Hohenstück

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hohenstücke is a district of Brandenburg an der Havel . It is located in the north of the urban area. The district is currently inhabited by 8,040 inhabitants, 829 of them foreigners. (As of December 31, 2014) The district covers an area of ​​around 110 ha .

Marktplatz, former north side center

geography

Hohenstücke lies in the north-western part of the city. It is bounded to the south and south-west by the Görden district . To the north it passes into the forest areas of the Fohrder Mountains and the Old Town Forest and borders on the Butterlake residential area . In the east, Hohenstücke is bounded by Bundesstrasse 102 (Rathenower Landstrasse). In the south, the district does not quite reach the Silokanal federal waterway . To the west, the development area also ends in forests and the Görden cemetery complex.

The settlement area covers a former agricultural area - the "Hohen Stücken", which gave the district its name. The allotment gardens “Erdenglückauf” had to be relocated, but also partially abandoned, for the construction of the district . In addition, a 220,000 volt high-voltage overhead line was laid.

history

The Eighth Party Congress of the SED in 1971 decided, among other things, that the GDR's housing construction program was the central area of ​​responsibility for social development until 1990. The background was the severe housing shortage resulting from the damage caused by the Second World War . Existing living space was very scarce in industrial cities such as Brandenburg (Havel), often ailing, in terms of equipment and comfort, the apartments often corresponded to the pre-war standard and were also not infrequently overcrowded. The Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED, as the central decision maker in the GDR planned economy, recognized the urgency of providing the population with more, better and more livable living space.

Furthermore, with the construction of Hohenstücke, the housing pressure was to be relieved from the old and new town of Brandenburg in order to clear the way for a planned redevelopment of these districts from 1978 to 1979. However, in these years there was no longer sufficient financial, building material and manpower capacities to advance the inner city renovation, so that Brandenburg (Havel) was also affected by the inner city death that was common in the GDR.

In the independent city of Brandenburg (Havel), which was the sponsor of large and economically important combines and companies, the first prefabricated residential buildings were built in 1969 in the inner city areas and in the north part of the city as part of a planned but never fully realized urban redevelopment .

Typical courtyard situation

Hohenstücke, the construction of which began in 1972, was to be occupied exclusively with these structures. Right from the start, the planning was aimed at a well-designed, autonomously functional district structure with a main center and two secondary centers, although this was never implemented.

In addition to the 9,264 housing units were infrastructural facilities such as health centers , schools, sports fields, nurseries and crèches, Feierabend homes , department stores (400 m²-1000 m² area, the standardized latter type ESK 1000 , youth clubs and a soldier dormitory) is provided. Modern service centers were connected to the department stores, offering services such as post office, savings bank, hairdresser, locksmith, shoemaker and much more. Later on, cultural facilities such as a swimming pool, a cinema and possibly a small theater should also be added. The increasing lack of economy in the GDR, however, prevented the implementation of these projects.

Hohenstücke mainly consists of five-storey residential developments, mostly of the type WBS 70 . Since the GDR legislation stipulated the installation of a passenger lift from the fifth floor, but no financial means were available, the linguistic rule was that it was a "four-plus-one storey".

The district, which originally consisted of five sub-complexes, shows the shortage of resources in the GDR budget in terms of comfort and equipment in the apartment blocks, apartments, streets and facilities along an imaginary south-north axis. Subcomplex I was the first complex to be built with a certain amount of effort, while the quality and range of features fell the more the buildings approached the most recently completed subcomplex IV in the north. In the course of the vacancy adjustment from the mid-1990s onwards, apartment blocks were also dismantled and leveled from north to south.

The carriers and landlords of the residential units were Hohenstückens

The rental prices were stable in GDR times and recently moved between 80 and 90 pfennigs per square meter per month, which corresponded to about 50 East German marks per month for an average three-room apartment. In comparison, the salaries of a secretary or an unskilled worker were around 600 to 700 marks, a skilled worker between 900 and 1,100 marks, and an engineer, doctor, or higher servant around 1,500 marks.

structure

The GDR Council of Ministers specified the following plans for the proportionate division of the apartments in the blocks :

One-room apartments 20 percent, two-room apartments 15 percent, three-room apartments 45 percent, four-room apartments 17 percent and five-room apartments 3 percent. The average living space was about 57 m².

The residential complex (WK I), which extends from Gördenallee in the south to Leninallee (later Rosa-Luxemburg-Allee), comprises around 24 hectares and 1,930 residential units. The southern secondary center was built here, which, as described above, comprised a department store, a service center, a 40-class school and a school canteen. The latter could also be used for cultural purposes outside of school hours.

