Frillendorf

Frillendorf district of Essen
Basic data
surface	2.32  km²
Residents	5790 (March 31, 2020)
Coordinates	51 ° 27 '46 "  N , 7 ° 2' 48"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '46 "  N , 7 ° 2' 48"  E
height	106  m
Incorporation	Aug 1, 1929
Spatial assignment
Post Code	45139, 45141
District number	36
district	District I city center / Frillendorf / Huttrop
image
Church of the Holy Guardian Angel
Source: City of Essen statistics

Frillendorf is a district in the east of the city of Essen . He mainly owns residential areas and commercial areas on former colliery grounds. In the east Frillendorf borders on Kray , in the north on Schonnebeck and Stoppenberg , in the south on Huttrop and in the west on the Ostviertel , which is part of the city ​​center .

character

Essen-Ost motorway triangle

Frillendorf is primarily characterized by partly loose residential developments with a few green areas and allotments. Today there are extensive industrial areas on old colliery grounds. There is no town center .

A few buildings of the old Queen Elisabeth colliery are still there. The company building from 1912 is now a listed building. Today it is a photo studio and an artist's studio. At the Emil shaft , the former mining site has been transformed into a commercial complex.

The district has a primary school, the Rainbow School , which was created some time ago through the merger of the Frillendorfer School and the Catholic Karl Borromäus School .

The motorway triangle Essen-Ost of the federal motorway 40 and the federal motorway 52 is partly in Frillendorf. Since 2016 there is only one driveway to the east to Dortmund. The earlier driveway towards the west, from which it was possible to drive onto both the federal motorway 40 towards Duisburg and the federal motorway 52 towards Düsseldorf, has been closed and dismantled. The combined exit of the federal motorway 40 coming from Duisburg and the federal motorway 52 coming from Düsseldorf are also closed. There is now a combined ascent / descent about one kilometer further east. This junction is still called Essen-Frillendorf and continues to use the old number, although it is in the Kray district.

population

On March 31, 2020, 5,790 people lived in Frillendorf.

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

• Proportion of the population under 18 years of age: 16.2% (Essen average: 16.2%)
• Proportion of the population of at least 65-year-olds: 20.3% (Essen average: 21.5%)
• Proportion of foreigners: 16.1% (Essen average: 16.9%)

history

Cenotaph in memory of those who died in the First World War

Frillendorf was first mentioned in a document in the bailiwick roles of Count Friedrich von Isenberg -Altena in 1220 as Vrylincthorpe , which means something like the village of the free . In these bailiwick roles, there is a small one from before 1220 and a large one from 1220, all about 1400 farms are listed over which the Counts of Isenberg-Altena had the bailiff, including almost 900 farms in the Essen monastery . Frillendorf was a peasantry . From 1808 Frillendorf belonged to the newly founded municipality of Altenessen . In 1813 the municipality of Altenessen became the mayor's office , to which Frillendorf also belonged. In 1874 the mayor's office at Stoppenberg and Frillendorf split off.

On July 14, 1928, a memorial was inaugurated near the Church of the Holy Guardian Angel in memory of those who died in the First World War from Frillendorf. Like the neighboring church, it was designed by the architect Edmund Körner and consists of three 2.8 meter high stone tablets made of Rochlitz porphyry , framed by iron crosses. The stone tablets bear 94 names of fallen men, which are still legible today.

industrialization

Queen Elisabeth mine, Emil mine

Dominated from the mid-19th century coal - mines , such as the group of coal mine Queen Elizabeth , the location. Additional industrial plants such as brickworks and coking plants were built. Until then, the rural Frillendorf had almost consistently under 100 inhabitants. At the turn of the century, 1900, the village quickly transformed into an industrial location. Miners' settlements were built for immigrant workers. The first was built in 1872 on Kumpelweg, others followed on Hubertstraße, Elisabethstraße and Zehntfeld. In 1900 Frillendorf already had 1369 citizens due to this immigration of workers, and then in 1928 3836 citizens. The curve peaked in 1975 with around 6,900 inhabitants. From this point on, the structural change caused by the death of collieries became noticeable. The population slowly decreased to the current level of 5790 people.

As a result of mining, the water table sank so much that towards the end of the 19th century the water supply in Frillendorf and the surrounding towns of Schonnebeck , Stoppenberg and Huttrop was at risk. The three communities joined forces in 1897 and signed a water supply contract with the city of Steele . As a result, a first water tower was built in 1907 on today's Ernestinenstrasse (then Höhenstrasse). Today's water tower Frillendorf was built in 1925 according to plans by the architect Edmund Körner, right next to the first tower. It is still used today to cover peaks in demand and as an expansion tank and was last renovated in 2006. The old tower was laid down in 1973.

church

In 1902 a church building association was founded, since Frillendorf belonged to the St. Nicholas parish in Stoppenberg until 1918. From this year there was an emergency church in the hall of the former restaurant Frillendorfer Höhe on Elisabethstraße. On October 7, 1923, the foundation stone was laid for their own Catholic church.

The first mass was celebrated in this church of the Holy Guardian Angel at Christmas 1924, but the church was not completely finished until 1958 with the completion of the steeple. A listed building since 1988, it was the first church in the Archdiocese of Cologne that was not built in a neo-Gothic or neo-Romanesque style. With their bricks, they are classified as Brick Expressionism , designed by the architect Edmund Körner . Today a Catholic kindergarten belongs to the church.

In 1960 the Barenbruch community center was inaugurated, with which the Protestant community of Frillendorf manifested its decoupling from the community of the neighboring district of Stoppenberg. The center, which is called Auf'm Böntchen today , consists of three buildings: the church (which is also used multifunctionally as a community hall), the kindergarten and the community center with various rooms. Organizationally, the community center is now part of the merged Thomas community in Frillendorf and Stoppenberg .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Frillendorf

Blazon : "In red, four silver (white) houses with their gables facing the center of the shield with black half-timbering and gate."

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.

The place name is derived from "Vringdorpe" or "Vrintrope" and means "village of the free". It is therefore a " talking coat of arms " which is represented by the arrangement of the houses (village). The resulting shield surface, which resembles two arrows, is intended to represent a sign of freedom (Frei; Frillen-).

See also

• List of streets in Essen-Frillendorf
• List of architectural monuments in Frillendorf

Web links

Commons : Essen-Frillendorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• District portrait on the website of the city of Essen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; accessed on July 14, 2018
2. ↑ Population figures of the districts
3. ↑ Proportion of the population under 18 years of age
4. ↑ Proportion of the population aged 65 and over
5. ↑ Proportion of foreigners in the city districts
6. ↑ Hans-Walter Scheffler: Frillendorf longs for rest. WAZ , August 5, 2010, accessed July 14, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Dominika Sagan: Cenotaph has been commemorating war dead for 90 years ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 14, 2018
8. ↑ Willi Vogt: 1000 years of Frillendorf - Vrylingthorpe: Village of the Free In: The Damals Series , European Library, 2011, ISBN 978-90-288-0211-7 .
9. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; accessed on July 14, 2018
10. ↑ DerWesten.de of December 24, 2014: 90 years ago: the first service ; accessed on July 14, 2018
11. ^ Heinz Dohmen, Eckhard Sons: Churches, chapels, synagogues in Essen. Essen 1998, ISBN 3-922785-52-2 , p. 178.
12. ↑ See on this Johann Rainer Busch: Kurt Schweders Wappen der Essener Stadtteile , Essen 2009, p. 49