Wedau (Duisburg)

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Wedau
District of Duisburg
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Map of Wedau
Basic data
Coordinates : 51 ° 23 '34 "  N , 6 ° 47' 35"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '34 "  N , 6 ° 47' 35"  E
Area : 4.78  km²
Area code : 0203
population
Residents : 5055 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 1058 inhabitants / km²
Proportion of foreigners : 7.91% (400)
structure
District : Duisburg-South
District number: 702
Incorporation : August 1, 1929

Wedau is a district of Duisburg in the Duisburg-Süd district . 5,055 people live in the district on an area of ​​4.78 km² (as of December 31, 2019).

Naming

The name Wedau von Weidenaue already referred to part of the large wetland area in the area of ​​influence of the Pootbach, Bummelbach, Wambach, Haubach and Dickelsbach brooks at the beginning of the 14th century. This name appears in the Lancizollesche land map of 1733 as Weidau and in the map of Pepperhoff in 1837 as Weddau . Two documents from the Kaiserswerth monastery from 1318 and 1355 on the sale of two properties with the name Wedowen could not be assigned to Wedau with any certainty, although the old spelling for au once ouwe , owe or ow was a name for a damp lowland.

Later the place was colloquially called Die Weddau , today Wedau .

location

Wedau used to include the Duisburg Sports Park as far as Kruppstraße and is now bordered to the north by the Pregelweg, Allensteiner Ring (Schmalenbachweg), Wedauer Straße and Werkstättenstraße. The western border runs along the Dickelsbach, Im Dickelsbachgrund, bounded to the south by Saarner Straße and to the east by the Deutsche Bahn site to Bissingheimer Straße. The "Weißer See" right next to the "Entenfang" (already part of Mülheim) is also still in the Wedau area.

history

The earliest traces of settlement from the Hallstatt period (1200–800 BC) were found in a burial mound field that stretched south from Kaiserberg via Neudorf and Wedau to the area of ​​the Sechs-Seen-Platte. Finds from this time are kept in the Niederrheinisches Museum in Duisburg.

Until it was incorporated into Duisburg in 1929, the area of ​​today's district belonged to the municipality of Huckingen , which was part of the Bergisch office of Angermund in the district of Düsseldorf, together with the neighboring district of Bissingheim . After the First World War , one of the largest marshalling yards in Germany was built in Wedau.

railroad

The core of Wedau is the railway workers' settlement , built for the employees and families of the then Prussian and later Deutsche Reichsbahn , of which the streets Birkenweg and Heimweg were ready for occupancy from 1913. This settlement has been a protected monument since 1999 .

In the course of the privatization of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, the board of directors decided in 2003 to close the Wedau repair shop , which was the largest employer in this region. The Wedau marshalling yard was shut down in 2000, the Wedau depot in 1977. There are two Winkel type bunkers on the site .

Workers settlement

With a settlement of the Duisburger Kupferhütte (today: DK Recycling), living space for steel industry workers was created in the west of the green Wedau district some distance from the Hochfelder plant. It began in 1934, but most of the settlement was not completed until after the Second World War. The construction of the settlement was driven forward by Ernst Kuss , the director of the Duisburg copper smelter at the time . He wanted to specifically remedy the shortage of living space of his employees after the war. The famine years after the Second World War prompted him to include gardens in every settlement house in order to give the residents of the settlement the opportunity to supply themselves inexpensively with fruit and vegetables, eggs and meat by keeping a pig. The architect of the estate was Peter Poelzig .

Sportpark Duisburg

Masurensee and harbor

The Duisburg Sports Park is located north of Wedau in the Duisburg-Neudorf-Süd district in the area of ​​the old Duisburg district and is part of the old Duisburg Forest. Until 2008 the area was called "Sportpark Wedau". It was created in the 1920s before the Wedau district was incorporated.

The Universiade took place in the sports park in 1989 and the 2005 World Games took place in mid-July 2005 . The football club MSV Duisburg plays its home games in the Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena (formerly MSV-Arena) built on the site of the old Wedau Stadium .

The Duisburg ice rink (Jomizu-Arena) is right next to the Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena . This is the home of EV Duisburg , which carries out its ice hockey training and games for all junior teams and the professional team playing in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL).

The sports park is also home to the West German Football and Athletics Association , the Lower Rhine Football Association , the Wedau Sports School of the Lower Rhine Football Association , the German Canoe Association , the State Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia and numerous other sports associations.

Another special feature is the regatta track , in the vicinity of which the ASC Duisburg , which was founded in 1909 and now has around 3,700 members , the Duisburg swimming club from 1898 and the Duisburg rowing club 1897/1910 are located. Canoe racing world championships have already taken place here four times . The last time a world championship in canoe racing took place in Duisburg was in 2013.

The Sechs-Seen-Platte , a popular local recreation area with a viewing tower (23 m, viewing platform ~ 82 m above sea level), swimming pool, sailing and canoeing clubs, as well as boat rentals and restaurants, stretches to the south of the district .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Population statistics for the city ​​of Duisburg
  2. ^ Municipal boundary according to the official city map of the city of Duisburg from 2003.
  3. ↑ Friedhelm Stöters: Wedau - the history of a settlement . 1987
  4. ↑ ASC Duisburg website (accessed December 23, 2015)
  5. ^ History of the Amateur Swimming Club Duisburg eV ( Memento from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 23, 2015)
  6. ↑ Duisburg rowing club 1897/1910