Brühlervorstadt

Brühlervorstadt State capital Erfurt Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 14 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 59 ″  E
Height :	220 m above sea level NN
Area :	7.1 km²
Residents :	13,664  (Dec. 31, 2016)
Population density :	1,925 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes :	99084, 99092, 99094
Area code :	0361
Location of the Brühlervorstadt in Erfurt

The districts of the Brühlervorstadt

The Brühlervorstadt is one of the historical suburbs of Erfurt and at the same time one of the districts of the Thuringian state capital.

It comprises a small part of the old town in the east and the areas in front of the former Brühlertor in the west. In contrast to most of Erfurt's districts, the Brühlervorstadt, especially in the western part, is characterized by loosened-up development, especially single-family, terraced and semi-detached houses as well as smaller apartment buildings. In addition, there are upper-class residential areas on the Gera around Alfred-Hess-Straße, as well as streets with the typical large apartment buildings in the Königsviertel and the old town parts. Today, the Brühlervorstadt is the most expensive part of Erfurt in terms of property prices and the southern part in particular is considered to be a bourgeois-elegant quarter.

In addition to the old town and the Löbervorstadt , the Brühlervorstadt also performs numerous functions for the entire city and region. Important institutions such as the theater , the Landesbank , the Egapark , the German Horticultural Museum on the Cyriaksburg citadel and the main cemetery are located here . Contrary to public perception, the Erfurt exhibition center , the children's channel and the state broadcasting center of the MDR are not located in the Brühlervorstadt, but rather on the areas belonging to Hochheim on Gothaer Straße.

The name of the Brühlervorstadt derives from the Brühl , an area that belonged to the old town. There is also a Brühl in many other cities such as nearby Gotha , Weimar or Leipzig , although like Erfurt it was a damp area in the floodplain.

geography

The Brühlervorstadt is the western part of the corridor that originally belonged to Erfurt. Unlike the other Erfurt suburbs, however, it also includes part of the historic old town within the city fortifications, namely the areas of the Brühl and around the Dalbergsweg. Although these were enclosed by the outer city wall since the 15th century, they were not built on densely. Until the 19th century they were characterized by mills and orchards. Only in the 19th century were these areas built up densely. Larger apartment buildings in the classical style were built, which gave the area a more suburban, rather than an old-town image. In addition, the first suburb of Erfurt was located on Brühler Straße in the Middle Ages, which formed an independent community and, due to its proximity to Domberg, was an archbishop's settlement that was later integrated into the city. The assignment to the Brühlervorstadt resulted from these historical peculiarities.

Neighboring districts are the Andreasvorstadt in the northeast, the old town in the east and the Löbervorstadt in the southeast. In addition, some of the villages that belong to Erfurt today border the Brühlervorstadt: Hochheim in the south, Schmira in the southwest, Bindersleben in the west, Salomonsborn in the northwest and Marbach in the north.

The terrain of the Brühlervorstadt is hilly. In the southeast lies the Gera valley and in the northwest the Alacher Höhe . In between there are several small valleys and hills. Directly adjacent to the Gera valley lies the Cyriaksberg with the fortress of the same name and Gothaer Straße, followed by the valley in which the Brühler Hohlweg runs. To the north of this is the Brühler Herrenberg, over which the Binderslebener Landstrasse runs. This falls to the north to the Lange Graben, which led the water from the Peterborn spring to the Petersberg Citadel . There are also small valleys such as the Raintal and the Hungerbachtal in the northern, undeveloped part of the Brühlervorstadt.

The Gera valley is about 200 meters above sea level, and Hannoversche Straße in the extreme northeast of the Brühlervorstadt is also at this altitude. The fortress Cyriaksburg, on the other hand, is already about 250 meters above sea level and the end of Gothaer Straße in the Brühlervorstadt is about 260 meters above sea level. The valley on the Brühler Hohlweg to the north is 230 meters above sea level and to the east of the airport on the foothills of the Alacher Höhe is the highest point in the Brühlervorstadt at around 300 meters above sea level.

