Hustadt

On the Backenberg

Hufeland Elementary School

The U35 connects Hustadt with Bochum's main train station every five minutes on weekdays

The Hustadt is part of the Querenburg district of Bochum . It is a large housing estate . Inner Hustadt in the south of Bochum is an example of housing developments in the 1960s and 1970s. The quarter was laid out as a large housing estate based on the principle of “urbanity through density” and consists of around 1,100 apartments in four to fourteen-story houses. With its high density core, the Inner Hustadt is part of the "University Framework City", which was conceived in the course of the establishment of the Ruhr University Bochum in the 1960s

history

The Hustadt is located in the eastern part of Querenburg. The corridor once belonged to the knights of Lützelnauve on Haus Heven , who had a house (Husstadt) built for their servants on the mountain. After the incorporation of the community of Querenburg in 1929 - as part of some necessary renaming of the streets - Gustavstrasse became "Auf der Hustadt".

The establishment of the Ruhr University Bochum , decided by the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia on July 18, 1961, also made the planning and creation of living space necessary. From 1968 high-rise buildings with up to 13 floors and several streets with multi-storey houses as well as single-family houses in bungalow style were built for the higher-ranking population groups. The architect Hanns Dustmann was in charge . The model for this settlement is the Märkisches Viertel in Berlin. The original target groups of the district when it was built as a “university framework city” were employees of the Ruhr University Bochum and employees of plants I and II / III of Adam Opel AG .

The main sponsor of the settlement is VBW Bauen und Wohnen . A large number of the apartments have now been converted into residential property. Two small business centers, each of which has the Catholic parish church of St. Paul , opened in 1972, and the Evangelical Hustadtzentrum , opened in 1971, with kindergartens, only poorly cover daily needs. The next major shopping opportunity was initially a shopping center in Barracks on Buscheyplatz in the area of ​​today's student residence, followed by the Uni-Center shopping center .

The community elementary school is named after the doctor Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762–1836). In the middle of the development is the Kochs Kotten , a more than 600 year old building made of half-timbered and quarry stone , which was saved from demolition and converted into a restaurant in the early 1970s, but has been vacant for several years. To the northeast, behind the Laerholz forest , there is Laer House and a green corridor along the Schattbach , in which a new section of the motorway, called Opelspange, has been built as part of the DüBoDo (A 44) since 2012.

Due to the incorrect occupancy tax introduced in 1981 , many of the original residents moved out in the 1980s; in the meantime, the quarter was threatened with urban ghettoization . The social structure of the approximately 6,000 residents today is characterized by a large number of nationalities, a low average age and high fluctuation . In the mid-1970s, student residential communities were set up in some high-rise buildings, which were later managed by AkaFö Bochum . This concept has survived to this day.

In order to improve the living and living situation, the Hustadt received public funding from the Socially Integrative City program from 2009 . A neighborhood management was introduced. For young people of German and international origin, the AWO maintains the Hu Town youth center on the sports field near Universitätsstrasse. A support point has been in place on Robert-Koch-Strasse since 2014 for a social worker initiative “Brunnenprojekt Hustadt”.

The nearby attractions include the botanical garden , the Kalwes and the Kemnader See ( Ruhr reservoir).

literature

• Franz Darpe : History of the City of Bochum , 1888–1894.
• Curt HF Gaertner: Querenburg, how it was, how it is Brockmeyer 1976.
• Lutz Heidemann : Group-specific living behavior - results of an architectural-sociological study of the Hustadt in Bochum-Querenburg. Dissertation. Essen: Verlag der Scharioth'schen Buchhandlung, 1978
• Michael Fehr , Diethelm Koch (eds.): Redevelopment of the city: Example Bochum Museum Bochum, 1975.

Web links

Commons : Bochum-Hustadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Film about the Hustadt, Bochumschau 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.huisthu.de/das-quartier/
2. ↑ Henning Sußebach: In Utopia. In: Die Zeit, April 21, 2005
3. ↑ Architecture NRW
4. ^ Rolf Haarmann (University meets Querenburg eV), Christian Uhlig (Förderverein Hustadt eV): Brief history of the Hustadt. 2008. Partly derived from an essay by G. Nowak.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ BSZ
6. ^ Urban development funding for the social city
7. ↑ WAZ

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '  N , 7 ° 16'  E