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Vahr
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Basic data  rank 
Surface: 4,337  km² 20/23
Residents : 27,226 13/23
Population density : 6,278 inhabitants per km² 2/23
Proportion of foreigners: 19.9% 7/23
Unemployment rate: 11.5% 11/23
Coordinates : 53 ° 5 '  N , 8 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '51 "  N , 8 ° 53' 35"  E
Districts: Garden City Vahr
New Vahr North
New Vahr Southwest
New Vahr Southeast
Postcodes : 28327, 28329
District : east
Local office : Schwachhausen / Vahr
All area information as of December 31, 2014.

All demographic information as of December 31, 2016.

Aalto high-rise in the center

The Vahr is a district of Bremen and belongs to the city district East. It is one of the place names that are used in German with an article . The development with many apartment blocks and the many green spaces are characteristic of the district. There are also small lakes and canals , which means that many ducks and other small animals live in the Vahr. The district is integrated into the local public transport system, so that the city center can be reached by tram or bus within a maximum of 30 minutes. The proximity to the A 27 also contributes to the good transport connections .

In the architectural history of the German post-war period, the district became known for its new building projects. In 2004, the name of the district also gained national fame through a novel by Sven Regener entitled Neue Vahr Süd .

Geography and districts

Bremen-Neue Vahr - view from east to west: foreground and right half of the picture Neue Vahr Nord, middle Aalto high-rise , behind and left Neue Vahr Süd, upper edge of picture v. l. No. Airport , Weserstadion , city center, below the A 27

The Vahr is located in the northeast of Bremen about 5 km from the city center. The neighboring districts are in the north Oberneuland , in the east Osterholz , in the southeast Hemelingen , in the southwest the eastern suburb in the west Schwachhausen and in the northwest Horn-Lehe .

The Vahr was founded in 1959 as a new district, with the three then also new districts Gartenstadt Vahr, Neue Vahr Nord and Neue Vahr Süd. This tripartite division is still common in everyday language, although the Neue Vahr Süd has been divided into two smaller districts since 1971.

Garden city of Vahr

Area: 1.86 km², 3447 inhabitants

The garden city of Vahr is less densely built in relation to the New Vahr and has many green areas. With the bus lines 21 and 25 and the tram line 1 there is a transport connection to the city center and to the university.

New Vahr North

Area: 0.86 km², 8028 inhabitants

In the Neue Vahr Nord there are many streets that - as in the other districts of the Vahr - bear the names of personalities of the resistance against National Socialism , but above all the names of the co-founders of the SPD.

The central street is August-Bebel-Allee . Bus line 24 goes through it from its extension, Paul-Singer-Straße, directly to the city center. The zip code is 28329.

New Vahr southwest

Area: 0.70 km², 4271 inhabitants

The central street of Neue Vahr Südwest is Kurt-Schumacher-Allee , where tram line 1 has been running since 1967 . The district is limited in the north by Richard-Boljahn-Allee (behind it Neue Vahr-Nord), in the east by Karl-Kautzky-Str. and the Heinrich-Imbusch-Weg (behind Neue Vahr Südost), in the south by the Bremen Galopprennbahn (behind Sebaldsbrück) and in the west by the street Vahrer Straße and In der Vahr (behind Gartenstadt Vahr).

The eastern part of the district is a purely residential area built around 1960, then built as one of the five neighborhoods of the Neue Vahr.

A barracks has stood in the north-western part since 1938. This was used by the Bundeswehr until 1994. The building has been the police headquarters of the Bremen Police since 1999 . An industrial park was created in the rear area, and a district heating plant has also been located there since the 1960s.

In the south-western part of the street there were old farmhouses, the last one was only demolished in 1978. There has been a large supermarket in this area since the 1960s. The Vahr indoor swimming pool was built on Kurt-Schumacher-Allee in 1961, renamed Herbert-Ritze-Bad in 1967, and since around 2000 it has been replaced by the newly built Vitalbad Vahr at the same location, and most of the current residential buildings in this area have only just been rebuilt 2000.

