Hohenstein (Wolfsburg)

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Hohenstein
City of Wolfsburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 25 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 4 ″  E
Residents : 3075  (Dec. 31, 2015)
Postal code : 38440
Area code : 05361
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Location in Wolfsburg
The eponymous Hohensteine on a hill

Hohenstein , also the Hohenstein , is a district of Wolfsburg . It is located west of the city center.

history

The deserted village of Wellekamp is suspected to be in the vicinity of the Hohensteine .

In 1938, the year the city was founded, the area of ​​today's Hohenstein district was not built on. In 1941, the Hotel Hohenstein was opened in Arndtstrasse (later renamed Lessingstrasse) in the neighboring suburb of Wellekamp (today city ​​center ) as the first hotel in the KdF-Wagen , which was still under construction . The hotel was closed around 1970; today the building is used for other purposes. In the first half of the 1940s , the Hohenstein camp, consisting of wooden barracks, was built for SS members.

From 1945/46 onwards, the Hohenstein camp, now referred to by the Allies as the B camp , was inhabited by displaced persons and refugees. The camp's wooden barracks stood until the 1950s and were then demolished. From the end of 1951 the district began to be developed, initially with rental apartments and semi-detached houses. On the part of the city of Wolfsburg, teachers from Wolfsburg schools have been assigned building plots here. In 1957, the Kreuzkirche was inaugurated, in that year the development of the district was largely completed. In 1958, the Volkswagen car dealership was opened on Fallersleber Straße (today Heinrich-Nordhoff-Straße), initially as a second operation to Joseph Hotz's company based on Nordsteimker Straße. In 1959 classes began in the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium . The 16-story skyscraper was built on Saarstrasse in 1959/60, and in the early 1960s there was a café on its upper floor. A day care center designed by Paul Baumgarten was built around 1965, and the Wolfsburg contact and information center for self-help (KISS) has been in the building since around 1990 . In 1998 a day clinic was opened in a former residential building. In 2007, a Burger King fast restaurant was built on a parking lot on Heinrich-Nordhoff-Straße . In 2012, the construction of three residential buildings between the Kreuzkirche and its kindergarten began.

politics

Together with the neighboring districts of Eichelkamp , Hageberg , Klieversberg , Laagberg , Rabenberg and Wohltberg, the Hohenstein forms the town of Mitte-West , which is represented by a local council. The local mayor is Matthias Presia ( SPD ).

Attractions

The Kreuzkirche in the Hohenstein district
  • The Hohensteine are the eponymous rock formation that comes to the surface on the edge of the Klieversberg . They are located in a park-like area near the Kreuzkirche. It is sandstone from the polyplocus layers of the Middle Jurassic . There are various legends about the Hohensteine: One legend reports that a wedding party is said to have blasphemed God in cheeky speech and was turned into stones as a punishment. Another legend tells that a giant should have lost the stones.

Art in the cityscape

  • Vegetative Form - 1963 by Bernhard Heiliger (Berlin), Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium
  • Exterior wall design - 1966 by Peter Szaif (Wolfsburg), auditorium of the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium

Churches

education

Economy and Infrastructure

A day clinic is located on Laagbergstrasse. The facility, which is run by the Arbeiterwohlfahrt , was built in a former residential building built in 1952 and opened in February 1998. Around 30 mentally ill children, adolescents and adults who live at home at night and on weekends are cared for there during the day.

literature

  • Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. Building a city. 1948-1968. Wolfsburg, undated (around 1976), pp. 33, 68/69, 76/77.
  • Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. 1st edition 2011. ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 65, 78, 81, 88, 96.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfsburg - our city. Wolfsburg 1963. p. 87.
  2. ↑ Günter Riederer: Die Barackenstadt: Wolfsburg and its camps after 1945. In: Germany Archive Online, March 19, 2013, Permalink: http://www.bpb.de/geschichte/zeitgeschichte/deutschlandarchiv/riederer20130319
  3. ↑ 114 apartments at Hohenstein. Wolfsburger Nachrichten of September 24, 1951. In: 50 years of Wolfsburg in the mirror of the press. City of Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 1988.
  4. ^ Haus & Grund Wolfsburg und Umgebung eV (Ed.): Haus & Grund. Special issue 60 years Haus & Grund Wolfsburg und Umgebung eV Wolfsburg 2014, p. 10.
  5. ↑ Eberhard Rohde: Smoking room in the first old people's home. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition July 10, 2017.
  6. ↑ Ordinance on Natural Monuments 1971 at wolfsburg.de (PDF), accessed on April 15, 2018
  7. ^ Wilhelm Spennemann: The saga of Hohenstein. In: Wolfsburg - our city. Wolfsburg 1963, pp. 102-104