Heßler (Gelsenkirchen)

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Hessler
City of Gelsenkirchen
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 15 ″  E
Residents : 5748  (June 30, 2019)
Incorporation : April 1, 1903
Postcodes : 45883, 45899
Area code : 0209
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Location of Heßler in Gelsenkirchen

Heßler is a district of Gelsenkirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Heßler belongs to the Gelsenkirchen district of Mitte and is located northwest of Gelsenkirchen city center. The north-western limit is the Emscher , the north-east the Emschertalbahn and the south-east the federal autobahn 42 . In the southwest, Heßler borders the Essen district of Altenessen .

The settlement core of Heßler extends north and south of the Fersenbruch street, the center of the district. The area north of Grothussstraße is mainly used for commercial purposes, while the west of the district is occupied by Nordsternpark . In the south of the district are the Gelsenkirchen Westfriedhof and the renatured Wilhelmine Victoria II / III waste dump .

The former municipality of Heßler, which existed until 1903 and whose size roughly corresponds to today's district of Heßler, also encompassed even larger areas of today's districts of Schalke and Feldmark.

history

Hessler was originally a Westphalian peasantry consisting of individual farms and was located in the far northwest corner of the county of Mark . Since the 19th century, Heßler formed a rural community in the Prussian province of Westphalia . The community first belonged to the Wattenscheid district of Bochum , then from 1868 to the Gelsenkirchen district and from 1876 to the Schalke district. The Schalke office became part of the new Gelsenkirchen district in 1885 . On April 1, 1903, Heßler was incorporated into the independent city of Gelsenkirchen together with other communities.

The main factor behind the industrialization and population growth of Hessler was the Wilhelmine Victoria colliery , which mined hard coal from 1860 to the 1970s .

The Federal Horticultural Show took place in 1997 in the area of ​​today's Nordsternpark .

population

As of December 31, 2019, there were 5,670 residents in Heßler.

  • Share of the female population: 49.4% (Gelsenkirchen average: 50.4%)
  • Share of the male population: 50.6% (Gelsenkirchen average: 49.6%)
  • Proportion of foreigners: 14.6% (Gelsenkirchen average: 21.7%)

Population development

year Residents source
1871 620
1885 2039
1895 3508
2018 5748

Architectural monuments

The houses of the workers' settlement Klapheckenhof , several buildings of the former slaughterhouse at the Grothusstraße, the house heel fracture 38/40, the courtyard heels breaking 142 Villa Kanzlerstraße 23, the war memorial and the mourning hall of the West Cemetery and the Evangelical Church stand in Hessler under monument protection .

Sports

Local sports clubs are SV Gelsenkirchen-Hessler and DJK Grün-Weiß Hessler 1921 .

traffic

The Rhine-Herne Canal runs parallel to the Emscher through the district. The two junctions Gelsenkirchen-Heßler and Gelsenkirchen-Zentrum of the A 42 are in the area of ​​Heßler .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b City of Gelsenkirchen: Population figures for the districts
  2. ↑ Population structure in Gelsenkirchen as of December 31, 2019 - data source: City of Gelsenkirchen - opendata.gelsenkirchen.de
  3. ↑ Population structure in Gelsenkirchen as of December 31, 2019 - data source: City of Gelsenkirchen - opendata.gelsenkirchen.de
  4. ↑ Population structure in Gelsenkirchen as of December 31, 2019 - data source: City of Gelsenkirchen - opendata.gelsenkirchen.de
  5. ↑ Share of foreigners in Gelsenkirchen as of December 31, 2019 - Data source: City of Gelsenkirchen - opendata.gelsenkirchen.de
  6. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Westphalia in 1871
  7. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
  8. ↑ 1895 census