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Gierskämpen is a city quarter in the Arnsberg district in the city of Arnsberg.
history
Forest camp
The area of Gierskämpen lies at the foot of the Hoher Nacken mountain and was originally a forest area that was removed from the previous settlement development. In the meantime, due to structural development, for example in the Dickenbruch area or on a former barracks site, the isolation is no longer so pronounced. The entire area is now also known as Arnsberg-Süd.
In 1933 , the local Kneipp club built the Storchennest open-air swimming pool below the later district . In the second half of the 1930s , in addition to the Jägerkaserne above Dickenbruch, the Wehrmacht was given areas in the area of the Hammerweide and later Gierskämpen. The so-called forest camp was created there. During the war, prisoners of war from Poland and the Soviet Union were housed there. From there they moved under guard to do forced labor , for example to the Papenkort factory.
Shortly after the war - North West Germany was by British troops occupied - the forest camp of the city of Arnsberg was passed. Former forced laborers or prisoners of war were initially housed there. During the Third Reich, there was a camp of the Reich Labor Service below Gierskämpen . After the war, it became camp 136 UNNRA, in which former Italian prisoners of war lived until they returned to their homeland.
After most of the foreign residents returned to their homeland, the barracks were repaired by the city. Evacuees, refugees and displaced persons were housed there. Parts of the barracks remained in the possession of the federal property administration . After lengthy negotiations, they too were transferred to the city of Arnsberg. A few commercial companies even sprung up. The company Jäkel & Co. manufactured corsetry. An Artis company produced artificial flowers and hat cutlery. A Kirchhof & Co. company was engaged in the production of textiles, while the Liebald company produced leather gloves and ran a tannery.
Building development
The barracks gradually gave way to apartment buildings. As a result of the continuing need for living space, Gierskämpen became the largest new development area in the city of Arnsberg. The first plans in 1956 envisaged a loosened two-storey development. Due to the large demand for housing, however, three-story buildings were erected. In 1957, funds from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the removal of emergency housing were positive for the development . New buildings were built south of the old barracks camp. These were built mainly by the Westphalian-Lippische Heimstätte and the Arnsberg housing cooperative. In 1960 the city sold a previous piece of forest to the barons of Eltz-Rübenach . He had 140 apartments built primarily for family members of Belgian soldiers. At that time, today's approach to the district was built via the street Hoher Nacken.
structure
From 1957 to 1970 the city, cooperatives and private individuals built 73 houses with 418 apartments. Later some areas with single-family houses were added. In total, over 900 people live in the district. This means that Gierskämpen is similar in size to the formerly independent communities of Wennigloh or Bachum and significantly larger than, for example, Uentrop or Breitenbruch .
Because Gierskämpen is a self-contained district and is well away from the Arnsberg city center, supply facilities such as a grocery store, a bakery, a hairdresser and pubs were created. As in other residential areas, most of them had to give up in recent years. One last barrack was preserved for a long time and served, among other things, as an emergency church. With the construction of St. Norbertus Church in 1975 in neighboring Dickenbruch, this function ceased to exist. Temporarily used for youth work, among other things, the emergency church was demolished in 1978.
Due to the comparatively low rents, the number of residents with lower incomes in Gierskämpen and in the Moosfelde district is higher than in most of the other residential areas in Arnsberg. The number of people with foreign roots and a migration background has always been quite high. Even the first residents had migration experiences as refugees and displaced persons from the east of Germany. Members of the Belgian garrison later lived in Gierskämpen. The barracks closed in 1994 and most Belgian families moved away with it. This overlapped with the immigration of ethnic German repatriates who moved to the city district, especially after the political change of 1989/90. The actual proportion of foreigners is only 6%, but due to the repatriates, the proportion of residents with a migration background is significantly higher, but cannot be recorded statistically.
With the Gierskämpen children and youth club, there is a full-time work for children and youths that is essentially based on the city district and is supported by a sponsoring association.
Over the years, Gierskämpen has developed its own self-confidence, which is reflected in the founding of associations, among other things. There is an allotment garden club and the soccer club FC Blau-Weiß Gierskämpen. The latter, together with the children's and youth club, has its own clubhouse and a football pitch with artificial turf and floodlights. The first men's team of the club plays in the 2018/19 season in the district league A Arnsberg, which is the ninth highest division in Germany there.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Storchennest and Kneipp Association Arnsberg. In: Heimatblätter 33/2012 p. 88
- ↑ Dirk Fischer: On the history of Arnsberg as a garrison town. In: Heimatblätter 28/2007 p. 41
- ↑ Dietmar Rost: From the Ringstrasse: Childhood memories around 1945. In: Heimatblätter 9/1988 P. 72
- ^ Doris Lüken-Klaßen: Housing conditions of migrants in Arnsberg. Local measures and policies. University of Bamberg, 2007 p. 19 PDF file
- ^ Doris Lüken-Klaßen: Housing conditions of migrants in Arnsberg. Local measures and policies. University of Bamberg, 2007 p. 20 PDF file
- ↑ Framework concept of association and open child and youth work in the city of Arnsberg. P. 25 PDF file
- ↑ Jens Hahnwald, Christof Möller, Michael Vollmer: "From friendship club to football club" - 50 years of FC Gierskämpen 1965 - 2015: Heimatblätter des Arnsberger Heimatbund 36/2015, pp. 59–65.
literature
- Hermann Herbold: The urban development of Arnsberg from 1900 to 1970. Arnsberg, 1972
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ' N , 8 ° 4' E