Meiderich

Meiderich is a place in the Duisburg district of Meiderich-Beeck . It consists of the three Duisburg districts Ober-, Mittel- and Untermeiderich. At the end of 2016, 46,373 people lived in Meiderich.

location

Meiderich forms the east of the Meiderich-Beeck district. It borders in the south on Duissern , in the southwest on Ruhrort and Kaßlerfeld (or the Ruhr), in the west on Laar and Beeck , in the north on Alt- Hamborn and Neumühl , in the east on the Oberhausen districts of Lirich and Alstaden an der Ruhr as well as in South-east to the Mülheim district of Speldorf .

history

The place name goes back to Medriki , which means something like "humid area". The name of the area is first mentioned at the beginning of the 10th century in the inventory of the Werden Abbey . Lakum Castle ( Lacheim ) appeared at the end of the 9th century . The medieval history of Meiderich has been well researched. Unlike today, the center of Meiderich was directly on the Ruhr (on the slope on the north bank). The Aaker ferry landed there. In 2008 the city archeology identified five (predecessor) buildings of the parish church of St. Georg up to 1509, which collapsed in the 19th century. The parish was probably established in the 2nd half of the 12th century. The patronage belonged to the Gerresheim women's monastery. In 1311 the parish was incorporated into the monastery. The parish Meiderich included apart from the village Meiderich seven farming communities: Berchum, Mountain, Borkhofen, Dümpten , Lakum (seat of Oberhof, owned by the monastery Corvey - Vittinghof-, then Klevisches fief) Lösort and Vohwinkel. It belonged to the archdeaconate Xanten and under it to the large deaconate Duisburg. Since the end of the 15th century, the Dukes of Kleve expanded their church regiment. With the extinction of the Jülich-Kleve-Mark-Ravensberg line, this state rule passed to Brandenburg in 1609 . Since then the church has been reformed.

The village of Meiderich was a traffic junction for several streets in the late Middle Ages. In the north the parish was bordered by the Emscher (on which the Buschmannshof lies in a loop). The famous "Miracle Book" by Arnt Buschman from 1444 plays on the Buschmannshof.

The present part of the city can be traced back to a rural, scattered settlement area, which remained largely unchanged until industrialization. Already in the early 19th century a distinction was made between upper (today 17,799 inhabitants), middle (today 17,631 inhabitants) and lower Meiderich (today 10,253 inhabitants). For statistical purposes, Meiderich has also been divided into the ten residential quarters of Mittelmeiderich-Kern, -Nord and -Stadtpark, Obermeiderich-Hagenshof, -Landschaftspark, -Ost, -Ratingsee and -Schlachthof / Bahnhof-Ost as well as Untermeiderich-Berg and -Süd .

During the French period , Meiderich belonged to Mairie Ruhrort in the canton of Duisburg in the Grand Duchy of Berg . In 1815 Meiderich fell back to Prussia and since then has formed a community in the Ruhrort mayor . In 1874 Meiderich was raised to an independent mayor's office. At that time the Meiderich town hall was built. It was destroyed in a night of bombing in 1943. In 1894 Meiderich received city rights.

In 1904 the city of Duisburg intended to buy up its Rhine meadows in order to expand its port facilities. The Prussian government appealed against this plan. She wanted to become a co-owner of the Duisburg ports and demanded that the port be located in the area of the city of Meiderich and that Meiderich should be incorporated into Duisburg together with Ruhrort. To prevent incorporation, the Meiderich Citizens Association was founded in 1905. But the club's efforts were in vain.

On July 20, 1905, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Chancellor Prince von Bülow signed the unification agreements between the municipality of Duisburg and the municipalities of Ruhrort and Meiderich: From October 1, 1905, the municipalities of Ruhrort and Meiderich become the municipality, with the separation from the Ruhrort district and incorporated into the city district of Duisburg in accordance with the [...] contracts of May 1st and 4th, 1905. Meiderich already had about 41,000 inhabitants at that time.

Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord

During the rule of the Rhenish separatists in Duisburg in October and November 1923, the regular city administration resided temporarily in the old Meiderich town hall. In the period 1942-1943 there were in Meiderich the KZ - satellite camp Ratingsee that initially the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , later the Buchenwald concentration camp was subordinated.

In the area around a disused steelworks in Meiderich was created as part of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park the landscape park Duisburg-Nord .

