Groß-Faldern

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Groß-Faldern
City of Emden
Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 4 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 40"  E
Residents : 8677  (March 31, 2009)
Postcodes : 26721, 26725
Area code : 04921
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Location of the city center in the city of Emden
The Gödenser Haus am Roten Siel, on the right the tower of the New Church, on the left the Emden TV tower

The Emden district of Groß-Faldern extends east of the Emden town hall . He was badly affected in World War II. In that part of the city there were many canals that were filled with rubble from bombed houses after the war. The New Church and the Gödensian House are to be highlighted among the preserved buildings . The city's former telegraph office from the late 19th century is also located in the district (also partially preserved). The tallest structure in the city, the Emden television tower , is located on this site, which is now owned by Deutsche Telekom .

Groß-Faldern is bounded on its eastern side by the Emder Wall . Two of the three mills that have been preserved on the wall stand on the wall - but neither of them is directly recognizable as such. The Rote Mühle no longer has wings and is now used as a kindergarten, the White Mill is in dire need of renovation and also no longer has wings.

The district is home to the Deutsche Telekom premises in Emden (there is a monument in honor of Heinrich von Stephan in the immediate vicinity ) and the local trade supervisory office. The Friesenbühne (Low German theater) is also located there. In addition, the Emder Tennis Club (ETC) von 1892 eV has its club premises in the district.

The Emden Music Academy and the Emden Music School have their headquarters in the Kulturhaus Faldern, on Brückstraße opposite the New Church.

The city administration counts Groß-Faldern to the city center and therefore does not show its own population figures for the district. In the city's statistics, Groß-Faldern is one of the six districts that together make up the city center of Emden with a total of 8,677 inhabitants (March 31, 2009).

location

Groß-Faldern is located in the east of the city center of Emden within the Wallring . In the north it borders on the neighboring district of Bentinkshof , the border is formed by the Alte Graben . To the east of Groß-Faldern lies Wolthusen , separated by Wall and Emder Stadtgraben . In the extreme southeast, Groß-Faldern borders on Herrentor in the Kesselschleuse at one point . To the south of Groß-Faldern lies the neighboring district of Klein-Faldern , with the Falderndelft forming the border here . The old town of Emden is located west of Groß-Faldern . The exact border remains vague for historical reasons, but runs roughly along Neutorstrasse or a little east of it.

politics

East Friesland in its entirety - and Emden in particular - has been a stronghold of the SPD for decades. In the 2013 federal election , however, the residents of Groß-Faldern voted as clearly social democratic as is the case in many other parts of the city. The SPD received 39.98 percent of the votes in the Wallschule constituency, the CDU 30.2, the Greens 11.78, the Left 7.36, the FDP 4.23 and other parties 6.41. For comparison: In the entire urban area, the SPD achieved 48.59, the CDU 25.98, the Greens 9.15, the Left 6.04 percent and the FDP 3.13 percent. Other parties accounted for 7.04 percent across the city. In Groß-Faldern, the SPD was the only one of the five major parties to achieve below-average results, while the other four performed better than in the city as a whole. In the 2009 Bundestag election , the SPD was around five percentage points below its urban result, the CDU around five percentage points above it. The SPD also performed below average compared to the overall urban result in the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2013 , while the CDU and the Greens were above their urban average. In contrast, when he was elected in 2011 in Groß-Faldern, SPD Lord Mayor Bernd Bornemann was almost exactly in line with the overall city result.

religion

In Groß-Faldern there are a number of church buildings, including the three main Emden churches of the three largest Christian communities in Emden: the Evangelical Lutheran, the Evangelical Reformed and the Roman Catholic communities. The Martin Luther Church on Bollwerkstrasse is the preaching church of the Evangelical Lutheran. Superintendent of the Ostfriesland-Ems district , which is based in Emden. The church is a new building consecrated in 1958 after the previous church was destroyed in 1943, and was considered the largest new building of the Lutheran church in Lower Saxony when it was consecrated.

The New Church on Brückstrasse is the main church of the Evangelical Reformed believers after the former Moederkerk (mother church) of Northwest Central European Calvinism, the Great Church , was destroyed in the Second World War. The New Church was built during the Thirty Years War (1643–1648). There is an extensive cemetery around the church, which encompasses the entire area in the street square Am Lindengraben, Osterstraße, Nordertorstraße and Brückstraße.

The Catholic Church of St. Michael on the street Hof von Holland is also a new building to replace a previous building that was destroyed in World War II. The church was created by Dominikus Böhm and serves as a place of worship for the larger of the two Catholic communities in Emden.

