Constantia (Emden)

Constantia City of Emden Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 4 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 50"  E
Residents :	2113  (Jun. 30, 2015)
Postal code :	26723
Area code :	04921
Location of Constantia in the city of Emden

Groote Canal

Constantia is the youngest of all of Emden's districts. The new development area was built in the 1980s and was named after a traditional farm that had existed for a long time near the current district. When planning the quarter, the city remembered its roots: The new building area should be criss-crossed by many canals - just like the Emden city ​​center had looked like before the destruction caused by the Second World War . This plan was then implemented. At the end of June 2015, Constantia had 2,113 inhabitants.

location

Constantia borders four other parts of the city of Emden. North of Constantia is Conrebbersweg , separated by the Larrelter Tief . Larrelt is located in the west of the district, separated by the Autobahn 31 . Port Arthur / Transvaal is in the south of Constantia, the administrative district beyond the main train station in the east.

Aerial view of the district, in the upper center the Emden University of Applied Sciences

The Emden / Leer University of Applied Sciences is located in Constantia . The university has its headquarters here. Therefore, in the district in which single-family and terraced houses predominate, there is also a student dormitory and a large number of university buildings.

history

Early modern age

Around 1577 a canal connection was created between Larrelt and Emden, the Larrelter Tief . It led from Larrelt to the Emden moat and established a water connection between the suburb and the city. The city was also able to divert water from the Krummhörner sewer network through the depression, so that its own sewers developed sufficient flushing effect to free the port from the silt that regularly accumulates .

Like the entire East Frisian coast, the Larrelter dyke section was badly hit by the Christmas flood in 1717 . The dikes had to be repaired as quickly as possible. There was already a laway (dike workers' strike) in 1719 . The background was the poor working conditions that the dyke workers faced. The dichgrave Anton Günter von Münnich noted:

“Then, when the labor man realized that he had to earn (1) 15-18 bad thalers on the load, (2) that the bases ( dyke builders ) of the bargaining and intrigues were doing it and most (of the wages ) for held on, (3) that he could not work alone with dry bread and finally such credit also ran out, there most or almost all work lay still. "

- Anton Günter von Münnich : Conversation of two good friends from dyke construction on operational grounds , Oldenburg 1720, p. 25.

Since the dykes, which were only poorly repaired after the Christmas flood, fell victim to storm surges again in the following years , the work dragged on over several years. One of the two largest dyke 'strike in East Friesland came in 1722, when after flooding resulting from the dunes Kolk be closed had. In order to close the Kolk, the East Frisian estates had borrowed 20,000 guilders in the Netherlands. However, the dyke workers saw no wages from this inflow of money, which they were still entitled to from the previous year, whereupon they moved to Emden to make themselves heard by the princely bailiff. However, this merely consoled the dike workers. The workers armed with clubs then went to the manor house of the estate administrator, who was not to be found, whereupon the levees withdrew again. A troop of soldiers appeared, but no longer felt compelled to intervene and had secretly decided to shoot the dyke over the heads when they were given an order to shoot: the soldiers themselves had not received any wages for 14 weeks. The dike workers then sent a petition to the East Frisian Count House, which was ultimately crowned with success. After the prince warned the estates of the danger of unrest, 2000 guilders of the 20,000 guilders on the loan were used to settle the outstanding debts.

19th century

Land reclamation on the Dollart and in the Emden urban area: In the years 1874 and 1912–24, the urban area in the west of Emden was considerably enlarged

The embankment of the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Polder in 1874 not only improved security against storm surges, but also created new arable land between Emden and Larrelt. The soil reclaimed from the Ems also made it possible to expand the city of Emden in the following decades. For Larrelt and the places to the west of it, the dike also meant that a direct road connection to Emden was now possible, which was then built.

20th century

In 1950, the landfill was officially put into operation, replacing the older landfill at Buschplatz in Friesland . However, it has been used since 1945 to store rubble from the war.

