emden
Street in the administrative district

The Emden city administration and several other authorities and service providers are located in the administrative district of the city of Emden . The city administration calculates the administrative district statistically to the city center and therefore does not show any separate population figures. The six districts of the city center have a total of 8,677 inhabitants.

location

The administrative district is to the west and north of the old town . Port Arthur / Transvaal is southwest of the district and Constantia to the west . In the north, the administrative district borders on Früchteburg and at the end of the Ringstrasse on a small section also on Boltentor at the height of the Emder Wall . Opposite the old inland port is Klein-Faldern .

The border to the old town is the Emsmauerstraße, which follows the course of the former Emsmauer. In the past, the old town expanded up to this point, and the Ems ran south of it . Furthermore, an approximate extension of Emsmauerstraße in the direction of Burgplatz forms the border between the historic settlement center and the administrative district. A few remains of the old Emsmauer can still be seen near Burgplatz. The south-western and western border opposite Port Arthur / Transvaal and Constantia is the Rheine – Norddeich Mole railway line operated by Deutsche Bahn. The border to Klein-Faldern is formed by the old inland port, the border to Früchteburg in the north by the Larrelter Tief .

history

The district is relatively young and only emerged from the end of the 19th century . At the beginning of the 20th century, and especially during the Weimar Republic , the local civil servants-construction-housing cooperative built apartments in the surrounding residential streets , which were (initially only) rented to the employees of the authorities. This gave the quarter its name.

The main station and its surroundings have been completely redesigned since the early 1970s . It all started with the station itself: it was completely rebuilt and opened in 1973. In the following years, the main post office in Emden moved from Cirksenastraße to Bahnhofsplatz. The old main post office has since been used as the Alte Post youth and cultural center. The police station opposite the train station, which has moved there from the Groß-Faldern district (Brückstrasse) , has also been newly built . An eight-story residential high-rise in the immediate vicinity completes the modern ensemble in the style of the 1970s and early 1980s. Emden's only mosque , the Eyup Sultan Mosque , has been located in a former restaurant next to the train station since the 2000s .

The western side of the "old inland port" with shipping company office and apartments

In the course of promoting tourism in Emden and increasing the quality of life in the city center, the “Alter Binnenhafen” project has been developed since the late 1990s. The historical parts of the Emden port ( Ratsdelft , Falderndelft, old inland port, railway dock), which have long since ceased to be used for the handling of goods, have been and are being used again.

In detail, the following measures have been implemented:

  • Construction of office buildings (including for the Lauterjung shipping company ), a building for the Emden city administration and condominiums on the west side of the old part of the port.
  • Creation of a promenade around the historic port, around 250 boat berths and 45  mobile home parking spaces.
  • Development of a new district with garden courtyard houses and jetties on the east side of the historic harbor.
  • New cultural and gastronomic facilities.

The investment sum that has become known so far for the buildings on the west side of the inland port (i.e. in the administrative district) and promenade / parking spaces / berths amounts to at least 35 million euros, of which around eight million euros are public capital.

The following projects, which are still in planning or under construction, have not yet been implemented:

  • Reconstruction and conversion of the World War II bunker on Nesserlander Strasse (planning).
  • Construction of a high standard hotel (planning).
  • Extension of the residential complex with condominiums (planning).
  • Construction of another office building (under construction).

economy

Parts of the administrative district: In the center of the picture the Emden water tower , in front of it one of the two high-rise buildings in the district. To the right of it you can see the brightly clinkered police building, again to the right of the main post office. To the right behind the water tower is the Emder Zeitung publishing house and the multiplex cinema. The district court building from 1911 can be seen on the middle right of the picture. In the background parts of the port of
Emden and the Ems .

There are no industrial companies in the administrative district and only very few other manufacturing companies with the exception of handicrafts . The economy focuses on private and above all public services . These include the Emden city administration, the tax office, the former main customs office ( concentrated in Oldenburg at the beginning of 2000 ), the Emden district court and the penal institution as well as other public institutions such as the regional chamber of industry and commerce - all concentrated on one street. The Emden Labor Court is located on Schweckendieckplatz, where the Ringstrasse meets the Nesserlander Strasse. It is housed in an office building from the turn of the last century and was previously only a few dozen meters further north in a new building that had to give way in favor of a planned hotel.

The Lauterjung shipping company is one of the larger private service providers in the administrative district and has its domicile in a new building at the Old Inland Port. EVAG , which is active in port handling, is based in an office building on Nesserlander Strasse. Individual office service providers can now be found in the former shipping company offices of Westfälische Transport AG ( Haus der Schiffahrt am Schweckendieckplatz) and Fisser & van Doornum (Ringstrasse), as well as in the Dollarthaus on Ringstrasse, where, among other things, the service provider active in the wind and solar energy sector IfE has its seat. Other service providers with a maritime background are the Emden branches of the See-Berufsgenossenschaft and Germanischer Lloyd .

Since moving from the city center to the Ringstrasse, the Emder Zeitung publishing house has also been located in the quarter. The Sparkasse Aurich-Norden and Commerzbank have their single Emden offices at the Civic Center: the former at the Great Street in the building of the former agricultural school, the latter at Delft. The main post office of Deutsche Post is located in a building immediately north of the main train station. The Cinestar Group's multiplex cinema , which is the only cinema in town after the traditional Apollo has closed, is also close to the train station . There are many doctors 'and lawyers' practices along Nesserlander Straße and Ringstraße.

traffic

Emden main station with ZOB on the station forecourt (top left).

Abdenastraße / Larrelter Straße runs in the north of the district and is part of Landesstraße 2 , which runs through Emden in an east-west direction . She has been crossing the tracks over a bridge near the train station since the early 1980s. With more than 23,000 vehicles per day (as of the beginning of the 2000s), this section is one of the most heavily used road sections in Emden and East Frisia.

