Stuttgart-West
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Stuttgart-West District of the state capital Stuttgart |
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| List of districts of Stuttgart | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height : | 260- 511 m above sea level. NHN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Population density : | 2,825 inhabitants per km² | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Postal code : | 70176, 70178, 70193, 70197 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Area code : | 0711 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Address of the citizens' office: |
Bebelstrasse 22 70193 Stuttgart |
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| Website: | www.stuttgart.de | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| District Head: | Bernhard Mellert ( Greens ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ' N , 9 ° 9' E
Stuttgart-West is one of the five inner city districts of the Baden-Württemberg state capital Stuttgart and is located in the western part of the Stuttgart basin , which forms a kind of bay. The district also includes the extensive forest areas Rotwildpark and Solitude as well as, in small parts, the Kräherwald . It is bounded in the south by the ridge of the Hasenberg and its extension, the Karlshöhe , and in the north by the ridge of the Kräherwald.
history
The district was not created through incorporation, but through organic, but rapid, growth of the city. The flat parts of the valley were built from 1850 to 1900, from 1920 the slopes were also opened up and also built on.
As an independent city district , it was only formed in 1956 when the city area was divided into city districts. In addition to Stuttgart-West, it initially included the two districts of Solitude and Red and Wild Boar Park . When the districts were reorganized on January 1, 2001, the Stuttgart-West district was divided into the districts of Kräherwald, Hölderlinplatz , Rosenberg, Feuersee, Rotebühl, Vogelsang and Hasenberg. The Red and Wild Boar Park district was renamed Wildlife Park. Since then, the Stuttgart-West district has consisted of a total of nine districts.
politics
The results of the municipal council elections in the city districts are decisive for the number of seats of the parties in the district councils. The last local election in 2019 resulted in the share of votes shown in the diagram opposite and the following distribution of the 21 seats of the district advisory council:
- Alliance 90 / THE GREENS = 7
- CDU = 3
- The LEFT SÖS PIRATE FACTION Animal Welfare Party = 3
- SPD = 2
- FDP = 2
- Free voters = 1
- AfD = 1
- PULSE = 2
Bernhard Mellert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) has been district chairman of Stuttgart West since 2019. Jochen Hammer (CDU) has been his deputy since 2019.
topography
The road network in the valley floor is very regular, almost like a chessboard, apart from a few diagonal roads that can be traced back to old corridors. The road planning on the slopes that were built later, on the other hand, fits in better with the terrain and is often winding.
Unlike in Berlin, for example, the large building blocks were divided into quite small plots so that no tenements with colliding buildings were created. In Stuttgart, detached houses were built with a spacing of three meters enforced by the building regulations, occasionally semi-detached houses and some larger units. The mostly four to five storey houses border directly on the roadside, one speaks of a block perimeter development . The inner surfaces of the blocks were built with commercial properties and simpler rear buildings. Some blocks were almost completely built on with industrial plants. The facades of the industrial buildings also had to be attractively designed, so that today you can hardly tell that they were industrial buildings. On the slopes, which were mostly built on in the 1920s and 1930s, there are smaller apartment buildings with gardens.
Stuttgart-West is one of the most densely populated residential areas and one of the largest contiguous old building areas in Germany. The district was spared from extensive destruction during World War II .
Residents and infrastructure
The large forest areas, which administratively belong to the district, mathematically relativize the high population density and the lack of green space in the inner city. 58% of the population consists of single households; children under the age of 18 live in only 14% of the households. The fluctuation is correspondingly high at around 15% annually.
The proportion of foreigners is 22% in the Stuttgart average. The retail trade is characterized by many small shops with different offers, handicraft businesses and numerous bars on many street corners. Large department stores cannot be found. Public transport is the district, among others, with all S-Bahn lines and the rail lines U2, U4, U29 and U34 connected. The west of Stuttgart is also one of the popular residential areas for singles because of the easy accessibility of the city center for pedestrians, its good infrastructure and numerous cultural facilities.
Attractions
Johanneskirche am Feuersee
The Protestant Johanneskirche was built from 1864 to 1876 in neo-Gothic style by senior building officer Christian Friedrich von Leins . It is particularly striking due to its prominent urban location. It lies with the choir on a peninsula in the Feuersee ( extinguishing water pond ). The church was built by Christian Friedrich von Leins on the water, so that he first had to push 660 piles into the lake. The single tower facade of the Johanneskirche marks the beginning of the former splendid avenue Johannesstraße.
After the war was destroyed, the outside of the church was rebuilt except for the spire , as there was not enough money. The destroyed Gothic vaults were replaced by modern ones. The church tower was 66 meters high before it was destroyed in World War II; today it is around 45 meters high. The "church without a tip" is now a memorial against the war.
