Heßlingen (Wolfsburg)

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Hesslingen
City of Wolfsburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 40 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 42 ″  E
Residents : 671  (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation : July 1, 1938
Postal code : 38440, 38446
Area code : 05361
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Location in Wolfsburg

Heßlingen is a district of Wolfsburg , near the city ​​center . In the eastern part is the industrial area east.

history

Heßlingen around 1900

The village was first mentioned in 871 as Hesslinghe , in which there was a parish that belonged to the Halberstadt diocese . The village later profited economically from the construction of the Wolfsburg around 1300 and the associated manor . On June 24, 1372, during the War of the Lüneburg Succession , a field battle broke out near Heßlingen, which ended in a draw.

Since 1428, the borders between the Lüneburg, Braunschweig and Magdeburg territories, as far as the later Wolfsburg city area is concerned, have not been changed significantly, although there were repeated hostile actions between the Dukes of Braunschweig, who enclosed the exclaves of Hehlingen and Hesslingen with their territory . In 1648, after the end of the Thirty Years' War through the Peace of Westphalia, the claims to the two Magdeburg exclaves, also called "Wolfsburg Ländchen", fell to the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg. The Prussian-Brunswick state border was established on the basis of the 1749 recess.

In 1900 the third and last massive school building was built, it was demolished in 1956. In 1906, a mass grave of 72 dead was discovered during earthworks in the village. In the Duchy of Magdeburg , Heßlingen belonged to the Holzkreis as an exclave . Most recently the farming village between the Hasselbach and the Sandfeldgraben had almost 100 farms. In 1910 there were 342 inhabitants in Heßlingen. In 1925 the Heßlingen-Rothenfelder Spar- und Kreditskassenverein eGmbH was founded in Heßlingen , from which the Volksbank Wolfsburg emerged, which in the meantime has merged into the Volksbank Braunschweig Wolfsburg . In 1928 the previously independent manor district of Wolfsburg came to the community of Heßlingen. In 1932 Heßlingen came to the district of Gifhorn , previously it had belonged to the district of Gardelegen since 1816 .

In the course of the establishment of the city ​​of the KdF-Wagens , the former community of Heßlingen was dissolved on July 1, 1938 and combined with the small community of Rothehof - Rothenfelde and other parts of the surrounding communities to form this city. At that time Heßlingen had about 475 inhabitants. The farm owners were urged to sell their property to the German Labor Front ; by 1945 all farmers had done so. They initially stayed as tenants on their farms until the land was needed for the city development. From 1938 to 1951 Catholic services were held in the hall of the Zum Brandenburger Adler restaurant . From 1939/40 the hall was expanded into an emergency church , and in 1963 the building was demolished. Also from 1939/40 school barracks were built east of Bäckergasse for the students of the city of the KdF-Wagons.

Since 1945 Heßlingen belongs to the renamed city of Wolfsburg. Attempts by former farm owners to buy back their farms from 1945 were mostly unsuccessful. In the 1950s and early 1960s, many courtyards gave way to the generous road construction measures. Parts of the old building fabric have been preserved and have been renovated in accordance with monument requirements since the 1980s. In 1951 the Zur Linde restaurant opened in the former school building from 1900; In 1956 it was closed and the building demolished. From the 1950s onwards, the eastern industrial estate was built to the east of the old village, including the shelter (moved to Sülfeld in 1994 ), a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses and shelter for the homeless. In 1957/58, today's fire station of the Wolfsburg professional fire brigade was built there; previously it was on Fallerslebener Strasse (today Heinrich-Nordhoff-Strasse). In 1967 the men's clothing factory in Odermark started production in its newly built company building, and in 1985 the AutoMuseum was opened in the building . The crossing structure near the St. Anne's Church was built from 1971 to 1973; there was previously a roundabout there . The district court was built from 1985 to 1987, and the last houses on Bäckergasse were demolished in 1985. In 1990 the GALERIE THEATER , a cabaret , opened in a former half-timbered barn that was converted for this purpose in 1988. The barn restaurant was opened in 1995, and in 2003 the Centro Italiano, previously located on Heinrich-Nordhoff-Straße, moved there. In 1996 the atelier café was opened in a former pigsty. In 2000 the Wolfsburg Puppet Theater Company moved into the Bollmohr barn, previously it was located in Heiligendorf . In 2007, the Designer Outlets Wolfsburg opened north of Heßlinger Strasse . In 2008, four apartment buildings were built north of the district court. In 2018 the GALERIE THEATER was initially closed again, but in the same year it was reopened as a bistro with a stage . Also in 2018, the Centro Italiano moved to Goethestrasse.

