City center / Jungbusch

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City center / Jungbusch
City of Mannheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 22 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 46 ″  E
Area : 4.55 km²
Residents : 30,408  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 6,683 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes : 68161, 68159
Area code : 0621

City Center / Jungbusch is a city ​​district and district of Mannheim , consisting of the city center, the Jungbusch and the commercial port as the oldest of the four parts of the Mannheim port . Since the historic city center is laid out in blocks of houses instead of streets, it or the entire city of Mannheim is nicknamed the city of squares .

geography

Geographical location

The city district (identification number 01) and the city center / Jungbusch district (010) are identical and are located in the center of the city at the mouth of the Neckar and the Rhine . The district borders on Neckarstadt-West in the north, Schwetzingerstadt / Oststadt in the east, and Lindenhof in the south . In the west, the Rhine forms the border with Rhineland-Palatinate with the neighboring city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

structure

The district is divided into seven statistical districts:

Western Upper Town (0101) : The western upper town borders on the planks of the western lower town, on Kurpfalzstrasse ( Breite Strasse ) on the eastern upper town, in the south on the castle area, in the west on Parkring on Mühlau and the Jungbusch.
Western Lower Town (0102) : The Western Lower Town borders on the Planken on the Western Upper Town, on the Breite Strasse on the Eastern Lower Town and on the Luisenring on the Jungbusch. The statistical district of the western lower town - or, depending on the definition framework, a certain part of this district - is still popularly referred to as " the Filsbach ", although this term is not officially used.
Eastern Upper Town (0103) : To Schwetzingerstadt / Oststadt (Oststadt-Süd and Schwetzingerstadt-West) is the Kaiserring border, in the south to the castle area the Bismarckstraße and in the west the Breite Straße to the western upper town.
Eastern Lower Town (0104 ): The border to Schwetzingerstadt / Oststadt (Oststadt-Nord) is the Friedrichsring, in the south it borders on the planks of the Eastern Upper Town and on the Breite Straße to the Western Lower Town.
Castle area (0105) : The castle area borders in the east on Schwetzingerstadt / Oststadt (Schwetzingerstadt-West), in the north with Bismarckstraße on the western and eastern Upper Town, in the south on Lindenhof (Lindenhof-West) and in the west on Mühlau.
Jungbusch (0106) : The district of Jungbusch borders on Neckar and Kurpfalzbrücke on Neckarstadt-West and Schwetzingerstadt / Oststadt (Oststadt-Nord), on Luisenring on Western Lower Town, on Parkring on Western Upper Town and to the west on Mühlau.
Mühlau (0107) : Mühlau borders on the Neckar on the Neckarstadt-West (districts Friesenheimer Insel and Neckarstadt-West), on the Jungbusch, on the Parkring on the Westliche Oberstadt, on the castle area, on the Konrad-Adenauer-Brücke on Lindenhof (Lindenhof -West) and on the Rhine in Rhineland-Palatinate (Ludwigshafen am Rhein).

history

The city center is not only the center of today's Mannheim - this is also where the city's roots lie. A certain "Manno" founded a fishing village in the area between the Rhine and Neckar and because of its special location, the village became electoral residence in 1606 with the construction of the Friedrichsburg Fortress. When the city of Mannheim was founded a year later, the streets were planned in such a way that the now widely known chess board with 144 squares was created. On the edge of this chessboard lies the Mannheim Palace, which is 440 meters long and one of the largest feudal buildings in Europe. The university now has its headquarters in the castle.

The Jungbusch was created in 1870 through the expansion of the city during the Wilhelminian era. Until the 19th century merchants, ship owners and captains lived in the trading port area. Sack carriers shaped the street scene on the hill formerly known as the "Pestbuckel". The colloquial name is reminiscent of the cemetery once located here, where thousands of victims were buried in the plague year 1666/1667 regardless of denomination.

