Hard height

This article deals with a district of Fürth; a district of the city of Bonn is called Hardthöhe .

Hard height City of Fürth Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 49 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	324 m
Area :	1.97 km²
Residents :	4210  (Dec. 31, 2006)
Population density :	2.140 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	90766
Area code :	0911
The Hardhöhe seen from the train (2007)

The Hardhöhe is a former city district and current statistical district in the west of the city of Fürth with 4210 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2006). The settlement is bounded in the east by the Nuremberg – Bamberg railway and in the south by the Nuremberg – Würzburg railway , in the west by the Südwesttangente and in the north by the Würzburger Straße .

history

The name is derived from the field name Hard , a name for wooded mountain ranges. A remnant of the forest is the small oak forest on Stiftungsstrasse. After the clearing, the Hard was not cultivated and used for agriculture , but military parades were held, including by Gustav Adolf in the Thirty Years War and the Imperial Army in the Seven Years War, as well as by the new rulers after Fürth became Prussian in 1792 and Bavarian in 1806 .

After industrialization in the 19th century, new plans were regularly made to use the open area. In 1889 it was proposed to create a city park, barracks should be built there in 1890, in 1902 the Hard was planned as the location of a new hospital. In 1907 a 17.5 meter high Bismarck tower was built on the Hard in honor of Otto von Bismarck , roughly at the point where the Holy Spirit Church stands today. In the 1920s, a festival area and beer garden were built near the Bismarck Tower .

In 1919/20 the Gothaer wagon and aircraft factory built on the Hard. The location was sold in 1938 to the newly founded Bachmann von Blumenthal & Co. Flugzeugbau (BBF), which was integrated into the air armament of the Third Reich . A factory airfield with a runway was built. In 1938 the Bismarck Tower was demolished on the instructions of the Reich Aviation Ministry . The USAAF bombed the company in February 1945, and many houses in the Hardsiedlung were also hit. These were created between 1935 and 1938 as part of an aid program for the unemployed; The aim of the aid program was to enable the unemployed to buy a home cheaply with a large amount of personal contribution .

After the Nuremberg airport at Marienberg was destroyed in the Second World War , the runway of the former works airfield was set up as a provisional airfield. It was used until April 6, 1955, when the airport at its current location in Knoblauchsland was completed. A few buildings from the old airport can still be found on Hardhöhe, for example the building of a furniture store on Hardstrasse.

On April 7, 1955, the Fürth city planning officer Friedrich Hirsch presented the development plan for the airfield to the building committee. The plans had been in place for a long time, as the city wanted to use the area on the Hard to take measures against the housing shortage of the post-war period. A satellite town based on the town planning ideas of the 1950s as a relaxed town in the countryside with apartments, a church, school, public library and kindergarten as well as shops, post office and savings bank was to be created.

In doing so, they tried to avoid any symmetry and monumentality , especially streets, so as not to remind of Nazi architecture . The houses are fanned out on the curved streets and not in building blocks . Green spaces and trees loosen up the ensemble , since according to the ideas of the time people needed daily contact with nature in order to avoid the "big city dimensions". The urban landscape was the model of this urban planning, the goal was a city that should be embedded in nature. The concept saw the mixture of apartment blocks and single-family houses with high-rise buildings dominating the cityscape as a symbol of modernity. The idea behind it was that different sections of the population should come together through different apartments. There are murals on the houses , which often document the longings of the post-war period in idyllic motifs . After the construction work was completed in 1964, the housing shortage in Fürth ended. With the exception of a few modern additions, the Hardhöhe appears in the sober guise of the architecture of the 1960s.

traffic

Entrance area of ​​the Hardhöhe underground station

The Hardhöhe is located south of the Würzburger Straße ( B 8 ), in a north-south direction the Breslauer Straße runs almost parallel and connects the B 8 with the Südwesttangente at its connection point Fürth-Fürberg . From the Scherbsgraben in the east comes the Hardstrasse, which opens up the Hardhöhe in an east-west direction. To the west of Breslauer Strasse, Soldnerstrasse joins Hardstrasse, which runs Hardhöhe roughly in a north-south direction. In addition to these main streets and various side streets, the Hardhöhe is accessed via many small paths between these streets.

Via Hardstrasse and its continuation in Soldnerstrasse, Hardhöhe was to be accessed by tram from the billing facility. The teardrop-shaped area between Soldner-, Volta- and Gaußstraße was supposed to accommodate a turning loop. On May 2, 1961, bus line 76 was set up as a temporary measure until the tram line was built. The timetable was coordinated with that of the tram. The bus ran every five minutes during rush hour.

This tram extension was never realized and instead a connection to the district with bus line 76, later 176, was realized. Since December 8, 2007, the U1 subway line has opened up the district with the Hardhöhe subway station . Since then, line 171 has been operating in the north-south direction with neighboring districts. OVF buses stop at Würzburger Straße and go via Seukendorf to Veitsbronn or Seckendorf . In addition, the Hardhöhe is connected via the Fürth-Unterfürberg stop to the R1 to Neustadt an der Aisch and the Fürth-Unterfarrnbach stop to the R2 in the direction of Erlangen .

economy

Several well-known companies are based in the Hardhöhe district, including Siemens AG , Atos , Uvex , Kennametal Hertel and plettac AG , a spin-off from Grundig AG . The Flabeg company , the last representative of the Fürth mirror manufacturer , was based on Hardhöhe, but is now based in Nuremberg.

literature

• Peter Pickl: When the tram was supposed to go to Hardhöhe . In: Mayor and press office of the city of Fürth (Ed.): U-Bahn Fürth Hardhöhe . 2007, p. 35 ( pdf , part 2, 71 KB).
• Barbara Ohm: The Hardhöhe: a young district with a history . In: Mayor and press office of the city of Fürth (Ed.): U-Bahn Fürth Hardhöhe . 2007, pp. 37-39. ( pdf , part 2, 71 KB).

Web links

Commons : Hardhöhe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hardt auf Wissen.de  ( 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.