Käfertal (Mannheim)

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Käfertal
City of Mannheim
Käfertal coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 4 ″  E
Area : 10.73 km²
Residents : 27,079  (Dec. 31, 2015)
Population density : 2,524 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1897
Postal code : 68309
Area code : 0621

Käfertal is a district of Mannheim in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and is divided into the districts Käfertal-Mitte, Speckweggebiet, Käfertal-Süd, Sonnenschein and Franklin.

geography

Käfertal is located in the northeast of Mannheim. Bordering city districts are Vogelstang , Feudenheim , Wohlhotels and Waldhof . In the northeast is the city of Viernheim ( Bergstrasse district ).

history

In 1175 Käfertal was first mentioned in a deed of donation from the Bishop of Worms to the Lorsch Monastery . The first dated mention of the village Käfertal was on April 30, 1227 as Keverndal in a document from Count Palatine Ludwig I for the Schönau monastery . In the course of history, the spellings Cheverndal , Keverndal , Kefferndal , Kefferthal and Käferthal were used. The name is derived from Keverendale (valley of the pines), the location on the edge of the "Käfertal forest". At the end of the 13th century, Käfertal became part of the Electoral Palatinate . In 1689 the village was destroyed by the French in the Palatinate War of Succession . In 1784 there were 484 inhabitants. In 1803 Käfertal became Baden .

year Residents
1439 90
1577 225
1727 310
1818 1060
1852 1828
1875 4036
1895 6661

Until now only long-established farmers and craftsmen families lived here, but industrialization brought numerous factory workers. In 1882 an exchange of land was carried out with the city of Mannheim: the mirror factory on the Waldhof remained with Käfertal, but the Luzenberg was ceded. In return, Käfertal received the fields north of the Speckweg. In 1884 Mannheim was given permission to build a waterworks in the Käfertal forest.

From 1887 onwards , the narrow-gauge railway from Mannheim via Käfertal and Viernheim to Weinheim, which was built by Herrmann Bachstein , made better transport connections possible ; in 1897 it became part of the South German Railway Company (SEG) and in 1911 the Upper Rhine Railway Company (OEG). This also maintained a siding to the waterworks and from 1909 the branch line beginning in Käfertal via Wallstadt to Heddesheim.

In 1897 it was incorporated into Mannheim. From 1903 the Mannheim tram ran on the specially electrified SEG route. After the end of the First World War , settlement houses were built in Käfertal-Süd. The release was partly on a pension basis for war invalids. Many houses are still leased by the city on land today.

At the end of World War II , American troops advanced through the Käfertal forest. On Wednesday, March 28, 1945, Gretje Ahlrichs (born October 15, 1917 in Lütetsburg; † March 6, 2012 in Mannheim), then a telephone operator for the city of Mannheim , dealt with the im via an intact line from the city center to the Käfertal waterworks Americans in the waterworks took a ceasefire. She was able to use this to call one of the few employees of the city administration who had not yet escaped who was authorized to negotiate the surrender of the city. It was probably the first telephone surrender in history. After the war, was the Benjamin Franklin Village and several barracks, until the withdrawal of troops (2007 to 2014) a great base for the US army in Kafertal. In the 1990s, the Rott was built as an independent residential area.

Politics, administration

Käfertaler town hall

According to the main statute of the city of Mannheim, each city district has a district advisory council, which includes 12 residents who are appointed by the local council according to the results of the local council election. They are to be heard on important matters that affect the municipality and advise the local administration and committees of the municipal council.

Political party 2019 2014 2009 2004 1999 1994
SPD 3 3 5 5 5 5
CDU 2 4th 4th 5 7th 5
GREEN 1 1 1 1 0 1
Mannheim list 1 1 1 1 0 1
FDP 1 1 1 0 0 0
The left 1 1 0 0 0 0
AFD 1 1 0 0 0 0

As one of the eleven outer city districts, Käfertal has a municipal secretariat, which is responsible for local administrative tasks.

Culture and sights

The Karlstern pavilion in the Käfertal forest
Laurentiuskirche in Weinbrenner style

In the north lies the Käfertaler Wald , the largest forest in Mannheim, with various game enclosures around the Karlstern.

Mannheimer Strasse is Käfertal's main shopping street, lined on both sides with shops, banks, a cultural center and restaurants. The cultural center, which went into operation in 1967, is located in the Stempelpark, which was named after the former owner of the property and economist Ludwig Stempel. The Käfertaler Kulturhaus used to host numerous concerts by rock and pop groups, including Bon Jovi as part of their first tour of Germany in 1985, Metallica (1984), Die Toten Hosen (1987), Slayer (1987) and Mink DeVille . The town center has an unusual density of buildings in the style of Friedrich Weinbrenner . The town hall (built in 1818/19), the Catholic St. Laurentius Church (1834/35) and the nave of the Protestant Union Church show the restrained, but bulky, classicism typical of Baden .

Käfertal is also a carnival stronghold known beyond the city limits . Its street festival is one of the oldest festivals of its kind in the region.