The area of ​​the Brühlervorstadt outside the city fortifications was used for agriculture until 1873, in particular by the numerous Erfurt nurseries. At that time, the Cyriaksburg citadel was also used for military purposes. After 1873, areas outside the city walls could also be built on, which initially took place in the south of the Brühlervorstadt and in the royal quarter. After the First World War, the construction of private homes began in the western part of the Brühlervorstadt, which has continued until recently. In the past, the clean air on the western edge of the city due to favorable wind directions was considered advantageous, today it is primarily the scenic location in the hilly terrain.

quarter

Quarter (not official)	Block groups (official)	Area (km²)	Population (2000)	Population (2007)	Population (2015)	Population density
Gardens (gardens between Blumenstrasse and Binderslebener Landstrasse)	311 + 312	1.48	160	161	152	103
Peterbornsiedlung, Nibelungenweg, main cemetery	313	2.13	978	973	973	457
Langer Graben garden city (Binderslebener Landstrasse - Heinrichstrasse - Blumenstrasse - Kleinbahn)	314	0.33	1,186	1,177	1,151	3,488
Cyriak settlement	315	0.87	588	662	585	672
Brühler Herrenberg (Binderslebener Landstrasse - Heinrichstrasse - Gothaer Strasse - Kleinbahn)	316	0.39	1,294	1,277	1,258	3.226
Königsviertel (Heinrichstrasse - Rudolfstrasse - Binderslebener Landstrasse)	321	0.10	1,159	1,251	1,278	12,780
Brühl (Rudolfstraße - Lauentor - Holzheienstraße - Lutherstraße - Walkmühlstraße - Bonifaciusstraße)	322	0.46	1,783	2,235	3,361	7,307
Cyriaksburg (Gothaer Strasse - Bonifaciusstrasse - Thomas-Müntzer-Strasse - Gera - Cyriaksburg)	323	0.65	1,257	1,377	1,545	2,377
Dalbergsweg (Lutherstrasse - Puschkinstrasse - Train - Pförtchen - Thomas-Müntzer-Strasse - Wilhelm-Külz-Strasse)	324	0.22	1,328	1,670	1,891	8,595
Steigerstraße (between Gera and Eisenbahnrasse)	325	0.36	1,146	1,215	1,539	4,275

Theater Erfurt

On Gustav-Adolf-Straße (between Cyriaksburg and Dalbergsweg)

A tenement house on Steigerstrasse

Steigerstrasse / corner of Milchinselstrasse

Villa Cyriakstrasse 39

An old villa on Alfred-Hess-Straße

Bauhaus-style building on Cyriakstrasse

A new home on Reichartstrasse

Gardens in the Brühlerflur

The northern part of the Brühlervorstadt is occupied by extensive gardens. In the past, it was mainly the large Erfurt nurseries, which played an important role in the city's economic life and also shaped Erfurt's reputation as a city of flowers. Seed production was particularly important. In the 20th century, the economic importance of the nurseries decreased compared to other industries in the city. In return, however, numerous allotment gardens were created, which served the recreation of the city population and supplied them with fresh fruit and vegetables. The Brühlerflur, with its clean air thanks to westerly winds, was the most suitable for this. The main road leading into this area, called the Flower Road, is a reminder of these traditions.

Peterbornsiedlung

The Peterbornsiedlung is the westernmost settlement in the Brühlervorstadt and extends from Erfurt Airport to the main cemetery, which opened in 1916 . It was created during the Weimar Republic under the influence of the ideas of the garden city movement, but without being a real garden city. In the Peterbornsiedlung there are small settler houses with large pieces of land, which should enable the population to partially cover their food needs by growing vegetables and raising small animals. Since the houses were still too expensive for workers, mainly white-collar workers settled here. Single-family houses were also built a little further east on Nibelungenweg, but on smaller plots.

Your name is derived from a source, the Peterborn. It first supplied the Peterskloster and later the Petersberg Citadel with water.

To the east of the main cemetery , a climate-friendly pilot settlement is planned on a previously undeveloped arable area, the Marienhöhe . An urban development competition for this was carried out in 2012.

