Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen

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Rotthausen coat of arms
The districts of Gelsenkirchen with Rotthausen in the southwest

Rotthausen is the southernmost district of the Ruhr area city of Gelsenkirchen on the border with the city of Essen . As of December 31, 2018, it had a total of 14,155 inhabitants and belongs to the Gelsenkirchen-Süd district . Rotthausen is known for its many green spaces and as the location of the modern solar energy industry; The Mechtenberg nature reserve is located on the city limits of Essen . It is also an example of a successful integration policy and the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

history

The former peasantry Rotthausen (formed from three historic cores) had in 1795 345 inhabitants. From 1808 Rotthausen belonged to the newly created municipality (from 1813 mayor's office ) Altenessen with the administrative seat in Stoppenberg . Since 1873 the Rotthausen community has belonged to the Stoppenberg mayor in the Essen district . In 1846 coal was digged for the first time in Rotthausen and in 1847 the first railway line, the main line of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company, was built. A station for passenger trains was set up in 1876 on the connecting line between the Rhine Ruhr area line and the Cologne-Minden line, which was expanded in 1895 to a station with goods handling.

In 1891 and 1893, first a Catholic and then a Protestant parish was formed. On October 1, 1906, the Rotthausen community was raised to its own mayor's office.

On May 25, 1912, the Essen-Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen airfield was put into operation and served by Lufthansa. It was located in the area of ​​the current trotting track under the dump at Gut Nienhausen . The main plant of Kondor Flugzeugwerke was located at Rotthausen Airport . The aviation pioneer and flight instructor Bruno Werntgen trained at the airport and also gave flight lessons here. In 1921 the Volkshaus Rotthausen was built. Its architect was Alfred Fischer , who also designed the Hans-Sachs-House . On January 1, 1924, Rotthausen was spun off from the Essen district or the Rhine province and incorporated into the city of Gelsenkirchen in the province of Westphalia . In 1927 a sheet glass factory was established in Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen. Solar cells have been produced at this location since 1999 .

Dahlbusch colliery

Coal mining in the Dahlbusch colliery began in 1848. Three serious mining accidents occurred in the colliery in the middle of the 20th century: 38 on August 23, 1943, 78 on May 20, 1950 and 42 on August 3, 1955. Three monuments that were erected in the Rotthaus cemetery commemorate these accidents. On May 12, 1955, after a mine accident, three miners were rescued from underground with the Dahlbusch bomb. In 1966 the mine was shut down.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In gold (yellow) a red house with silver (white) half-timbering and an open gate, into which an upright blue ploughshare protrudes in the base of the shield ; A blue St. Andrew's cross above the gable on the right and left . "

The Rotthausen coat of arms was designed by Kurt Schweder from Essen. The coat of arms is a so-called " talking coat of arms "; the ploughshare in the shield base stands for the part of the name "Rott-", which is derived from clearing. The half-timbered house above symbolizes the part of the name "-hausen". The St. Andrew's crosses are intended to remind of the former Thingstätte on the Oberhof Rotthausen.

population

As of December 31, 2019, 14,178 residents lived in Rotthausen.

  • Share of the female population: 49.7% (Gelsenkirchen average: 50.4%)
  • Share of the male population: 50.3% (Gelsenkirchen average: 49.6%)
  • Proportion of foreigners: 27.5% (Gelsenkirchen average: 21.7%)

traffic

At the Essen-Gelsenkirchen railway is Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen station of the line S 2 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn approached every hour.

In Essen and Gelsenkirchen there is a connection to the long-distance network of Deutsche Bahn .

In addition, 5 bus routes run through Rotthausen:

  • 155- Achternbergstrasse - Essen-Kupferdreh
  • 194 - Gelsenkirchen Hbf - Essen-Hair pigtail
  • 340 - Landschede - Herne-Holsterhausen
  • 348 - Gelsenkirchen-Hüllen - Essen-Katernberg
  • 381 - Landschede - Gelsenkirchen-Resse
  • 381 - Landschede - Gelsenkirchen-Resse
  • 388-Gelsenkirchen-Hbf-Feldmark-Rotthause-Ückendorf-Marienhospital

Churches

In Rotthausen there is a Protestant church on Steeler Strasse. Two Catholic churches, whereby the Church of St. Mary's Assumption was closed in 2005 and since then only St. Barbara (Düppel) has been active. There is also a New Apostolic Church and an Islamic community center.

market

Every Saturday there is a small weekly market on the square on Karl-Meyer-Straße (today Elisabeth-Käsemann- Platz). In addition, the polluting vehicle stops there twice a month.

Local supply center

The Karl-Meyer-Straße in Rotthausen is a social meeting place to linger and shop.

societies

  • DJK TUS Rotthausen
  • SSV Rotthausen
  • BSV shooting club
  • Dog sports club
  • Grandfathers club
  • Men's choir
  • DPSG tribe Martin-Luther King
  • Protestant youth

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Connected to Rotthausen

  • Ernst Käsemann (1906–1998), Protestant theologian and pastor in Rotthausen from 1933 to 1946
  • Karl Holstein (1908–1983), industrialist, chairman of the board of the German Libbey Owens Society for Mechanical Glass Manufacturing AG (DELOG) in Rotthausen
  • Johannes Baptist Przyklenk FSF (1916–1984), Catholic bishop in Brazil, grew up in Rotthausen
  • Leonard Lansink , (* 1956), actor, spent most of his childhood and youth in Rotthausen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population structure in Gelsenkirchen as of December 31, 2018 - data source: City of Gelsenkirchen - opendata.gelsenkirchen.de
  2. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1875, p. 434 f
  3. ↑ Rotthausen Mayor's Office. In: territorial.de. October 21, 2010, accessed May 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Population structure in Gelsenkirchen as of December 31, 2019 - data source: City of Gelsenkirchen - opendata.gelsenkirchen.de
  5. ↑ Population structure in Gelsenkirchen as of December 31, 2019 - data source: City of Gelsenkirchen - opendata.gelsenkirchen.de
  6. ↑ Population structure in Gelsenkirchen as of December 31, 2019 - data source: City of Gelsenkirchen - opendata.gelsenkirchen.de
  7. ↑ Share of foreigners in Gelsenkirchen as of December 31, 2019 - Data source: City of Gelsenkirchen - opendata.gelsenkirchen.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '  N , 7 ° 5'  E