The official "starting shot" for the development of Constantia into a new district began on May 26, 1978. On that day, Emden's Mayor Jan Klinkenborg , City Director Dr. Heinrich Kleinschmidt and Lower Saxony's Minister of Science Eduard Pestel signed a contract for the new building of the Emden University of Applied Sciences . At that time it was housed in a multi-storey building in Früchteburg and should now be relocated to the previously undeveloped area in the west of the city of Emden. The agreement between the state and the city stated: "In Emden in the area of ​​Kaiser-Wilhelm-Polder on Larrelter Straße between Ubierstraße and Second Polderweg, the state is building the necessary buildings for the Ostfriesland University of Applied Sciences."

The agreement also stipulated that the university should not be "isolated on the greenfield". The city therefore made a commitment to the state to focus future settlement development in the vicinity of the university over several years. The plans envisaged a district for around 2500 people - a figure that is only slightly undercut today (as of 2013). The development work for the D 91 construction area began as early as 1978, the term that has been widespread in the Emden population for the entire new district over a longer period of time. In addition, the term canal district initially caught on, because from the beginning canals were not only planned as a design component in the new settlement area, but also as a leisure location (boat landing stages). This was implemented primarily on the Groote Gracht , which has many moorings, while most of the smaller watercourses cannot accommodate boats and - in contrast to the Groote Gracht - are not connected to the East Frisian waterway network.

The structural development of Constantia was largely completed in the first half of the 1990s. The Emden landfill was closed for household waste as early as 1982 in order to limit the pollution (traffic and smell) of the new residents. The city then incinerated its rubbish outside of Emden; only building rubble was delivered until 2005. A landscape and adventure park has been created on the site.

politics

In the 2013 Bundestag election , the residents of the two constituencies of Constantia voted roughly in line with the urban average, but in the Constantia I district they voted with clearly above-average values ​​for the CDU. In the Constantia I district, the SPD achieved 45.59 percent, the CDU 32.2, the Greens 8.98, the Left 4.57 and the FDP 3.05. In the Constantia II district, the SPD was at 46.23 percent, the CDU at 28.25, the Greens at 9.35, the Left at 5.68 and the FDP at 2.2. For comparison: In the entire urban area, the SPD achieved 48.59, the CDU 25.98, the FDP 3.13, the Greens 9.15 and the Left 6.04 percent. Other parties accounted for 7.04 percent across the city.

economy

Constantia has two business parks, one of which is also home to smaller industrial companies.

In the east of the district there is an industrial park, which in turn is bounded by Emden's main train station in the east . Companies in the Ubierstrasse industrial estate include a larger forwarding company, a shopping center and other markets.

The following companies with a larger two- to three-digit number of employees can be found in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Polder industrial park: Ostfriesische Pressedruck is a printing company that is affiliated with Norder Verlag SKN (including Ostfriesischer Kurier ). The frozen food manufacturer Costa (part of the Apetito Group) produces frozen fish and seafood products, while FRIMA (Friesische Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG) and FUNA Nachrichtenentechnik GmbH specialize in construction machinery and radio technology. The building materials wholesaler Egbert Wilts is also located here, as is the bus station of the Reiter company, which was commissioned by Stadtwerke Emden to handle the city bus transport.

traffic

Larrelter Strasse runs through the district and is part of Landesstrasse 2 , which runs through Emden in an east-west direction . At the western border of Constantia, it meets the A 31 at a traffic light crossing , which begins at the Emden-West junction . Larrelter Straße leads south past the Constantia settlement area and north of the industrial park, clearly separating these two areas of the district. Larrelter Straße has four lanes in the relevant section with separate lanes, but without a hard shoulder. There is a separate cycle path on the north side. With around 19,000 vehicles per day (as of the beginning of the 2000s), this section is one of the most heavily used road sections in Emden. The Frankenstrasse / Ubierstrasse street, which, among other things, opens up the second commercial area, is loaded with around 6500 vehicles every day. In addition to the streets mentioned, Niedersachsenstraße is of greater importance as a connection between the port and the beginning of the federal motorway 31 . It was expanded to four lanes in the 2000s and forms the western border of Constantia. The traffic load on Niedersachsenstraße is around 10,500 vehicles per day. Large parts of the settlement area are designated as 30 km / h zones .

Constantia is connected by line 8 of the Emden city traffic. It runs from the main train station through Constantia and ends at the adventure playground in Constantia-West. It drives every hour of the day, more often on weekdays in the morning.

