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Bright angle City of Wolfsburg Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 8 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 41 ″  E
Residents :	4061  (December 31, 2015)
Postal code :	38446
Area code :	05361
Location in Wolfsburg

Forest settlement Hellwinkel

Apartment blocks on Kiebitzweg

Hellwinkel is a district of the city of Wolfsburg . It is located east of the city center and is named after an old field name .

location

The Hellwinkel borders (clockwise, beginning north) on the districts of Heßlingen, Reislingen, Nordsteimke, Steimker Berg and Schillerteich.

description

The Hellwinkel is characterized by multi-storey post-war buildings that were built for the employees of the VW plant, as well as by private homes and allotments. In the south there is a forest area. The center of the district is the Reislinger Markt near the Hellwinkelschule (elementary school). Most of the shops as well as the community center and day care center of the Evangelical Lutheran town church are located there. The VfL stadium on Elsterweg is also located in Hellwinkel.

history

The area of ​​what is now the Hellwinkel district was not built up before 1938 - the year the city was founded. Even in the early days of the city's development, residential barracks were built on both sides of Reislinger Strasse, the "Reislinger Lager". Around 1940 , a sports field was built to the east of the school barracks in the town of the KdF-Wagons , which in turn were to the east of Heßlingen . In 1940/41 the city's first hospital was built, also in barracks. It was located north of Reislinger Straße, in the area of ​​today's Kiebitzweg, and remained in operation until today's clinic was built on Klieversberg . From 1942 to 1944, the slaughterhouse was built on what was then the eastern outskirts of the city. A kindergarten was located on the eastern edge of the camp, south of Reislinger Strasse. Before the first two Wolfsburg old people's homes were opened in 1957, old people were also housed in the Reislinger camp. From 1942 the allotment garden colony Steimker Berg was laid out south of Reislinger Straße and east of the camp barracks , in 1943 their association was founded and joined the allotment gardeners association Stadt des KdF-Wagens .

"Hellwinkel Terrassen" building area (2018)

In 1946/47 the allotment gardeners' association Steimker Berg eV Wolfsburg was founded. From 1947/48 the sports field was expanded over the years to become the VfL stadium . Starting in 1949, the "Ostsiedlung" north of Reislinger Strasse was the first Wolfsburg building area after the end of the Second World War . Mostly refugees and displaced persons built their own homes around 1950/51 with great personal contribution. The city of Wolfsburg granted the building plots under heritable building rights , initially with the obligation to build the single-family houses with separate apartments in order to alleviate the housing shortage that existed at the time . In 1951, the building association East was founded, from which in 1954 today's association Haus & Grund Wolfsburg und Umgebung eV emerged . Also in 1951, the Wohlgemuth bakery was opened on Reislinger Strasse, which later moved to Reislinger Markt and is now the district's oldest retail store. In the early 1950s, a villa was built by the owner of the nearby Wolfsburg pasta factory Driesen & Co on the eastern edge of the district, outside the previous residential development .

Demolition of the allotment garden "Waldfrieden" (2018)

In the 1950s, the barracks were demolished and replaced by multi-storey residential buildings, and the Hellwinkel district was created. In 1958, classes began in the newly built "Primary School IX", and in 1959 the school was given its current name, Hellwinkelschule . In 1961 a grandstand was built in the VfL stadium . In 1962, Volksbank opened a branch on Reislinger Strasse, and this building was then used as a hairdressing salon until 2018 . In 1963 the Protestant-Lutheran day care center St. Annen was opened, in 1964 the parish hall of the St. Anne's community was opened . In 1988 the slaughterhouse was closed and around 1998 further residential buildings were built on the property of the previously demolished slaughterhouse with the goldfinch ring.

Since 2016, the new development area "Hellwinkel Terrassen" has been under construction south of Reislinger Straße, for which the allotment garden of the Steimker Berg allotment garden association had to give way in 2016 . From autumn 2018, the neighboring allotment garden of the Waldfrieden allotment garden association was demolished, and at the beginning of April 2019 the first apartment in the “Hellwinkel Terrassen” building area was moved into.

politics

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

Attractions

Art in the cityscape

• Berliner Bär , on the corner of Berliner Ring and Reislinger Strasse

Economy and Infrastructure

education

Hellwinkel School (main building)

The Protestant children's and family center St. Annen goes back to the kindergarten of the same name, which opened in 1963. It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran town church community and is open to children of all religions.

On October 22, 2018, the foundation stone was laid for a new city-sponsored daycare center, which began operations in June 2020 as the Hellwinkel campus daycare center . The 120-seat facility was designed by the architect Esa Ruskeepää from Finland .

The Hellwinkelschule is a primary school and the only school in the district. On October 8, 1958, classes began in what was then called the "Primary School IX". Today, in addition to the school in the Hellwinkel district, the Hellwinkel School also operates branch offices in the districts of Hehlingen and Nordsteimke with a total of around 230 students.

literature

• Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. A chronicle. 1938-1948. Wolfsburg 1974, pp. 56, 67, 69, 79.
• Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. Building a city. 1948-1968. Wolfsburg, undated (around 1976), pp. 32, 36, 58, 68.
• Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. 1st edition 2011. ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 61, 83, 86, 87, 98.

Web links

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

• Stadtmitte on the website of the city of Wolfsburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eberhard Rohde: The modern city of Wolfsburg retains the old field names. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten of June 21, 2014, p. 12
2. ^ Haus & Grund Wolfsburg und Umgebung eV (Ed.): Haus & Grund. Special issue 60 years Haus & Grund Wolfsburg und Umgebung eV Wolfsburg 2014, p. 10.
3. ↑ Bettina Jaeschke: 60th birthday is celebrated with a school party. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of September 28, 2018.
4. ↑ Hellwinkel Terrassen: First tenants moved in in April. In: Wolfsburg Courier. Edition of May 5, 2019, p. 12.
5. ↑ Main statute of the city of Wolfsburg of November 2, 2016 (PDF) (for localities and local councils see § 9 of the main statute)
6. ↑ Bettina Jaeschke: Foundation stone laid for daycare center. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of October 23, 2018.
7. ^ Stephanie Giesecke: Homeschooling: Wolfsburg School, one app is enough. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of June 9, 2020.