Helga-Stöver-Park

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Helga-Stöver-Park on October 27, 2015 with name stone and seating area, view from Neusser Straße

The Helga-Stöver-Park is a park of 0.2 hectares in the city of Mönchengladbach , Lürrip district, on Neusser Straße. His name is reminiscent of the Mönchengladbach pedagogue Helga Stöver . Its history reflects the structural change in the city of Mönchengladbach. The park currently contains stately plane trees, among other things.

history

1806: Farming land with forestry use

Image 1: The location of the later Helga-Stöver-Park in the Tranchot map (1803-1820)
Image 2: Map of the city of Mönchengladbach, 1872. Arrow: Area of ​​the later Helga-Stöver-Park, explanations see text.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the small area of ​​the Helga-Stöver-Park, framed by residential houses and Neusser Straße, was part of an area that was cultivated as a forest (tree garden, woodland, forest pasture, etc.) by the adjacent Lürriper Höfe. This emerges from the Tranchot map (Fig. 1), which shows this forest area between the traffic route in the north, which was later expanded to become Neusser Straße, and the Gladbach, which then passed further south.

According to the legend of the Tranchot map, the later park area was used as a tree or orchard (les vergers).

The original cadastre from 1812 gives further information. According to this, today's park area was part of the large parcel of corridor D number 705 with the field name Im Lürriper Forest. At that time, the parcel belonged to the Nakatenhof, located north of Neusser Straße at the time, and was, according to the specified type of use, a (tree) plantation (plant. = Plantation).

1872: factory owners' garden

In the course of the industrial upswing of the city of Mönchengladbach to the so-called Lower Rhine Manchester and because of the associated scarcity of industrially usable areas in the city area, entrepreneurs also looked for suitable factory locations in the vicinity of the city. The said parcel 705 was attractive because it also offered space for larger factories and because since the expansion of Neusser Strasse to Communal-Chaussee from Neuss to Gladbach in 1850 it had a direct connection to the traffic infrastructure of the Lower Rhine.

From the seller's point of view, it may also have played a role that, at the same time as industrialization, forestry for the extraction of timber and fell wood in the former district of Gladbach lost its importance. This was a process in which the traditional half-timbered construction was increasingly replaced by brick masonry and the previously important firewood by the hard coal initially brought by ship via the North Canal and later with the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrorter Railway from the Ruhr area, while at the same time forest areas in Farmland and industrial sites have been converted, the former to provide food for the growing population.

Parcel 705 became one of the first locations of the textile industry in the Mönchengladbach district of Lürrip, as can be seen from an overview map of the city of Mönchengladbach published in 1872 (Fig. 2, detail).

The map shows a large factory building (1) within an area surrounded by a wall, on which the Cornely & Cie. Weaving mill, Neusser Strasse 98, between Neusser Strasse (2), Im Dommer (3) and Kopernikusstrasse (4) has been identified since 1879 is.

The factory building was erected at a considerable distance from Neusser Straße, the area of ​​the later Helga-Stöver-Park remained undeveloped, even afterwards. In the vicinity are the Nakatenhof (5) and the residential development that has meanwhile been built on Neusser Straße (6).

An aerial photo from 1956 (Fig. 3) shows that the factory site in the area of ​​what will later be the Helga-Stöver-Park, which has since been transferred to the Eduard Funck mechanical weaving mill, has an old stock of trees.

Image 3: Eduard Funck KG mechanical weaving mill, Neusser Strasse 98 on November 14, 1956. The tree-lined area on the left-hand side of the picture later became partially the Helga-Stöver-Park; between the treetops the roof of the Nakatenhof.

The city map from 1961 (Fig. 4, excerpt) shows that the green space between the factory building of the Mechanical Weaving Mill and Neusser Straße had been prepared as a garden at that time, and a pond had also been created there.

Image 4: Plan of the city of Mönchengladbach, 1961. Helga Stöver lived in Gaußstrasse (left half of the image). For more see text.

After 1976 until today: small public park

The industrial use of the area in the triangle of Neusser Straße, Im Dommer and Kopernikusstraße ended at the time of the general decline of Mönchengladbach's textile industry. At the beginning of 1976, the building regulations office of the city of Mönchengladbach granted permission to demolish the factory and administration buildings.

