Hohenwinds

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Hohenwinds
State capital Erfurt
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 43 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 190 m above sea level NN
Area : 8.17 km²
Residents : 1971  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 241 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes : 99085, 99086, 99087
Area code : 0361
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Location Hohenwindens in Erfurt
The former saltworks in Hohenzüge

Hohenzüge (outdated called Hohenhaben-Sulza ) is a district of the Thuringian capital Erfurt . Hohenwind is located in the northeast of the city and is mainly characterized by industrial and agricultural areas. In between are the Rotebergsiedlung and the Salinesiedlung, where most of the approximately 2000 inhabitants of Hohenwindens live.

The name Hohenwind derives from a former village in the area of ​​Schwerborner Straße. The village of Hohenwind fell in desolation as early as the Middle Ages , so that in 1318 the remaining village church was also torn down for the extraction of building materials.

geography

Hohenzüge lies in an old valley of the Gera , which used to flow along here before it took its current bed further west. As a result, the area in Hohenwinde is flat and unforested. The only watercourse in the village is the Narrow Gera , a tributary of the Gera, which forms the western border of Hohenwindens. The largest water area in the district is the Sulzer See in the north, which is one of the Erfurt lakes and how it emerged from a flooded gravel mine. The gravel quarrying was carried out in the eastern part of the town hall to extract building materials. A large brick from the Wienerberger Group on the northern slope of the Red Mountain is also used to extract building materials . It got its name from the red Keuper rock adjoining here and, at 239 meters high, represents the highest point on the town hall. While this Inselberg is in the west of Hohenwinden, the terrain also rises to the east. There are the Stollberg in the south and the Schwabenberg in the Schwerborner Flur in the north. These reach heights of around 220 meters at Hohenwinde. The valley floor in between lies at heights between 190 meters in the south and 175 meters in the north.

Neighboring districts are Johannesvorstadt in the south and Ilversgehofen in the south-west, while otherwise the villages of Gispersleben in the west, Mittelhausen in the north-west, Stotternheim in the north, Schwerborn in the north-east and Kerspleben in the east. In the Hohenwindener Flur there are also the Roter Berg prefabricated building area in the west and the Sulzer settlement in the north, which has been an independent district since the last reorganization of the Erfurt districts in 1994.

The undeveloped part of the town hall is used for agriculture, and mining was also carried out. Rock salt was extracted in a mine between 1862 and 1916, while gravel is extracted above ground in open-cast mining.

quarter

Quarter
(not official) 		Block groups
(official) 		Population (2007) Population (2015)
Industrial area Stotternheimer Straße, Zoopark / Roter Berg 911 44 155
Rotebergsiedlung 912 1,155 1,069
Schwerborner Strasse industrial area 921 130 192
Saline settlement, Stollberg settlement 922 635 603

Rotebergsiedlung

The Rotebergsiedlung was built from 1949 west of Stotternheimer Straße. The area had previously been used as an airfield. Erfurt's first airport was built here in 1925 and was used for civil aviation to and from Erfurt until the beginning of the Second World War. During the Second World War, the airport was used for military purposes and then shut down by SMAD . In 1956, it was reopened downsized for sport aviation, while the Rotebergsiedlung was built on the eastern part. Air traffic was completely relocated to Bindersleben Airport after the Second World War . Small houses for families were built in the settlement to alleviate the housing shortage after the war. In the 1990s, the settlement was expanded to the south and the area was built up to the tram route. The streets in this area were given names that are reminiscent of the former airfield on Red Mountain.

In 1959, the Thuringian Zoopark Erfurt was opened north of the Rotebergsiedlung , which has since been the largest zoological garden in Thuringia and covers a large part of the area of ​​the Rote Berg.

Saline settlement and Stollberg settlement

The Salinesiedlung and the Stollbergsiedlung in the east of Hohenwindens emerged in the middle of the 20th century with small settlement houses. In 1972 the saltworks settlement was expanded to the south and numerous allotment gardens with weekend houses for the townspeople were created. The saltworks settlement got its name from the local saltworks, which extracted rock salt between 1862 and 1916, while the Stollbergsiedlung was named after the mountain on whose western slope it lies.

