Biefang

Biefang City of Oberhausen
	Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 37 ″ N , 6 ° 48 ′ 40 ″ E
Height :	31 m
Area :	1.29 km²
Residents :	2800 (Dec. 31, 2012)
Population density :	2.171 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1908
Incorporated into:	Holten
Postcodes :	46147, 46149
Area code :	0208

Biefang is a district of Oberhausen in the west of the Sterkrade district and at the end of 2012 had around 2,800 inhabitants on an area of 129 hectares. Until 1908, Biefang formed the independent municipality of Amt Holten in the Ruhrort district .

history

History up to incorporation

On February 2, 1281, Mechthild von Holte donated the newly built houses in Biefang (Byvanc) to the Sterkrad monastery. 1447 Biefang was mentioned as "Amt Holten" as an administrative district of the county of Kleve . From the beginning of the Reformation until 1610, all citizens of Biefang joined the Protestant Church. This led to the unusual lack of a consecrated cemetery. This led to the fact that the recently deceased were taken out of the place as quickly as possible to be buried in the neighboring communities, mostly to Holten, due to the lack of the possibility of conservation that is common today. It is probably thanks to this fact that the plague epidemic of this year, which wiped out large parts of the Holten and Sterkrader population, passed Biefang almost without a trace. In 1753 the first Protestant school was founded in Biefang. The parents had the Holten judge send a petition to King Frederick the Great . This sent the sum of 25 thalers. However, the parents still had to collect a lot of building materials, especially wood, in the form of donations from the citizens of Biefang and make their labor available for the construction. Nevertheless, the school was inaugurated as a royal school due to the donation of the old Fritz . It bears this name, admittedly in a continuous series of different buildings, to this day. When the mayor's office of Holten was divided into the mayor's offices of Sterkrade and Beeck in 1886, the municipality "Amt Holten" became part of the mayor's office of Sterkrade. In 1892 the municipal council “Amt Holten” gave itself the name Biefang, but the name Amt Holten was still used by the authorities. On April 1, 1908, the municipalities of Stadt and Feldmark Holten and Amt Holten merged to form the rural municipality of Holten. This was incorporated into Sterkrade on July 1, 1917 and on August 1, 1929 as part of Sterkrade in Oberhausen.

Coat of arms and banner

Blazon : The coat of arms of Biefang is divided into three parts and shows a green-yellow frog over a blue-green wavy bar, in front a green juniper branch with blue berries, in the back two ears of corn with golden (yellow) grains. The two upper fields are separated from the lower field by a white stripe ( heraldically incorrect ). The upper coat of arms (heraldically incorrect) consists of a silver banner with the words “Biefang”, framed by two black branches with the number 1281 (year of foundation by Mechthild von Holte).

Meaning: The frog stands for the formerly swampy area (Schwarzes Bruch, Holtener Bruch) around Biefang. Sour grass and juniper bushes grew in the barren area. Only a few areas were suitable for growing grain, but they increased later when the Bruch was drained by industrialization.

Biefang carries a banner green-white-green in a ratio of 1: 10: 1, striped lengthways with the described heraldic shield in the middle; Shifted slightly upwards in a ratio of 2.5: 4 (coat of arms): 5

Infrastructure

Rathenauplatz in the center of Biefang

War memorial in Oberhausen-Biefang on Königstrasse

Biefang is a relatively green, grown district and is mostly residential. These are mostly two- to four-storey apartment buildings, but without uniform architecture or central planning and a few streets with two-family and terraced houses, almost all built-up properties have a spacious garden. A primary school and a kindergarten as well as a large adventure playground are available. With the exception of a supermarket there are no shops and hardly any restaurants or small businesses. A curiosity are some of the last agricultural areas in Oberhausen, which can only be found in this form in neighboring Holten . There are also some wild green areas and various allotment gardens, especially in the areas between the autobahn and the Emscher that are difficult to access for building, but no organized garden or arbor colony.

The works of the former Ruhrchemie AG , today OXEA Holding GmbH, are located on the edge of the district . A large chemical plant, founded in 1927, which after some spectacular accidents around 1985, several partial closures and many changes of ownership is one of the most important production facilities for Oxo products (chemical alcohols, special esters, etc.). Even if there is a longstanding dispute about the north-western border of Biefang, it can be assumed that this work is at least partially within the earlier district of Biefang.

Biefang is located directly on the A3 motorway exit Oberhausen-Holten . With the bus lines 935, 954 and 956 of the transport association Rhein-Ruhr , Biefang is connected to the local transport network.

Web links

Individual evidence

[1] The population in Oberhausen on December 31, 2012 (PDF; 8 kB)

[fusion-2] Official Journal for the Düsseldorf administrative region 1908, p. 140

[3] Biefanger time signs, part 2

[4] Website of the Königschule Oberhausen Biefang

[5] ververzeichnis.de: Ruhrort district

[6] Biefang under the sign of the times (725 years Biefang) on the BIG Biefang website

[7] Biefanger information

[8] Biefang banner

[9] History of the Ruhrchemie plant

[10] City route map Oberhausen (PDF)