Langer Graben garden city

The garden city on the Lange Graben between the city in the east and the Peterborn settlement in the west was also created during the Weimar Republic under the influence of the garden city movement. Again, this is not a real garden city, but rather a suburban settlement. In contrast to the Peterbornsiedlung, the houses here do not stand individually, but rather in long blocks as terraced houses. Here, too, the properties were smaller than at Peterborn and hardly enabled an independent, needs-based supply. However, their facility also alleviated the housing shortage in Erfurt after the First World War.

The Lange Graben was a ditch that led the water from the Peterborn to the Petersberg.

Cyriak settlement

The Cyriaksiedlung was built on Gothaer Straße from 1935. Here, too, small settler houses were built on large plots for the residents to supply themselves. The Cyriaksiedlung is named after the Cyriaksberg, on the northern slope of which it is located.

Brühler Herrenberg

The quarter on the Herrenberg in Brühl is not a closed settlement project, but a normal urban expansion. The development began on Gothaer Platz before the First World War and then continued in stages to the west. Around 1910, small two-story houses were built on Meineckestrasse and Heinrichstrasse, in which mainly employees lived. First of all, construction was carried out in perimeter blocks, then in individual blocks and finally in individual buildings. Detached houses in the style of flat bungalows on Iga-Blick followed in 1975 and, in the 1990s, several terraced houses on Overmannweg, which stretch up the slope and completed the development of the Herrenberg in Brühl.

Since 2014, a new residential area in small-scale development with around 100 residential units has been under construction on the former wasteland at Bunten Mantel between Ottostraße and Binderslebener Knie.

Royal quarter

The Königsviertel is a small quarter on the northeastern edge of the Brühlervorstadt. It is in stark contrast to the rest of the district, as there was no looser development with bourgeois residents, but a working-class district with the typical four-storey apartment buildings of the Wilhelmine era. The reason for the construction of the quarter between Rudolfstrasse and Heinrichstrasse was the neighboring Royal Prussian rifle factory in Brühl, whose workers found a home close to the factory here. The quarter got its name because all streets here were named after German kings of the Middle Ages. Today the difference in the population structure compared to neighboring districts is no longer so pronounced, but it is still noticeable in election results, for example.

Bruehl

→ Main article : Brühl

The Brühl is located within the former city fortifications in the east of the Brühlervorstadt on the Gera. In the 19th century, the medieval Erfurt suburb developed into the first industrial area, as the large Prussian rifle factory was located here. The industrial character remained in the middle of the city until 1990. Only then were the factories closed. Since then, the quarter has seen the greatest change of all Erfurt quarters. Some industrial buildings such as the old boiler house or the Optima office machine factory have been preserved, others demolished. A five-star hotel, the new Erfurt theater and numerous upscale new residential buildings in contemporary architectural forms were built on the site. The successful structural change made the Brühl one of the most desirable residential areas in the center of Erfurt.

Cyriaksburg

The quarter lies at the foot of the Citadel Cyriaksburg , which is now the German Horticultural Museum. Behind it is the egapark , the most important local recreation area in Erfurt. The quarter is also surrounded by green spaces in the other directions. The Tettaustraße and Benaryplatz parks are located by the Christ Church and the Dreienbrunnenpark by the Gera . In between, around Cyriakstrasse, lies the most important residential area of ​​the Wilhelmine era in Erfurt, where the industrial bourgeoisie was based. To this day it has remained one of the most expensive districts, so that freelancers with their offices and law firms can be found here.

The Villa Festge of the court photographer Karl Festge at Cyriakstraße 39 is a castle-like building in the most opulent forms of historicism on a hill and was built between 1897 and 1899 by Eduard Kayser in a park. It belonged to the Stübgen family of industrialists until after World War II, before it was seized by the Soviets. The Sibyl Tower is also one of the oldest buildings in the Brühlervorstadt at the foot of the Cyriaksburg.