The area northwest of the city center, in the corner between the Rhine and Neckar, was filled by the island of Mühlau . Older maps show a double island, later both halves were connected and only separated by a narrow moat. The Mühlau was separated from the mainland by a tributary of the Rhine leading to the Neckar, the so-called Little Rhine. In 1712 Lemle Moses had a model estate for fruit and cattle breeding built on the Mühlau, and the Mühlauschlösschen was built there around 1730 . In the 19th century the island was a popular recreational area for the city's bourgeoisie. With the construction of a provisional free port in 1828 in the entrance area to the Little Rhine, the transformation of the entire area into today's trading port began. This was followed in 1840 by the construction of the New Mannheim Harbor , consisting of two adjacent basins, the Mühlauhafen in 1875 and the two basins of the inland port in 1887. Of these, only the basin of the Mühlauhafen still exists today, as well as the northern part of the former Little Rhine, the so-called connection channel is expanded.

religion

Jesuit Church

There are eight churches in the city district: the Catholic Jesuit Church , the Catholic Church of St. Sebastian on the market square, the oldest preserved building in the city center, the Catholic Hospital Church ; the old Catholic castle church ; the Protestant Konkordienkirche , the Protestant Trinity Church , which was given a modern building after the Second World War, as well as the Catholic Church of Our Lady and the Protestant Harbor Church in Jungbusch. There are four mosques, of which the Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque in Jungbusch was the largest mosque in Germany from 1995 to 2008, as well as a synagogue .

7606 of the district's residents are Catholics (25.6%), 4606 are Protestant (15.5%), 376 belong to other religious communities under public law (1.3%) and 17,110 belong to another or no religious community ("no answer") ) (57.6%).

Sports

The ice rink at Friedrichspark was the venue of the Adler Mannheim ice hockey club (formerly Mannheimer ERC) until 2005 and is now used by inline hockey clubs as a venue. A new hall, the Jungbuschhalle plus X, was built in the Jungbusch, which is also used for sports. The district's sports club is the DJK Jungbusch.

District life

As one of the few districts of Mannheim undestroyed during the Second World War, the Jungbusch has been subject to a process of change for several years. The former workers' and red light district is becoming a multicultural, lively trendy district due to the beginning of gentrification . Former warehouses and industrial facilities become living spaces. The mixture of galleries, student residences, trendy hangouts and facilities such as the Pop Academy and the Music Park make the district particularly lively, especially on weekends. Students, young families and, first and foremost, workers - at 72 percent, the Jungbusch still has the highest number of workers in Mannheim - live here as good neighbors, close to one another. An installed neighborhood management supports and promotes this development.

The city center is also multicultural : 150 nations live together here. The Mannheimers are characterized by a high degree of tolerance and cosmopolitanism, which is symbolically evident in the fact that a mosque, a church and a synagogue are in the immediate vicinity in the city center. Due to the many old buildings and backyards, the city center is particularly popular with young people and some young families have worked together to turn a backyard into a playground. The Schillerplatz in square B 3 has meanwhile developed into a real piazza, where many Mannheimers meet on sunny days. The Rhine promenade behind the castle enables local recreation.

Economy and culture

Mannheim City is the most important retail location in the metropolitan region. For example, the largest sports store in Germany can be found here. Mannheim is also the city of short distances: doctor's offices, university facilities, shops, banks, offices and much more are within 3.5 square kilometers. In terms of culture, the squares offer the Reiss-Engelhorn museums, which are among the most important museums in Germany and Europe in the areas of archeology, world cultures and photography, as well as the Klapsmühl, a popular cabaret and comedy theater with a long tradition.

The inner city development concept, which has been jointly developed over the past few years in a continuous discussion and planning process, provides the framework for development in the city center.

The area of ​​the commercial port, now one of four separate parts of the Mannheim port, is used entirely for cargo handling and the settlement of port-related businesses. The strip adjacent to the Jungbusch to the east of the connecting canal, along Hafenstrasse, has meanwhile been designated as a mixed area, including the Popakademie .

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View of the Mannheim city and parts of the young bush from the River Neckar buildings north of

Web links

Commons : Mannheim-Innenstadt / Jungbusch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Mannheim: Population 2015 in small-scale breakdown. (PDF; 679 kB) Statistical data Mannheim № 1/2016. March 30, 2016, p. 5 ff. , Accessed on April 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Philipp Kohl: Appreciation and Identity in the Transcultural Space . Divergent receptions of two Mannheim city quarters . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-02562-5 , Chapter 6.1: The spatial location: Filsbach , p. 64–65 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ^ Rudolf Haas, Karl Hoffmann: 150 years Rheinhafen Mannheim. State Port Authority Mannheim (ed.), Mannheim 1978. ISBN 3-87804-065-2
  4. ↑ http://apps.mannheim.de/statistikatlas/pdf/01_innenstadt_jungbusch.pdf