Rubber island

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Corner of Läufertsröderweg and Leimenkauterweg on the so-called rubber island in Gießen
The Läufertsröderweg on the so-called rubber island in Gießen

Part of the western part of Giessen is known as the rubber island .

history

Because of its location near the river Lahn with flooding and the former largest local employer, the rubber factory Poppe & Co., the area where the factory workers lived was called the rubber island. At that time the area was isolated from the rest of the city on the opposite side of the Lahn. Even today, the area can be clearly separated from the rest of the (western) city due to its structural structure.

The residential area was built between 1932 and 1939 as a settlement of small two-story red brick houses without a basement, each with a small front garden. They were built as emergency quarters primarily for families of Yenian tradespeople - regional external name "Mäckeser" -, showmen, junk dealers and descendants of regional Sinti families .

Later on, these houses were renovated, partially demolished, replaced by high-rise buildings of social housing and the residential area expanded to the Weststadt. As far as they still exist, they are now owned by the municipal housing company , Wohnbau Gießen GmbH.

The rubber island was and is considered a social hot spot . The name of the quarter had a disparaging sound. The population structure of the area is still today (as of December 31, 2012) characterized by a high concentration of low-income and socially disadvantaged households as well as by great ethnic diversity.

Just like the similarly structured problem area of ​​Margaretenhütte, the Weststadt is one of the most child-rich districts of Giessen. The proportion of households living with social benefits at the subsistence level is very high. Due to the loss of jobs in the manufacturing sector, people in the Weststadt have little chance of finding employment. For some of those affected, this means permanent unemployment and chronic poverty. Recently there has been an increased influx of families with a migration background . This exacerbates integration and tolerance problems between established old poverty, declassified new poverty and migrant groups.

Under the influence of the student movement , initiative groups emerged that looked after the misery in this outlying district and above all offered support to the many large families. Community work in the district and extensive building renovations defused the social hotspot. Since the early 1970s, the city of Giessen tried to counteract the continued isolation and impoverished impoverishment through urban planning measures - the influx of other population groups. In its ZDF.reportage series , ZDF made a film about the residents of these quarters (title: Deutsche Desperados ). He was rejected by the residents. They saw themselves misrepresented.

Margaretenhütte, around 1930

The Margaretenhütte eV project group has been doing community work in the Henriette-Fürth-Straße residential area since the early 1970s. The association followed a citizens' initiative that came together in the 1960s from residents, students and citizens of the city of Gießen to fundamentally change living conditions in the focus.

Within the traditional neighborhood population of both the Gummiinsel and the Margaretenhütte , a sociolect strongly influenced by Romani , known as Manic , was widespread until at least the 1980s . Today the manic is only likely to be present in relics and has largely lost its original character as a secret language .

With the peripheral settlement Eulenkopf (Giessen north-east), a third social hotspot is to be mentioned, in which manic is also raggert (= spoken).

Literature and media

  • Diakonisches Werk Gießen (Ed.): The Weststadt, creepy and colorful. A participation project as part of the community work Gießen-West. Casting 2004.
  • Hans-Günther Lerch: "Tschü lowi". The manic in pouring. The secret language of a social fringe group, its history and its sociological background. Giessen 1976. ISBN 978-3-89687-485-6
  • Fritz Neuschäfer: The history of the “Yenish” and “Manic” in Giessen. In: Manfred H. Klös (arrangement): A piece of Giessen history. Giessen o. J. (1988), pp. 51-55.
  • Marc Wiese (director), Heiner Gatzemeier ( editor ): German Desperados. The village of scrappers, showmen and peddlers. 1998. (VHS, 30 min.)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ School program of the Giessen-West elementary school - all-day school - of the university town of Giessen (PDF; 945 kB), p. 8
  2. ↑ T. Naumann: The rubber island in Giessen an der Lahn ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2009 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gummi-insel.de
  3. ↑ See the statements made by the City of Giessen City Administration / Social Urban Renewal: Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.giessen-staerken.de
  4. ↑ When the Tschabo puts on the Spannuckele in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on October 22, 2017, page R3
  5. ↑ Hans-Günther Lerch: "Tschü lowi ...". The manic in pouring. The secret language of a social fringe group, its history and its sociological background. VVB Laufersweiler Verlag, Giessen 1976.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 40.7 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 52.6 ″  E