Wehringhausen

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District shop in Wehringhausen
Quadrux bookstore in Wehringhausen

Wehringhausen is a district of the independent city Hagen in the eastern Ruhr area . In 2018 Wehringhausen had 16,013 inhabitants. Wehringhausen is located between downtown Hagen and the Haspe and Kuhlerkamp districts .

history

The ending -hausen for a settlement was often used by the Franks in the past. It can therefore be assumed that Wehringhausen owes its creation to the Franconian missionary will. One can assign the name to the time of the great migrations in the 5th to 8th centuries.

Wehringhausen was mentioned for the first time in 1050 as Weridinchuson in a list of goods and income from the Benedictine and imperial abbey of Werden with an annual landlord donation of five pieces of silver. The farmers Wehringhausen belonged to the county of Mark in the parish and court of Hagen . In the treasure book of Grafschaft Mark from 1486, 13 taxable farm owners are named in the Werdychhuser Burschop with a tax between ½ Gg and 8 gold guilders .

On January 1, 1876, Wehringhausen was incorporated into the city of Hagen together with Eilpe . Adolph Müller and Paul Büsche founded the Büsche & Müller company in Wehringhausen in 1887 , from which the Accumulatoren Fabrik Aktiengesellschaft Berlin-Hagen (AFA) emerged in 1890 . The company, renamed VARTA Batterie AG in 1962 , developed into one of the world's largest manufacturers of lead-acid batteries .

Wehringhausen has developed - especially after the Second World War - into an independent urban district , a small town within a large city, which has a significant impact on and simplifies life in this district. For example, shops and restaurants have set up shop that no longer make the way to the city center necessary, since everything essential for life can be obtained here. In addition to small cafés and restaurants, there is an organic store, a health food store, a bookstore, several discounters and supermarkets, a bakery, a butcher, as well as fruit and vegetable shops and various handicraft services. Wehringhausen is a multicultural district because of its inhabitants of many different nationalities. The center of the district is mainly the Lange Straße between Pelmkestraße and the Bergischer Ring and especially the Wilhelmsplatz, where events and district festivals (including a night of long tables ) often take place by a local dealer association .

population

On December 31, 2018, there were 16,013 residents in Wehringhausen.

Structural data of the population in Wehringhausen:

  • Share of the population under 20 years of age: 21.9% (Hagen average: 19.4%)
  • Proportion of population of at least 60-year-olds: 23.2% (Hagen average: 28.3%)
  • Proportion of foreigners: 30.9% (Hagen average: 19.1%)

Culture and Social

In the district stands the Roman Catholic Church of St. Michael, which was built between 1898 and 1915 in two construction phases and today belongs to the parish of St. Michael and Maria, Help of Christians .

The Pauluskirche, built between 1909–1911, is the house of worship of the Evangelical Lutheran Pauluskirche community.

There are two primary schools responsible for primary school students from Wehringhausen: the Emil Schumacher School and the Janusz Korczak School. Another school, not belonging to the district, but directly adjacent and with a large proportion of Wehringhauser students, the Fichte-Gymnasium (named after Johann Gottlieb Fichte ). The buildings of the former secondary school in Wehringhausen are now home to the Rahel-Varnhagen-Kolleg , a further education college of the city of Hagen. The FESH comprehensive school ( Free Evangelical Comprehensive School Hagen ) is also located in this building .

The socio- cultural cultural center Pelmke , a former elementary school in Wehringhausen, is known nationwide.

An open youth center has existed in the Wehringhausen district since November 2007. The sponsor is the Protestant Youth in the Hagen church district.

In the summer of 2010, the Wehringhauser "district shop" was opened, which sees itself as a "compass through the district" and offers information and advice. The district store was accompanied by the city and business development agency, financially supported by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the EU, and supported by the Wehringhauser dealer community.

In 2012, Wehringhausen was accepted into the urban development funding as part of the " Socially Integrative City " program. The aim is to stabilize and revalue the district, which has in parts developed negatively. In the spring of 2014, the city of Hagen used a district management system to coordinate the renewal process on site . From the district shop at Lange Straße 22, the structural, local economic and cultural issues are looked after by S · T · E · R · N GmbH - NRW. A working group of Diakonie and Caritas has been commissioned to deal with the issues of social affairs, integration and education. A number of public building measures are being implemented with intensive public participation, including a. the renewal of Wilhelmsplatz, Bodelschwinghplatz and the creation of a new leisure area in Lower Wehringhausen ("Bohne"). The measures in public space help property owners to increasingly invest in the renewal of the predominantly Wilhelminian-style buildings. The renewal process is flanked by projects in the cultural field (including street art ) as well as community-oriented projects such as NRW holds together, urban gardening or a repair café .

traffic

Wehringhausen S-Bahn station

Road and railroad

Due to its location between the city center of Hagen and the Haspe district, Wehringhausen is crossed by numerous traffic axes. On the one hand, Landesstraße 700 (former Bundesstraße 7 ) runs through Wehringhausen and is called Wehringhauser Straße here . The Wuppertal – Dortmund , Volmetalbahn and Düsseldorf – Dortmund (S-Bahn) lines also run through Wehringhausen , where the Hagen-Wehringhausen S-Bahn stop (station code EGHW), where the S8 and S9 ( S-Bahn lines) come together every 30 minutes). The formerly busy Wehringhauser Strasse was freed from through traffic in the area of ​​the lower Wehringhausen by a bypass road and became a residential street.

tram

Track remains on the Aldi parking lot

From May 1, 1922, there was a tram route through Lange Strasse to Franklinstrasse, which was initially used by lines 8 and 9, and from the 1930s onwards only by line 8 of the Hagen tram . The line was closed on May 27, 1969.

