Forstfeld (Kassel)

Forstfeld ; district of Kassel
Coordinates	51 ° 17 '29 " N , 9 ° 32' 18" E Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '29 " N , 9 ° 32' 18" E
height	163 m above sea level NHN
surface	1.89 km² (20/23)
Residents	7214 (Dec. 31, 2019) (15/23)
Population density	3817 inhabitants / km² (5/23)
Proportion of foreigners	20% (Dec. 31, 2019) (10/23)
Post Code	34123
prefix	0561
Website	Forstfeld district information
politics
Mayor	Brigitte Ledderhose ( SPD )
	Allocation of seats (local advisory board)
SPD: 6 seats; Greens: 1 seat; CDU: 2 seats;
	Source: Kassel Statistical Atlas

Forstfeld is one of 23 districts in Kassel ( North Hesse , Germany ). The district is bounded to the north by Bettenhausen , to the southeast by the A 7 and the paper mills of Kaufungen and Ochshausen by Lohfelden and to the southwest by Waldau . The Wahlebach (district boundary to Waldau) flows through the district to the southwest .

history

Forstfeld as an independent district has existed since 1958, when Kassel was divided into 23 districts, before that it was part of Waldau (Waldau settlements). The development of this part of the "Kasseler Forst" began in 1916, when workers' apartments were built in today's Steinigkstraße (formerly General-Emmich-Straße) for the ammunition factory being built on today's Lilienthalstraße. According to the plans of the architect Paul Schmitthenner, the “Garden City Forstfeld bei Cassel” was to be built, corresponding to the Garden City Staaken in Berlin. The outcome of the war in 1918 prevented the realization of these plans. At that time, in the west of Ochshausen (so-called Kasseler Tor), a settlement area was created for ultimately 40 people willing to build, who built their houses largely on their own. In the Kassel area, the Erlenfeldsiedlung was created in a similar way in 1932 as a part-time settlement between Wahlebach and Eibenweg. In 1936, after the construction of the motorway, the Ochshausen area west of the motorway to Kassel was incorporated and the houses were assigned to the Erlenfeldsiedlung. In 1934, construction work began on the Lindenbergsiedlung as a part-time settlement, in 1936 the Fieseler-Siedlung was created as a factory settlement for the Gerhard Fieseler aircraft works, and after 1945 it was given the name "Forstfeld-Siedlung". From 1938, the so-called urban settlement was built north of Ochshäuser Strasse with 462 so-called “people's apartments” for “less well-off people”. The streets were named after terms from the former African colonies, which is why this settlement was popularly referred to as "Africa settlement" or "The Africa". In 1958, 56 settlement sites in the “Lindenberg II” refugee settlement on the Lindenberg near the motorway were ready for occupancy.

The company Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke ( Lilienthalstraße ) had built a camp with stone barracks for employees and a forced labor camp on Forstbachweg in the early 1940s on the site of today's elementary school and church. After the war, around 1000 Latvians and Estonians ( displaced persons ) were brought together in the company apartments by UNESCO in order to prepare them for a return or emigration - from this the name "Lettenlager" arose in the vernacular. The warehouse was later converted into apartments that were demolished in the early 1970s, and 421 apartments of the non-profit housing association Kassel (GWG), today's Heinrich-Steul-Siedlung, were built on the site.

The area between Forstbachweg, Eibenweg, Autobahn and Waldkappeler Bahn (with the Lindenberg settlements) was only added to the Forstfeld district in 1997 after a referendum; it had previously belonged to Bettenhausen .

politics

From 1958 an administrative committee took care of the district's interests, and since 1981 a directly elected local advisory board consisting of nine members. Former mayor was Falk Urlen for 21 years, Waltraud Maßmann for four years and Hannelore Diederich for four years. Brigitte Ledderhose has been the mayor since July 2010.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Introduction to Forstfeld

[1] Introduction to Forstfeld