Hanau-Wolfgang

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wolfgang
City of Hanau
Coat of arms of Wolfgang
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 14 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 108 m above sea level NHN
Area : 19.18 km²
Residents : 4718  (March 31, 2018)
Population density : 246 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Incorporated into: Grossauheim
Postal code : 63457
Area code : 06181

Wolfgang is a district of the city of Hanau in the Hessian Main-Kinzig district . It is located on the eastern edge of the city and has about 4700 inhabitants.

The monastery ruin Wolfgang, which gives the district its name

history

Middle Ages and early modern times

Wolfgang's beginnings go back to the year 1468, when a chapel in honor of St. Wolfgang von Regensburg was built in the middle of the Bulau Forest . The Servite Monastery of St. Wolfgang was built from the chapel around 1490 and was destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525. This ended the short history of Wolfgang for almost 200 years.

In the years 1635/36, the imperial general Lamboy had a siege rampart built in what is now Wolfgang during the siege of Hanau fortress in the Thirty Years' War . Small remains of it are still preserved as a flat mound on a green strip at the corner of Schanzenstrasse and August-Bebel-Strasse.

In 1715 Count Johann Reinhard III. von Hanau build the Hanau hunting lodge near the ruins of the former St. Wolfgang monastery , which was elevated to the status of a chief forester in 1868 , today's Hessian Forestry Office Wolfgang. In 1838 Clemens Brentano chose the ruins of the monastery as the setting for his fairy tale Gockel, Hinkel and Gackeleia .

Between 1839 and 1861, the Hanau High Court was located in the Lehrhöfer Heide on the site of the later Argonner barracks .

Powder factory

In 1880, the Wolfgang powder factory was built, which included business and residential buildings. Due to the economic importance of the factory, Wolfgang was elevated to an estate district in the Hanau district in 1885 . At the end of the First World War , the powder factory employed 5,000 people. At the end of the war, the factory had to stop producing the gun cotton produced there . Synthetic leather production and petrochemicals settled on the site . As a result, Wolfgang developed into an important industrial location on the outskirts of Hanau, including as the Degussa site ( Wolfgang industrial park ).

Pioneer barracks , aerial photo 1950, the Wolfgang housing estate in the background

Military site

Soon after the occupation of the demilitarized Rhineland , Wolfgang received a larger military garrison: in 1936/37 the Argonner barracks was built southwest of the housing estate , and in 1938/39 the pioneer barracks west of the Hanau-Bebraer Bahn . The fan shape of the Pioneer barracks is particularly striking, with spacious open spaces for parking vehicles and its own connection to the railway line.

The barracks, which were only slightly damaged, were taken over by the US Army after the Second World War and expanded (pioneer housing, Wolfgang barracks), although the name was largely retained. The name of the Argonner barracks, however, was loaded, as it was chosen during the Nazi era to commemorate the battles of the First World War in the Argonnerwald .

As part of the US garrison in Hanau, which numbered up to 20,000 military personnel, Wolfgang was significantly influenced by the Americans in the post-war period. Private contacts between Germans and Americans were, however, seldom below the officer level in later times. On the one hand, this was due to the decline in the dollar rate and, on the other hand, the generous equipment of the barracks with their own community center , shopping facilities, school, infirmary and sports facilities, which is why the Americans increasingly limited their lives to the isolated areas of the barracks and housing areas . The last units were withdrawn in 2008.

Independent municipality of Wolfgang

The manor district was dissolved by law on January 1, 1928. The Lord Mayor of Hanau, Kurt Blaum, would have liked to have incorporated the area into Hanau at that time. However, the District Administrator Eugen Kaiser prevailed and proposed to unite the housing estate that had been created in the meantime with the former powder factory and the chief forester to form the independent municipality of Wolfgang.

In 1967 the Luther Church was built.

In the run-up to the regional reform in Hesse , Wolfgang merged with the neighboring town of Großauheim on December 31, 1971 . This was incorporated into the city of Hanau by law on July 1, 1974.

The "atomic village"

In the 1980s, Wolfgang became known nationwide as the location of controversial nuclear facilities. The "Hanauer Atomdorf" was the largest European collection of nuclear companies. Here were companies like Alkem (Alpha Chemical and -Metallurgie), Nukem , reactor fuel element Union (RBU) or Trans nuclear based. On the controversy over the Hanau nuclear plants failed in 1987, the Hessian government Börner , the first red-green state government in Germany .