The WK II extending between Lenin Avenue, Otto-full-line (subsequent Sophie road), Karl-Storm-Strasse (since the 1990s Tschirchdamm) and the B 102 extended, has a surface area of 36 to ha. This WW II was particularly affected by the demolition of housing in the first decade of the 21st century. In the meantime, the actual center of Hohenstückens is located in it, the former north side center. 3,284 residential units were once available there.

The WK III joined in the west on the WK II and comprised 19 ha and 1,200 units.

The WK IV was the northern part of complex and comprises 14 ha with 1,250 units. It extends north of Sophienstrasse to the city limits in the Old Town Forest.

The planned WK V was no longer built. This complex was to contain 14 hectares, 1,300 residential units and the main center. It should even have its own tram connection.

Healthcare

The HELIOS-Klinik Hohenstücke, one of four hospitals within the city of Brandenburg an der Havel, is located in the Hohenstücke area. This hospital, built in the 1990s, is a neurological rehabilitation center for children and adolescents with 155 beds.

education

Hohenstücke initially had three Erfurt-type double school complexes and a single Erfurt school complex in WK IV.These included the Wilhelm-Pieck-Oberschule with extended Russian lessons, in which children from the 3rd grade on intensively in Russian Language were taught and the 10-class polytechnic high school graduated with the Russian Abitur. After the fall of the Wall, this school became the Otto Tschirch Oberschule, until it moved because the school complex that was first occupied in 1976 was demolished in 2015.

A similar fate met the Friedrich-Grasow-Gymnasium, which made it possible for the Hohenstücks children to obtain the higher education entrance qualification. Due to the significant decline in population, this grammar school was removed from the school landscape in Brandenburg an der Havel without replacement.

The Pestalozzi School for students with learning disabilities was located in the district center on Tschirchdamm. The school was dissolved as part of the inclusion efforts of the Brandenburg Ministry of Youth, Education and Sport, and the students and teachers were divided between Brandenburg schools. A subsequent use concept for the building wing is not yet known.

Culture

Community center

The western part of the former culture house has served as a cultural district and community center, the community center Hohenstücke , since the 2010s , in which various associations and organizations are based and in which a diverse cultural program is offered. District festivals are held regularly on the forecourt of this community center. The community center and forecourt were built from the European Social City Development Fund in a development phase lasting several years until the end of 2007 and handed over to the population in December 2007. The total cost was five million euros.

The youth culture center KAT (Klub am Turm) had to leave its domicile and move in the direction of Neustadt. Apart from a skater track , the offers for the youngest Hohenstückers are very limited.

Infrastructure

Hohenstücke is accessed from east to west by the major access roads Gördenallee, Rosa-Luxemburg-Allee and Sophienstrasse. The Tschirchdamm , which runs in a north-south direction and runs through today's district center, is significant .

The main carrier of local public transport is the Brandenburg tram . Line 6 passes through Hohenstücke. Line 1 touches the district in the south.

The bus lines C and E supply the district during the day.

As night buses, the N1 and N2 lines connect the district about six kilometers from the city center with the main train station.

Acceptance and dismantling

In the early years of the GDR, Hohenstücke was one of the most desirable places to live for the population of the city of Brandenburg. The spaciousness of the apartments, central electric district heating instead of stove heating, balconies and loggias and much more made Hohenstückens so attractive. Nevertheless, in large parts of the Brandenburg population, Hohenstuben was only referred to as a ghetto . This disrespectful designation was due to the uniformity of the Hohenstaufen district landscape. Despite their relatively high level of living comfort, some people also referred to the apartment blocks as workers' sleeping shelves .

In the course of the dismantling, a multi-storey building on the corner of Berner Strasse and Wiener Strasse was carefully dismantled and laid down in WW I. This object was sold to Bulgaria and rebuilt there in parts. It was a residential property that was adjacent to the former single dormitory of the NVA in the south.

The NVA single dormitory on Wiener Straße was converted into a location for the Brandenburg city administration after the fall of the Wall . There are the Division IV - Youth, Social and Health and the seat of / the Assistant Secretary for the Departments III and IV - Culture, Youth, Social and Health. The strategic choice of location for this department is closely related to the special social structure of the youngest part of the Havel metropolis.

In the northern part of Hohenstücke in particular, around 45 apartment blocks were demolished between 2000 and 2020, so that several large areas have been fallow since then. Further demolitions, remodeling and the construction of new houses are planned.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg: Population statistics of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel. Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg, June 2, 2016, accessed on June 2, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c collective of authors: From Trümmerberg to Hohenstücke. Housing construction and urban development in Brandenburg an der Havel from 1945 to 1990 . Ed .: Working group city history in the Brandenburgischer Kulturbund eV 1st edition. Brandenburg an der Havel 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023967-0 .
  3. ^ Homepage of the Helios clinics , accessed on June 24, 2016.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '  N , 12 ° 17'  E