Christophstrasse (Heilbronn)

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The Christopher Street in Heilbronn is a residential and commercial street in the north of the city. For a long time, the street was poorly located and is considered a social hotspot . The area between Christophstrasse and Ellwanger Strasse is colloquially known as Hawaii .

location

Christophstraße stretches from the Sülmertor in a northerly direction to the allotment gardens on Sandweg. It follows the course of the Frankenbahn or the north branch of the Heilbronn Stadtbahn, which runs directly to the east of the road . Due to the adjacent railway line, the street is only built on on the west side.

history

Christophstraße was created with the industrial area in the north of the city and was named after Duke Christoph von Württemberg in 1899 , after whom the Christophplatz on the street is also named. The oldest building on the street, the corner house at Christophstraße 3, is a winegrower's house from 1876, which was built on the outskirts of the village and near the vineyards. After 1900 residential buildings followed in Christophstrasse and the Goppelstrasse branching off from it. The massive industrialization and other growth of the city soon left the residential buildings predominantly surrounded by industrial areas. The Maier-Remshardt shoe machine factory, built in 1909, and the Manz pickled canning factory were located directly on Christophstrasse.

The city used the residential area on Christophstrasse early on to set up emergency shelters and social housing. In 1920, Ellwanger Strasse was built to the west, parallel to Christophstrasse , in which the town and the barracks of the former officers' prison camp in Ellwangen built emergency accommodations for families, which were soon supplemented with further simple accommodations.

Due to the railway facilities, Christophstrasse and Ellwanger Strasse were poorly connected to Heilbronn city center for a long time. To the west the route of the Frankenbahn forms a traffic obstacle, at the southern end of the Christophstraße the branch of the industrial and port railway Heilbronn formed another bottleneck at the Sülmertor . The road connection was only via roads through the large industrial area extending to the west (Weipertstrasse, Brüggemannstrasse).

In 2004 the proportion of foreigners in the quarter was 66.3% and thus had the highest value of all Heilbronn residential areas. 19.5% of the population received unemployment benefit II . The majority of the school-age children in the neighborhood attend the Wartberg School , which was a model school in terms of career orientation until the end of the 1970s, but then degenerated into a focus school under the high pressure of pupils from broken backgrounds. Since the 1990s, there have been increased efforts to promote social integration at the school, which has again taken a positive development. At the same time, the measures to prevent violence and social support also have a positive effect on the neighborhood.

For some time now, other social projects have been devoting themselves to the problem district, including the project Wohnzeit of the Heilbronn City Theater in 2011 and an evangelical group that noticed a significant decrease in the number of syringes lying around in the district during one of their regular cleaning campaigns in 2013.

Designations

In the pre-war period, the area was called " White Chapel " in reference to the Whitechapel district of London , home of Jack the Ripper . Since the post-war period, the residential area has been colloquially known as the "Hawaii Quarter" in reference to the southern skin color of the residents. Isolated from traffic and public perception, as well as due to the establishment of social housing and emergency shelters, the area between Christophstrasse and Ellwanger Strasse has developed into a social hotspot, with an open drug scene and the associated crime. Colloquially, the neighborhood was called Hawaii and for a long time was almost left to its own devices. In November 1989, a large police operation took place against the drug scene in Hawaii, in the following period raids were part of everyday life. The Heilbronn Hawaii district is synonymous with a “neighborhood full of drugs and crime”. It stands for the time when the “area was a problem area” and “police here every other day”. The quarter between Christophstrasse and Ellwanger Strasse is a social “hot spot of the very best”.

The area between Christophstrasse and Ellwanger Strasse is now officially called the "Lower Industrial Area"

reception

In 1987 Elsa Sitter reported in her series People on the Edge of the City in the Heilbronner Voice about everyday life in Hawaii and again directed the public's attention to the problem district. In 1987 the star reported on Elsa Sitter and "Prostitution, drugs and neglect ... regular customers of the social welfare office ... in a Heilbronn slum". Heilbronn became known nationwide through the article in Stern. In the early 1990s, other national newspapers also reported about the special Heilbronn residential area. In 1994 the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung described the residential area as a “paradise for drug addicts” while the Stuttgarter Zeitung described it as a “criminal center in the middle of Heilbronn”.