The Hessian Ministry of the Environment of the following CDU- led Wallmann government forbade the Nukem plants to continue operating in the same year due to safety deficiencies. After scandals about the transport of nuclear waste , the Federal Environment Ministry withdrew the license from Transnuklear a little later. The processing of plutonium in Wolfgang was stopped in 1991 on the instructions of the then Hessian Environment Minister Joschka Fischer . The Siemens -owned subsidiaries Alkem and RBU laid in 1995 the production of nuclear fuel rods to other locations.

The city of Hanau is trying to establish the former “atomic village” and today's “industrial park” as a location for high-tech industries and to free itself from the image of the nuclear industry. Nuclear Cargo + Service is currently trying to build a third one in addition to the two existing interim storage facilities for weak and medium-strength nuclear waste . The first application from 2009 failed because the city of Hanau refused to grant the building permit due to planning deficiencies; a lawsuit by all instances up to the Federal Administrative Court was unsuccessful. As a result, in April 2011 the company submitted a revised application for a building permit for the interim storage facility, which the city of Hanau again rejected in 2013 because the development plan did not allow for a nuclear interim storage facility. In January 2018, the Frankfurt am Main Administrative Court upheld a lawsuit by Nuclear Cargo + Service against the refusal of the building permit; the Hessian Administrative Court dismissed the lawsuit on the appeal of the City of Hanau in February 2020, but left the appeal to the Federal Administrative Court due to the fundamental importance of the Case to.

In 2002 radioactive microparticles made of plutonium , americium and curium were found in residential areas in Hanau and in the forest around Hanau-Wolfgang . This led to a public prosecutor's investigation, but it came to nothing. It was announced that the Pac beads , which were also found in the Elbmarsch leukemia cluster , pose no danger. Nuclear-critical organizations accuse the Hessian authorities of covering up a nuclear accident in Hanau-Wolfgang.

On February 26, 2010, the boundary was changed by Wolfgang, so that the former Middle School is now also on Wolfganger district. This increased the area by 22.3 hectares to 18.19 km².

politics

Local advisory board

Wolfgang and the neighboring town of Großauheim form a joint local district with a local advisory board . The mayor of Großauheim / Wolfgang has been Reiner Dunkel ( SPD ), born in Wolfgang, since April 2016

badges and flags

Banner Wolfgang (Hanau) .svg

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Wolfgang

Blazon : "In the split shield on the right in blue a gold-crowned, silver lily with gold pistils below the flower , on the left in gold three red rafters ."

The coat of arms of the municipality of Wolfgang was approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on January 31, 1967 . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

The red rafters on gold come from the coat of arms of the County of Hanau , the crowned lily from the coat of arms of the Wolfgang monastery .

flag

On November 10, 1970, the municipality of Wolfgang was also granted a flag by the Ministry of the Interior, which is described as follows:

"The flag shows the two colors yellow and red, mixed up in the upper quarter and occupied with the municipality's coat of arms at the intersection."

Culture and sights

  • Wolfgang is located directly on the natural alluvial forest area of ​​the Bulau .
  • There are well-preserved sections of the Upper German-Raetian Limes with the Neuwirtshaus small fort in the Wolfganger Forest . The Limeswall can still be recognized up to half a meter high and thus represents one of the best preserved parts of the eastern Wetteraustrasse.
  • A tower and parts of the monastery church are still visible from the St. Wolfgang monastery ruins .
  • Adjacent to the monastery ruin is the hunting lodge Wolfgang , today Forstamt Wolfgang, with the Hessian Samendarre and a wood shop.
  • The scaffold of the Hanau High Court is located in the conversion area of ​​the former Old Argonner barracks .

Economy and Infrastructure

education

For a long time the only school in Wolfgang was the Robinson School, founded in 1967 , a primary school on Parkstrasse in the middle of Wolfgang's housing estate. 2010 was established in the premises of the former elementary school on the grounds of the Old Argonne army barracks, the special school Elisabeth Schmitz School . Due to a lack of space due to the increasing number of pupils, the Robinson School also moved to the former elementary school at the beginning of the 2014/2015 school year .

Secondary schools are available in nearby Großauheim .

traffic

Wolfgang is traversed by the motorway-like federal highway 43a and is connected to it via a junction. This provides a connection to the nearby federal highways 66 , 45 and 3 . The former federal highways 8 ( Aschaffenburger Straße ) and 43 ( Rodenbacher Chaussee ) were graduated in the local area.

The Hanauer streetcar AG serves the district by bus line 6 and in the rush hour on the line. 11

Wolfgang owns a train station on the Kinzig Valley Railway , which is served hourly by regional trains. During the First World War , the station signs were removed to make espionage against the Wolfgang powder factory more difficult.

conversion

With the conversion of the military areas and residential areas after the withdrawal of the American armed forces since 2008, there is great growth potential for the district. With the Pioneer-Kaserne , Pioneer-housing , New Argonner , Old Argonner and Wolfgang-Kaserne (formerly PX ) there are five larger, previously military areas wholly or partly on Wolfganger district. After the acquisition from BImA , the city of Hanau is converting these conversion areas , partly together with investors, into residential and commercial areas. Przewalski's horses are kept for a reintroduction project on the nearby, very natural training area of ​​the Army ( Campo Pond ) .

