Beverau

Beverau City of Aachen Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 40 ″  N , 6 ° 6 ′ 35 ″  E
Height :	approx. 200 m
Area :	3.7 km²
Residents :	4328  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	1,170 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	52066
Area code :	0241

View over the Beverau to the skyscraper on Europaplatz

The Beverau is a district of Aachen that is named after the Beverbach , which separates it from the Forst district .

location

Today the statistical district Beverau extends from the Aachen city forest in the south to the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in the north and from Gillesbachtal and Monschauer Straße in the west to Beverbach in the east over an area of ​​approx. 3.7 km².

history

The part of town belonging to the Aachen-Mitte district has its origins in the founding of the garden city Beverau / registered cooperative with limited liability by Aachen citizens in 1911. The association settled in the back then still undeveloped hinterland of the Frankenberg district . The first houses, based on plans by the Aachen architects Ferdinand and Josef Heusch, were moved into in 1915 in the area of ​​the current Auf Beverau street .

By 1936, when the cooperative was dissolved again, a total of 55 single and two-family houses had been built. As a result, the non-profit corporation for salaried homes took over the further development of the district.

In the period after the Second World War, 182 so-called parrot houses were built as part of the Marshall Plan initiative - simple houses that can be built inexpensively on small plots.

Today, Beverau is an urban district that is particularly popular with families, without any notable commercial settlements, but with good connections to the city center and the commercial areas in the Aachen area. Larger green areas such as the meadows in the Gillesbachtal, the Nellessenpark with a smooth transition to the Aachen forest or the Aachen Euregiozoo offer opportunities for local recreation.

literature

• Schroeder, Walter: The Beverau was once part of a very big idea , in: Aachener Zeitung (2015).

Web links

Commons : Beverau  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Beverau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics (, csv) December 31, 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2017 . 
2. ^ Geodata portal of the city of Aachen