Blankenhagen (Gütersloh)

Blankenhagen City of Gütersloh Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E
Area :	12.03 km²
Residents :	3500  (Aug 2015)
Population density :	291 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes :	33330, 33334
Area code :	05241
Location of Blankenhagen in Gütersloh
Development plan for the new housing estate in Blankenhagen in 1967

Catholic Church Holy Family

Passenger carriage near Mühlenstroth

Blankenhagen is a district in the northwest of the East Westphalian district town of Gütersloh in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Blankenhagen was first mentioned in a document in 1222. The name probably comes from the Landwehr (see also -hagen ), which was not planted with trees and was therefore "bare". Together with the Lutter, the ramparts formed the border with the County of Ravensberg . The last still recognizable remains of this Landwehr are now a listed building .

The farmers in Blankenhagen belonged to the principality of Osnabrück until 1565 , then to the rule of Rheda until 1808 , and later from 1815 to Prussia . In the first cadastral registration of the Prussian administration in 1818, the size of Blankenhagen was given as 4656 acres (approx. 11.89 km²), 61 farms and over 800 inhabitants. From 1843 to 1910 Blankenhagen belonged to the municipality of Gütersloh-Land in the district of Wiedenbrück . On April 1, 1910, this community was incorporated into the city of Gütersloh.

Until the 1950s, Blankenhagen was dominated by agriculture. The industrial development of the city ​​center had hardly reached the peasantry. In 1968 a larger new housing estate was built in Blankenhagen without a recognizable center and u. a. with high-rise buildings that are now considered to be “industrial accidents” in urban planning. Since the settlement was in the approach area of ​​the Gütersloh military airfield until the 1990s and there were no local shopping opportunities , land values ​​and rents fell to a very low level in a city-wide comparison. In 2010, the city of Gütersloh commissioned the district development concept “Perspektiven für Blankenhagen” in order to find possibilities for To explore the elimination of urban development and infrastructural deficits in the district.

In 2015, around 3,500 people lived in Blankenhagen. A future challenge for the district arises from the withdrawal of the British Army from the Gütersloh site by 2020. The soldiers and their relatives make up a relatively high proportion of the Blankenhagen population, so that numerous residential units will be vacant in the next few years.

The advantages of the district include living close to nature and the fact that, unlike in other districts of Gütersloh, there is neither through traffic nor industrial emissions.

Churches

The listed Gospel Church , which was inaugurated in 1960, and the Church of the Good Shepherd , consecrated in 1963, belong to the northern region of the Evangelical Church Community of Gütersloh, which belongs to the Gütersloh parish . In 1972 the evangelical congregation also had the Jakobuskirche built, which was profaned in 2007 . The Catholic church "Holy Family Gütersloh", which belongs to the Pastoralverbund Gütersloh-Nord ring in the deanery Rietberg-Wiedenbrück, meets in the parish church built in 1964 Holy Family .

Attractions

In the far east of the district is the Mühlenstroth Steam Locomotive and Small Train Museum .

Web links

Commons : Blankenhagen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Blankenhagen on the website of the city of Gütersloh

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monument Preservation Plan Gütersloh, University of Applied Sciences Cologne / Faculty of Architecture / Institute for Building History and Monument Preservation, Cologne 2010, p. 51
2. ↑ Rainer Holzkamp: "Dismantling hopeless - Perspectives for Blankenhagen: What happened to the concept?" , In: Neue Westfälische , local part Gütersloh, from July 18, 2011
3. ↑ Use the opportunity for Blankenhagen: Citizens and associations hope for structural improvements and a central meeting place , Neue Westfälische, local section Gütersloh, from November 27, 2010
4. ↑ Rolf Birkholz: A district is fighting for its image . In: Neue Westfälische, local part Gütersloh, from August 27, 2015