New Vahr Southeast

Area: 0.94 km², 7335 inhabitants

To the east of the Neue Vahr-Südwest is the Neue Vahr Südost, almost all of the buildings in this area date from the early 1960s. Central street is also Kurt-Schumacher-Allee or, as its eastern extension, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße.

The Berliner Freiheit shopping center was built around 1960, initially in the then modern open-plan design, but from 2002 it was demolished and rebuilt. It is located in the center of the Neue Vahr and, together with the community center opened in 1977, also forms the social center of the district. Next to it is the 60 meter high Aalto skyscraper , a design by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto , which can be seen from afar , has 22 floors and is a listed building. A large park with Lake Vahr begins right next to it.

Politics, administration

Advisory board election 2019
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Advisory Board

The Vahr Advisory Board meets regularly and usually publicly in the local office or in other institutions such as B. Schools. The advisory board is composed of the representatives of the political parties or individual candidates elected at the district level. The advisory board elections take place every four years, at the same time as the elections for the Bremen citizenship . The advisory board discusses all issues of the district that are of public interest and makes decisions on this, which are passed on to the administration, the state government and the townspeople. He forms specialist committees for his work. The advisory board has its own budget for district-related measures.

Bernhard Siegel ( SPD ) has been the advisory board spokesman since August 2019 .

Local office

The local office Schwachhausen / Vahr has existed since 1971 and is a local administrative authority. It supports the advisory board in its political work. It is supposed to participate in all local tasks of public interest. It is led by a local office manager proposed by the advisory board and confirmed by the Senate.

Karin Mathes is the local office manager for the Schwachhausen / Vahr local office.

history

Surname

The name Vahr was called Low German around 1167 Vare or Vora and in 1280 it was also called in the Voren , i.e. in the Fuhren . That means something like furrow, track path or maybe border. The residents were the custodians .

Middle Ages until 1945

The Vahrer ( Vurholter ) Feldmark with 700 hectares of loamy soil on sand was made arable from 1113 on behalf of the Archbishop of Bremen by Dutch, like the Hollerland area named after them . Horticulture and agriculture with wheat cultivation could now mostly take place on the slightly higher areas. The canals led northwest to the Vahrer Fleet.
The first documentary mention of the Vahr was in 1185 in the founding document of the Ansgarii chapter . The Vahr belonged to the Goh Hollerland and the parish of Horn with its later church and elementary school. Documented was in 1404 the village Vora as a mention Knappe country from Oute Schowenborch (Good Schauenburg) acquires.

From the 15th century the Hollerland was under the Bremen council . In the 17th century a small village with paths and a road developed , in which in 1654 three farms, a Kötner and 17 farmers were resident.
From 1741 ( Second Stade Comparison ) to 1803, the Vahr was partially under the sovereignty of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg  - later of the Electorate of Hanover. During this time Gut Rosenthal , which later became the "Schloß" Kreyenhorst , belonged to the "three country estates of the Vahr" which remained under the sovereignty of Bremen. They were east of the street In der Vahr (today Mayor-Spitta-Allee ).
Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the area was again Bremisch.

In 1812 the village of Vahr had 231 inhabitants. The area was administered since 1815 by the landlord on the right bank of the Weser as a member of the Senate. Almost all courtyards were located on Vahrer ( Vahrster ) Strasse in the 19th century. This road was regulated and rehabilitated several times before 1900.

Since 1850 several mansions of wealthy townspeople have been built in the Vahr. In 1885 the population was 650. The Bremer Golf Club was founded in 1895 as a forerunner of the Club zur Vahr founded in 1905 . The Bremen racing club laid out the racing course in the Vahr from 1905 to 1907. The Vahr, which previously belonged to the rural community of Horn, was incorporated into the city of Bremen in 1921. The Vahr barracks was completed in 1938 as part of the rearmament policy of the Nazis.