Historical population figures

year	Residents	source
1832	2,409
1864	6,918
1871	9,070
1885	16,105
1895	25,833

traffic

train

The district is connected to Dinslaken, Duisburg and Düsseldorf via the 903 tram line operated by Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft and the U79 light rail line. The subway tunnel of the Stadtbahn passes under the ports and the Ruhr. In addition, there is the regional railway line 36 to Ruhrort and Oberhausen , which was opened by the Cologne-Mindener Railway in 1848 . The connection to Moers was discontinued in 1983 and the connection to Mülheim-Styrum in 1995. The junction of these lines is the Duisburg-Meiderich Süd station , the associated underground station of which is referred to by the DVG as Meiderich station .

Street

Duisburg-Meiderich can be reached via the Duisburg-Meiderich and Duisburg-Ruhrort junction of the A 59 , as well as the Oberhausen-Lirich junction of the A 3 .

Art train station in Meiderich

In the further development of its public transport network in the S-Bahn and U-Bahn sector, the city of Duisburg has been pursuing the concept of having all stations on the new underground lines designed by well-known artists since 1986. In September 2000, a new station was inaugurated by Eberhard Bosslet in addition to the existing underground stations owned by Gerhard Richter and Isa Genzken .

Two dominant, geometric image areas made of color and glass, each 85 meters long, are the defining elements of the “Auf dem Damm” underground station. Its broad lines and bundles are abstractions from terms such as distribute, collect and channel. The structure of these screens takes the train station into account as a space for the coming, waiting and going passengers and subliminally supports the behavior and orientation of the users in the room through the coloring and the geometric order. In the entrance area, the distribution hall of the underground station, there is a large photo from the construction phase and a "traffic route plan" on the front surfaces above the stairs, where there is usually space for illuminated advertising space. However, the graphic “traffic route plan” is not intended for orientation, but, like the elements already described, is a real image: it does not contain place names, district names and street names.

Eberhard Bosslet, U-Bahnhof - Auf dem Damm, 2000
Tomas Riehle, Meiderich Bahnhof underground station , architectural photographs, 2000

Sports

MSV Duisburg

The Meidericher Spielverein, founded in 1902, was originally located on a site in the shadow of the Westende colliery . This is where the Meiderich stadium was built . After the MSV was promoted to the top division Oberliga West in 1951 , the capacity of the sports facility increased to 27,000 seats. The Meidericher SV was able to make a name for itself in the league and thus represented the district of Meiderich at the highest level of the then still regionally limited league system. With the Duisburger Spielverein and Hamborn 07 there were two city rivals in the Oberliga, but around 1960 the Meidericher finally rose to number one in Duisburg. In 1963 the MSV qualified for the first staging of the Bundesliga , which was accompanied by the move from Meiderich to the Wedaustadion further south .

Due to the club's appearance in the Bundesliga, the name of the Meiderich district got into the press across Germany. The team at that time consisted mainly of players born in Meiderich and in 1964 was able to record the greatest success in the club's history with the German runner-up. At the urging of the city of Duisburg, Meidericher SV was renamed MSV Duisburg in 1967 . He remained in the German elite class without interruption until 1982 and only had to accept relegation that year. Afterwards, the MSV found their way back to the top division and was also able to draw attention to itself through four DFB Cup finals. Despite the change of venue, the club is still firmly rooted in Meiderich, as the training center is located at the former founding site on Westender Strasse.

Other sports clubs

The Meidericher TTC 47 was one of the strongest German table tennis clubs in the 1970s .

The ESV Grün-Weiß-Roland Meiderich, also known as the “grass plates”, has the most members in the Ruhr area in the field of popular sports and, thanks to its diverse range, is an integral part of the Meiderich movement culture. The entire association currently has 900 members, who also come from neighboring cities. The railway association became particularly well known at the end of the 1970s for its particularly successful bounce ball team. Despite very good work with boys, the club has problems with young talent. At the peak of the 1980s, the club had 1,100 members.

