Galgenberg (Hildesheim)

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View of Hildesheim, in the foreground the Galgenberg ( copper engraving by Matthäus Merian , before 1650)

The Galgenberg is 172.5  m above sea level. NHN high elevation in the Vorholz ridge and at the same time a district in the southeast of the city of Hildesheim in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony .

history

The Galgenberg or, more precisely, the place right behind the Hildesheimer Bismarck Tower , probably served as a place of execution by the rope , which was also used by the dam city , since the early 14th century . The hill was first mentioned in documents in 1379 under the name “Galgenberg”. In 1435 seven thieves were hanged at once. The hanged people were only removed as an exception and buried in the Katharinenfriedhof just like those beheaded in the market square ; normally they were left to the birds to eat on the spot. The gallows was removed in 1809, but until the current street name was given in 1876, the windmill road leading from the city to the Galgenberg was popularly known as the “poor sinners path”.

Pappenheim's troops shot at the old and new town of Hildesheim from the Galgenberg on September 25, 1632, but lost this position in the afternoon of that day due to the defenders failing.

In 1853, the Radler Bell Foundry was founded on Windmühlenstraße, at the end of which there was actually a windmill from 1812 to 1906 , which existed until 1936.

Around the middle of the 19th century, the city of Hildesheim had a local recreation area created on the Galgenberg through afforestation. A forester's house was built for the specially employed forester in 1864/65, which was converted into a restaurant in 1885. In 2014 the restaurant was renovated and converted into a steak restaurant. A "beautification association" founded in 1878 took care of the design of the local recreation area.

To develop the Galgenberg with a villa colony of around 50 villas, a public limited company was founded in 1901 after the city of Hildesheim had drawn up a development plan in 1899. First of all, the area on Mozart-, Richard-Wagner-, Mendelsohn- and Beethovenstraße was built on. As early as 1902, the first villas, built in the historicism style, were ready for occupancy. The Hohenstaufenring was laid out as part of a planned ring road based on the Cologne model , which was to surround the entire city.

During the Second World War , the Galgenberg district remained almost intact. During an air raid on Hildesheim on February 22, 1945, two houses on Hohenstaufenring were destroyed by bombs, and minor property damage occurred on the site of the former Radler bell foundry on Windmühlenstrasse and Goslarsche Strasse. During the last and most severe air raid on March 22, 1945, the malt house on the corner of Immengarten and Feldstrasse was hit by fire bombs and severely damaged, and a house at the beginning of Marienburger Strasse was destroyed. Incendiary bombs also fell on houses in Mozartstrasse, but these could be extinguished immediately before damage occurred.

Attractions

Hildesheim Bismarck Tower on the Galgenberg

The Hildesheim Bismarck Tower, inaugurated in 1905, stands on the northwest flank of the Galgenberg . The 20 m high tower, which is 152.5  m high, offers a view of Hildesheim and its surroundings.

The local Schlumpquelle on the northern slope was developed for the municipal water supply from 1883. Not far from Mozartstrasse, two elevated tanks for the waterworks at Ortsschlump were built in neo-Gothic style from natural stone in 1894/95 . A crenellated wreath , reminiscent of a castle, was attached as decoration . The two water reservoirs are covered with earth and each consist of six brick chambers.

In Mozart- and Richard-Wagner-Straße there are several villas built between 1901 and 1911 in the historicism style with bay windows, towers and half-timbered elements.

The Yellow Tower is located on the Spitzhut, a summit of the Galgenberg .

On October 17, 1868, an extensive Roman silver treasure was found on the western slope .

On the southwest slope is the monumental war memorial on Galgenberg, inaugurated on June 10, 1939, and a lookout point above it.

At the lower end of the Feldstrasse, which runs towards the war memorial and has an avenue- like structure in its upper part, there is also the Seven Brothers , a listed residential complex from the 19th century.

The Paul Gerhardt Church , at the time of its inauguration in 1964, the most modern church building in Hildesheim, with its 30 m high and widely visible tower is one of the most striking structures in the district.

The state education center for the hearing impaired is located at the upper end of Silberfundstrasse . In the north of the Galgenberg, the new building of the former municipal clinic was opened in 2011 on the site of the former Ledebur barracks , which has been operated by the Helios clinics since 2014 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mountain height according to the uppermost labeled contour line in the topographical map with the Galgenberg ( memento of the original from August 7, 2016 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. (DTK 25; see large map enlargement), on natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de
  2. ↑ Gebauer, Volume I, p. 219 f (see literature )
  3. ↑ Gebauer, Volume I, p. 220 (see literature )
  4. ↑ Gebauer, Volume II, p. 66 (see literature )

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Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′  N , 9 ° 59 ′  E