Dorney (Witten)

Dorney is a district of Stockum in Witten , North Rhine-Westphalia . As of December 31, 2015, it had a total of 386 inhabitants. As the Dorney Forest , the area is also a forest area (city forest) between Witten and Dortmund , which is largely in the Dortmund city area.

history

Dorney owes its name to a hallway name . The name is derived from dor = tree and ey = old high German Aue .

Originally it was a forest around which arable farming was initially carried out. In the 19th century, however, the agricultural use of the areas in the area dwindled in favor of the industrialization of the region (settlement of collieries). Dorney remained a vulgar area and was thus largely spared from industrialization.

On November 2, 1842, this common area was divided between the neighboring villages and offices of Stockum , Oespel , Kley , Düren and Annen-Wullen .

In the course of the community reform of 1929, the rural community Annen-Wullen was dissolved, Annen came to Witten as a district as well as Stockum and Düren, while Oespel and Kley were assigned to the city of Dortmund. This means that the Dorney area extends to the city of Witten as well as to the Dortmund city area. On the Witten side, Dorney is listed as a Stockum district on the city's district maps, but this is not the case in Dortmund.

In the time of National Socialism , a so-called "Gypsy camp" existed in the Dorney Forest on what is now the parking lot of the sports field. Since the beginning of 1940 almost all Witten gypsies were housed in this camp. They lived in horse-drawn carts and self-built barracks . In March 1943, the camp was evacuated and about 50 men, women and children in the gypsy camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau deported.

In 2007, hurricane Kyrill exposed a forgotten household waste dump from 1964 to 1969.

Development

While residential developments can only be found on the edge of the Dorney Forest in Dortmund, there is a settlement on the Witten side that consists almost exclusively of one and two-family houses in the middle of the forest; it is completely enclosed by the Dorney.

Nature reserve

→ Main article : Dorney Forest Nature Reserve

Since 2004, the land use plan of the city of Dortmund has designated the “Dorney Forest” with an area of ​​40.4 hectares as a nature reserve . The official name is "Nature reserve No. 25 - Lütgendortmund district ". Only a more than 100 year old sports field has a special status within the area, the use of which is not subject to any significant restrictions despite nature conservation. Even if the Witten part of the Dorney is not designated as a nature reserve, it is de facto treated as such an area. But be careful: In the Dorney you can find ammunition from the Second World War .

literature

• Paul Brandenburg, Karl-Heinz Hildebrand: Witten. Streets, paths, squares . With a contribution to the history of Witten settlement by Heinrich Schoppmeyer (=  contributions to the history of the city of Witten . Volume 1 ). VOHM , Witten 1989, ISBN 3-920611-13-6 ( street directory in the Internet archive ( Memento from May 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on February 25, 2013]).
• Nature Conservation Group Witten - Biological Station e. V. (Hrsg.): Nature between Ruhr and Ardey. Experience, understand and protect . 1st edition. Comedia, Bochum 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020344-2 ( description ).

Web links

• Floristic and vegetational rarities in the Dorney Forest
• Establishment of the Dorney Forest as a nature reserve

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population by statistical districts. (PDF; 30 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Witten.de . December 31, 2015, archived from the original on February 18, 2016 ; Retrieved February 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Dirk Sondermann : About Eiberg. Fabled Ruhr area, accessed on August 17, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Aue ( Wiktionary )
4. ↑ Fate of the Sinti and Roma from Witten. City history. Over 50 were deported to Auschwitz. (No longer available online.) City of Witten, January 26, 2005, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; accessed on December 28, 2015 . 
5. ^ Protocol of the workshop "Sinti and Roma in the Rhine / Ruhr Area". (PDF) (No longer available online.) City of Witten, November 25, 2005, p. 3 , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 10, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Werner Liesenhoff: The old household waste dump in Dorneywald is being renovated. WAZ , June 15, 2009, accessed December 30, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Dietmar Mauer: Ventilation for the garbage. WAZ, June 15, 2009, accessed December 30, 2016 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '  N , 7 ° 22'  E