Elmschenhagen

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Elmschenhagen
City of Kiel
Coordinates: 54 ° 17 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 11 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 49 m
Area : 6.66 km²
Residents : 17,037  (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density : 2,557 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1939
Postcodes : 24146, 24147
Area code : 0431
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Location of Elmschenhagen in Kiel

Elmschenhagen is a district in the southeast of Kiel . Elmschenhagen has around 17,000 inhabitants, making it the third largest district in Kiel after Mettenhof and the Wik . The district is located on the edge of Holstein Switzerland and is surrounded by three lakes ( Wellsee , Langsee and Tröndelsee ).

history

Elmschenhagen was first mentioned in 1286 in the Bocholt register of the Preetz monastery . The register initiated by Konrad Bocholt contains the names of the provosts and a list of the villages belonging to the land and judicial rule of the monastery and their taxes. The register states that Kroog (spelling at the time: Croch ) was obliged to give money and natural goods as well as to provide services to the monastery. Elmschenhagen is also referred to as Elvershagen, Elvereshagen and Elverßhagen . In an older list of possessions of the monastery from 1224, however, the place does not appear. It is therefore assumed that Elmschenhagen was founded between 1224 and 1286. The current name was first used in 1705.

However, the first traces of settlement are much older. Stone and earth mounds from pre-Christian times have been found in the area, which are believed to have served as graves.

Originally Elmschenhagen belonged to the Ellerbek parish . The Maria Magdalenen Church in Elmschenhagen must have been built between 1316 and 1327 . This first church in Elmschenhagen remained in existence until 1855. In 1865 it was replaced by the new building that is still in use today.

After 1900, Elmschenhagen lost its rural character in the vicinity of the city of Kiel. In 1841 the place still had 300 inhabitants (including Kroog and Neuwühren ), in 1900 there were already 724. Many farmers sold their land and made it possible to build new houses. In 1922 Elmschenhagen received a town hall in the street expansion , today Jettkorn . Today the building is used as a kindergarten.

In the Reichstag election in March 1933 , 37.6% voted for the NSDAP , 5.8% for the DNVP , 40.1% for the SPD and 15.2% for the KPD with a turnout of 94.3%. While the left-wing parties SPD and KPD were barely able to win votes in the rest of Schleswig-Holstein, in Elmschenhagen they even received the majority of votes taken together.

By resolution of the President of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein on December 22, 1938, Elmschenhagen was incorporated from the Plön district into the city of Kiel with effect from April 1, 1939 . The population at that time was 6,300. In 1939, as the garden town of Elmschenhagen, the row housing developments were built on both sides of Preetzer Chaussee according to plans by the brothers Hermann and Paul Frank . Shipyard workers and members of the navy were to be accommodated there. The number of inhabitants continued to rise due to the new residential areas. In 1949 Elmschenhagen was Kiel's largest district with 22,000 inhabitants.

Typical row house in Elmschenhagen-Süd

origin of the name

While the ending "-hagen" stands for a fenced area, the origin of the first part of the name is not clear. It is believed that the original "Elvers" referred to Ellern . This theory is supported by the fact that the area between Wellsee and Langsee was originally a swamp area and Ellern usually grow in water-rich surroundings. Another explanation for the name would be the existence of a person named Elvert. However, this can no longer be proven today.

The theory - popular in the first half of the 20th century - that the name comes from the elk is considered to be refuted . There is no evidence that the name Elchhagen was used, nor is it likely that elks lived in the area. Excavations have so far not found any parts of elk antlers or bones.

Neighboring districts and traffic

By the district Elmschenhagen lead in sections on the same route , the main roads 76 / 202 direction Preetz , Plön , Eutin and Lübeck or Luetjenburg , Oldenburg and Puttgarden Fehmarn. Elmschenhagen is separated into Elmschenhagen-Nord and Elmschenhagen-Süd by this federal road called "Preetzer Chaussee"; Until the 1950s / 1960s, the main road had the character of an avenue with old, tall trees on both sides. In those years the district areas Elmschenhagen-Nord (to Toweddern), Elmschenhagen-Süd and Kroog were opened up via electrified trolleybuses. Because of the increasing volume of traffic in the 1960s from the eastern catchment areas around Preetz and Plön, the avenue that characterizes the district was cut down and four lanes were expanded. Although this measure replaced the pedestrian underpass in north-south direction at the level of Bebelplatz with a direct connection for traffic, it has since formed a separating and insurmountable barrier for pedestrian traffic at the same time, visually and in other places.

