Bettenhausen (Kassel)
 district of Kassel |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '23 " N , 9 ° 31' 44" E | |
| height | approx. 141 m above sea level NHN (136– 190 m above sea level ) | |
| surface | 6.23 km² (7/23) | |
| Residents | 9129 (Dec. 31, 2019) (10/23) | |
| Population density | 1465 inhabitants / km² (16/23) | |
| Proportion of foreigners | 24.4% (Dec. 31, 2019) (4/23) | |
| Incorporation | Apr 1, 1906 | |
| Post Code | 34123 | |
| prefix | 0561 | |
| Website | Bettenhausen | |
| politics | ||
| Mayor | Enrico Schäfer ( SPD ) | |
| Allocation of seats (local advisory board) | ||
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| Transport links | ||
| Low-floor tram |
KVG lines: 8, 4 |
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| Low-floor bus | KVG lines: 10, 15, 29, 30, 31, 32, 52 |
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| Source: Kassel Statistical Atlas | ||
Bettenhausen is an eastern part of the Hessian city of Kassel .
geography
location
Bettenhausen is located east of the downtown district of Unterneustadt , north-northeast of the Waldau district and north of the Forstfeld district . Sandershausen borders to the north-northeast , and the federal motorway 7 forms the border to Heiligenrode in the east ; both are districts of the municipality of Niestetal . The far south-east of the district meets at the Kassel-Ost junction of the A 7 at Papierfabrik , the westernmost part of the municipality of Kaufungen .
The district lies at around 136 m ( north border of the district on the Losse) to 190 m (summit in the Eichwald forest area ). The center of the village on the village square near the Marienkirche is at about 141 m and the Leipziger Platz , located 380 m south-southeast on Bundesstrasse 7 (Leipziger Strasse) , at 142.9 m .
The largest flowing water in Bettenhausen is the Losse , which forms part of the border to the Untereustadt in the north. In the southwest the Wahlebach runs on the border to Waldau and in the west in sections on that to the Untereustadt. The Haargraben (Umbachsgraben, Haar) flows through the northeast to the north of the district . All three flow into the Fulda . This right-hand Weser source river, which passes east of Kassel center, is also fed by the Nieste , which flows just outside of Bettenhausen , and the valley of the district to the north of the Kassel-Nord junction of the A 7 meets.
Salzmannshausen and Eichwald
Salzmannshausen lies in the northern part of Bettenhausen bordering Sandershausen . It is a former housing estate for the workers of the Salzmann textile factory , which was built around 1902. Your facility follows the ideas of company housing construction, but is characterized by green spaces in the common interior areas of the property, which served as common areas including fruit trees for recreation and management. The ensemble was complemented by new buildings in the years 2008/09 to include a semi-detached house.
The northeast part of Bettenhausen bordering on Heiligenrode is the Eichwald residential area . To the south of this is the Eichwald forest, used as a leisure and recreation area .
history
Bethnehusun was first mentioned in 1145. In 1906 Bettenhausen was incorporated into the city of Kassel. The village is the historical nucleus of the industrialization of Kassel. The Losse, on which numerous companies settled, was suitable for the use of hydropower , as can still be seen today from the location of the Miramstrasse industrial area .
The proximity to the surrounding Kaufunger Forest prompted Landgrave Karl to build the brass courtyard , which was built in 1679. It is the oldest, still existing industrial building in Northern Hesse and, with the nearby Kupferhammer as the birthplace of the statue of Hercules in Kassel, a unique industrial monument . His area is maintained by an association.
From 1880 to 1985 Bettenhausen had a train station on the Kassel – Waldkappel (Waldkappeler Bahn) railway line, which was laid out from 1879 to 1880, with a western connection to the Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe train station and via this connection to Kassel Central Station and an eastern connection to the Leinefelde – Eschwege – Treysa railway . The Söhrebahn , operated from 1912 to 1966, ensured the further industrial development of the district. The Bettenhausen passenger station , which was located southwest of the Kunigundishof on Leipziger Strasse , was demolished in the 1990s.