Another well-known club in Duisburg football was the neighboring club DJK Roland Obermeiderich. This club, which was founded in 1922, was something special in Ruhrpott football: it was always a bit more familiar than other clubs (also sung about in the club song as "... Roland is small but nice ..."), people retired in the cellars (!) the nearby St. Bernhard church, had to walk from there over the narrow Albrechtstrasse half a kilometer "to the square" and this was then also in the Oberhausen city area. Roland, always number one in Obermeiderich ahead of 1. FC Hagenshof and ESV GW Meiderich, had to merge with ESV Grün-Weiß Meiderich's “unloved” soccer comrade in 1994 for economic reasons. But the memory of 72 years of struggle, victory and defeat and the popular Roland Carnival remained ...

Other clubs

Carnival clubs in Meiderich are the 1st Great Meidericher Carneval Society of 1979 (MCV), which, among other things, organizes the blood sausage Sunday parade in Meiderich and the Hoppeditzerwachen on Martinstag , as well as the Meidericher Carnevals Club Rot-Schwarz 1987 (MCC).

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Otto von Bismarck ( conferred honorary citizenship on April 1, 1895)
Friedrich Hammacher was granted honorary citizenship on June 25, 1898.

Meiderich's sons and daughters

Jakob von der Kuhlen (1777–1862), Protestant theologian and President of the Märkische General Synod
Wilhelm Frede (1875–1942), diplomat
Friedrich Maase (1878–1959), lawyer, pacifist and opposition activist
Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881–1919), sculptor and graphic artist
Arnold Dehnen (1882–1969), politician (DNVP, CDU)
Paul Bäumer (1896–1927), German fighter pilot of the First World War
Dirk Dautzenberg (1921–2009), actor and theater director
Werner Hanfgarn (1925–1999), journalist
Uschi Krämer (1933–2010), teacher, journalist and Low German author
Günter Preuss (* 1936), soccer player and coach
Fritz Pleitgen (* 1938), journalist
Werner "Eia" Krämer (1940–2010), national soccer player
Michael Bella (* 1945), national soccer player
Rolf Krebs (* 1949), Protestant theologian
Ludger Engels (* 1963), musician, opera and theater director
Marie Wegener (* 2001), singer, winner of the 15th season of the talent show Deutschland sucht den Superstar

literature

Heinrich Averdunk / Walter Ring: History of the city of Duisburg . Essen: Baedeker Verlag, 1927, pp. 304-330

Peter Cinka: Famous Meiderich personalities from the last two centuries. Duisburg: Borath Verlag, 1997

100 years Berg Church. Ev. Parish Untermeiderich. [Duisburg (approx.) 1996]

Egon Gelderblom: Meiderich in the past and present. A look back on 325 years of history of the Protestant community and the communal development of Meiderich. Duisburg 1935

Egon Gelderblom: A look back at Meiderich's past. In: Monthly Issues for Rhenish Church History 35 1941

Egon Gelderblom: On the 325th anniversary of the existence of the Protestant parish of Meiderich 1610 to 1935. According to old church files and other records. In: Monthly Issues for Rhenish Church History 29 1935, pp. 33–73

Egon Gelderblom: On Meiderich Church and School History. In: Monthly Issues for Rhenish Church History 26 1932, pp. 289-310

Hermann Johann Graeber: Thousand-year history of Meiderich from 874 to 1874, especially in relation to the church. Moers 1877

Hermann Johann Graeber: Thousand-year history of Meiderich from 874 to 1874, especially in relation to the church, continued until 1892. 2nd probably edition. Meiderich 1892

Hermann Johann Graeber: Thousand-year history of Meiderich from 874 to 1874, especially in relation to the church, continued from 1892-1911. 3rd probable edition, suppl. Gerhard Vorell. Meiderich 1912

Udo Kloppert: "With skewers and sticks" - From the history of the Evangelical Church Community of Mittelmeiderich. 1st edition, Duisburg 2002

Günter von Roden: History of the city of Duisburg. Vol. II: The districts from the beginning. The entire city since 1905 . Duisburg: Walter Braun Verlag, 1974, pp. 124-184

Kurt Walter u. a .: Chronicle of Untermeiderich 1827–1945 - A Duisburg district in stories and pictures Ed. Ev. Family education work. Duisburg 1995

Kurt Walter u. a .: There was a concentration camp in Meiderich search for traces of the Buchenwald subcamp in DU-Ratingsee . Ed. Ev. Family education center and comprehensive school Meiderich. Duisburg 2001.