Another tram line was opened on February 7, 1927, namely the route Kampstraße – Buscheystraße – Bachstraße – Augustastraße – Minervastraße, which was used by line 9 (initially: line 10). On October 9, 1955, the route was set.

By far the most important route, however, was the route on Wehringhauser Strasse towards Kückelhausen and Haspe, which was opened in 1885. However, since it was not possible to reach an agreement with the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn to cross the level crossing and broken traffic could not last, the line was shut down in the summer of 1886. Only after the underpass, which still exists today, was built, could the line be put back into operation in 1892. The route was served by lines 2 (Hohenlimburg – Gevelsberg), 3 (Emst – Gevelsberg) and 11 (Hagen-Markt – Breckerfeld); it was closed on June 1, 1975.

In addition, lay in Wehringhausen a tram depot . The Ener-Sys buildings, an Aldi discounter and a car wash are located on the site of the depot . At the entrance to the Aldi car park from Minervastraße and in the parking lot you can still see extensive remains of the tram track.

bus

As of June 14, 2020

The district will be served by the six bus routes 514, 517, 521, 525, 542 and 543 in 2020. Via Buschey- and Eugen-Richter-Str. Lines 525 and 543 run (together every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes on Sundays), on Lange Str. lines 514 and 521 (together every 15 minutes, on Sundays every 30 minutes), on Wehringhauser Str. line 542 (all 10 minutes, every 15 minutes on Sundays) and on the outskirts of the district in the direction of Kuhlerkamp, ​​line 517 (every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes on Sundays). All lines serve both the Hagen main station (exception: 525) and the central Stadtmitte stop .

In the late evening and at night on weekends, the lines will be replaced by the night buses NE 2 (direction Kuhlerkamp), NE 3 (Wehringhauser Str.) And NE 4 (Buschey- and Eugen-Richter-Str.).

Bodelschwinghplatz Wehringhausen

Drei-Kaiser-Brunnen on Bodelschwinghplatz

In 1874, a war memorial with a Germania figure carved out of stone was erected on what is now Bodelschwinghplatz in honor of the soldiers from Wehringhausen who died in the Franco-German War in 1870/71 , which, however, showed severe deterioration towards the end of the century. Instead of a restoration, in 1897 the citizens of Wehringhaus suggested a complete redesign of the monument by the sculptor Emil Cauer . The central component of the three emperors fountain designed by Cauer is an obelisk made of polished red granite, with the portraits of Emperor Friedrich III on three sides . (1831–1888), Wilhelm I (1797–1888) and Wilhelm II (1859–1941) bear the Hagen city coat of arms on the fourth page. The group of figures on the fountain form a blacksmith and the winged messenger of the gods Mercury , who represent the local industry and trade.

The “Kaiserplatz” with the monument in its center was renamed “ Boelcke- Platz” by the National Socialists in 1933 and received its current name after the collapse of the Third Reich in honor of the Protestant pastor Friedrich von Bodelschwingh , a declared Nazi opponent.

As part of the Social City Wehringhausen project, Bodelschwinghplatz will be structurally renewed in 2017 together with Wehringhauser Strasse and the connecting tunnel to Augustastrasse.

Sons and daughters

Web links

Commons : Wehringhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures of the districts
  2. ^ Ralf Blank / Stephanie Marra / Gerhard E. Solbach: Hagen - history of a large city and its region , Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, page 89
  3. ^ A. Meister (ed.): Die Grafschaft Mark , Dortmund 1909, page 54
  4. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 292 .
  5. ↑ Population figures of the districts
  6. ↑ Proportion of the population under 20 years of age
  7. ↑ Proportion of the population aged 60 and over
  8. ↑ Proportion of foreigners in the city districts
  9. ^ Manfred Bourrée: Culture Atlas Ruhr Area. Erbe, Gelsenkirchen 1994, ISBN 3-923494-89-0 , p. 334.
  10. ^ Construction and equipment on the website of the Pauluskirchengemeinde , accessed on July 20, 2010.
  11. ^ Social City Wehringhausen | District management Wehringhausen. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Network map Hagen 2020 - valid from June 14, 2020 (PDF; 409 KB) Hagener Straßenbahn AG , June 14, 2020, accessed on June 18, 2020 .
  13. ↑ NE-Netz 2020 (PDF; 126 KB) Hagener Straßenbahn AG , December 15, 2019, accessed on June 18, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Drei-Kaiser-Brunnen on Bodelschwinghplatz. SEH brochure n.d.
  15. ^ Bodelschwinghplatz »Social City Wehringhausen | District management Wehringhausen. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E