Flaßhofstrasse

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The Flaßhofstraße is the center of the red light district of Oberhausen .

history

The brothel road in the district of Oberhausen-center of the municipality Alt-Oberhausen exists in its present form since 1963. The relatively large in relation to the population of Oberhausen core of the red light district is made by Sperrbezirk controlled regulation zone Flaßhofstraße 17-46 with 16 houses mainly run homes , in which prostitutes rent a total of around 230 rooms. According to the police, in 2011 most of the women working there came from Romania, Bulgaria or Poland.

Flaßhofstrasse was originally called Eintrachtstrasse . Prostitution began at the top of this street by 1914 at the latest . Soon the street was known for it beyond the city limits. When the Ruhr uprising broke out in March 1920 to ward off the Kapp Putsch , the Red Ruhr Army , whose aim was the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat , also employed so-called "Red Cross Sisters" as medical workers, who were made up exclusively of " prostitutes " recruited, "mainly from Oberhausen". Some of them, called "Karbol-Mäuschen" by their comrades-in-arms, took part in a "plundering" of the Sythen house on March 21, 1920 , which was then owned by Count Otto von Westerholt and Gysenberg (1875-1920). “Red Cross Sisters” of the Red Ruhr Army, who were found with a pistol at that time, were - as admitted a member of the Freikorps Epp , which was deployed against the Ruhr uprising - shot unceremoniously.

The part of Eintrachtstrasse affected by prostitution was renamed Flaßhofstrasse on April 1, 1921, through an ordinance issued by the District President of Düsseldorf Walther Grützner . Under threat of expropriation, the residents of the houses in this section had to prove that the houses were rented for residential purposes. On March 31, 1921, an Oberhausen newspaper reported that the ordinance had taken effect.

Christian Flaßhof was honored with the new name of the street, who in 1845 - together with his brother-in-law Jobst Waldthausen and Wilhelm Lueg - had drilled holes on the Lipper Heide and had encountered coal , so that the Concordia colliery was subsequently founded.

When prostitution resurrected on Flaßhofstrasse in the 1930s, the residents of the non-renamed part of Eintrachtstrasse pushed for a renaming. In 1938 this section was renamed Linsingenstrasse .

In the late 1960s was a part from corrugated iron erbauter shed the Flaßhofstraße as "Germany schäbigstes House of Pleasure".

In its zoning plan , which the city of Oberhausen carried out between 2001 and 2003 to limit the use of the brothel, it measured the brothel area on Flaßhofstrasse, the origins of which it traced back to 1910 and which it defined as a special area with the purpose of "brothels", "regional importance".

With an entertainment tax introduced in 2008 , colloquially known as the “sex tax”, the city ​​of Oberhausen , which is subject to emergency budget management , has been collecting tax amounts from the operators of the “ accommodation establishments ” used as brothels in Flaßhofstrasse since 2009 . In 2011 these were amounts between 50,000 and 300,000 euros. On the other hand, some of the companies concerned took legal action before the Düsseldorf Administrative Court . The court ruled in 2011 that this tax was a permissible expense tax and dismissed the claims.

The president of the Oberhausen Hells Angels , previously head of a previous chapter of the Bandidos , was tenant of eight of the 16 houses on Flaßhofstrasse in 2013; the battle for supremacy is fought with fights and shootings. In the same year the "50. Anniversary "of Bordellstrasse celebrated.

In May 2015 it became known that the brothel operator Bert Wollersheim , known from TV shows , is to beautify Flaßhofstrasse. Daniel Schranz , whom the people of Oberhausen elected their new mayor in the first ballot on September 13, 2015, responded to Wollersheim's plans in his election campaign that the term “beautiful” was out of the question at this point. He will "do everything in his power to relocate the red light area out of the city center."

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Micke: How prostitutes work on Flaßhofstrasse . Article from March 18, 2011 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on May 23, 2015
  2. ^ Andrea Micke: Flaßhofstrasse restricted area . Article from March 19, 2011, NRZ ( PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot /kunden.mio-gmbh.de
  3. ↑ Erhard Lucas: March Revolution 1920 . Volume 2: The armed workers' uprising in the Ruhr area in its structure and in its relationship to the class struggles in the various regions of the Reich . Verlag Roter Stern, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 978-3-87877-064-0 , p. 83 f.
  4. ↑ Karbolmäuschen , word explanation in the portal wiktionary.org , accessed on August 16, 2015
  5. ↑ Walter Wübbe: Looting of House Sythen 1920 . Haltern am See 2010
  6. ↑ Franz Josef Kalfhues: looting and murder on house Sythen. From the diary of Josef Mallmann in 1920 . In: Vestischer Kalender, 67th year (1996), pp. 38–47
  7. ↑ David Remer: The historical development of the autonomous "anti-fascist action" . Website in the trend.infopartisan.net portal ( trend online newspaper , 4/2001), accessed on August 16, 2015
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Ruge: Weimar - Republic for Time , Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin / DDR 1969, p. 71.Source: MA, No. R 4454, Bl. 1 ff.
  9. ↑ Erhard Lucas, p. 84
  10. ^ Rolf B. Alexander: Prostitution in Germany . Verlag Lichtenberg, Munich 1969, p. 179
  11. ^ City of Oberhausen: Explanation for the development plan No. 443 - Grenzstraße / Friedenstraße - renewed public display . Oberhausen 2002, p. 7 ff. ( Explanation of the plan for the development plan no. 443 in the portal o-sp.de (City of Oberhausen: " Land use planning online") )
  12. ↑ Oberhausen may continue to levy sex tax . Article from October 11, 2011 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on August 16, 2015
  13. ↑ Administrative Court Düsseldorf, 25 K 6960/10 , judgment of October 10, 2011 in the portal justiz.nrw.de , accessed on August 16, 2015
  14. ^ Bandido shot - raid on Hells Angels in Oberhausen . Article of 10 November 2013 Portal derwesten.de , accessed on May 23, 2015
  15. ↑ Annika Fischer: Beer, Breasts, Bratwurst - The brothels on Flaßhofstrasse are celebrating their 50th birthday . Article from September 8, 2013 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on May 23, 2015
  16. ↑ Andrea Micke: Wollersheim is supposed to beautify Oberhausen's red light district . Article from May 21, 2015 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on May 23, 2015
  17. ↑ Schranz on the Red Mile: Wrong answer . Article from May 23, 2015 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on September 14, 2015

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '59.7 "  N , 6 ° 50' 46.1"  E