From 1945

New residential construction in the Neue Vahr around 1960
Partial view of Friedrich Spengelin's residential complex Großer Kurfürst

When around 100,000 apartments were missing in Bremen after the Second World War , work began in 1954/55 on the Hastedter Feldmark to build the garden city of Vahr with 2200 apartments. In 1956, commissioned by Gewoba , a master plan for the development of the Vahr was drawn up by a consortium of architects Ernst May , Max Säum , Günther Hafemann and Hans Bernhard Reichow as well as Wolfgang Bilau for many terraced and single-family houses. Karlaugust Orf was responsible for the green planning. 280 inhabitants per hectare should live in the Neue Vahr , with intense green in between. From 1957 to 1962 the Neue Vahr was built on both sides of Franz-Schütte-Allee with around 11,800 apartments for 30,000 residents on 218 hectares. In terms of urban planning, the new development area was divided into five neighborhoods, each with a primary school and a commercial center, using the green spaces planned by Karlaugust Orf. Gewoba - in between, Neue Heimat - was the housing company that had most of the apartments built. The Vahr is a very green large housing estate, predominantly in a row construction , in which there are also row houses and individual houses. The center of the Neue Vahr became the center on Berliner Freiheit with the dominant landmark, the 22-story Aalto high-rise , which was completed in 1961 according to the plans of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto . The structurally condensed Kurfürstenviertel was built after 1962 with the so-called Großer Kurfürst building from 1970 to 1972 on Eislebener Strasse according to plans by Friedrich Spengelin ( BDA Prize Bremen 1974). Around 1970 around 33,000 inhabitants lived in the Vahr, who are also popularly known as Vahraonen .

The district center on Berliner Freiheit was expanded with shops and the weekly market around 1960. In 1961 GEWOBA gave the Herbert-Ritze-Bad as a gift to the district. It was closed in 1993 and the Vital-Bad was built on the site in 2000 .
The community center opened in 1977 as the district's cultural and social center. From 2001, parts of the shops on Berliner Freiheit were demolished and Vahrer redesigned with a shopping center in mid-2003.

The police headquarters were moved from the city center to the former army barracks in 1999. The neighborhood meeting place Ludwig-Beck-Straße started operations in 1999 in a converted former wash house.

Population development

Average annual population from 1975 as data from the Bremen State Statistical Office

Town / district 1812 1885 1960 1975 1995 2007 2009
Garden city of Vahr 7.103 9,381 7,440 7,409 7,372
New Vahr North 2,103 10.190 8,168 8,044 8.009
New Vahr southwest in the southeast 4,834 4,170 4,286 4,267
New Vahr Southeast 11,598 9,322 7,772 7,391 7,308
district 231 ≈650 25,638 33,726 27,550 27,130 26,956

In 2009, 14,955 households were registered in the Vahr. The average age was 45.5 years.

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • Aalto high-rise from 1960/62, designed by Alvar Aalto , Finland, BDA Prize Bremen 1974: "The Aalto high-rise is considered an unmistakable, memorable landmark".
  • Großer Kurfürst residential complex , Eislebener Straße 35, from 1970/72, designed by Ingeborg Spengelin, Friedrich Spengelin and Gernot Baum ( BDA Prize Bremen 1974).
  • Vahr residential complex, Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 1, built in 1982 based on plans by Kurt Schmidt.
  • Churches: see below under public institutions, paragraph churches.

Art objects

  • Berliner Freiheit square , Neue Vahr:
    • Sandstone relief life single and free from 1987; by Heinrich Brumm and Miroslav from the sculpture workshop of the prison in Bremen
    • Bronze sculpture from 1987: I would love to be your teddy bear by Thomas Recker
    • Object as a roof attachment with a kinetic diamond from 1990 by Tomitaro Nachi on the roof of the post office
    • Bronze sculpture The reclining figure by Seff Weidl from the Gewoba in front of the community center
  • Concrete sculpture sea lion from 1955 by Angelika Lehmann, Carl-Goerdeler-Straße 27
  • Bronze sculpture mother and child from 1958 by Seff Weidl , youth home at Bispinger Str. 16
  • Bronze sculpture Unity from 1959 by Seff Weidl , Heideplatz in the garden city
  • Bronze sculpture The Flute Player from 1963 by Walter Wadephul, Otto-Braun-Straße 2
  • Stone sculpture sea ​​lions from 1964 by Peter Lehmann , Paul-Singer-Straße 160
  • In motion: water, light and painting through 45 light boxes from 2003 by Jimmi D. Paesler , Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 5
  • Polyester sculpture ensemble shopping carts from 2005 by David Bade, Philipp-Scheidemann-Straße

Green spaces

  • The green areas of the Neue Vahr were designed from 1957 to 1962 according to plans by landscape architect Karlaugust Orf.
  • Neue Vahr theme gardens from 2000, designed by Jens Spilker.

