Kingdom of Heaven / Coldewei

Kingdom of Heaven / Coldewei City of Wilhelmshaven Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 56 " N , 8 ° 5 ′ 23" E
Area :	1.07 km²
Residents :	1704 (2017)
Population density :	1,588 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	26388
Area code :	04421
	Location of Himmelreich / Coldewei in the city of Wilhelmshaven

Himmelreich / Coldewei is a district of the independent city of Wilhelmshaven in Lower Saxony . The district includes the districts of Himmelreich and Coldewei.

location

The district is located in northern Wilhelmshaven, bounded by the Wilhelmshaven district of Fedderwardergroden in the north and the A 29 motorway in the south.

history

Coldewei

Coldewei was built around 1600 as a settlement for fishermen and farmers on the northern bank of the former Maade Bay . From 1900 the development of the place was shaped by the neighboring village of Himmelreich and the brickworks located there , which today are reminiscent of numerous street names such as clinker, clay or stone streets. From the 1970s onwards there was an increasing number of residential and single-family houses, which still characterize the district today. The streets in Coldewei were named after Mecklenburg towns at the suggestion of the Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania Association .

Heaven

The Himmelreich settlement was built around the Himmelreich brickworks, which was operated from 1902 by the Rüstersieler Ziegeleien-Gesellschaft mbH , and from 1905 by the Kleyhauer & Co. - Rustersieler Ziegelei OHG zu Kniphausersiel . An area of 50 hectares in Himmelreich was used to manufacture the bricks , and the brickworks received two coal-fired kilns . The end products were marketed regionally or shipped by ship via the port of Rüstersiel . The Himmelreich brickworks attracted nationwide workers who settled in the immediate vicinity of the brickworks and thus increased the population of Himmelreich and the neighboring town of Coldewei. In 1918 the brickworks became the property of the town of Rüstringen , which finally closed and demolished the factory in 1931. Only one of the two chimneys of the brickworks was left standing, as the clearly visible chimney served as a landmark for approaching the port of Rüstersiel. The streets in Himmelreich are named after the products of the brickworks such as B. named Klinker-, Ziegel-, Ton- and Steinstraße.

Origin of name

The origin of the name Coldewei is controversial. The beginning of the word Colde could be derived from the Frisian terms kold = cold or kol = hill, hill . The end of the word -wei refers to the Frisian word for way . Possible interpretations are therefore cold path or path on the hill . A connection with the personal names Coldje or Coldewey, who were perhaps the first to reside there, is also conceivable.

The name of Himmelreich goes back to the Frisian name "Hammrich", which means something like grassland or pasture.

Infrastructure

The Klinkerstrasse, which runs in a west-east direction, connects the district to Ostfriesenstrasse in the west and Preußenstrasse in the east. Tonstrasse, Ziegelstrasse and Steinstrasse connect the district with Plauenstrasse in Fedderwardergroden. The center of the village community is the so-called village green.

Residents

development

The population fell annually until around 2012: In 2000 the population was 1978 until it fell to 1703 in 2012. Since then, the population has remained relatively constant, which is why it was possible to calculate a population of 1,704 people in 2017.

Share of foreigners and migrants

In Himmelreich / Coldewei, the proportion of foreigners is low at 1.3%, the Wilhelmshaven average is 9.6%. The proportion of migrants is 13.6% with an urban average of 21.8%.

colonization

The district can be described as a pure housing estate. Single-family houses and gardens with a lot of green characterize the picture. In the north, Himmelreich / Coldewei merges with its neighbor Fedderwardergroden . In the south the motorway forms a clear border. The district has an area of about 107 hectares. The population density is 17 inhabitants / hectare.

Age

The average age of the residents of this district is well above the Wilhelmshaven average: At 52 years, the Coldeweier are almost 6 years above the average. 346 of them are 75 or older, which makes up the largest proportion of the population. Only 13.9% are minors, which is almost the same as the average (as of 2017).

Population movement

Even if the spatial movements show that there were more immigrants than departures in Himmelreich / Coldewei in 2017, it is also considered that the deaths are far higher than the births. This resulted in a balance of -14 residents.

Web links

Commons : Himmelreich / Coldewei - Collection of images, videos and audio files

District portrait “Himmelreich / Coldewei” on Wilhelmshaven.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986-1987, Volume 1, page 169
↑ ^a ^b Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986-1987, volume 1, page 475
^ City of Wilhelmshaven: District Bant. December 31, 2017, accessed December 7, 2018 .
^ City of Wilhelmshaven: Settlement Himmelreich / Coldewei year 2017. December 31, 2007, accessed on November 26, 2018 .
^ City of Wilhelmshaven: District Himmelreich / Coldewei population data. December 31, 2017, accessed November 26, 2018 .

[Coldewei-1] Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986-1987, Volume 1, page 169

[Himmelreich-2] Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986-1987, volume 1, page 475

[HiCo2017-3] City of Wilhelmshaven: District Bant. December 31, 2017, accessed December 7, 2018 .

[4] City of Wilhelmshaven: Settlement Himmelreich / Coldewei year 2017. December 31, 2007, accessed on November 26, 2018 .

[5] City of Wilhelmshaven: District Himmelreich / Coldewei population data. December 31, 2017, accessed November 26, 2018 .