Gütersloh core town

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Core city Gütersloh
City of Gütersloh
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 20 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 40"  E
Area : 1.25 km²
Postal code : 33330
Area code : 05241
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Location of the core town of Gütersloh in Gütersloh
Half-timbered buildings on the old church square
Half-timbered buildings on the old church square
The town hall built in 1959/1970

The inner city of the East Westphalian district town of Gütersloh is designated as the core town of Gütersloh , which historically did not belong to any of the surrounding farmers , namely Blankenhagen , Nordhorn , Sundern , Kattenstroth and Pavenstädt .

Roughly speaking, the area extends from the B 61 (Nordring) in the north to Dalke in the south and from Baumstrasse and Barkeystrasse in the west to Kahlertstrasse, Eickhoffstrasse and Lindenstrasse in the east.

history

Gütersloh was first mentioned in a document in 1184. The nucleus were the Hof Meier zu Gütersloh on the Dalke (directly on the border with the city center to Sundern) and today's Apostle Church, which was built in a ring with half-timbered stores. The village belonged to the Rheda dominion . Since the Dalke formed the southern border to the Kattenstroth peasantry and thus to the Prince Diocese of Osnabrück , structural expansion only took place in the north for a long time. Even after the rule of Rheda with the Reckenberg and the Rietberg County came to the Wiedenbrück district in 1816 , the small area of ​​Gütersloh, which had become a town in 1825, was considered the greatest challenge for urban development. This problem was finally resolved when on April 1, 1910, all the surrounding peasant communities were incorporated into the town of Gütersloh.

Because of its proximity to the railway systems, downtown Gütersloh was repeatedly the target of bombing attacks, especially towards the end of the Second World War in 1944/45. Numerous historical buildings were destroyed, including the nave of the Apostle Church from the 13th century.

In the 1960s and 1970s there were several plans for inner city redevelopment, e.g. Sometimes with the vision of a car-friendly city . From today's point of view, many of the projects that have been carried out are considered to have been unsuccessful and resulted in the loss of historically valuable buildings. Above all, the demolition of the historic town hall in 1970 in favor of a forecourt for the Hertie department store should be mentioned here . The Stahlsche Haus, which found a new home in the LWL open-air museum in Detmold, had to give way for parking spaces .

Today's city center is not the historical nucleus around the Old Church Square, but the Berliner Platz at the Martin Luther Church, the intersection of two shopping streets in the pedestrian zone . A “new center” was created in 2001 on Kolbeplatz with numerous shops and restaurants. The city of Gütersloh tries to distinguish itself as a center of modern architecture, which is also expressed in the area of ​​the core city through buildings such as the theater that opened in 2010.

Landmarks and public buildings

Around 100 and thus more than a third of all architectural monuments in Gütersloh are located in the city center. The half-timbered buildings around the old church square, the historicist buildings in Kirchstrasse such as the Confirmation House and the bourgeois residential buildings and villas in Roonstrasse and Hohenzollernstrasse all contribute to this . Historic buildings that shape the cityscape are the Apostle Church , the Martin Luther Church , the Old District Court , the Evangelical Collegiate High School and the Gütersloh water tower .

The new town hall, the Gütersloh town museum , the cultural center with the Gütersloh town hall and the Gütersloh theater , the Gütersloh town library , the Gütersloh district court and the market square are located in the area of ​​the city center .