The ring road as an inner-city connecting road takes a little more than 6000 vehicles between Großer Straße and Abdenastraße, on the section between Großer Straße and Nesserlander Straße it is about 5800. The Nesserlander Straße is used by more than 7700 vehicles between Ratsdelft and Ringstraße, on the more southern The section up to the railway crossing is still more than 3700. The northernmost section of the Cirksenastraße between the ring road and the railway crossing has a vehicle load of around 3100 vehicles per day, the Große Straße on the entire section between the station and Burgplatz of around 4000 vehicles.

In the 1970s, there were plans to extend the Ringstrasse beyond Abdenastrasse through the Boltentorviertel and to build an inner-city traffic ring up to the confluence of Philosophenweg with Auricher Strasse / Neutorstrasse. After the presentation of this draft plan by the planning office Dr. Schubert was criticized because the street would have led along the wall and the existing buildings would have had to be built over. The road was never built.

The ZOB on the station forecourt is the central hub of local public transport in Emden. Not only do the bus connections to the surrounding area ( Aurich , Norden , Pewsum and other places) start from here , the four lines of the Emden city transport also meet here. The administrative district is further developed from lines 501 and 503. The former leads from Petkum via Borssum to the city center and on via Barenburg to Harsweg . It connects several of the largest parts of the city and is therefore the busiest in Emden. There is also an amplifier line between Borssum and Barenburg. Line 503 connects Constantia , the city center and Herrentor . Thanks to this frequency, the public authority district has above-average bus traffic connections compared to other parts of the city.

Architecture and urban planning

Branch of Sparkasse Aurich-Norden on Grosse Strasse

Many of the official and residential buildings are in the style of clinker expressionism and date from the era between the turn of the last century and around 1930. One of the outstanding individual buildings is the headquarters of the Emder Verkehrsgesellschaft : It was planned by the Hamburg architect Fritz Höger and opened in 1913/14 completed. For the monument conservator Gottfried Kiesow , the building represents "an important testimony to North German brick expressionism". Further examples from this era are the Commerzbank building designed by the architect R. Dose and the Neo-Renaissance district court building from 1911 with dark bricks Sandstone inclusions. The branch of Sparkasse Aurich-Norden on Grosse Strasse and the former main post office on Cirksenastrasse can also be assigned to brick expressionism. Around Schweckendieckplatz (where the Ringstrasse joins Nesserlander Strasse) there are other buildings from the time the administrative district was built, including the Haus der Schiffahrt and the Handelshof . A landmark is the Emden water tower from the years 1910–12 , located in the immediate vicinity of the train station . With a height of 42 meters, it clearly towers above most of the city's buildings. The building, which has been a listed building since 1999, is the first in Emden to be constructed using reinforced concrete . An example of successful reconstruction architecture after the destruction of the city in the Second World War was the shipping office of the Fritzen company from the 1950s, which was taken over by the city of Emden in 1979 and demolished in 2009. Some examples of suburban, gable-facing houses of historicism in the Swiss house style have been preserved on Neptunstraße (examples: house numbers 5 and 6).

Churches

The Eyup Sultan Mosque

Because of the close proximity to the old town with its churches, there was no need for further churches in the course of the construction of the administrative district. Only after the war was a church built for the New Apostolic Church on the Ringstrasse. In the 2000s, Emden's only mosque, the Eyup Sultan Mosque , was added.

Personalities

The director Wolfgang Petersen was born in 1941 in a residential building on Fürbringerstraße . However, he grew up in a barracks settlement in the harbor .

literature

  • Marianne Claudi, Reinhard Claudi: Golden and other times. Emden, city in East Frisia. Gerhard Verlag, Emden 1982, ISBN 3-88656-003-1 .
  • Dietmar von Reeken : East Frisia between Weimar and Bonn. A case study on the problem of historical continuity using the example of the cities of Emden and Aurich. (Sources and studies on the history of Lower Saxony after 1945, Volume 7). Verlag August Lax, Hildesheim 1991, ISBN 3-7848-3057-9 .
  • Ernst Siebert, Walter Deeters , Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1750 to the present. (East Frisia in the protection of the dike, vol. 7). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1980, DNB 203159012 , therein:
    • Ernst Siebert: History of the City of Emden from 1750 to 1890. P. 2–197.
    • Walter Deeters: History of the City of Emden from 1890 to 1945. P. 198–256.
    • Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1945 to the present. Pp. 257-488.
  • Gottfried Kiesow : Architecture Guide East Friesland. Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Emden: Statistics Info 02/2009 . S. 5 ( statistics info / online document [PDF]).
  2. This and the following figures on www.emden.de: Traffic Development Plan for Motorized Individual Transport ( Memento from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1945 to the present. In Ernst Siebert, Walter Deeters, Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1750 to the present. (East Frisia in the protection of the dike, vol. 7). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1980, DNB 203159012 , p. 288 f.
  4. ↑ Route network map ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland. Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 45.
  6. Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland. Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 44.
  7. ^ Stadtwerke Emden: Emder Wasser ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , PDF file (4.7 MB), accessed on September 11, 2013.
  8. Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland. Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 45.
  9. ^ Kurt Asche: Urban houses of the bourgeoisie and the nobility. In: Karl-Ernst Behre , Hajo van Lengen : Ostfriesland. History and shape of a cultural landscape . Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 1995, ISBN 3-925365-85-0 , pp. 311–328, here p. 325.
  10. Ostfriesland-Magazin, 4/2007, p. 3
  11. In this context, the present means: until 1978/79, and in perspective two years beyond.