Boxberg (Heidelberg)

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Boxberg
district of Heidelberg
Location of the Boxberg district in Heidelberg
Coordinates 49 ° 22 '26 "  N , 8 ° 42' 12"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '26 "  N , 8 ° 42' 12"  E
surface 2.40 km²
Residents 3983 (Dec. 31, 2010)
Population density 1660 inhabitants / km²
District number 012
structure
Townships
  • Boxberg-East (012 1)
  • Boxberg-West (012 2)
Source: City of Heidelberg (PDF; 118 kB)

The Boxberg is a district of Heidelberg .

The district is between 210 and 270  m above sea level. NN in the south of Heidelberg on the western slope of the Königstuhl massif above Heidelberg-Rohrbach, north of the Emmertsgrund district . It has an area of ​​54 hectares and extends 1350 m in north-south direction and 600 m in east-west direction.

history

→ See also: History of Heidelberg

The Boxberg was initially a clearing carried out by the then still independent municipality Rohrbach (today the Rohrbach district ), which was used for agriculture and bordered by forest in the east. The tree line still runs along the “Am Waldrand” road. In 1930 a forest sports field was laid out there, where the sports facility of the TB Rohrbach-Boxberg is located today.

The planning for the forest park settlement Boxberg began in the 1950s and included the meadow land and parts of the adjacent forest. The Boxberg area was already designated as a residential area in the zoning plan of 1957. The development plan was approved by the local council on April 28, 1960. The specifications were to create apartments for 6,000 inhabitants with the necessary infrastructure without disturbing the basic features of the landscape: higher-storey apartments were built in the forest area and single-family houses on the meadows facing Rohrbach.

In October 1962 the first tenants moved into the apartments in the houses at the forest source. A month later, the Boxberg was connected to the city center with a bus line.

In January 1963, school operations began in two school pavilions. Today's Waldparkschule was inaugurated in November 1967 and was run as a primary and secondary school in the following years . From the end of the 1990s it was also possible to obtain a technical secondary school certificate. After there were considerations to close the secondary level in the 2000s due to the falling number of pupils in the main school area, the Waldparkschule has been run as one of two Heidelberg community schools since 2013 .

In 1964 the topping-out ceremony of today's shopping center was celebrated. However, the first shop on Boxberg opened years earlier. In 1972 the Catholic parish church of St. Paul was consecrated.

  • View of the Boxberg (in the background by the forest)

  • St. Nicholas wayside shrine from 1747 near Drei Eichen

Web links

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