Bergeborbeck

Basic data
Bergeborbeck district of Essen

surface	4.96 km²
Residents	4372 (March 31, 2020)
Coordinates	51 ° 28 '44 " N , 6 ° 58' 35" E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '44 " N , 6 ° 58' 35" E51.478889 6.976389 36
height	36 m
Incorporation	Apr 1, 1915
Spatial assignment
Post Code	45355, 45356
District number	23
district	District IV Borbeck
Source: City of Essen statistics

Bergeborbeck ( called Platt Berge in Borbecksch ) is a north-western part of the city of Essen and by far the largest in its urban district, but the least populous. It is bounded by the districts of Vogelheim in the east, Bochold in the south, Borbeck , Gerschede and Dellwig in the west and the Bottrop districts of Ebel and Welheimer Mark in the north. Bergeborbeck is mainly characterized by a large number of industrial areas, interrupted by simple residential developments.

history

The origin of the name of the first part of Bergeborbeck can be found in a knight seat of the Lords op dem Berge . One of the oldest testimonies in the district is the floor monument of the Horl house , a knight's seat first mentioned in 1467. After several changes of ownership, as well as belonging to the Steeler orphanage since 1770 , it was finally demolished in 1907 due to the expansion of the Krupp cast steel factories. The underground area has been preserved as a ground monument to this day.

In 1808 Borbeck became the mayor's office , which also included Vogelheim and thus the area of today's Bergeborbeck. In 1846 what is now called the Essen-Bergeborbeck train station on the Cologne-Minden railway line of the Cologne-Minden Railway, which was built at that time, was named Berge bei Borbeck , named after the nearby noble knight's seat Haus Berge . This railway line ran through the Emschertal , in which coal mining and the associated industry developed rapidly. This began a large immigration of workers, which caused the population in this area to rise rapidly. With the population growth, Bergeborbeck developed, so that the train station was renamed Bergeborbeck around 1900 . (Haus Berge and the train station are on the area of what is now the neighboring district of Bochold .)

In 1915, Bergeborbeck was incorporated into the city of Essen within the Borbeck mayor's office. In 1934, the Essen city harbor on the Rhine-Herne Canal was put into operation in the Bergeborbeck area .

During World War II , in September 1941, was the POW camp in the port area of mountains Borbecker area Pionierpark furnished. Around 500 men from Galicia who were not themselves involved in acts of war were housed here. At the beginning of 1942, only about 150 of these people were still alive, all others starved to death or died of poor treatment. Other forced labor camps were located in Lüschershofstrasse, Sulterkamp and Spenlestrasse. Most of the forced laborers served the Krupp company.

In 1958 the first church in the newly founded Catholic diocese of Essen was consecrated in the Brauk with St. Bernhard . In the former residential area, it was considered a beacon of hope, but with the distance plan of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , which provided for a spatial distance between residential areas and commercial areas, the residents had to give way. Finally, the Church of St. Bernhard was profaned on March 1, 1999 and subsequently laid down. St. Michael in Dellwig became the new church for the rest of the community .

On June 21, 1977 Bergeborbeck was separated from Vogelheim as a separate district .

coat of arms

Bergeborbeck coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver (white) over a green three-mountain, covered with a silver (white) wavy bar, floating an upright red horse ram with silver (white) cords."

The coat of arms was designed by Kurt Schweder and never had an official character. At the end of the 1980s, the heraldist created coats of arms for all of Essen's districts. They have meanwhile been well received by the Essen population.

Meaning: The coat of arms is a so-called " talking coat of arms "; the Dreiberg stands for "Berge-" and the wave bar for "-beck" (Bach). He refers here to the Borbeck mill stream . Bergeborbeck developed around the knight's seat "op dem Berge", mentioned for the first time in 1467, which featured the horse rams in the coat of arms. They also owned the Ripshorst house . The pram in the coat of arms stood for the rights of use to the Emscherbruch wilderness for breeding the Emscherbruch horses.

economy

On the area, which extends between Bottroper Strasse, Sulterkamp, Hafenstrasse and the Rhine-Herne Canal , a center of heavy industry began to develop before the end of the First World War . An infrastructural advantage was that the emerging industry could use the Rhine-Herne Canal, which opened in 1914, as a transport route. As early as 1917, Friedrich Krupp AG built a large steelworks here ("Martinwerk 7"). This was followed by a rolling mill, the largest forging press in the world with 15,000 tons, the blast furnace system and supplementary systems such as electrical gas cleaning. This gave the Krupp company the ability to produce pig iron from ores and steel from pig iron. With the blast furnace commissioned in 1929, the Borbeck ironworks was completed, which was one of the most modern in Europe and became the center of stainless steel production in the group.

