Fulda Gallery

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Fulda Gallery
City of Fulda
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 25 "  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 42"  E
Area : 78 ha
Residents : 2043  (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density : 2,619 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 36041
Area code : 0661

Fulda-Galerie is the youngest district of the East Hessian city ​​of Fulda .

geography

Fulda Gallery (front)

The district of Fulda-Galerie is located west of the city center of Fulda. In the north-west, Fulda-Galerie borders on the Haimbach district , in the north-east, east and south-east on Fulda-Neuenberg , and in the south and south-west on Sickels . Fulda's new central cemetery with city gardening is located on the northwestern edge of the district.

history

Fulda-Galerie is being built on the former Sickels Army Airfield of the 4th Squadron of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment ("Blackhorse Regiment"). After their withdrawal in 1993/1994, the 90 hectare area was transferred by the federal government to the city of Fulda free of charge. A project company was founded in 2000 and the first construction phase was approved in 2001. The first family moved in in 2002. In several construction phases - there are a total of six residential parks with names such as Bastion , Panorama and Wäldchen and an exhibition center - around 500 properties and 28 hectares of green and leisure space were created. More than 24 million euros were invested.

Economy and Infrastructure

Fair

In the west of the district is the exhibition and trade fair grounds of the city of Fulda. The over 50,000 m² area served as a helipad for the US Army stationed in Fulda until 1994. In addition to open spaces, the exhibition site also has space for the construction of lightweight halls as well as a car test track and an off-road course for off-road vehicles . The RETTmobil trade fair , the leading European trade fair for rescue and mobility, has been held every May since 2001 .

Since 2002 - after moving from the inner-city fairground Ochsenwiese - the large regional exhibition Osthessenschau took place on the exhibition grounds.

education

In the gallery there is a municipal day-care center and a day nursery run by the free evangelical parish, as well as the “Astrid Lindgren” elementary school with a public library and the branch of the Pestalozzi School , a school for the practically imaginable .

West main cemetery

The new Westfriedhof - which has been used for funerals since June 2003 - is the third large cemetery in Fulda (next to the Frauenberg cemetery and the central cemetery in Künzeller Strasse) and is to become the largest cemetery in the city of Fulda. Of particular role are the nearby Fulda more than 20 neighborhoods that their after closure of the small village cemeteries there burials will make.

The central West Cemetery, with an area of ​​around ten hectares, was inaugurated by clergymen from various denominations in June 2003 and given its intended purpose. The construction of the cemetery on Ernst-Barlach-Strasse cost around 3.8 million euros. When completed, it will be around 20 hectares in size and accommodate around 18,000 graves.

For the first time there is also a Muslim section for the burial of around 200 dead.

traffic

The next motorway junction is Fulda-Mitte on federal motorway 7 , about 6.5 kilometers away. The federal highway 254 ( Fulda - Alsfeld ) runs east of Fulda-Galerie. The Fuldaer Westring runs southeast of Fulda-Galerie. The closest train station is the Fulda train station . Local public transport is ensured by city ​​buses and collective call taxis .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistical Report 2014 , City of Fulda | (PDF), Memento on archive.org; accessed on January 4, 2019
  2. ↑ New district on the home straight ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2017 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. Fuldaer Zeitung from April 5, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fuldagalerie.de
  3. ↑ 100 years of industrial exhibitions in Fulda. Archived from the original ; Retrieved November 20, 2016 .
  4. ↑ New West Main Cemetery for 18,000 graves ... in the next 300 years! In: Osthessen-News.de. June 17, 2003, accessed May 31, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Muslim funeral hall in West cemetery completed. In: Osthessen-News.de. May 20, 2014, accessed May 31, 2018 .