Lake of fire
The Feuersee, which surrounds the Johanneskirche on three sides, was created in 1701 in a triangular shape as a fire water pond. When the Johanneskirche was built, the lake was brought into its present form. The south bank of the lake with the fire promenade was redesigned with new seating in 2016. Numerous turtles live in the lake, which were released there and have been breeding since then. The lake is also used for breeding carp and pike.
Elisabethenkirche
The Catholic Elisabethenkirche on Bismarckplatz was built between 1899 and 1901 by Joseph Cades in the neo-Romanesque style, whereby brick was used for reasons of cost. Architecturally highlighted parts are designed as exposed brickwork, while the wall surfaces are partially plastered and whitewashed - this design method is borrowed from the North German brick Gothic. The floor plan is more in line with Gothic concepts .
Town houses
In Stuttgart-West there are numerous town houses of historicism with stylistic elements of neo-Romanesque , neo-Gothic , neo-renaissance and neo-baroque . From around 1900 elements of Art Nouveau were added. The houses are mostly only designed on the street side, the other sides are almost always unadorned, mostly simple brickwork . The typical design of the facade consists of sandstone up to the ground floor, above a mixture of brick for the wall surfaces and details made of stone for window reveals, cornices or decorative elements, for example. Facades that are made entirely of sandstone or plastered houses are less common.
Schwab Tunnel
The 125 meter long tunnel and Schwabstrasse are named after the Stuttgart pastor, poet, publicist and publisher Gustav Schwab (1792–1850). The tunnel is considered the second inner-city road tunnel in the world and was the first through which a motor vehicle was driven. Today the building is a listed building.
Birch head
The birch head , also called "Monte Scherbelino", is the highest point on the edge of the basin and has grown by 40 m due to the accumulation of 15 million cubic meters of rubble from the Second World War . It is now 511 m above sea level. NN and is an ideal vantage point over the Stuttgart valley basin . Numerous architectural details of destroyed town houses can be seen on the summit.
Solitude Castle
After the area of the Solitude Palace with its entire residential area belonged to Gerlingen until 1942 , it was incorporated into Stuttgart on April 1, 1942 and assigned to the Botnang district , but the area of the sanatorium on the Schillerhöhe belonging to the Solitude residential area was returned to the community in 1951 Gerlingen returned.
When the city of Stuttgart was divided into districts in 1956, the Solitude residential area was assigned to the newly established Stuttgart-West district and declared an independent district , which was not changed when the Stuttgart districts were reorganized on January 1, 2001. The Solitude district, however, has only a few permanent residents, but many changing residents: the scholarship holders of the Akademie Schloss Solitude.
On the Stuttgart side of the Schlossallee leading to the palace, a bungalow with outbuildings was built at the end of the 1960s , which is the residence of the incumbent Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg and his family.
Graevenitz Museum
The Graevenitz Museum has been located in a noble house at Solitude Palace since 1971 .
Park lakes and wildlife park
The park lakes are located in the red and wild boar nature reserve with the Bärenschlössle and the Katzenbacher Hof . They consist of the chains of the Bärensee, the Neuer See and the Pfaffensee as well as the Katzenbachsee and Steinbachsee lakes in Büsnau , which are fed with water from the Katzenbach, Steinbach, Bernhardsbach and Glems . In the last centuries, these lakes served as a drinking water supply for Stuttgart (water treatment from the park lakes was discontinued in April 1998).
literature
- Uwe Bogen (text); Thomas Wagner (photos): Stuttgart. A city changes its face. Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-098-2 , pages 66-67 (Feuersee).
Web links
- Meaning of street names in Stuttgart-West ( memento from June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.stuttgart.de/item/show/10058/1/dept/103199
- ^ Johanneskirche am Feuersee - International Bach Academy Stuttgart. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.kirchen-online.org/kirchen--kapellen-in-stuttgart/stuttgart---johanneskirche.php
- ↑ https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.johanneskirche-gestutzter-turm-gilt-als-mahnmal-gegen-krieg.00208e73-c4e2-487f-a406-a5fae28e2125.html
- ^ Stuttgart to go - A walking book by Patrick Mikolaj, local part publisher
- ↑ stuttgart.de: Schwabtunnel
- ↑ The Monte Scherbelino grows into the Stuttgarter Zeitung , accessed on November 24, 2017
Inner city districts: Stuttgart-Mitte | Stuttgart-North | Stuttgart-East | Stuttgart-South | Stuttgart-West
Outer boroughs: Bad Cannstatt | Birkach | Botnang | Degerloch | Feuerbach | Hedelfingen | Möhringen | Mulhouse | Munster | Obertürkheim | Plieningen | Sillenbuch | Stammheim | Untertürkheim | Vaihingen | Cheeks | Weilimdorf | Zuffenhausen