Around 1900 the extensive Salzmann textile factory complex was built on Sandershäuser Strasse ; Heinrich Salzmann was co-founder . The 22 halls, each 90 m long with a shed roof, are remarkable . The architecture of the brick buildings shows stylistic elements of historicism and art nouveau . The Salzmannshausen housing estate north of the factory was created for the workers . In 1972 the company went bankrupt . Since then, people have been looking for an economically sensible use of the site that is sufficient for monument protection .
On June 22, 1911, the 25th German agricultural traveling exhibition was opened in the forest near Bettenhausen. Almost 200,000 visitors came in six days.
During the First World War (1914–1918), an ammunition factory was built on the southern edge of Bettenhausen from 1915, which was fully operational in the spring of 1917. Up to 15,000 people worked there.
Another company was the Sigurd sewing machine and bicycle factory , founded in 1919 on Königinhofstrasse . The company existed until the 1970s.
In the 1960s there was the Krell'sche Molkerei , a dairy for the regional utilization of milk from the surrounding districts , in the area of today's Heinrich Steul settlement .
Other important companies were the municipal gasworks and Spinnfaser AG , which was incorporated into the Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken AG in 1935 , a company that until 1984 produced mainly rayon with almost 850 workers .
During the Second World War (1939-1945) large parts of the industrial Bettenhausen were destroyed or badly damaged by numerous bombings by the Allies. The first attack by the United States Army Air Forces on Kassel on July 28, 1943 was the Fieseler-Flugzeugwerke , an armaments industry that was moved from Ihringshausen to Lilienthalstrasse in Bettenhausen and Waldau in 1933 ; The Fieseler Storch aircraft and the V1 cruise missile were developed and manufactured in the factory. However, the bulk of the bombs fell on the neighboring Spinnfaser AG and residential areas in Bettenhausen. On October 3, 1943, the Royal Air Force flew to Kassel with almost 500 aircraft. The bombs fell on Bettenhausen, among other places.
During the Second World War, the engine construction plant Kassel (MWK) existed in Bettenhausen , a branch of Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG Dessau . When the plant was occupied by American troops in 1945, over 5,000 people were working there. From 1948 the site was taken over by the AEG . Household appliances were manufactured there from 1950 to 2002, most recently by Electrolux . The plant had to close due to the drop in prices in the segment and the subsequent inefficiency of a location in Germany. Today the site is used as the company park Kassel (UPK) primarily by Volkswagen AG as a logistics location.
Economy and Transport
economy
Along the A 7 feeder road L 3237 (Dresdener Straße) , numerous fields and meadows for residential and commercial areas have been built on since around 2000. There are, for example, some control engineering companies, for example for railway construction and the automotive supply industry. In addition to its main production and storage facilities in Baunatal, the Volkswagen factory in Kassel operates aggregate preparation in former AEG production facilities (formerly Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke) on Lilienthalstrasse. There are also several factory buildings and warehouses in Bettenhausen for the Niestetal company SMA Solar Technology (SMA), which was founded in 1981 . In addition, the A7 large discotheque in the former building of the manufacturer Hagen Batterie and, for example, hardware stores are available near Dresdener Straße .
To the west of the Salzmannshausen settlement, the Lossewerk located on the lower reaches of the Losse was put into operation as a lignite power plant to generate electricity. It was converted into a waste incineration plant in 1966 and started operating in 1968 as the Kassel waste-to-energy plant (MHKW). The power plant is used to generate electricity and district heating . One of the city cleaners' two recycling yards (municipal garbage disposal and street cleaning) is located on the Königinhofstrasse crossing under Dresdener Strasse .
traffic
Bettenhausen is largely determined by Bundesstraße 7 (Leipziger Straße) , which crosses Leipziger Platz roughly in the middle of the district and in the southeast near the Kaufunger parish of paper mill, underpasses Bundesautobahn 7 at the Kassel-Ost junction . It is an important German east-west connection and leads in the Kassel region through Bettenhausen and then through Kaufungen and past Eschwege to Eisenach . Landesstraße 3237 (Dresdener Straße) runs further north from the Kassel-Nord junction (A 7 ) through the district. Both main roads (B 7 and L 3237) meet in the neighboring district of Untereustadt at the Platz der Deutschen Einheit . The federal highway 83 also runs over this square , which runs through the Untereustadt and in sections to the border of the district to the junction Kassel-Waldau of the federal highway 49 .
