Gaisburg

Gaisburg ; district of Stuttgart
Coordinates	48 ° 47 '18 " N , 9 ° 13' 12" E Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '18 " N , 9 ° 13' 12" E
surface	2.72 km²
Residents	8622 (May 31, 2020)
Population density	3170 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation	Apr 1, 1901
Post Code	70186
prefix	0711
Borough	Stuttgart-East
	Source: Data Compass Stuttgart (PDF; 4.15 MB)

Gaisburg around 1905

Oldest house in Gaisburg

Wall paintings in the Evang. City parish church in Gaisburg

Gas boiler in Gaisburg

Gaisburg is a district in the Stuttgart district of Stuttgart-Ost . The historic, now heavily industrialized district is located on the Neckar east of the city center.

The town center goes back to a settlement that emerged in the 11th or 12th century, which was an independent municipality until it was incorporated into Stuttgart on April 1, 1901. The neighboring Berg district is just as old, but it belonged to the ducal rent chamber and became part of the Württemberg state capital as early as 1836.

The coat of arms of Gaisburg shows a black goat in gold on a green three-mountain. The motif has been demonstrated on seal images since 1768.

Thanks to its mills, the settlement was an important industrial site from an early age. In the wake of the Industrial Revolution , several housing estates emerged in the 19th century and Gaisburg became a largely self-contained area.

Buildings

Gaisburg Castle: Gaisburg Castle, built in 1618 by Luz von Mennlishagen, stood on the corner of Comburgstrasse and Alfdorfer Strasse. Today nothing of it has survived.

The Gaisburg Evangelical Parish Church was built from 1910 to 1913 under the architect Martin Elsaesser and houses the late Gothic "Gaisburg Apostle Group". In the apse there are monumental wall paintings by Käte Schaller-Härlin .

The Catholic Church of the Heart of Jesus (one of the largest basilicas in the Rottenburg / Stuttgart diocese ) from 1934, see churches in Stuttgart

Old slaughterhouse: The pig museum opened in May 2010 at the former slaughterhouse shows 37,000 exhibits on the subject of pigs from all over the world.

Gaisburger Brücke: The Gaisburger Brücke, reopened in 1953, runs over the B 10 / B 14 and the Neckar and connects Gaisburg with the Bad Cannstatt district . In 1989 she became known nationwide when a Liberian asylum seeker stabbed two policemen with a bayonet on the bridge and was then shot by three other policemen . This incident sparked calls for a tightening of the deportation practice. In 1999 the film Otomo was released , which tells the last hours of the gunman.

Waldheim Gaisburg : The recreation and event facility emerged in 1911 from a self-help organization of the labor movement . It includes a restaurant, garden and playground. a. as a meeting point after the May 1st rallies, today also for cultural and leisure activities. The Sillenbucher Waldheim on the Filder plateau has a similar orientation .

Stuttgart-Gaisburg gasworks : The EnBW -Gas GmbH plant is located in the Neckar Valley on Bundesstraße 10 and generated town gas from 1874 to 1972 using coal gasification . The regular cloud of steam from coal gasification coined the term “Gaisburger Regen”. It arose every time the coke was quenched and then mostly fell as precipitation over Gaisburg. The landmark of the facility is the 100 meter high gasometer . The first building from 1928 was destroyed in an air raid in 1944 and rebuilt by MAN in 1949 . It is Europe's largest disk gas tank still in operation and is a listed building. Gas has not been produced in Gaisburg since 1972, only stored. Two liquid gas spherical tanks were built in 1978 and dismantled in 2009.

Cogeneration plant Stuttgart-Gaisburg : Launched by the EnBW coal -powered or fuel oil district heating - power plant is also located on the Neckar River. It comprises two blocks and a gas turbine plant. The two chimneys are 160 and 125 meters high. In the 1980s, the earlier Benson boilers were replaced by modern systems with desulphurization and fluidized bed boilers. For power plant Altbach / Deizisau there is a district heating pipeline. Plans for another coal-fired power station (Gaisburg III) were mothballed in 1988. The power plant is to be replaced by a smaller new building in the same place by 2018 and then demolished.