Dinslaken-Lohberg

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Lohberg
City of Dinslaken
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 2 "  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 23"  E
Height : 27.5-35 m
Area : 2 km²
Residents : 5926  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 2,963 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1917
Postal code : 46537
Area code : 02064

Lohberg is a district of the Lower Rhine, district town of Dinslaken and, at its core, a mining settlement known for its now closed colliery .

history

Lohberg was created in 1907 in the Hiesfeld farmers' group at the foot of the Oberlohberg for the workers and employees of the Lohberg colliery .

The architecturally remarkable settlement was built according to the concept of a garden city up to 1924. Further plans that would have led to a significantly larger settlement were put on hold.

Lohberg colliery

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The board members Fritz Thyssen , Joseph Thyssen and August Thyssen and mining assessor Arthur Jacob founded the Lohberg union on December 30, 1905 to supply the Dinslaken iron strip mill with coking coal . In 1907, the sinking of the Lohberg 1 and 2 shafts on the highway between Dinslaken and Hünxe began , as well as the construction of the miners' settlement.

Old cart as a reminder of the mining industry

Over time, the mine grew: new shafts were sunk, workers from Korea, what was then Yugoslavia and Turkey were employed, and the output rose until it reached its peak of 3,135,415 tons of coal in 1979.

Until the end of 2005, numerous Lohbergers worked on the mine, which now belonged to the Lohberg-Osterfeld composite mine , so that the district was still closely linked to mining. The mine was shut down on January 1, 2006, and most of the 1,400 or so employees were moved to other mines or took early retirement.

In 2007, the Dortmund architecture firm stegepartner won the "Dinslaken-Lohberg colliery area" competition. The design by stegepartner intends to continue building the Alt-Lohberg district on the colliery site.

Population and culture

In 2005 the market square, the cultural center of the district, was renovated and new shops opened. This is intended to improve the image of the district, which was previously considered "run down". The renovation of the “single home”, which previously offered 6500 square meters of accommodation for the miners of the Lohberg colliery , was then sublet by associations and shopkeepers to serve this “image improvement” . Since the completion of the renovation work, the usable area of ​​the single home has served as a center for district culture, services and commerce.

Around 6,000 people live in Lohberg (as of December 31, 2009), of whom, due to the high proportion of guest workers at the mine, around 40% have a Turkish migration background. As a result, there are two mosques run by Turkish associations and several Turkish shops in Lohberg .

Churches and mosques

Lohberg has two churches and two mosques.

The church of St. Marien belongs to the parish of the parish of St. Marien in Lohberg-Bruckhausen- Hünxe , which was newly founded on December 1, 2007 and is the namesake of the neighboring Marienschule, in which lessons are given from the second to the fourth grade.

The Martin Luther Church was built between 1952 and 1954 and has been part of the large Protestant parish of Dinslaken since 2007. The Luther Church will be converted into a columbarium in 2015 .

The Selimiye mosque of the Turkish-Islamic cultural association Diyanet belongs to the DITIB and is in the immediate vicinity of the mosque of the Dinslaken community of the Association of Islamic Cultural Centers (VIKZ) .

Salafism

In Lohberg, a violent Salafist scene has been developing since around 2010 , which in the spring of 2011 organized a so-called “educational association” and had contacts to Al-Qaida and the Sauerland group . By the beginning of 2014, around 25 people are said to have traveled to Syria in two waves to take part in the civil war in Syria . The majority probably died. Nils D., returning from Syria, was arrested on January 10, 2015. Since 2016, Dinslaken and the term “Lohberger Brigade” have no longer played a role in the annual reports on the protection of the constitution of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Luther Church in Lohberg becomes the Rheinische Post columbarium , September 12, 2014
  2. ^ Out of sight, into war , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 29, 2014, No. 173, p. 3
  3. ↑ How German Islamists travel to Syria unmolested ( Memento from December 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) and Despite a criminal and arrest warrant: How German Islamists travel to Syria unmolested - the first report after research by report Munich and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 29. July 2014
  4. ↑ German Jihad in Stern 4/2015, January 15, 2015, p. 46ff, Syrien- Heimkehrer: Alleged IS member arrested in Dinslaken on Spiegel Online , January 10, 2015; accessed on August 2, 2019.
  5. ^ From the German province in the war in Syria on the website of the German wave , April 23, 2019; accessed on August 2, 2019.