Dalbergsweg

Like the Brühl, the district on Dalbergsweg used to be within the city's fortifications. After being used for mills and gardens over the centuries, it was densely built up in the 19th century. Until 1873 it was not allowed to build outside the city wall, so that the buildings were compacted inside. This is how a first modern urban expansion area was created here in late classicist forms. In the 19th century it also became the first entertainment district in Erfurt. In addition to the opera house , two additional venues for evening events were created: the city garden and the press club.

Steigerstrasse

The district on Steigerstrasse is the only one on the eastern side of the Gera . It was built like the one at the Cyriaksburg in the Wilhelmine era, but it is much more densely built. Here, too, there are some remarkable villa buildings from Historicism to Art Nouveau to the New Buildings of the 1920s, especially right on the river on Richard-Breslau-Straße. On the Steigerstrasse and its side streets, however, stand-alone, large apartment buildings from the same period dominate, some of which also have rich facade decor.

Population development

The population of the Brühlervorstadt in 1990 was around 12,000. By 1996, the number had fallen to 9,900. The main reason was the poor housing situation in the unrenovated old buildings in Brühlervorstadt, which often did not have bathrooms or central heating systems. The main goals of those moving away were other parts of Erfurt, especially the growing village suburbs (strong wave of suburbanization during the 1990s), but some turned their backs on the city due to the poor economic situation. The renovation work on the building fabric began a short time after reunification and are almost complete. There are hardly any unrenovated or empty houses. In addition, after reunification, new construction work began, especially in the restructured Brühl, but also on previously undeveloped land, scattered throughout the district. As a result, a lot of new living space was created, so that the number of inhabitants rose and is now even above the level of 1990, although at the same time the living space per capita increased significantly.

A building census in 2006 showed that there were buildings in Brühlervorstadt in 1968 that contained 5857 apartments, of which 582 or 10% were vacant. By 2009 the number of apartments increased slightly to 5864, the number of buildings also rose to 1988, while the vacancy rate fell to 465 apartments (7.9%).

Compared to the Erfurt average, the population structure is clearly characterized by a high proportion of families; a particularly large number of people between 30 and 50 and many children under 18 years of age live in the Brühlervorstadt. In contrast, the proportion of senior citizens is slight and that of young adults is well below average. The birth rate (around 130 births per year) is therefore higher than the death rate (around 100 deaths per year), the migration balance (around 550 new arrivals and 450 departures per year) is also positive, which is why the Brühlervorstadt continues to grow (as far as it is available standing living space). Around 200 foreigners live in Brühlervorstadt, which makes up around 1.5%.

Data from the city administration of Erfurt as of December 31st.

year	population	Development (1990 = 100%)	Development in Erfurt (1990 = 100%)
1990	11,957	100.0	100.0
1995	9,958	83.3	93.4
1996	9,913	82.9	91.9
1997	10,036	83.9	90.6
1998	10,424	87.2	89.3
1999	10,614	88.8	88.0
2000	10,879	91.0	87.6
2001	10,947	91.6	87.4
2002	11,133	93.1	87.2
2003	11,249	94.1	88.0
2004	11,464	95.9	88.4
2005	11,612	97.1	88.5
2006	11,874	99.3	88.4
2007	11,998	100.3	88.5
2008	12,089	101.1	88.5
2009	12,217	102.2	88.8
2010	12,442	104.1	89.2
2011	12,678	106.0	89.8
2012	12,870	107.6	90.4
2013	13,077	109.4	91.1
2014	13,371	111.8	91.7
2015	13,733	114.9	93.3
2016	13,664	114.3	93.9

Economy and Transport

Sculpture at the traffic junction Binderlebener Knie 2006

In the past, the economy of the Brühlervorstadt was mainly characterized by the nurseries and industrial operations in Brühl. However, both are no longer relevant today and have been replaced by the service sector. Here, the jobs are again concentrated in upscale, independent services such as doctors, lawyers, tax consultants and architects. Nevertheless, the Brühlervorstadt is now more of a residential area from which many people commute to work in other parts of the city. For example, there are numerous jobs at the nearby Erfurt airport and the companies located there, as well as in the immediately adjacent old town.

