Ruhrallee

Ruhrallee City of Dortmund Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	approx. 120 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.98 km²
Residents :	13,004  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	4,365 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	44139
Area code :	0231
Statistical District :	09
Location of Ruhrallee in Dortmund

The Ruhrallee is the main exit road from the Dortmund city ​​center towards the south (part of the Bundesstraße 54 ) and not a district in the true sense, but describes a residential area in the southern city center of Dortmund. It gives its name to the statistical districts 91 (Ruhrallee West) and 92 (Ruhrallee East); Together they form what is known as the Dortmund-Ruhrallee district in the following with 12,586 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016). It belongs to the city ​​district Innenstadt-Ost and includes its southwestern part.

The population is more or less constant (minimal decline 2005–2008), the proportion of older people is above the city average, but is falling slightly, and the proportion of younger people is increasing accordingly. Overall, it is a bourgeois district with a comparatively low unemployment rate and a low proportion of foreigners. The area already belonged to the Free Imperial City of Dortmund in the Middle Ages.

description

View over the Ruhrallee-Ost area, panorama from the television tower

Limits

The area is limited in the north by the S-Bahn line 4 Dortmund-Lütgendortmund - Unna, in the west by Hohe Straße / Ardeystraße, in the south by the Emscher. The eastern border is formed by Heiliger Weg, Märkische Strasse, Kronenburgallee and south of Bundesstrasse 1, the eastern edge of the Westfalenpark.

View over the Ruhrallee-West area

topography

The terrain rises continuously from the Dortmund city center to Bundesstraße 1, then falls back south to the Emschertal. The highest point is 137 m east of the Telekom Tower north of the Westfalenpark, the lowest ( 90  m above sea level ) and at the same time southernmost point is the Emscher under the Ardeystraße bridge.

Infrastructure

Two major traffic arteries run through the area: from north to south the Ruhrallee ( Bundesstrasse 54 ) from north to south , from west to east the Bundesstrasse 1, known here as Rheinlanddamm , is a six-lane road. This separates the residential development, which apart from a few houses on Joseph-Scherer-Straße / Brünninghauser Straße is located exclusively north of it, from the green and other areas to the south. The whole district is crossed by a green band running from north to south-east. The section to the south of the Rhineland dam (originated as Kaiser-Wilhelm-Hain in the 19th century) was expanded into the Westfalenpark on the occasion of the Federal Horticultural Show in 1959 and expanded into the largest Dortmund park in 1969. The northern section, known as the Stadewäldchen, serves as a recreational area within the residential area.

In addition to the above-mentioned national traffic arteries, Saarlandstrasse (eastern extension of Ernst-Mehlich-Strasse) runs from west to east within the residential areas. It is the district's main shopping street with a post office, banks, grocery stores, pharmacies, drugstores and various retail stores. Gastronomic establishments can mainly be found in the Ruhrallee area itself as well as in Landgrafenstraße, Saarlandstraße and Hohe Straße.

View from the Stadewäldchen to the television tower

Public transport development

The northern border of the district forms the S-Bahn line 4 with the stop Dortmund Stadthaus. At the western border, the U 46 light rail line runs under Hohen Strasse with the Saarlandstrasse, Police Headquarters and Westfalenhallen stops . Centrally through the district under the Hainallee is the trunk line I of the Stadtbahn with the stops Dortmund Stadthaus and Markgrafenstraße. To the south of this, the route divides: the U 41 (to Hörde) and U 47 (to Aplerbeck) lines branch off to the southeast (Märkische Strasse stop on the border with the Westfalendamm district), and the U 49 (to Hacheney) and U 45 lines to the south (Direction Westfalenhalle) with the stop Westfalenpark . The Rémydamm station is on the way to the Westfalenhalle.

schools

There are three general education schools in this district: the Landgrafen-Grundschule (Landgrafenstraße am Stadewäldchen), the Winfried-Grundschule (Ruhrallee corner Landgrafenstraße) and in the extreme southwest the Max-Planck-Gymnasium (Ardeystraße).