The zoning plan now envisaged residential development, the remaining area of ​​the former garden was converted into a small public park.

The Helga-Stöver-Park neighborhood initiative

The name Helga-Stöver-Park

In 2012, the neighborhood initiative Helga-Stöver-Park won over the Mönchengladbach-Ost district representative for the idea of naming the small park after Helga Stöver, a woman from Lürriper . The Westdeutsche Zeitung reported on this on November 9, 2012 (see web links). The positive decision was already published in the official journal of the city of Mönchengladbach on May 15, 2013 (number 11).

New design elements

The further development of the park can also be traced back to the neighborhood initiative.

  • On October 3, 2013, a name stone in honor of Helga Stöver was unveiled in the park (see web links). The stone had been worked on free of charge by a member of the district council.
  • A sign with a brief explanation of the park name followed in 2014.
  • Since 2015, a permanently installed seating area has been inviting people to linger.

gallery

  • Name stone with name inscription in Helga-Stöver-Park

  • Information sign in the park, January 19, 2019

  • Helga-Stöver-Park on August 1st, 2013, view towards Neusser Straße

  • "Funk-Müerke" on Neusser Straße (1977). Note the note at the bottom of the picture.

  • “Funk-Müerke” on the corner of Neusser Strasse Im Dommer, July 1977

Web links

Commons : Helga-Stöver-Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tranchot map (changed): Geobasis data of the state of NRW © Geobasis NRW 2019
  2. ↑ City of Mönchengladbach, Geoinformation department (62), Geoportal: Overview map_Gladbach_TK25_1872.pdf , accessed on January 29, 2019. © City of Mönchengladbach FB 62 - Geoinformation 2019 / license dl-de / by-2-0 (www.govdata.de/dl -de / by-2-0). The dates have changed.
  3. ↑ Legend for the Tranchot map: District government of Cologne, Geobasis NRW, 1801–1828: Map of the Rhineland 1: 25,000; Tranchot / v. Müffling, explanation of symbols: SIGNES CONVENTIONNELS DU PLAN: PDF , accessed on January 29, 2019
  4. ↑ Original cadastre of the city of Mönchengladbach, directory of the property owners, the basic goods, their area content, their class and their net income of the municipality of Gladbach, Flur Nro. D called Lurip, provided by the City of Mönchengladbach, Geoinformation Department (62)
  5. ↑ Official Journal for the Düsseldorf administrative region, year 1850. No. 48. , accessed on January 19, 2019
  6. ↑ Karl L. Mackes: From the old new work Volume II. Mönchengladbach 1982, page 180
  7. ^ Johannes Noever: Earlier everyday life - local history writings from Mönchengladbach and the surrounding area. Mönchengladbach 2006, page 53
  8. ↑ Hans-Karl Rouette, Textilbarone: industrial (r) evolution in the Mönchengladbach textile and clothing history, Dülmen 1996, page 526
  9. ^ Decree of determination of the community M. Gladbach of June 22, 1889, provided by the city of Mönchengladbach, Geoinformation department (62), Geoportal: https://geoportal.moenchengladbach.de/wms/Hotlinks/Bplaene/FL_A194.pdf accessed on January 29, 2019. © City of Mönchengladbach FB 62 - Geoinformation 2019 / License dl-de / by-2-0 (www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0)
  10. ↑ Photo: Hamburger Aero Lloyd, November 14, 1956: Mechanische Weberei Eduard Funck KG, Neusser Straße 98: Mönchengladbach City Archives, Image Archive No. 10/57787
  11. ↑ City of Mönchengladbach, Geoinformation department (62), Geoportal, https://geoportal.moenchengladbach.de/wms/Hotlinks/historische_karten/SK_MG_1_15000_1961.pdf accessed on January 29, 2019. © City of Mönchengladbach FB 62 - Geoinformation 2019 / License dl- de / by-2-0 (www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0). The dates have changed.
  12. ↑ City Archives Mönchengladbach, house acts "Neusserstraße 98"
  13. ↑ Official Journal of the City of Mönchengladbach from May 15, 2013 (number 11): https://www.moenchengladbach.de/uploads/media/Abl-2013-11.pdf accessed on January 29, 2019
  14. ↑ Information from the Helga-Stöver-Park neighborhood initiative, February 15, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 13 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 46 ″  E