Public facilities

Neue Vahr: Berlin freedom as the center

General

schools

  • The vocational school for retail and logistics in Carl-Goerdeler-Straße 27
  • The school at Bardowickstrasse 83a is a support center
  • The school In der Vahr 75 is a primary school
  • The school at Paul-Singer-Straße 160 is an all-day primary school
  • The school at Witzlebenstrasse 3 is a primary school
  • The secondary school on Julius-Brecht-Allee , Konrad-Adenauer-Allee 86, is an all-day school at secondary level I.
  • The Oberschule at Carl-Goerdeler-Straße 27 is a comprehensive school as an all-day school for secondary level I.
  • The school center of the upper secondary level at Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 65 (KSA) is an upper level grammar school with around 500 students.
  • The vhs Ost branch of the Bremen Adult Education Center in the Neue Vahr community center, Berliner Freiheit 10
  • Private schools
  • Volkshochschule Ost-Vahr in the community center, Berliner Freiheit 10

Social and culture

AWO senior citizens' residence Hanna-Harder -Haus in front of the Aalto high-rise
  • The approximately eight kindergartens
  • The Rotes Haus youth home (formerly Otto youth club ) from the DRK, Philipp-Scheidemann-Straße
  • The social center at Vahrer See , Berliner Freiheit 9 C
  • The DRK - Bremen State Association, Henri-Dunant-Strasse 2 and August-Bebel-Allee 5c
  • The care support point Bremen in the Vahr shopping center, Berliner Freiheit
  • The meeting place Olymp , Eislebener Str. 31
  • The AWO service center Vahr , Berliner Freiheit 9 C
  • The Kultursalon the GEWOBA in the wash house, Emil-Sommer-Straße 1 A
  • The Treff ° wash house , Ludwig-Beck-Straße 2 A
  • The Mothers Center-Vahr , Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 65
  • The Bremen.ru association , Philipp-Scheidemann-Str. 1
  • As well as discussion groups, neighborhood meetings, self-help groups, etc.

Churches

St. Hedwig Church
  • The Evangelical Jona Congregation , Eislebener Str. 58, with the church from 1972 based on plans by William Weiss.
  • The evangelical Epiphany congregation in the garden city of Vahr from 1960, Bardowickstraße 83, was designed by Peter Ahlers; The day care center (1963) and the EpiCafé are part of it.
  • The Protestant parish in the Neue Vahr has three locations:
    • The Christ Church from 1960, Adam-Stegerwald-Str. 42, based on plans by Enno Huchting and Heinz Lehnhoff.
    • The Trinity Church from 1967, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 136, by Peter Ahlers.
    • The Heilig-Geist-Kirche from 1964, August-Bebel-Allee 276, by Hans Joachim Böhmert and Gerhard Müller-Menckens .
  • The Catholic Church of St. Hedwig from 1963 (parish of St. Raphael), Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 62, was designed by Theo Burlage and Bernd Nierbuer.
  • The cath. St. Laurentius Chapel from 2000 at the Caritas St. Laurentius nursing home , Gartenstadt-Vahr

Sports

Investments

  • The district sports facility Vahr, Nordhauser Strasse
  • The indoor swimming pool Vitalbad Vahr , Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 5
  • A triple and a double hall as well as seven gyms
  • Six large playgrounds, six small playgrounds
  • A mini golf course
  • The golf course on the racing course
  • The Bremen Galopprennbahn , also known as the Galopprennbahn in der Vahr , is located in the neighboring Hemelingen district.

