Hammerstatt (Bayreuth)

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Grünewaldstrasse with the skyscraper

The Hammerstatt is a district of Bayreuth .

Surname

The name of the district can be traced back to the hamlet of Hamerstadt, which was there in an isolated location until the beginning of the 20th century. There is no evidence of a forge with a hammer mill, which the name could suggest, in the no longer existing property.

location

Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse
(1897–1947 Hammerstrasse)

Hammerstatt is located east of the city ​​center in the valley of the Red Main , which delimits the district to the south. In the west it extends to the embankment of the Weiden – Bayreuth railway line and to the southern section of the main station , to the north the slope of the Stuckberg forms the border with the Sankt Georgen district . In an easterly direction, the Hammerstatt opens up to the Oberen Au, a formerly agricultural area in the valley, which in 2016 became the location of the State Garden Show and then became a public park as "Wilhelminenaue".

History and description

Hammerstatt street

The mechanical cotton spinning mill was built east of the main train station in 1853 , and a weaving mill was added in 1886. In 1860 it had 620 employees; in 1935 the number had grown to 1,440. In 1861, the company created the first Bavarian social housing estate in the castle north of its facilities . In the southeast, the first workers' apartments were built along Hammerstrasse around 1900 (since 1947 Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse), they formed the nucleus of the emerging urban quarter. In 1922, buildings with living space for executive employees were added.

Between 1910 and 1925, company apartments for the railway housing association were built on Hammerstraße. Apartments for railroad workers were also built in adjacent streets. The housing associations Bauverein (founded in 1903) and GEWOG (founded in 1949) created rental accommodation, the use of which was not tied to an employment relationship with the spinning mill or the railway. The oldest houses of the Bauverein date from 1909 to 1913. The Bauverein complex that was later built around the street Hammerstatt was based on the model of the garden city : two-storey buildings were grouped around a grassy village square, with small kitchen gardens around each house.

Opposite the confluence of the street Hammerstatt in the Friedrich-Ebert-Straße stands the Tucher-Bierstübl (today: Hammerstätter Hof) planned by Hans Reissinger on behalf of the building association from the year 1926, in which, without a church in the quarter, the annually Beer festival Hammerstätter Kerwa (parish fair) was organized. The square on Hammerstatt Street, called “Gäu” by the residents, is still the social center of the district.

Not far from there, on Max-Reger-Strasse, are the building association houses from 1920 opposite buildings from the Third Reich from 1936/37. The large apartment block between Gluck-, Schumann- and Haydnstraße was not built until 1950 to 1953. To the east of it, a barrack camp was built in the post-war period , the residents of which moved to cooperative apartments built on the area around Grünewaldstraße in the 1950s. The houses were initially simply furnished and the apartments were rarely larger than 60 m².

In the course of the large-scale planning of the NSDAP , the Rote Main was dammed east of today's Friedrich-Ebert-Straße and inaugurated as a river pool on July 7, 1940 as part of a projected “Gausportfeld”.

On Grünewaldstrasse, which became a thoroughfare in 1961, the city's second eight-story high-rise building, built by Bauverein Bayreuth eG, is located between 1955 and 1957 . The surrounding residential complexes were built by the Bauverein from 1955 and are characterized by the testing of new building types (e.g. "arbor houses" with a park-like frame).

Industry and commerce

Opposite the confluence of Haydnstrasse and Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse there has been a paint factory since 1930 (lacquer factory Julius Rotter & Co.) with buildings from the Wilhelmine era . Plastics were manufactured from 1956, and the factory has been called Rottolin since 1960 . The forerunner, a glue boiler , can be traced back to 1850.

The site of the weaving mill of the former mechanical cotton spinning mill has been taken over by a textile company. Webatex has 130 employees, and the turnover in 2014 was around 21 million euros. It has been part of the Austrian Getzner Textil AG since 2016 .

education

Christian Ernestinum high school

East of Albrecht-Dürer-Straße, the Christian Ernestinum, the city's oldest grammar school , has been located in a new building since 1964 .

Sports

Hans Walter Wild Stadium

The urban Hans-Walter-Wild-Stadion is located in the Hammerstatt area .

traffic

The main axis was initially today's Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, the now more important Albrecht-Dürer-Straße was initially just a strait with no direct connection to the city center. Its extension over the Red Main in the direction of the city center was realized in 1964, since then it has carried the main load of the traffic as a section of the federal highway 2 and the arterial road to the federal highway 9 . In addition, Grünewaldstrasse is important as an eastern cross-connection between the streets mentioned.

The main train station connects to the western end of the Hammerstatt. The district is accessed by the urban bus route 302 in the tariff area of ​​the Nuremberg metropolitan area (VGN).

Personalities

  • The widowed factory worker Christiane Gick lived at Hammerstrasse 34 1/2, who ran for the USPD in the city ​​council elections in June 1919 and was the first woman to join the Bayreuth city council.
  • Adam Seeser (1906–1981), union secretary and later second mayor and honorary citizen of the city, lived at Hammerstrasse 34.

Others

In Tucherbräustübl on Hammerstrasse, on September 7, 1937, the Social Democrat Oswald Merz and other members of the former workers 'singers' association were arrested and mistreated. Merz was sentenced to 18 months in prison and then interned in the Dachau concentration camp . He died on May 18, 1946 as a result of his imprisonment.

  • Albrecht-Dürer-Strasse

  • Max-Reger-Strasse

  • Gluckstrasse with the house block from 1950 to 1953

  • Haydnstrasse

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Popp: Bayreuth - newly discovered , map excerpt from 1799, p. 275.
  2. ^ Herbert Popp: Bayreuth - newly discovered , pp. 277/278.
  3. ↑ 2000 apartments built in 65 years in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 20./21. October, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Bernd Mayer: The Bauverein makes city history in: 90 Years Bauverein Bayreuth, p. 31.
  5. ↑ Bernd Mayer: The Bauverein makes city history in: 90 Years Bauverein Bayreuth, p. 27.
  6. ^ Herbert Popp: Bayreuth - newly discovered , p. 283.
  7. ↑ Bernd Mayer : Bayreuth April 1945 , p. 9.
  8. ↑ Bernd Mayer: The Bauverein makes city history in: 90 Years Bauverein Bayreuth, p. 32.
  9. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth in the twentieth century , p. 96.
  10. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth in the twentieth century , p. 97.
  11. ↑ Arno Kröniger : Bareith is copper! Akron, Bayreuth 2011, ISBN 3-9808215-6-0 , p. 33 .
  12. ↑ 150 and not a bit old in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 14./15. March 2015, p. 7.
  13. ↑ New owner for Webatex in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of July 13, 2016, p. 7.
  14. ↑ City council was once a purely men's business in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 26./27. January 2019, p. 17.
  15. ↑ a b Rainer Trübsbach : History of the City of Bayreuth , p. 336.
  16. ↑ Nordbayerischer Kurier of February 11, 2014, p. 12.