Emden Hauptbahnhof is located on the eastern border of the district, but outside its area . A loading station of the Volkswagen plant in Emden also forms the border to the neighboring district of Port Arthur / Transvaal.

Sport and recreation

There are many green spaces in Constantia. A landscape park has been created on the site of the city's former garbage dump since 2006 . This park forms the highest elevation in Emden with a viewpoint into the surrounding area. Even before the park was laid out, part of the landfill was separated from the district by a wood. The other green spaces in Constantia include the majority of allotment gardens, some of which are also located in the neighboring district of Port Arthur / Transvaal. The statistics office of the city of Emden divides the area into both parts of the city, although the origin of the allotment gardening association from 1931 Emden can be seen in Port Arthur / Transvaal: In accordance with the needs of the time, the residents of the working-class district used the opportunity to grow vegetables on their own.

The sports area of ​​the lawn sports club (formerly: Reichsbahnsportverein) Emden is located near this future landscape park. The abbreviation RSV has remained the same despite the name change. Sports are primarily soccer, handball and tennis. In addition, the Emden Canoe Club built its clubhouse in 1975 on a bay near the Larrelter Tief. The association has around 160 members, most of whom are hiking paddlers on the East Frisian canal network, but also go out to the Ems and the North Sea . The youth department is also active in white water rafting .

literature

• Marianne Claudi, Reinhard Claudi: Golden and other times. Emden, city in East Frisia . Gerhard Verlag, Emden 1982, ISBN 3-88656-003-1 .
• Reinhard Claudi (Ed.): Stadtgeschichten - Ein Emder Reading Book 1495/1595/1995. Gerhard Verlag, Emden 1995, ISBN 3-9804156-1-9 .
• Theodor Janssen: Hydrology of East Frisia . Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1967, without ISBN.
• Bernd Kappelhoff : History of the city of Emden from 1611 to 1749. Emden as a quasi-autonomous city republic. ( Ostfriesland im Schutz des Deiches , Vol. 11), Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1994, without ISBN.
• Ernst Siebert, Walter Deeters , Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1750 to the present. (East Frisia in the protection of the dike, vol. 7). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1980, DNB 203159012 , therein:
  • Ernst Siebert: History of the City of Emden from 1750 to 1890. P. 2–197.
  • Walter Deeters: History of the City of Emden from 1890 to 1945. P. 198–256.
  • Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1945 to the present. Pp. 257-488.

Web links

• Private weather station Emden
• University of Applied Sciences Emden-Leer
• Emder Canoe Club

Individual evidence

1. ↑ emden.de: District information (PDF file) ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Theodor Janssen: Hydrology of East Frisia . Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1967, without ISBN, p. 213.
3. ↑ quoted by Bernd Uphoff: Lavey as an ultima ratio. Dike workers in East Frisia in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies Ostfriesland , Volume 75 (1995), pp. 81–94, here pp. 87/88.
4. ↑ quoted by Bernd Uphoff: Lavey as an ultima ratio. Dike workers in East Frisia in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies Ostfriesland , Volume 75 (1995), pp. 81–94, here pp. 89 ff.
5. ↑ Ernst Siebert: from 1750 to 1890 , in: Ernst Siebert / Walter Deeters / Bernard Schröer: History of the City of Emden from 1750 to the Present (Volume VII of the series "Ostfriesland in the protection of the dike", published by Deichacht Krummhörn, Pewsum) . Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1980, without ISBN, p. 70 ff.
6. ↑ Gunther Hummerich / Wolfgang Lüdde: Reconstruction - The 50s in Emden . Verlag SKN, Norden, 1995, ISBN 3-928327-18-6 , p. 46.
7. ^ Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1945 to the present. In: Ernst Siebert, Walter Deeters , Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1750 to the present. (East Frisia in the protection of the dike, vol. 7). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1980, DNB 203159012 , pp. 257-488, here p. 425 ff, quotation p. 426.
8. ↑ Landscape and Adventure Park Emden ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ www.kdo.de: Voting districts Emden , accessed on October 3, 2013.
10. ↑ Traffic development plan for motorized individual traffic ( Memento from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ www.kleingartenvereine-emden.de: Kleingartenbauverein von 1931 Emden , accessed on October 3, 2013.
12. ↑ www.emder-kanu-club.de: Vereinsheim , accessed on May 3, 2013.