Churches

The Catholic St. Bonifatius Church is located on Eintrachtstraße / Bonifatiusstraße, built in the 19th century in neo-Gothic style with four towers (today only three), rebuilt after severe destruction in the Second World War with profound changes in 1953/54. The Protestant Paul Gerhardt Church is located on Markgrafenstrasse, donated as an emergency church by an American congregation after the Second World War.

Architecture / history

House front on Dresdener Strasse

In the Middle Ages, the southern border of the district was identical to the southern border of the Free Imperial and Hanseatic City of Dortmund. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the area was hardly built on. In 1899 there was a gas station, water works, electricity works, a school, dairy and the Bergschlösschen brewery north of today's Saarlandstraße (then: Ardeystraße). There was also a bathing establishment - today's Südbad was built in its place after the Second World War. At the beginning of the 20th century, the area was opened up with residential buildings, starting from the Sonnenstrasse, which runs along the Bergisch-Märkische railway line (today S 4). In the northern sections of Dresdener and Chemnitzer Straße (former name: Hohensyburgstraße) as well as neighboring streets you can find the highest block of flats in the district; There are hints of Art Nouveau elements on the houses. The expressionist apartment blocks in the area of ​​Landgrafenstrasse, Markgrafenstrasse, Alter Mühlenweg, Wittelsbacher Strasse, built between 1927 and 1929, are also of stylistic importance.

In connection with the creation of the Westfalenpark in 1958/59, several buildings were built, in particular the "Florian" television tower , at 220 meters the highest tower in Germany at that time, as well as the Park Café. Both structures were created by the architect Will Schwarz .

In the 1970s and 1980s, the first buildings in the area, sometimes known as Stadtkrone West, were built between B1 and Westfalenpark, including the Amprion building (previously VEW headquarters) on Rheinlanddamm, the former IBM high-rise and the 88-meter-high Telekom Tower ( Florianstrasse).

Population development

year	1987	2003	2008	2013	2016	2018
Residents	13.205	12,076	11,967	12,349	12,586	13.004

statistics

Structural data of the population in the Ruhrallee district:

• Minor quota: 11.8% [Dortmund average: 19.4% (2016)]
• Elderly rate: 24.5% [Dortmund average: 30.0% (2016)]
• Proportion of foreigners: 10.4% [Dortmund average: 18.2% (2018)]
• Unemployment rate: 5.6% [Dortmund average: 11.0% (2017)]

The average income roughly corresponds to the Dortmund average.

Others

Two insurance groups have their headquarters in this district: The Continentale (Ruhrallee) and Signal Iduna Insurance (Joseph-Scherer-Straße).

The traditional private brewery Dortmunder Kronen had its premises between Märkischer Strasse, Kronenstrasse and Kronenburgallee. The brand is now brewed at a different location (Actien-Brauerei, Steigerstrasse, Dortmund-Nord). The brewhouse and the 60 meter high cuboid tower are still on the site. The future use of these buildings has not yet been clarified.

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• Plan of the city of Dortmund from 1899 by H. Wortmann, printed in: Karl Neuhoff: Alt-Dortmund. 11th edition. Ardey-Verlag, Dortmund.
• Franziska Bollerey, Kristiana Hartmann: Living in the Revier - 99 examples from Dortmund. Heinz Moos Verlag, Munich 1975.
• Architecture guide Dortmund. Verlag FW Ruhfus, Dortmund 1984.
• Dortmund Archive (loose-leaf collection), year 1999, City and State Library.
• Stadtarchiv Dortmund, Best. 200/05 4/4 Overview map of Dortmund 1920.

Web links

• City of Dortmund, Statistics Department: Statistical Atlas 2010 Dortmund City Districts (PDF document, approx. 71 MB).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures in the statistical districts on December 31, 2018 (PDF)
2. ↑ Population structures annual report 2016 (PDF file)
3. ↑ Population structures annual report 2016 (PDF file)
4. ↑ Nationalities in the statistical districts as of December 31, 2018 (PDF file)
5. ↑ Unemployment rates by statistical district on June 30, 2017 (PDF file)