The three main streets in Brühlervorstadt are, on the one hand, the city ​​ring , which crosses the district from north to south, and, on the other, Gothaer Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 7 ) branching off at Gothaer Platz and the Binderslebener Landstrasse branching off at Binderslebener Knie. Both lead to the federal highway 71 in the west of the city. The Brühlervorstadt is connected to public transport by several lines of the Erfurt tram . Line 2 runs along Gothaer Strasse from the Erfurt exhibition center to the city center, while line 4 runs on Binderslebener Landstrasse from the airport to the city center. Like Line 2, it runs via Gothaer Platz, but then through Brühl to Domplatz , while Line 2 reaches Anger via Hirschgarten . Line 6 connects the district to Steigerstrasse via the main station . City bus routes also provide a connection to Hochheim in the south-west.

The district was connected to the railway network via the Erfurt West station of the Erfurt – Nottleben small railway on Binderslebener Landstrasse.

Politics and elections

Since the Brühlervorstadt forms a district, but not a district according to § 45 of the Thuringian municipal code, there are no political bodies such as district council or district mayor for it.

The Brühlervorstadt is part of the Erfurt II state electoral district , for which Susanne Hennig-Wellsow (Die Linke) sits in the sixth Thuringian state parliament . She received 31.0% of the votes here, with the votes being distributed relatively evenly between two candidates. Michael Panse from the CDU received 30.1%, Frank Warnecke from the SPD 17.9% and Astrid Rothe-Beinlich from the Greens 11.8%. The Brühlervorstadt is generally regarded as a bourgeois district, although the new metropolitan bourgeois milieus, especially in East Germany, are no longer tied to the CDU and FDP, so that the votes are distributed with relative clusters among all established parties. The turnout in Brühlervorstadt was comparatively high at 54.8% in the state elections in Thuringia in 2014.

Political party	City Council 2009	State Parliament 2009	Bundestag 2013	Europe 2009
voter turnout	47.3	54.7	60.8	47.2
CDU	24.7	26.7	36.9	26.0
The left	13.9	20.8	18.2	18.1
SPD	31.5	19.5	16.9	18.2
Green	14.4	16.9	12.4	17.3
FDP	5.8	10.0	3.3	9.4

Web links

Commons : Brühlervorstadt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• District - Brühlervorstadt. Population with main residence December 31, 2011 ( Memento from May 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: erfurt.de
• Erfurt Statistics - Population 2011 ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (= municipal statistics booklets. Issue 79, edition: August 2012). In: erfurt.de (PDF; 1.8 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ block group map ( Memento of 17 June 2012 at the Internet Archive ). In: erfurt.de, accessed on November 20, 2017 (PDF; 3.5 MB).
2. ↑ Satellite measurement with Google Earth, there may be slight deviations (<3%).
3. ↑ Population statistics 2000 ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (= Kommunalstatistische Hefte. Issue 41 / 1st edition: April 2001), p. 51. In: erfurt.de, accessed on November 20, 2017 (PDF; 1 , 3 MB).
4. ↑ Population statistics 2007 ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (= Kommunalstatistische Hefte. Issue 64. Edition: July 2008), p. 52. In: erfurt.de, accessed on November 20, 2017 (PDF; 937 kB) .
5. ↑ Population statistics 2015 (= municipal statistics booklet. Issue 96. Edition: November 2016), p. 56 ff. In: erfurt.de, accessed on November 20, 2017 (PDF; 3.9 MB).
6. ↑ Information on the Marienhöhe building area on the city administration's website. In: erfurt.de. August 31, 2012, accessed November 20, 2017.
7. ↑ Building and housing stock 2006 update ( Memento of October 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (= municipal statistics booklet. Issue 62. Edition: 07/2007). In: erfurt.de, accessed on November 18, 2017 (PDF; 994 kB).
8. ↑ Stadtverwaltung Erfurt: Erfurt Statistics - Buildings and Housing Stock 2009 ( Memento from June 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (= Municipal Statistics Hefts . Issue 73. Edition: 07/2010) (PDF; 659 kB), p. 23. In: erfurt.de, accessed on November 18, 2017.