Buildings

  • The Weingärtnerhaus at Christophstraße 3 was built in 1876 for the wine grower Rudolf Stahl according to plans by the Ulm master builder Treu. The ground floor shows three gates of different sizes and a massive ashlar . With a wine press, stable and feed chamber as well as a large cellar, the listed building is the only vintner's house in Heilbronn that has been preserved in its original form. It is an example of private wine production before the vintners merged into large cooperatives with a large central wine press. Since the demolition of the surrounding buildings, the now renovated and listed Weingärtnerhaus at Christophstraße 3 has occupied a prominent place as a corner house facing the street.
  • The Handwerkerhof borders on Christophstrasse and was created in 1991 for the settlement of businesses. It is located on the former site of the Manz pickled preserve factory, which was acquired by the city of Heilbronn.
  • The coffee roastery Willy Hagen at Christophstraße 13 has been located in the factory building of the shoe machine factory Maier-Remshardt, built in 1909, since 1994. In 1994, the Heilbronn-based coffee roaster Hans-Peter Hagen, whose roasting facility had been in nearby Goppelstrasse since the Second World War, acquired the abandoned and dilapidated building of the former shoe machine factory at 13 Christophstrasse. The building, which was completely renovated after a long period of vacancy, was structurally expanded in 2002. He not only relocated production to the renovated building, but also created a platform for cabaret there, which provided further impulses for upgrading Christophstrasse.
  • In 2002, a railway footbridge was built at the level of Goppelstraße for better connections to the shops along Neckarsulmer Straße ( B 27 ) east of the railway line and its cross streets.
  • The Sülmertor was rebuilt in 2014 as part of the expansion of the north branch of the Heilbronn light rail and also enables a changed traffic routing at the southern end of Christophstraße, where since then there is also a transport connection to Etzelstraße and Neckarsulmer Straße.
  • The new rehearsal center of the Stadttheater Heilbronn at Christophstraße 65-69 has been under construction since 2016. The new building is being built on the site of the demolished apartment block 65–69, which for a long time was considered the “focus of drug trafficking”. There were syringes in his playground next door. As part of the Lower Industrial Area redevelopment plan , the nationwide known building block was demolished.

  • Sülmertor

  • Coffee roastery Hagen at Christophstraße 13 in the building of the former Maier-Remshardt shoe machine factory

  • Listed Weingärtnerhaus in Christophstraße 3

  • Graffiti in Christophstrasse on the bridge pillar of the Brüggemannstrasse bridge

literature

  • Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Neumann: Monument topography Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.5: Heilbronn district , Ostfildern (Theiss) 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 .
  • Gerhard Schwinghammer, Reiner Makowski: The Heilbronn street names . 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-87407-677-6 .
  • Wartbergschule Heilbronn (publisher): 50 years of the Wartbergschule Heilbronn 1959–2009 , Heilbronn 2009
  • Hawaii, Cihan Acar 2020, published by Hanser Berlin, ISBN 978-3-446-26586-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FS Wartbergschule 2009, p. 36.
  2. ^ FS Wartberg School 2009, pas.
  3. ↑ https://wohnzeit.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/hawaii-vorbei/
  4. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / blog.gg-heilbronn.de  
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Janis Dietz: The Heilbronner Hawaii - a city district and its name. For decades, Hawaii was considered a problem area, some even spoke of the Heilbronn ghetto. But the name, which has fallen into disrepute, remains. In: Heilbronn voice . April 16, 2017 ( from Stimme.de [accessed April 16, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Heilbronn voice of November 29, 1989.
  7. ↑ Heilbronner Voice of July 1, 1991, FS Wartbergschule 2009, p. 234.
  8. ^ Jürgen Kümmerle: Nocturnal disturbance of the peace in the Hawaii quarter . In: Heilbronn voice . January 7, 2016 ( from Stimme.de [accessed January 7, 2016]).
  9. ^ Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Neumann: Monument topography Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.5: Heilbronn district , Ostfildern (Theiss) 2007, page 85.
  10. ↑ http://www.kaffeetraditionsverein.de/index.php/Willy_Hagen_Kaffeer%C3%B6sterei

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