Basel-Gundeldingen

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Gundeldingen
district of Basel
Map of Gundeldingen
Coordinates 611 711  /  265 795 coordinates: 47 ° 32 '34 "  N , 7 ° 35' 39"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and eleven thousand seven hundred eleven  /  two hundred and sixty-five thousand seven hundred ninety-five
surface 1.2 km²
Residents 18,779 (December 31, 2018)
Population density 15,649 inhabitants / km²
BFS no. 2701-006
Post Code 4053

Gundeldingen , also known as Gundeli in Basel , is a district in the south of the Swiss city ​​of Basel with around 18,000 inhabitants. It is named after the Gundeldingen estate / Schlösschen . It is bordered to the north by the station area to the district Am Ring , on the east by the district of St. Alban (Reinacherstrasse), on the south by the district Bruderholz and the municipality Binningen (Gundeldingerstrasse) and on the west by the district Bachletten (river Birsig ).

In contrast to the rest of the city, the almost checkerboard-like structure with its parallel streets, based on American models, is striking. The fact that Gundeldingen is practically separated from the rest of the city by the train station and its tracks gives the quarter the character of an independent small town.

Architecturally, the area is characterized on the one hand by numerous industrial buildings and apartment buildings around the train station and on the other hand by bourgeois residential buildings from the Wilhelminian era at the foot of the Bruderholz quarter.

history

The lower middle Gundeldingen Castle, still preserved today, copper print, 1754

The area on the northern slope of the Bruderholz, about one kilometer outside the former walls of the old core of the city of Basel, appeared in the documents as Cundoltingin as early as 1194 . As it previously belonged to the rural area of Basel, were there in the 14th and 15th centuries a number of moated castles built as a stately seats. The four Gundeldingen castles were called large Gundeldingen , lower middle Gundeldingen , upper middle Gundeldingen and anterior Gundeldingen . With the exception of the lower middle Gundeldingen , which today bears the name Thomas Platter -Haus and is hidden in the middle of the quarter houses, and the front Gundeldingen , which is also in the middle of the residential area, all these castles have disappeared over time.

At the beginning of the second half of the 19th century, the quarter had barely 30 houses and only a few narrow streets and country lanes, which were used for agricultural development. Large orchards and grain fields, but also vineyards and herb gardens determined the image of the Gundeldingerfeld. At that time the field was owned by the municipality of Basel. From 1872 onwards, with the blessing of the city of Basel, the Süddeutsche Immobilien-Gesellschaft bought the 72  hectares of land between the train station , Gundeldingerstrasse, Margarethstrasse and Reinachstrasse in several tranches. The company intended to sell the developed land again to those willing to build as quickly as possible. On June 1, 1874, the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt approved the development plan for the district and within a few years the entire area was built over in a large city.

During the Second World War, Basel-Gundeldingen was the target of two major air raids by Allied bomber squadrons (December 16/17, 1940 and March 4, 1945), which resulted in death and major property damage. The border location of the city of Basel and the neighborhood's immediate vicinity to the SBB track systems suggest that it could be confused with the railway stations used by the Wehrmacht in Alsace or in southern Baden; However, it is still common to assume that the second attack was a deliberate punitive action for the delivery of goods from Switzerland to Nazi Germany.

The oldest Neutral Neighborhood Association in Basel, the Neutral Neighborhood Association Gundeldingen, or NQVG for short, has existed since 1875. And since 2001 - there is no community level in Basel - the Gundeldingen Neighborhood Coordination, a coordination office similar to a neighborhood secretariat. It was founded by committed representatives of the local associations and is run on a voluntary basis.

traffic

The Gundeldinger Quartier is mainly accessed by tram lines 15, 16 and E11 as well as bus line 36.

After several years of work on the Güterstrasse, the completion of a renovation of the main traffic axis was celebrated at the end of August 2008. With the renovation, the sidewalks were widened, the Tellplatz greened and traffic-calming measures were taken in various places.

Sports

The St. Margarethen artificial ice rink is located in Margarethenpark, which was the home stadium of EHC Basel for a long time before the St. Jakob-Arena was built. The tennis facility of the Basler Lawn Tennis Club (BLTC) is located at the east end of Margarethenpark. Furthermore, the fistball team of the gymnastics club Gundeldingen trains on Margarethenmatte. In addition to the fistball team, this gymnastics club also has a team of women and men who train regularly.

Residential districts

Gundeldingen is divided into three residential districts:

  • Margarethen (SBB train station, Winkelriedplatz, Pruntrutermatte)
  • Thierstein (Bruderholzstrasse, Tellplatz, Liesbergermatte)
  • Delsbergerallee (Heiliggeistkirche, Delsbergerallee)

Buildings and landmarks

literature

  • Kantensprung AG (Ed.): Gundeldingerfeld Dornacherstrasse Basel. A machine factory in transition. With texts by Barbara Buser a. a., photographs v. Martin Zeller, editions denkstatt, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-9524556-0-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.gundeli-koordination.ch/index.php?id=41.gundeli-koordination.ch/index.php?id=41

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