Bäckergasse

Bäckergasse, the last houses when demolished (1985)

In 1973/74, the former VW worker and SPD member Ilse Schwipper settled with her three children and some young people in an older farmhouse on Bäckergasse. They founded a commune that sympathized and was in contact with the terrorist group Movement June 2nd from Berlin. Later in the Schmücker trial , the Wolfsburg commune was linked to the murder of the student Ulrich Schmücker in Berlin. In 1985, the last houses on Bäckergasse were demolished in favor of the new district court building. In 2007 the city administration announced plans to remove the street name Bäckergasse because it was out of date.

politics

Together with the neighboring districts of Hellwinkel , Köhlerberg , Rothenfelde , Schillerteich , Stadtmitte and Steimker Berg, Heßlingen forms the town center, which is represented by a local council. Detlef Conradt ( SPD ) is the local mayor .

Religions

The St. Anne's Church is located in Heßlingen (see sights), which today belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Wolfsburg. Regular services are no longer held in St. Anne's Church, but in the associated parish hall in the Hellwinkel district.

From 1938 onwards, an Italian priest who had come to the city of the Kdf-Wagen with workers from Italy used the hall of the Zum Brandenburger Adler restaurant for Catholic services. In the course of the following years this hall was expanded into an emergency church , and in 1946 a bell tower was built next to the emergency church. From 1940 on, this hall was also used by the German Kuratie Stadt des Kdf-Wagens for church services. In 1951 the last service took place in the Notkirche, with a procession to the newly built St. Christophorus Church in Wolfsburg , to whose parish Heßlingen now belongs. In 1963 the restaurant and the hall were demolished, and since 1989 a memorial has been attached to the former emergency church.

The Jehovah's Witnesses are represented with a Kingdom Hall built in the 1950s in the East Industrial Park.

Attractions

buildings

District court Wolfsburg with sculpture human rights
  • former half-timbered barn, used as a gallery theater ( cabaret stage ) from 1990 to 2018
  • Bollmohr-Scheune (Wolfsburg Puppet Theater Company, founded in 1990, based in the Bollmohr-Scheune since 2000)
  • atelier café and hotel fall asleep in a former farm from 1885
  • Former half-timbered barn, Am Hasselbach 1–2 ( barn barn , 2003–2018 Centro Italiano , Taparazzi bar since 2019 )
  • Herder's House Gallery Hermann Kracht in the former Shepherd's House, the second oldest surviving building in Heßlingen after the St. Anne's Church (probably from the 17th century)
  • Former House of Crafts (built in 1906 as a residential building, office of the Wolfsburg District Craftsmen's Association until 2005)
  • Model of the town of Heßlingen in the former restaurant of the Centro Italiano. It shows the state of Heßlingen in 1899.
  • AutoMuseum Volkswagen in the industrial park east
  • Wolfsburg District Court
  • Billen Pavilion

Art in the cityscape

  • Human Rights (1988) by Karl Ulrich Nuss (Weinstadt) - District Court
  • Handicraft fountain , gift from the district handicrafts to the city of Wolfsburg on the occasion of the city's 50th anniversary (1988)
  • Stele cath. Emergency Church 1940-1951 (1989) by Joseph Krautwald (Rheine)

Churches

St. Anne's Church

literature

  • City of Wolfsburg, Institute for Museums and City History: Hesslingen. A village caught between historical heritage and modern urban planning. Wolfsburg 1996.
  • Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. 1st edition 2011. ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 . Pp. 10, 11, 18, 127, 142

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipal directory from 1910
  2. ↑ Volksbank Wolfsburg eG (ed.): 50 Years Volksbank Wolfsburg 1925 - 1975. Wolfsburg 1975.
  3. ↑ Andreas Stolz: Farewell to the gallery theater - everything has to go! In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition February 5, 2018.
  4. ^ Eva Hieber: Galerie-Theater reopens with culture and culinary art. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of November 20, 2018.
  5. ↑ Centro Italiano celebrated a happy farewell party. waz-online.de, August 12, 2018, accessed on September 24, 2018.
  6. ↑ Main statute of the city of Wolfsburg of November 2, 2016 (PDF) (for localities and local councils see § 9 of the main statute)
  7. ↑ Ludgera Austermann: beginning. On the history of the Catholic Church in the city of the KdF-Wagons Wolfsburg 1940-1947. Wolfsburg 2001.
  8. ^ Karl-Heinz Bögershausen: The emergency church of the first German Catholic parish in Wolfsburg 1940 to 1951. Wolfsburg around 1988.
  9. ^ Anne Voss: Formerly a pigsty, now a café. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten of March 3, 2016, p. 16.
  10. ↑ Hans Karweik: Restaurant chain takes guests on a culinary European tour. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Friday Packet for January 24, 2019.