Gehlsdorf (Rostock)

This article describes the Rostock district of Gehlsdorf. A district of the same name belongs to the city of Genthin in Saxony-Anhalt.

Gehlsdorf City of Rostock Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 5 ″  N , 12 ° 7 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	10 m above sea level NN
Area :	6.6 km²
Residents :	4662  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density :	706 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 8, 1934
Postal code :	18147
Area code :	0381
Location of Gehlsdorf in Rostock

On the Fährberg, near the Gehlsdorf promenade

Gehlsdorf is a district of Rostock on the eastern bank of the Warnow . It is considered an upscale residential area, partly with renovated old villas, partly with new houses. The long promenade, on which there are many yacht and sailing clubs, is characteristic.

history

The place was first mentioned as Michkhelestorpe (Michaelsdorf) in 1285. In 1913 Michaelsdorf became an independent parish and was incorporated into the city of Rostock on March 8, 1934. In the 19th century, Gehlsdorf became a popular residential area for wealthier Rostock residents. Ship captains chose Gehlsdorf as their retirement home and shipowners built stately homes. In Gehlsdorf there is the Michaelshof Rostock, a church institution for people with disabilities, and the Center for Neurology of the University of Rostock , which was developed from the Gehlsheim mental hospital. After 1990 the building stock would be redeveloped and new building areas were designated.

Transport links

Gehlsdorf is connected to Rostock's local transport network by RSAG buses . From 1951 to 1974 Gehlsdorf was connected to the Rostock city center by a tram line. This ran over the Petribrücke and along Dierkower Damm and Gehlsheimer Straße, ended in Pressentinstraße and ended at Kirchenplatz. Even today, some remains of rails in the pavement of the church square testify to their existence. One reason for the closure of the line to Gehlsdorf was the advanced wear and tear on the old 1440 mm tracks and the power supply. It was not until the end of the 1980s that a new, spacious tram was laid via Dierkow to Toitenwinkel, which opened up the new development areas that were being built here. The buses via Gehlsdorf go to the Dierkower Kreuz junction.

Since 1880 a ferry has also been running across the Warnow to Rostock city center. Until 1945 the ferries docked on the city side at Am Strande in the northern old town , and since then at the Am Kabutzenhof pier in the Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt . Since 2006, the weekend ferry has also been docking at the Am Kabutzenhof jetty at Schnickmann-Kai in the city ​​harbor . This significantly shortens the way to the city center.

Personalities

• From 1889 to June 5, 1918, the youth writer Helene Hübener lived with her disabled sister Marie at Gehlsheimer Strasse 7, later in house no.3.
• The painter Thuro Balzer lived at Gehlsheimer Straße 14 for many years.
• The organ builder Christian Börger (1883–1955) was born in Gehlsdorf and ran an organ building workshop here.
• The painter Theobald Schorn was a patient at the mental hospital from 1911 until his death in 1913.
• The painter Georg Kaulbach lived in Gehlsdorf from 1915 until his death in 1945.
• The painter and sculptor Paul Wallat lived in Herzog-Heinrich-Straße 3 from 1918, renamed Kaulbachstraße 3 in 1947.
• The philosopher, composer and important parapsychologist Emil Mattiesen lived in Gehlsdorf from 1925 until his death in 1939 .
• The post director and historian Paul Babendererde was the mayor of Gehlsdorf until it was incorporated in 1934.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population by city area on rathaus.rostock.de
2. ^ Association for Meklenburg history and antiquity (Hrsg.): Meklenburgisches Urkundenbuch . III. Tape. 1281-1296, Schwerin 1865, p. 181, no. 1801
3. ↑ Antje Krause; Hans-Jürgen Mende; Hanseatic City of Rostock (ed.): Kaulbach, Georg. In: Neuer Friedhof Rostock - Remarkable Gravesites - Part 2. Rostock 2014. ISBN 978-3-00-044569-9 . P. 18 (about renaming the street)

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