In addition, other smaller religious communities have their prayer houses in Groß-Faldern. The Mennonite community, founded in Emden in 1530, is located on Brückstraße, a small group of Mormons is represented on Bollwerkstraße. The old Reformed people with their church (re) built in 1950 reside on Osterstraße . The church has about 90 members. The Christian Community of Emden on Bollwerkstrasse is also a split from the Reformed Church.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Groß-Faldern, as an inner city area, there is no industry, and other manufacturing businesses are also limited to smaller craft businesses - with the exception of the tea producer Thiele & Freese . The district is largely shaped by public and private services.

Neutorstraße is one of the main shopping streets in Emden, and Faldernstraße, which adjoins it to the south, is also characterized by retail shops. At its western end, Brückstrasse is one of the three larger pedestrian zones in the seaport city. A small area at the western end of Bollwerkstraße is also a pedestrian zone. Further retail stores are located at the western end of Osterstraße and at the apple market as well as on Daalerstraße, which branch off from western Osterstraße. Gastronomic establishments can also be found in the western area of ​​Groß-Faldern, whereas in the east there is more and more residential development. There is a larger senior citizens' home on Bollwerkstrasse. The German Telekom has its Emden branch on the site of the former telegraph office at Easter Road. The German radio tower maintains the Emden television tower on the site .

One of the public service providers is the full-time guard duty of the Emden fire brigade, which is based on Brückstrasse. This is where all the technical equipment for the watch stand and the volunteer fire department in the city center are housed. 40 fire brigade officials and employees belong to the on-duty watch, 80 to the volunteer fire brigade. In the immediate vicinity of the fire brigade is the Emden trade supervisory office, which is responsible for East Frisia and the northern Emsland.

traffic

The main road through Groß-Faldern or on its western edge is the street Faldernstraße / Neutorstraße, which is part of Landesstraße 2 , which runs through Emden in an east-west direction . Faldernstrasse in the south of Groß-Faldern is one of the more heavily used road sections in Emden with around 13,200 vehicles per day (as of the beginning of the 2000s). The Neutorstrasse at the level of the town hall is used by almost 11,000 vehicles, in the northern section at the Agterum intersection there are around 15,000 vehicles. The other streets of Groß-Faldern are considerably less polluted than Neutorstraße. In the east of the district there is Nordertorstraße as a north-south connection, which is used in its northern section at the intersection with Philosophenweg and Straße Zwischen Zwei Bleichen by around 6,400, further south by around 5,800 vehicles. At the bridge over the Rote Siel , which represents the connection to Klein-Faldern and ultimately to the south-east of Emden, a good 4700 vehicles were counted. The east-west connections within the district are significantly less polluted: Bollwerkstrasse, Osterstrasse and Brückstrasse: This is due to the fact that Bollwerkstrasse and Brückstrasse at their western end near Neutorstrasse are pedestrian zones and Osterstrasse in the western area is a one-way street in the direction of Groß-Faldern are. Only Osterstraße therefore has a four-digit number of motor vehicles per day: a good 1500 at the western end and a little more than 2800 at its eastern end. Bollwerkstraße, on the other hand, is used by almost 600 vehicles, the road Hinter der Halle as a cross connection from Brückstraße to Faldernstraße is a good 700. The east-west connection immediately north of Groß-Faldern is a much more important (and therefore more heavily used) connection In the neighboring district of Bentinkshof, the road between two bleaches: around 7,400 vehicles were counted there.

In the 1970s, there were plans to build an inner-city traffic ring from Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse over Sleedrieverstrasse and a new bridge to be built over the Rote Siel to Nordertorstrasse and Philosophenweg. Starting from the confluence of the Philosophenweg in the Auricher Straße / Neutorstraße, a relief road should lead along the wall to the confluence of the Ringstraße in the Abdenastraße / Larrelter Straße. After the presentation of this draft plan by the planning office Dr. Schubert was criticized for it. This expansion never took place; traffic is routed via Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, Brückstraße and Nordertorstraße.

