Bergerhausen (Essen)

Basic data
Bergerhausen district of Essen

surface	3.34 km²
Residents	11,646 (March 31, 2020)
Coordinates	51 ° 26 '11 " N , 7 ° 2' 40" E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '11 " N , 7 ° 2' 40" E51.436389 7.044444 110
height	110 m
Incorporation	Aug 1, 1929
Spatial assignment
Post Code	45134, 45136
District number	13
district	District II Rüttenscheid / Bergerhausen / Rellinghausen / Stadtwald
Source: City of Essen statistics

Bergerhausen is a district southeast of the city center of Essen . Bergerhausen is limited by the districts of Steele and Überruhr-Hinsel in the east, in the southeast by the Ruhr , Rellinghausen in the south, Rüttenscheid and city center in the west and Huttrop in the north.

character

Bergerhausen is characterized by dense residential developments with green areas and some commercial areas. For example, the Zeche Ludwig industrial park is located in the district on the site of the former colliery of the same name, as well as the Ruhrallee industrial park along the Ruhrallee.

In the district there are two denominational elementary schools with open all-day courses in the immediate vicinity, the Protestant Theodor Heuss School and the Catholic School on Krausen Bäumchen , as well as the Elsa Brändström Realschule , an elite school for sports .

Bergerhausen has a direct connection to the A 52 , which joins the A 40 at the nearby Essen-Ost motorway junction . The most important inner-city traffic axis is the Ruhrallee, which forms part of the B 227 here and divides the district very precisely in the middle.

In the local public transport , Bergerhausen is served by the tram line 105 and the bus lines SB15, 154, 155, 160 and 161 of the Ruhrbahn .

population

On March 31, 2020, 11,646 people lived in Bergerhausen.

Structural data of the population in Bergerhausen (as of March 31, 2020):

Share of the population under 18 years of age: 14.3% (Essen average: 16.2%)
Population share of at least 65-year-olds: 25.5% (Essen average: 21.5%)
Proportion of foreigners: 7.7% (Essen average: 16.9%)

history

Bergerhausen was first mentioned in 943 as Bergarahuson . The former peasantry , made up of individual cottages and hamlets, was dominated by rural areas well into the 20th century. There are no noteworthy connections to the nearby Essen monastery and its subsidiary Rellinghausen . Only a crossroads on the corner of Am Krausen Bäumchen / Weserstraße marked the border with the Rellinghauser Stift. Here you got from one jurisdiction to the other. The Schuyrmans Gud on the Kaninenberghöhe is documented with the date August 5, 1472 . The Vittinghoff-Schell family , who lived at Schellenberg Castle in Rellinghausen, provided the estate with a pension of seven Rhenish guilders . It has been mentioned in the lease book of the Werden monastery since the 16th century . Today the listed farm is known as Bauer Gantenberg and consists of a main house from 1810, according to the inscription bar above the Deelentor, and an old divider house, according to the door bar from 1792. Between 1938 and 2004, the Gantenberg family managed this last farm in Bergerhausen. After the lease expired and the city of Essen had bought the farm in the meantime, it was sold to a private buyer in 2004. Taking into account the monument protection, the former Schürmannshof has today undergone extensive renovation work and new, secure future prospects. There are no more farms, only a few Kotten, for example in the Siepental and neighboring allotment gardens, still exist.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Bergerhausen

Blazon : "Growing in red over a green mountain of three, covered with crossed silver (white) mallets and irons, a silver (white) house with black half-timbering."

The coat of arms was designed by Kurt Schweder and never had an official character. At the end of the 1980s, the heraldist created coats of arms for all of Essen's districts. They have meanwhile been well received by the Essen population.

It is a classic " talking coat of arms ", the house (-hausen) on the mountain (Dreiberg, Berger-). The earlier spelling "Bergahuson" means "inhabitant of a mountain". Mallets and irons point to the earlier iron ore and coal mining.

Mining and industry

Former assembly hall of the ironworks Westfalia Dinnendahl AG

The waterfall colliery , located north of the St. Annental, was mentioned in a document as early as 1575, but an official suggestion was only made in 1748. The neighboring Zeche Sonnenschein , southwest of the current intersection of Wuppertalerstrasse and Frankenstrasse, was founded in 1721, and in 1806 the waterfall colliery was added through consolidation. A consolidation of the work of art with the neighboring colliery , on what is now the kunsterstraße, failed in 1817, so that the Sonnenschein colliery was shut down in 1821 and its mining field fell to the artwork colliery, which probably existed as early as the middle of the 16th century. This means that the waterfall colliery and the artwork colliery are among the oldest mines in the Ruhr area . 1859 was drainage of 1749 put into operation, but already disused colliery Stüpert acquired artwork of the bill. The name of the artwork colliery, which in its prime mined up to 45,000 tons of coal per year, was probably a mechanical conveyor of this name.

One of the colliery's trades was the local industrialist Franz Dinnendahl , who manufactured steam engines for lifting water. Franz Dinnendahl built a machine factory and iron foundry next to the colliery in 1821, which he called the art worker's hut . In 1862 the artwork colliery ceased operations and was finally shut down three years later. The Dinnendahl factory existed well into the 20th century. An assembly hall of the ironworks Westfalia Dinnendahl AG built here around 1925 made of steel framework and brick with a glass roof is now a listed building. After a long period of vacancy, an investor expanded it with modern loft apartments .

The Henriettenglück colliery , which went into operation at Vöcklinger Feld in 1799, was consolidated in 1831 with the Ludwig colliery , which was located where the industrial area named after it is today. It mined iron stone and later anthracite coal . In the course of the final decommissioning in 1966, all shafts were filled and most of the surface facilities were demolished. To the west, a striking five-story administration building of the Nuremberg Federation was built in 1925 . Today it is used, among other things, as a residential building and is a listed building. Also nearby was Europe's Coca-Cola headquarters for several decades , which was relocated to Berlin in the mid-1990s.

Affiliations

Bergerhausen belonged to Steele from 1815 to 1875 . In 1876 it belonged to the mayor's office in Rellinghausen, with which it was finally incorporated into the city of Essen in 1910.

Churches

The last neo-Gothic vaulted basilica in the diocese of Essen is the St. Hubertus Church , built between 1912 and 1914 according to plans by the architect Josef Kleesattel . Together with the former branch church of St. Raphael from Unterbergerhausen, St. Hubertus is a parish of the parish of St. Lambertus in Rellinghausen.

The Church of St. Raphael, built from 1964 to 1965, a reinforced concrete brick building, was one of the other churches in the diocese for which church funds were no longer available. It was closed in 2009 and converted into a multi-generation complex. The church organ was sold to the parish of St. Judas Thaddäus in Duisburg and installed in the church of St. Peter and Paul in Huckingen in 2012/3 .

Between 1950 and 1959, the Catholic Pax-Christi Church was built on the Billebrinkhöhe, originally dedicated to St. Albertus Magnus. This double church, architecturally consisting of a lower and an upper church, is now the branch church of the Steeler parish of St. Laurentius. In 2019 it was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Essen.

The Protestant Johanneskirche has stood on Weserstraße since 1955 and was built according to plans by the architect Ernst-Erik Pfannschmidt. The church, which had grown too big, with a formerly cubic parish hall, was redesigned in the 1990s with a smaller, pointed new building. Another Protestant church was consecrated in 1965 on the Billebrinkhöhe.