Birth (Velbert)

Birth City of Velbert Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 24 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	approx. 200 m
Residents :	6300
Location of Birth in Velbert

Birth is a western part of Velbert in the Mettmann district . It lies on the city limits of Heiligenhaus-Hetterscheidt and is separated from Velbert-Mitte by the federal motorway 44 . The Rinderbach flows north of the district and is called Vogelsangbach from the Abtskücher pond (Heiligenhaus) . The Birth district is characterized by high-rise and multi-family houses and was a social hotspot in the 1980s and 1990s.

geography

Birth is at an altitude of about 150 to 250 meters above sea ​​level and in 2005 6,300 people lived here. In the north-west of the district there is the “Green Island” (named after a former excursion restaurant), which today consists of an allotment garden , a former farm as well as meadows and fields.

history

1889 was mine "Eisenberg" founded their ores through a siding for food Kupferdreh were transported to the "Phoenix Cabin" and their workers were native to Birth. The tow railway formed the nucleus of the Hespertal Railway , which is still operated as a museum railway on the Essen-Kupferdreh - Haus Scheppen route on the south bank of Lake Baldeney . The last wooden dormitory for miners was demolished in the late 1960s.

In Birth there was also the Protestant Church of the Redeemer and the Catholic Church of St. Don Bosco. The former has since been dissolved and converted into an open community center.

In the 1980s, the Birther Tunnel and the Hefel Viaduct were built as a seven-kilometer section of the A 44.

Up until 1990, the Birth district had four schools on the grounds of the so-called Birth School Center, in which all types of school were centrally represented (a municipal elementary school as well as a secondary school, a secondary school and a grammar school with an attached sports center). In 1990, however, in the course of the reorganization of the Velbert schools (through the construction of the Velbert Mitte comprehensive school), despite several protests, the secondary school in the Birth district was closed and the last remaining students from this school moved to the Kastanienallee secondary school.

traffic

Birth can be reached via the Heiligenhaus-Hetterscheidt and Velbert-Nord junctions on the A44 . The A535 and B224 can also be reached via the last-mentioned junction . The A44 passes under the district in the Birther Tunnel .

In local public transport, Velbert-Birth is accessed by the local bus lines OV1 and OV2. They connect with the central bus station (ZOB) in the center of Velbert, where the OV1 line takes it directly, the OV2 takes the route via Am Berg and Kostenberg to end via the ZOB at Nordpark . In the opposite direction, the OV2 runs to Losenburg via the Niederberg Clinic and Nordfriedhof . The NE 8 night bus is on the road on weekend nights and before public holidays .

photos

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  Birth open community center
  (former Evangelical Church of the Redeemer)

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  cath. Don Bosco Church

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  Birth from the Losenburg, in the back left the "Tele-Bert"

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  "Birther Kreisel" (north side)

Web links

• Official website of the city of Velbert

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Evangelical Churches: Churches and Centers ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 1, 2013