French quarter

French quarter District of Tübingen Coordinates: 48 ° 30 ′ 41 ″  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 37 ″  E
Height :	331 m above sea level NN
Residents :	2336  (Dec. 31, 2007)
Postal code :	72072
Area code :	07071
Tübingen-French Quarter

The French Quarter is a district of the university city of Tübingen . It is located southeast of the city ​​center .

Surname

The new residential buildings on Französische Allee

Place of the Unknown Deserter in the east of the district

In Tübingen, it has become more and more common to refer to the former area of ​​the former Hindenburg barracks as the French Quarter. The quarter on the area of ​​the former Loretto barracks is called Loretto accordingly .

The French Quarter is also jokingly referred to as the Green Hell , a consequence of the above-average election results of Alliance 90 / The Greens . In the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2011 , 57% of the votes there went to the Greens, in the mayoral election in 2014 Boris Palmer (Greens) received 83.4% of the votes in the French Quarter.

location

The northern boundary to the Au / Unterer Wert district is Reutlinger Straße / B 28 and the boundary to Südstadt is Marienburger Straße to the west and Eisenhutstraße to the south .

Residents

Over 2000 people of different origins live in the French Quarter. In addition to students in the large dormitories, the six former team buildings of the barracks, young families have bought or rented an apartment, the self-employed and artists live and work on site.

Wagon castle

In the wagon castle

On the south-eastern edge of the French Quarter is the Wagenburg , an alternative residential area on which discarded and artistically converted construction trailers, self-made mobile homes and simple huts serve as living space for a few dozen people. The square was occupied in 1991 and has been tolerated by the city since 1993. In the meantime, the residents have founded an association and signed a lease agreement with the city. Not much is left of the original revolutionary project. Today, more nature-loving, ecologically minded people live there. The residents get water from a source and generate electricity mainly with solar cells.

history

After the war, the French armed forces took over large parts of the southern city. One of the largest French military sites in Germany was located on around 60 hectares . After the French left in 1991, the city of Tübingen bought the empty barracks and then sold them to private builders and the Studentenwerk Tübingen (AöR). Since the end of 1993, more than 500 students have lived in six former team buildings, which until 2000 made up the majority of the residents of the district. By 2002 there were already about 1200 new residents and 750 new jobs were created. In the last ten years many modern new buildings have been built in the French Quarter and new sections of the population have moved in. By 2012, apartments and commercial space for 6,000 new residents and 2,500 new jobs are to be created.

Population development

year Residents Proportion of foreigners in% December 31, 1993 ¹ 664 40.7 December 31, 1994 ¹ 620 32.6 December 31, 1995 ¹ 592 21.5 December 31, 1996 ¹ 687 21.7 December 31, 1997 ¹ 685 20.0 December 31, 1998 ¹ 1056 17.4 December 31, 1999 ¹ 1154 18.9

year Residents Proportion of foreigners in% December 31, 2000 ¹ 1441 17.7 December 31, 2001 ¹ 1711 17.4 December 31, 2002 ¹ 1818 18.4 December 31, 2003 ¹ 1924 16.6 December 31, 2004 ¹ 2080 16.6 December 31, 2005 ¹ 2233 14.7 December 31, 2006 ¹ 2291 13.3

¹ census result

literature

for urban design and planning

• Andreas Feldtkeller (ed.): Urban development. Diversity and inclusion. New concepts in dealing with urban wasteland. DVA, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-421-03276-9 .

an urban sociological study of the French Quarter

• Katharina Manderscheid: Milieu, Urbanity and Space. Social character and effect of urban development models and built spaces. VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2004, ISBN 3-531-14390-5 (Simultaneously: Freiburg i. Br., Univ., Diss., 2003: Milieu, Urbanität und Raum, an empirical study of the urban development area of ​​the French Quarter / Stuttgarter Strasse in Tübingen. ).

Web links

Commons : French Quarter  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the university city of Tübingen
• Article in the Tübingen City Wiki on the French Quarter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.tuebingen.de/wahl/html/lt2011.html State election on March 27, 2011
2. ↑ http://www.tuebingen.de/wahl/html/obw2014.html Mayor election on October 19, 2014
3. ↑ Wagenplatz Tübingen ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.