In the area of ​​the former New Argonner barracks, the new Argonnerpark residential area with 1000 residents and a shopping center was built. A similar use of the Old Argonner barracks is planned, so far only the former elementary school has been used as a special school. The Pioneer barracks to the north of the former B8 is still empty, and residential and commercial space is planned to be established here. The Pioneer Housing Area on the other side of the street is to be demolished due to its unfavorable location between the expressway, railway line, industrial area and approach lane. Only the existing heating plant will continue to be operated by the Hanau municipal utility .

Industrial park

A site for numerous technology companies with a size of 82 hectares developed on the site of the former powder factory  . After most of the nuclear companies moved away, the city of Hanau tried to support this development, for example by setting up a technology and start-up center (1997–2013). In 2014, it was decided to set up a project group for recycling and resource strategies of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft on the site of the Wolfgang barracks in the immediate vicinity of the industrial park.

The industrial park is now operated by Evonik Industries . Over 5000 employees in the areas of material technology, chemistry and pharmacy are spread across twelve companies, including Umicore and DeguDent , which, like Evonik, emerged from earlier Degussa companies.

Wolfgang hunting lodge , today the Hessian Forestry Office

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics for the district on the website of the city of Hanau , accessed in March 2016.
  2. ↑ Statistics of the city of Hanau from March 2018: Population figures with main residence , accessed in March 2016.
  3. ↑ Michael Müller: Construction and importance of the Hanau Fortress in the Thirty Years War. In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein (ed.): The Thirty Years War in Hanau and the surrounding area. Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 45 , 2011, ISBN 978-3-935395-15-9 , pp. 93–121, here: p. 106.
  4. ↑ See also: Briefly, see bibliography.
  5. ↑ Ilse Werder: Wolfgang. History, present, outlook. CoCon, Hanau 2013, p. 81.
  6. ↑ Ilse Werder: Wolfgang. History, present, outlook. CoCon, Hanau 2013, p. 179f.
  7. ↑ Ilse Werder: Wolfgang. History, present, outlook. CoCon, Hanau 2013, p. 70.
  8. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 345 and 366 .
  9. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Nuclear waste storage facility in Hanau: Nuclear logistics company NCS continues to complain  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fnp.de  Retrieved March 3, 2009.
  10. ↑ Hanau: nuclear waste, no thanks - Frankfurter Rundschau
  11. ↑ "One of the best news": Court bans new nuclear waste interim storage facility in Hanau - Hessenschau.de
  12. ^ Spiegel: Investigations into radioactive substances in the forest . .
  13. ↑ Castor.de: nuclear accident not pointed in Hanau out of hand . .
  14. ↑ IPPNW: IPPNW contradicts Hanau Public Prosecutor's Office ( memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.ippnw.de
  15. ↑ Christian Spindler: Boundaries between the districts moved: School changes district . Offenbach Post. May 10, 2010. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  16. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Wolfgang, Hanau district from January 31, 1967 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 7 , p. 224 , point 153 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  17. ^ Approval of a flag for the municipality of Wolfgang in the Hanau district of November 10, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2252 , point 2239 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,7 MB ]).
  18. ^ Erwin Diel: School development plan: More school space for Wolfgang . Offenbach Post. April 30, 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  19. ↑ Christian Spindler: Is the family center moving too? Robinson School: 80 children are about to move . Offenbach Post. March 18, 2014. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  20. ↑ Kurz, p. 20.
  21. ↑ Ilse Werder: Wolfgang. History, present, outlook. CoCon, Hanau 2013, pp. 190-197; Information on the conversion areas on the website of the city of Hanau .
  22. ^ Urwildpferde in Hanau on the website of the city of Hanau
  23. ↑ Pamela Dörhöfer: Hanau-Großauheim / Wolfgang: Where soldiers once lived . Frankfurter Rundschau. May 29, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  24. ↑ Dirk Iding: Space for 1000 apartments? City is considering buying Pioneer barracks . Offenbach Post. January 16, 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  25. ^ Christian Spindler: New district: Pioneer barracks: living in a fan . Offenbach Post. November 9, 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  26. ↑ Press release from the city of Hanau
  27. ↑ Figures based on Ilse Werder: Wolfgang. History, present, outlook. CoCon, Hanau 2013, pp. 140f.