Volker Herrmann: The medieval parish church of St. Georg in Mittelmeiderich. In: Duisburg Monument Themes No. 5, Duisburg 2009. ( PDF (2.43 MB) )

Web links

Commons : Meiderich - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Population statistics of the city of Duisburg from December 31, 2016 (PDF; 21 kB)

↑ Brigide Schwarz, The Mintard Parish in the Late Middle Ages (with a sideways glance at Beeck, Meiderich, Mülheim and Kettwig), in: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the old Archdiocese of Cologne 220 (2017) pp. 77–126; Ludger Horstkötter, The medieval parishes in today's Duisburg north of the Ruhr (Walsum, Hamborn, Beeck, Meiderich), in: Pro cura animarum: Medieval parishes and parish churches on the Rhine and Ruhr, ed. by Stefan Pätzold and Reimund Haas (= Studies on Cologne Church History 43), Siegburg 2016, pp. 61–76, here: 65-69.

↑ Duisburg City Archives, Internet publication 5214_Arch_Meiderich.pdf

^ Hugo Weidenhaupt, Das Kanonissenstift Gerresheim 870–1400, in: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch 46, 1954, pp. 1–120, here: p. 98.

^ The Reformed parishes of Duisburg, Ruhrort, Meiderich, Holten, Beeck, Dinslaken, Hiesfeld, Mülheim and Kettwig belonged to the "Duisburg class" of the Clevish provincial synod in 1610 and this in turn was part of the general synod of the Jülisch-Clevian states.

↑ Ludger Horstkötter, Marco Brösch, Helge Kipp u. Arend Mihm (Ed.), Arnt Buschmanns Mirakel: A afterlife vision of the 15th century. Investigations into the origin and distribution of the text with an edition of the Hamborner manuscript, Münster 2016.

^ ^A ^b ^c Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2019 (digitized version).

^ Residential quarters as statistical districts in Duisburg. Duisburg short articles on statistics and urban research, 03/2009 (PDF; 1.2 MB) ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2
↑ Genwiki: Marie or mayor's office in Ruhrort
^ ^A ^b Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf 1867
↑ Manfred Schulz: The development of Duisburg and the communities associated with it up to 1962 . Volumes 24-25. W. Braun, 1977, ISSN 0419-8026 .
↑ Prussian Community Lexicon 1871
^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland 1885, p. 68
↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Ruhrort district
↑ See website of ESV Grün-Weiß-Roland Meiderich
^ Zeitzeugenbörse Duisburg eV: Duisburg-Meiderich . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-424-9 , p. 99.
^ Günter von Roden: History of the city of Duisburg . Vol. II: The districts from the beginning. The entire city since 1905 . Walter Braun Verlag, Duisburg 1974, p. 184.

[EinwohnerStatistik-1] Population statistics of the city of Duisburg from December 31, 2016 (PDF; 21 kB)

[2] Brigide Schwarz, The Mintard Parish in the Late Middle Ages (with a sideways glance at Beeck, Meiderich, Mülheim and Kettwig), in: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the old Archdiocese of Cologne 220 (2017) pp. 77–126; Ludger Horstkötter, The medieval parishes in today's Duisburg north of the Ruhr (Walsum, Hamborn, Beeck, Meiderich), in: Pro cura animarum: Medieval parishes and parish churches on the Rhine and Ruhr, ed. by Stefan Pätzold and Reimund Haas (= Studies on Cologne Church History 43), Siegburg 2016, pp. 61–76, here: 65-69.

[3] Duisburg City Archives, Internet publication 5214_Arch_Meiderich.pdf

[4] Hugo Weidenhaupt, Das Kanonissenstift Gerresheim 870–1400, in: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch 46, 1954, pp. 1–120, here: p. 98.

[5] The Reformed parishes of Duisburg, Ruhrort, Meiderich, Holten, Beeck, Dinslaken, Hiesfeld, Mülheim and Kettwig belonged to the "Duisburg class" of the Clevish provincial synod in 1610 and this in turn was part of the general synod of the Jülisch-Clevian states.

[6] Ludger Horstkötter, Marco Brösch, Helge Kipp u. Arend Mihm (Ed.), Arnt Buschmanns Mirakel: A afterlife vision of the 15th century. Investigations into the origin and distribution of the text with an edition of the Hamborner manuscript, Münster 2016.

[viebahn-7] A ^b ^c Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2019 (digitized version).