Since 2001 the tram lines 8 and 4 of the Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (KVG) have been running from Kassel- Mitte on the B 7 through Bettenhausen. Line 8 only runs to Kaufungen-Papierfabrik. Line 4 continues from there through the Lossetal to Hessisch Lichtenau - on the route of the Kassel – Waldkappel railway (Waldkappeler Bahn) , which runs roughly parallel to the B 7, also through Bettenhausen and has been partially closed ; At the terminal you can change to buses to Eschwege. In addition, the buses of KVG lines 10, 15, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 52 run in the district.
Sightseeing and cultural
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Messinghof :
brass factory built in 1679; Birthplace of the Kassel Hercules statue , industrial and cultural monument -
Jewish cemetery Kassel :
laid out in 1630; about 20,000 m² in size; around 3000 grave sites -
St. Kunigundis :
Church built 1925–1927, Catholic parish -
Indoor swimming pool east : operated from
1930 to 2009; protected as a historical monument because of the Bauhaus facade; Conversion to an office building from 2017
freetime and recreation
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Eichwald forest area:
The Eichwald is a forest area of about 28 hectares and a maximum of 190 m high in the east-southeast of Bettenhausen. It originated from a pheasantry. There are over 250 year old oaks with individual beeches, hornbeams, cherries, ash trees, maples, linden trees, pines and larches. Bedrock is basalt with silt over loamy silt. The forest is primarily used for recreation with leisure and sports activities. There is only limited use of wood because the forest has a high nature conservation value. The hermit , which lives in old, dead oaks, is a rare species of beetle . At the northwest end of the forest lies the Kassel Jewish cemetery and on the other side of the Fasanenweg, which runs along the edge of the railing, the Bettenhausen cemetery . There is a sports field run by VfB Viktoria Bettenhausen e. V. , whose clubhouse and other sports facilities are located on the west foot in the Lossetal. -
Kulturfabrik Salzmann :
The registered, non-profit association Kulturfabrik Salzmann has been using the remaining parts of the Salzmann textile factory as a cultural center since 1987 . The center has been in operation in the Panoptikum , a former copper hammer yard on Leipziger Strasse , since 2012 .
Cycle and hiking trails (selection): - Cycle paths: Discovery circuit Kassel , Herkules-Wartburg cycle path , Lossetal cycle path and cycle route KS 5 (also in the Loss valley),
- Footpaths: Herkulesweg , Franzosenstrasse , Märchenlandweg and Wildbahn
Personalities
- Otto Sander (1941–2013), German actor
- Ulrich Holbein (* 1953), German writer
Web links
- Bettenhausen , on kassel.de
- Memories on the Net - Experiences from the east of Kassel , information u. a. to the history of the district
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Topographic map Stadtatlas Kassel ( M. = 1: 10.000), publisher : Stadt Kassel, Vermessung und Geoinformation, 2009
- ^ Bettenhausen, City of Kassel. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ a b c d Kassel: Chronicle of the years 1900 - 1944 , accessed on April 24, 2017, on kassel.de
- ^ Sigurd bicycle and sewing machine factory , on regiowiki.hna.de
- ↑ Krell'sche dairy , mentioned in settler community Erlenfeld on regiowiki.hna.de
- ↑ staple fiber , on regiowiki.hna.de
- ↑ AEG home appliance factory in Bettenhausen , on regiowiki.hna.de
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