Settler houses were also built on the west side of the Sangerhäuser Bahn at Salinengraben and Querfurter Straße.

Industrial areas

There are extensive areas between the settlements that are used as industrial areas. In addition to the flat terrain, the railway connection in particular was a reason for the emergence of the industrial areas in Hohenwind after the incorporation of Ilversgehofens in 1911. They belong to an industrial zone that extends along the railway lines through the entire northeast of Erfurt. While some areas have been fallow in the south since the closure of many companies after reunification, a new industrial area has been created in the north on Bergrat-Voigt-Strasse directly on the newly built federal motorway 71 .

Population development

Around 2,000 people live in the settlements that are scattered across the Hohenwindener Flur. The majority of them are over 50 years old, so that the average age in 2009 was 51.4 years, which is well above the Erfurt average. In addition, Hohenwind is characterized by low demographic mobility, so there are few arrivals and departures and just as few births and (still) few deaths. If the current generation of settlers slowly declines, it will become clear to what extent the comparatively remote settlements in the middle of the industrial area with their relatively small and older houses can attract new, young residents.

Data from the city administration of Erfurt as of December 31st.

year population
1995 1.918
1996 2,026
1997 2,033
1998 2,037
1999 2,047
2000 2,048
2001 2,040
2002 2,027
2003 2,027
2004 2,019
2005 2.006
2006 1,989
2007 1,964
2008 1.952
2009 1.939
2010 1,906
2011 1,899
2012 1,902
2013 1,858
2014 1,833
2015 2,019
2016 1,971

Economy and Transport

The Hohenwindens economy is characterized by the numerous manufacturing companies in the industrial areas. The Erfurt Railway , which operates passenger traffic on many railway lines in Thuringia and Lower Franconia, has its headquarters at Rasenrain .

Hohenwinden is located directly on the federal highway 71 from the Erfurter Kreuz to Sangerhausen at the Erfurt-Stotternheim junction. The Stotternheimer Strasse is also the most important street in Hohenwindens, and the Bunsenstrasse, the Strasse Am Roten Berg and the Schwerborner Strasse are important connections for inner-city traffic.

The district is connected to public transport via the Erfurt Ost train station on the Sangerhausen – Erfurt railway line. There are connections to Magdeburg and Erfurt main train station . However, this station on Schwerborner Straße is relatively far from the settlements and mainly serves commuters from the surrounding industrial areas. The Rotebergsiedlung is connected to the Erfurt tram network via line 5 , while the Salinesiedlung and Stollbergsiedlung can only be reached with irregular buses.

elections

Political party City Council 2009 State Parliament 2009 Bundestag 2013 Europe 2009
voter turnout 43.7 52.8 60.1 44.0
CDU 17.9 24.3 36.4 24.3
The left 25.7 29.5 24.4 26.3
SPD 34.9 22.8 18.6 21.4
Green 5.3 5.8 5.0 6.7
FDP 4.9 6.2 1.6 6.7

literature

  • Erfurt statistics. Facts and figures 2011. Erfurt City Administration, March 9, 2011 (leaflet; erfurt.de ( memento of September 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 1.2 MB]).
  • Erfurt statistics. Population 2011 (= municipal statistics booklet. Booklet 79). Edition: August 2012 ( erfurt.de ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 1.8 MB]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State capital Erfurt. Small-scale structure. Block group map ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). (PDF; 3.4 MB) In: erfurt.de, January 2005, accessed on November 24, 2017.
  2. ↑ Population of the city of Erfurt 2007. Inventory and movement data (= municipal statistics booklets. Issue 64). Edition: July 2008, p. 53 ( erfurt.de ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 915 kB; accessed on November 24, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Erfurt statistics. Population 2015. Stadtverwaltung Erfurt, November 2016, p. 56 ff .: Population at block group level by age group ( erfurt.de [PDF; 3.2 MB]).