The Kiel – Lübeck railway line can partly be viewed as an orientation to distinguish between Elmschenhagen and Kroog . Although Kroog officially belongs to Elmschenhagen, many, especially older residents, however, regard it as a separate district; Only a pastor from the Kroog Stephanus Church has enforced that a sign pointing the way to Kroog is shown. The former Elmschenhagen local station on the Kiel – Lübeck railway line had been closed since the 1980s, but has been served every hour since June 13, 2010. In the 1950s, Kroog was only opened up in the south by Elmschenhagener Allee , which crosses the railway line at the local train station and is continued by Am Wellsee . In the course of the further development of the settlement in Elmschenhagen-Süd, Allgäuer Straße was extended to Marienbader Straße , and Kroog was connected to Elmschenhagen at a second point, namely through the level crossing Sonthofener Straße - Berchtesgadener Straße . Another settlement complex with the name Krooger Kamp was built at the end of the 1970s by extending Franzensbader Strasse to the east beyond Marienbader Strasse on former fields and pastures between Marienbader Strasse and Sonthofener Strasse.

Isarweg, Krooger Kamp

Elmschenhagen borders the districts of Wellsee , Gaarden-Ost , Gaarden-Süd , Ellerbek and Wellingdorf as well as the city of Schwentinental .

Infrastructure

The residential area Elmschenhagen-Nord is characterized by terraced houses that were built from 1939 for members of the navy and the Kiel shipyards. The street names here were named after the Austrian cities that were just annexed to the German Empire. The streets of the residential area, also built in Elmschenhagen-Süd from 1939, were named after cities in the Sudetenland. Kroog and the old village around the Maria Magdalenen Church are mainly characterized by single-family houses. In recent years, the city of Kiel has tried to market the district as the garden city of Elmschenhagen .

Elmschenhagen has a district library , five schools and six churches (one of which is in Elmschenhagen-Kroog), including a Catholic and a Baptist church. The cemetery complex with old trees (in Elmschenhagen-Süd), which is very large for the district, southeast of the Maria Magdalenen Church, has the character of a park in some areas and serves as a district park for the citizens. The former German goalscorer Erwin Helmchen , who lived in Elmschenhagen until his death in 1981, lies in the cemetery . Under the site there are old civil bunker systems from the Second World War, which were accessible via entrances near the old suburban train station and south of the railway line from the pastures.

In Elmschenhagen-Süd there are small shopping areas around Bebelplatz, in Elmschenhagen-Nord you can find them around Andreas-Hofer-Platz; Further shops can be found on Bundesstrasse 76 and in the old village center of Elmschenhagen (Maria Magdalenen Church) around Dorfstrasse.

As a special feature, due to its length, the “Tiroler Ring”, which completely surrounds the Elmschenhagen-Nord area, has the highest house numbers in Kiel (up to no. 752).

schools

There are five schools in Elmschenhagen :

Many students attend a full-time grammar school (Hans-Geiger-Gymnasium), which is located in Kiel-Ellerbek .

After the Second World War, Elmschenhagen did not have a grammar school. The closest grammar schools at that time were the grammar school in Kiel-Wellingdorf , the Friedrich Schiller grammar school in Preetz and the Max Planck school (MPS) on the west bank of the fjord on Winterbeker Weg.

In the 1950s, the Theodor Möller School, a pavilion- style elementary and secondary school, was built in Elmschenhagen-Süd on the so-called Kuhberg , then a secondary school, the Freiherr-vom-Stein School, at the foot of the hill with its three elongated building wings perpendicular to the street, architecturally orientated towards the row development of the surrounding area. It was not until much later that the only high school in Elmschenhagen was built as a compact system, also located at the foot of the Kuhberg immediately east of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule. Thus Elmschenhagen now has a kind of school center , which includes the three school types developed up to then, elementary and secondary school, secondary school and grammar school with a wide, rural catchment area.

In 2010 the Theodor Möller School was merged with the Freiherr vom Stein School to form a community school, which was renamed the Lilli Martius School in February 2011 .

Churches

There are six churches in Elmschenhagen:

  • Maria Magdalenen Church ( Ev.-Luth. ) In Elmschenhagen-Süd
  • Weinbergkirche (Ev.-Luth.) In Elmschenhagen-Nord
  • Stephanus Church (Ev.-Luth.) In Kroog
  • Holy Cross (Roman Catholic) in Elmschenhagen-Süd
  • Baptist Church in Elmschenhagen-Süd
  • Independent Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Community (SELK) in Elmschenhagen-Nord

The Evangelical Lutheran churches are part of the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Community of Kiel, which also includes the neighboring districts of Wellsee and Rönne. The Roman Catholic community is affiliated with the Christ the Redeemer Church in Preetz . In addition to Elmschenhagen, Wellsee, Schwentinental and Preetz, the area north of Preetz to Lake Selenter also belongs to the municipality.