There are no bus routes through Groß-Faldern, two only serve the district at the edge. The line 501 ( Petkum -ZOB- Harsweg ) of the city traffic Emden leads to the town hall on the Faldern- and Neutorstraße, the line 504 ( Uphusen -ZOB- Twixlum / Wybelsum ) runs over the street between both Bleichen, that of Groß-Faldern is separated by the old ditch. Accordingly, there are only two bus stops in the district or, in the case of line 504, directly in the border area. For this reason , two departure points for collective call taxes have been set up on Osterstrasse and Roten Siel .

sport and freetime

The Emden rowing club makes use of the location on the wall and on the city moat . The club operates a club house and boat facility at the Rote-Mühlen-Zwinger not far from the boiler lock . The Emden tennis and hockey club is located in the foreland between the Rote-Mühlen-Zwinger and the Yellow-Mühlen-Zwinger, and its tennis department has had several courts there since 1906. The wall is also used by members of the Emden running community, but also by joggers, walkers, Nordic walkers and cyclists who are independent of the club. The wall is also a popular excursion area for walkers. There are no other sports clubs in the district. Another park in Groß-Faldern is Stephansplatz, named after Heinrich von Stephan , the former general post director of the German Empire , who built the telegraph office that used to be neighboring. The square is located on the site of the former Brauersgraben, was filled with rubble after the Second World War and then greened.

literature

  • Gunther Hummerich: Emden in the twenties and thirties . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2004, ISBN 3-89702-680-5 .
  • Marianne Claudi, Reinhard Claudi: Golden and other times. Emden, city in East Frisia . Gerhard Verlag, Emden 1982, ISBN 3-88656-003-1 .
  • Dietmar von Reeken : East Frisia between Weimar and Bonn. A case study on the problem of historical continuity using the example of the cities of Emden and Aurich. (Sources and studies on the history of Lower Saxony after 1945, Volume 7). Verlag August Lax, Hildesheim 1991, ISBN 3-7848-3057-9 .
  • Heinrich Schmidt : Political history of East Frisia. ( East Frisia in the protection of the dike , vol. 5). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1975, without ISBN.
  • Theodor Janssen: Hydrology of East Frisia . Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1967, without ISBN.
  • Bernd Kappelhoff : History of the city of Emden from 1611 to 1749. Emden as a quasi-autonomous city republic. ( Ostfriesland im Schutz des Deiches , Vol. 11), Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1994, without ISBN.
  • Bernd Kappelhoff: Johann von Valkenburg, the expansion of the city of Emden and its fortifications around 1600 and the role of the Netherlands in it. In: Emder yearbook for historical regional studies of East Frisia , Volume 75 (1995).
  • Ernst Siebert, Walter Deeters , Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1750 to the present. (East Frisia in the protection of the dike, vol. 7). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1980, DNB 203159012 , therein:
    • Ernst Siebert: History of the City of Emden from 1750 to 1890. P. 2–197.
    • Walter Deeters: History of the City of Emden from 1890 to 1945. P. 198–256.
    • Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1945 to the present. Pp. 257-488.
  • Michael Foedrowitz , Dietrich Janßen: Air raid shelter in Emden. Self-published, Berlin / Emden 2008, OCLC 254736187 .
  • Gunther Hummerich / Wolfgang Lüdde: Reconstruction - The 50s in Emden . Verlag SKN, Norden, 1995, ISBN 3-928327-18-6
  • Gottfried Kiesow : Architecture Guide East Friesland. Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Emden: Statistics Info 02/2009 . S. 5 ( statistics info / online document [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Klaus von Beyme : The political system of the Federal Republic of Germany: An introduction . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-33426-3 , p. 100, accessed from Google Books on October 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ precincts Emden 2013. In: kdo.de , accessed October 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ precincts Emden 2009. In: kdo.de , accessed on October 7, 2013.
  5. ^ Specialized fire service, civil and disaster control ( memento from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), In: emden.de , accessed on October 7, 2013.
  6. ↑ Active ( Memento from September 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), In: ff-emden-stadtmitte.de , accessed on October 7, 2013.
  7. ↑ Trade Inspectorate Emden. In: industrial supervision.niedersachsen.de , accessed on October 7, 2013.
  8. ↑ This and the following figures on emden.de: Traffic Development Plan Motorized Individual Transport ( Memento of October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), PDF document, 47 pp., Here p. 16, accessed on October 7, 2013.
  9. ^ Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1945 to the present. In Ernst Siebert, Walter Deeters, Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1750 to the present. (East Frisia in the protection of the dike, vol. 7). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1980, DNB 203159012 , p. 288 f.
  10. ↑ Line network map ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), In: stadtwerke-emden.de , PDF file, 1 p., Accessed on October 7, 2013.
  11. ↑ Tennis Emden: Club history ( Memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (archive), accessed on January 1, 2016.