societies

  • The lane golf club
  • The Bremer Badminton Club , Konrad-Adenauer-Allee 86
  • The Bremen Ballspiel-Verein Union , Gustav-Radbruch-Straße 23
  • The Bremer Windsurfing Club , Graf-Sponeck-Straße 6
  • The Club zur Vahr (golf, hockey, tennis)
  • The Schach-Club-Vahr , Ludwig-Beck-Straße 2 A
  • The SC Vahr-Blockdiek Bremen, Berliner Freiheit 10
  • The gymnastics and sports club Vahr-Bremen , Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 44,
    • Table tennis: In the 1980s, the club played with a men's team in the 1st Bundesliga and with a women's team in the 2nd Bundesliga.
    • Swimming department of the gymnastics and sports club Vahr

Economy and Transport

economy

Vahr is a residential area with a shopping center on Berliner Freiheit. Only in the Emil-Sommer-Strasse / Sonneberger Strasse area are there commercial settlements and the small Paracelsus clinic.

traffic

Public transport

The following tram and bus lines run by Bremer Straßenbahn AG (BSAG) cross the Vahr:

Streets

The Vahr can be reached

The main inner-city access roads are still Konrad-Adenauer-Allee , Julius-Brecht-Allee , Kurt-Schumacher-Allee and Geschwister-Scholl-Straße in the direction of Blockdiek / Osterholz .

For the first construction phase of the Neue Vahr in 1957, as required by the city, a garage or parking space for five apartments was provided. From the second neighborhood on, GEWOBA has already created parking spaces for every third apartment. Although more parking spaces have now been created, parking spaces in the Vahr are scarce.

Personalities

In alphabetical order

Vahr in art

literature

Movie

radio play

literature

  • Rolf Diehl, Frank Obergethmann: The Bremer Vahr . Kellner Verlag , Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-95651-031-1 .
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  • Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon, Volume 9 Vahr, Oberneuland , Verlag Schmetterling, Bremen 1999, ISBN 3-932249-05-4 .
  • Janpeter Kob: Urban development concept in practice. New Vahr Bremen . In: Jürgensen, Harald (Ed.): Contributions to urban and regional research 3.
  • Susanne Schöß: Monuments of post-war urban development. The large settlement in the Vahr. In: Preservation of monuments in Bremen , series of publications by the State Office for Preservation of Monuments, Bremen 8, 2011.
  • Reinhard Uhde (Ed.): 10 years Neue Vahr (1957 to 1967) , Bremen 1967.
  • Senator for Building (Ed.): Vahr district concept, Bremen 1984.
  • Karl Nielsen, Kurt Barthel: Stephani area, garden city Vahr, Neue Vahr . In: Balcke, Alfred (ed.): The reorganization of Bremen 7.
  • Nils Aschenbeck: New Vahr model . Exhibition catalog, Bremen 1993.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bremen small-scale information system at www.statistik-bremen.de - Table 449-01: Floor area according to type of actual use
  2. ↑ Bremen small-scale information system at www.statistik-bremen.de - Table 173-01: Population by gender
  3. ↑ Bremen small-scale information system at www.statistik-bremen.de - Table 173-61: Foreign population by nationality group and gender
  4. ↑ Bremen small-scale information system at www.statistik-bremen.de - Table 255-60: Unemployed according to selected groups of people and unemployment rate
  5. ^ The Vahr becomes its own district, Weser-Kurier of March 25, 1959, p. 3, online only for subscribers
  6. ^ Administrative districts will be corrected, Weser-Kurier dated February 24, 1971, p. 9, online only for subscribers
  7. ↑ a b c d Statistical Yearbook 2009 (PDF; 4.0 MB) State Statistical Office Bremen, pp. 9–11 , accessed on June 15, 2010 .
  8. ↑ a b Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 334
  9. ^ Franz Buchenau : The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its area. A contribution to the geography and topography of Germany . Publishing house G. A. v. Halem, Bremen 1900, In: Forgotten Books , 2013, p. 304
  10. ^ Karl Marten Barefoot, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005. Volume 1: 1945–1969 , pp. 542f. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-575-1 .
  11. ↑ "OUR CITIES ARE SICK" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1963 ( online ).
  12. ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 124
  13. ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 129
  14. ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 264
  15. ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 432
  16. ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 399
  17. ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 401
  18. ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 422
  19. ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 407
  20. ↑ Architecture guide Bremen: b.zb: 405