Economy and Infrastructure

The Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC), from the 1988 merger with the Swedish ASEA the Asea Brown Boveri emerged (ABB), 1900 founded its German subsidiary in Mannheim, and built on a circa 85,000 square meter area in Kafertal a factory. Turbines, generators, motors and transformers as well as locomotives (e.g. series 110, 140 and 141) were manufactured in increasing numbers. a. Transformers for the municipal power plants and large power plants in Mannheim, Frankfurt, Elberfeld, Elverlingsen and Hanover. The plant is very conveniently located in terms of traffic and heavy loads of up to approx. 500 t can be transported to the nearby Rhine ports of Mannheim and Lampertheim via a corresponding road connection .

Shortly before the merger to form ABB, BBC employed over 12,000 people in Mannheim (main factory in Käfertal and locomotive construction in the south plant). Within a few years, the number of employees at ABB in Käfertal fell to below 800 as a result of various restructuring measures. On the one hand, parts of the plant or productions were closed (e.g. transformer factory, engine factory, small and medium-sized mechanics, etc.) or sold (e.g. turbine and generator factory). Today ABB employs around 2200 people in Mannheim-Käfertal. Among other things, ABB's business in Germany and the Central Europe region is managed from here. Most of the employees work for the Power Systems and Process Automation division. The south plant is now part of Bombardier and the former main plant (approx. 1700 employees, as of 2008) still houses ALSTOM's turbine assembly and large-scale mechanics .

Public transport

The Mannheim-Käfertal station is located on the Riedbahn from Frankfurt to Mannheim . A single passenger train stops at the station every day. The eastern Riedbahn is to be included in the RheinNeckar S-Bahn so that the station will be served hourly in future. The tram lines 5, 5A and 15 of the Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV) cross Käfertal in the southeast. While lines 5 and 5A out of town at Mannheim-Käfertal RNV train station split in the direction of Viernheim / Weinheim / Heidelberg and Heddesheim , line 15 only goes to the Wallstadt Ost terminus . Several RNV bus lines connect the district with the Mannheim-Käfertal RNV train station and the neighboring Waldhof.

Franklin residential area

As part of the conversion of former US-American residential and barracks areas, a new residential quarter for around 8,000 people is being built under the name "Franklin" in the northeast of the Käfertal district. It is currently the largest conversion area in Mannheim. With 144.3 hectares, the area includes the area used after the Second World War of the Benjamlin-Franklin-Village, the formerly largest housing estate for the US armed forces in Germany , the officers' settlement and the former US barracks Sullivan Barracks and Funari Barracks. The federal highway 38 with the neighboring district Vogelstang runs southeast of it , northeast the border to Viernheim in Hesse .

The concept envisages a new urban quarter from 2016 to 2025 with a mix of green living space, work opportunities, leisure activities, educational facilities and shopping opportunities. Franklin is divided into five areas: The Columbus district on the B 38 is designated as a location for large-scale retail and small-scale businesses. It also forms the contact point to the Vogelstang district, east of the B 38. Franklin-Mitte is the center of the new area and forms a spatial unit in which some of the existing buildings are being refurbished and modernized in order to create affordable living space. In addition, different types of new buildings are being erected on other construction sites. The first residents moved there in December 2017. The Sullivan sub-area (former Sullivan Barracks) is located in the north-east on the edge of an extensive forest area and is to merge into a large public park in the west. The most attractive living space with individual design options is being built with multi-family houses and 64 individual single-family houses. The officer settlement is a former residence of the officers and generals of large land with two-storey double and single houses with some subsequent parcelling and densification while maintaining the tree population. The south-west is the Funari area (former Funari Barracks) with row houses and townhouses as new buildings. In addition, existing buildings from a building ensemble from the 1930s will be preserved.

literature

  • Lorenz Klingert: Festival book for the seven-century celebration of the former Käfertal community 1227–1927 . Mannheim 1927.
  • Günter Bertschmann: Käfertal: 750 years Käfertal 1227–1977 . Mannheim 1977.

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. ↑ Friedrich Teutsch, Käfertal I, Back to the sources, in: Hansjörg Probst (Ed.), Mannheim before the city foundation, Part II Volume 2, Mannheim, 2008, pp 104–121.
  3. ↑ a b Main Statute of the City of Mannheim. (PDF 234 KB) VII. City districts and district councils, § 22. City of Mannheim, April 28, 2009, p. 10 , accessed on April 10, 2018 .
  4. ↑ SessionNet | City of Mannheim District Advisory Council Käfertal. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Bon Jovi, Kulturhaus Mannheim-Käfertal, May 10, 1985 at www.facebook.com , scanned entry ticket (published May 7, 2015), FB page Kulturhaus Mannheim-Käfertal, accessed on June 16, 2017
  6. ↑ Metallica, Kulturhaus Mannheim-Käfertal, December 3, 1984 at www.metallica.com , past tour dates, accessed on June 16, 2017
  7. ↑ Die Toten Hosen, Kulturhaus Mannheim-Käfertal, July 1, 1987 at www.dth-dta.de , tour archive, accessed on June 16, 2017
  8. ^ City of Mannheim: Franklin - a district of the future. April 29, 2015, accessed March 20, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Franklin project page , accessed on March 20, 2018.

Web links

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