A congregation of the New Apostolic Church (church building in Elmschenhagen-Nord) was closed in 2010.

Personalities

photos

  • Andreas-Hofer-Platz ( weekly market and parking lot) with retail shops , E.-Nord (photo June 2008)

  • Bebelplatz with retail shops, E.-Süd; on the right outside the picture is the Elmschenhagen district library ; In the upper left corner of the picture, the B 76 leads east into Holstein Switzerland (photo taken in June 2008).

  • Tiroler Ring, E.-Nord, the highest house numbers in the whole of Kiel can be found in the TR (up to 752) (photo taken in June 2008).

  • Northern section of Karlsbader Straße, E.-South (photo June 2008)

  • The Preetzer Chaussee , formerly a two-lane avenue lined with trees on both sides , divides Elmschenhagen into E.-Nord (right) and E.-Süd (left) as federal road 76 (B76); View to the west to the “Elmschenhagener Kreisel” towards Kiel (photo taken in June 2008).

  • View from Elmschenhagen-Süd to E.-Nord over the "Elmschenhagener Kreisel": behind the trees the "Preetzer Chaussee" (B76), to the left towards Kiel, to the right towards Preetz ; On the horizon of the telephoto photo you can see the Y-residential high-rise and to the left of it the water tower of the Kiel east bank district of Dietrichsdorf (photo taken in June 2008).

  • Catholic Church "Heilig Kreuz" in E.-Süd at the southeast end of Troppauer Strasse, northwest view; To the northeast of the church is the “Elmschenhagen School Center” (photo taken in June 2008).

  • Weinbergkirche (Protestant) in E.-Nord (photo June 2008)

  • The neo-Gothic Maria Magdalenen Church (Protestant) in E. South in the old village center. The stepped square in the foreground is the backfilling of the former village pond from the 1950s / 1960s, which at that time also served as a fire water pond (photo June 2008).

  • Elmschenhagen cemetery chapel, view from the cemetery entrance in southwestern direction (photo taken in June 2008)

  • Hermann-Löns-Schule, elementary and secondary school in E.-Nord (photo taken in June 2008)

  • The Elmschenhagen grammar school at the foot of the Kuhberg (in E.-Süd) is part of the Elmschenhagen school center that was built there in the immediate vicinity of the “Heilig Kreuz” church (photo taken in June 2008).

  • Wiener Allee (photographed towards the south) is the main street through E.-Nord, in the picture at the back right (behind the pedestrian crossing) the Andreas-Hofer-Platz begins (photo August 2009).

  • The Tröndelsee adjoining Elmschenhagen, photographed towards the west, the top of the Kiel telecommunications tower can still be seen on the left (photo August 2009)

See also

literature

  • Norbert Bruhn: Elmschenhagen. A look into the past. Dannenberg'scher Verlag, Plön o. J. (1986).
  • Robert Möller: Our Kroog. From the forest village to the district. Dannenberg'scher Verlag, Plön o. J. (1986).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The population in the Kiel districts in 2014 . (PDF) State capital Kiel
  2. ↑ Robert Möller: Our Kroog. From the forest village to the district. Dannenberg'scher Verlag, Plön o. J. (1986), p. 9f.
  3. ↑ Hans-G. Hilscher, Dietrich Bleihöfer: Jettkorn. In: Kiel Street Lexicon. Continued since 2005 by the Office for Building Regulations, Surveying and Geoinformation of the State Capital Kiel, as of February 2017 ( kiel.de ).
  4. ↑ AKENS Information 39, Omland: "All of us 'yes' to the leader". Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Robert Möller: Our Kroog. From the forest village to the district. Dannenberg'scher Verlag, Plön o. J. (1986), p. 135.
  6. ↑ Holger Martens : Frank, Hermann . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 124-125 .
  7. ^ Wolfgang Laur : Historical place-name dictionary of Schleswig-Holstein. Volume VIII: From Gottorf writings on Schleswig-Holstein's regional studies. Working group for regional and ethnic research. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1967.
  8. ↑ Next stop: Elmschenhagen, ( Memento from January 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) kn-online.
  9. ↑ See city ​​map of the city of Kiel based on data from the city survey office 2008.