Dürkoppviertel (Bielefeld)
The Dürkoppviertel is a district in the east of Bielefeld's Mitte district . This is neither politically nor officially structured, but is usually still divided into districts. The Dürkoppviertel is an old building district, which is characterized above all by its narrow streets, its colorful old buildings and the stone (and partly also glass) Dürkopp arches, which span many streets and serve as bridges between the respective houses on both sides of the street. In addition to the old buildings, it also includes large, commercially used red brick buildings, which u. a. Office and bank rooms included. The skyline is determined by the brick chimneys of the old factory halls and the old Ravensberger spinning mill in the east.
Surname
The quarter got its colloquial name from the centuries-old family company Dürkopp based in Bielefeld , which had its main building here.
Location and further subdivision
The quarter is to the east of the old town, bounded in the north by the composers' quarter of Detmolder Strasse and in the east by Teutoburger Strasse, which separates it from Untersieker and the eastern city center. In the north it is bordered by the Kesselbrink, one of the central squares of Bielefeld, and in the west by Niederwall, which form the border with the old and new towns.
One of the eastern areas of the Dürkoppviertel around the Georg-Rothgiesser-Park can, under certain circumstances, be understood as a separate district under the name “Dürkopp Tor 6”.
traffic
August-Bebel-Straße acts as the main traffic axis.
Two StadtBahn lines drive through the narrow streets of the district.
Line 3 ( Babenhausen Süd - Stieghorst ) crosses it once from west to east via the stops “August-Schröder-Straße” and “Ravensberger Straße” (merged into one stop from November 2019 and called “Marktstraße”).
Line 4 (Universität - Dürkopp Tor 6) , which was extended from its final stop "Rathaus" to the quarter in spring 2019, also stops at August-Schröder-Straße and ends in the quarter at the stop "Dürkopp Tor 6" in the sub-district of the same name.
There is no bus traffic within the district.