It turned out to be a disadvantage that the blast furnaces could not smelt the German acidic and low-iron ores and were therefore dependent on iron-rich foreign ores and scrap. For this reason, the Essen-based company developed the so-called Krupp racing process , an iron reduction process that was used to smelt acidic and low-iron ores. Regular operation of the racing facility began on the premises of the Borbeck iron and steel works in 1935.

After the Second World War, the entire industrial complex was dismantled. The undestroyed facilities of the ironworks were transported to the Soviet Union as reparations and the forging press to Yugoslavia . After that, the area remained industrially unused for more than a decade. During this time, biotopes developed on the former factory premises.

In 1959, industrial use was resumed with the Rhein-Ruhr racing facility. After it was closed in 1963 for economic reasons, the LMG aluminum smelter, today's Trimet Aluminum, moved there .

The area known as Econova is now the name for an industrial and commercial area over 152 hectares. Numerous companies from various industries, including manufacturing and logistics companies, have settled here. The area is accessed via the nearby A 42 , the Essen city harbor and a rail connection. Several bus routes serve the area. The Brauk industrial park adjoins it in the southwest of the district .

character

population

On March 31, 2020, 4,372 people lived in Bergeborbeck.

Structural data of the population in Bergeborbeck (as of March 31, 2020):

Proportion of the population under 18-year-olds: 20.1% (Essen average: 16.2%)
Population of at least 65-year-olds: 15.5% (Essen average: 21.5%)
Proportion of foreigners: 22.0% (Essen average: 16.9%)

traffic

The most important traffic artery is the Bottroper Straße as part of the Landesstraße 631, which has a direct connection to the A 42 in the further course .

In public transport , Bergeborbeck is served by the trams on lines 101 and 106, as well as on bus lines 140, 166 and 196 of the Ruhrbahn and the SB16 line of Busverkehr Rheinland GmbH .

At Essen-Bergeborbeck train station , which is actually located in Bochold, the S-Bahn line 2 ran between 1991 and 2019 . It was replaced in December 2019 by the regional train lines RB 32 and RB 35 .

Sports

The largest stadium in Essen was the Georg-Melches-Stadion in Bergeborbeck. It was the home stadium of the Rot-Weiss Essen soccer club and dates from the 1950s, when the club was still playing in the top German soccer class. In August 2012, after its demolition, the adjacent new stadium in Essen was opened there.

To the east there is a drive-in cinema , on whose premises the largest private car market in Europe takes place on weekends.

There is also the Gymnastics and Sports Association 1884/1910 Bergeborbeck eV, a merger of a gymnastics association from 1884 and the Jahn Gymnastics and Sports Association from 1910.

Trivia

In October 2010, the Heimsheim media publishing house published the historical novel, which was set in Bergeborbeck from 1920 to 1936, Where else was it shit by Bergeborbeck artist Bernhard Bussmann.

Web links

Commons : Essen-Bergeborbeck - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Memorial plaque on Hafenstrasse, corner of Wildstrasse

↑ Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen eV - warehouse in Essen ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hv-essen.de
↑ See: Johann Rainer Busch: Kurt Schweder's coat of arms of the Essen districts. Essen 2009, p. 68.
↑ Wolfgang Viehweger : Walk in the oak forest ...: Manor houses in Emscherland , Herne: Ges. Für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel, 2001
↑ Wolfgang Sykorra : From Kruppschen Hüttenwerk am Stadthafen to AEG-Kanis, in: Borbecker Nachrichten / Essen from March 8, 1990 and March 15, 1990 and Wolfgang Sykorra: As Borbeck Industriegeschichte wrote, in: Borbecker Nachrichten / Essen from November 13th 2015.
^ ThyssenKrupp, History , accessed December 6, 2015; offline
^ Essener Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft mbH , accessed on December 6, 2015
↑ Population figures of the districts
↑ Proportion of the population under 18 years of age
↑ Proportion of the population aged 65 and over
↑ Proportion of foreigners in the city districts
↑ Ruhrbahn , accessed on July 21, 2017
↑ Der Spiegel: Bargains on four wheels: Europe's largest car market ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2007 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. , accessed July 21, 2017 @1@ 2

[1] Memorial plaque on Hafenstrasse, corner of Wildstrasse