Kaestorf (Wolfsburg)

Kaestorf City of Wolfsburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 46 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 44 ″  E
Residents :	1354  (March 31, 2017)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	38448
Area code :	05361
Location in Wolfsburg
St. John's Church (left) and tower of the former school (right)

Kästorf is a district of Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony in the north of the city, between the B 188 and the Aller , in the immediate vicinity of the Volkswagen factory and Wolfsburg Castle .

history

Memorial stone to the 875th anniversary of the town

Kästorf was first mentioned in 1135 as Kestorp . The village lies in the historical landscape of the Vorsfelder Werder . The original village shape was that of a Wendish round .

From 1742 Kästorf belonged to the office of Vorsfelde . During the French era , Kästorf came to the canton of Vorsfelde in the Helmstedt district , in the Oker department of the Kingdom of Westphalia . According to a settlement register from around 1850, there were 16 farms at that time.

In the course of the establishment of the Volkswagen factory, on August 2, 1938, the municipality of Kästorf was declared a residential area with the 7th ordinance on residential areas, which, however, was initially of little practical importance due to the soon-to-start Second World War and the associated restrictions in residential construction.

As a result of the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe from 1945–1950 , the population of Kästorf increased from 262 (1939) to 535 (1950), of which 276 were displaced in 1950 . The number of inhabitants rose considerably in the following decades thanks to job opportunities in the nearby Volkswagen factory. In 1962 Kästorf received a church for the first time with the Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannes Church, and Volksbank Vorsfelde eG opened a branch in Kästorf that year. In 1966, today's fire station was built.

On July 1, 1972, the former municipality of Kästorf, which comes from the Helmstedt district , was incorporated into the city of Wolfsburg in accordance with the Wolfsburg Act . More recently, Kästorf has seen a further expansion through the “Hinter den Kohlgärten” building area.

Residents

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Residents	152	201	181	234	300	262	535	781	1408	1413	1418	1361	1384	1354

politics

coat of arms

The Kästorf coat of arms with the windmill blades designed by the heraldist Arnold Rabbow was adopted by the local council of Kästorf / Sandkamp on February 2, 1978. The colors are reminiscent of Kästorf's earlier affiliation to the Free State of Braunschweig , whose national colors were blue-yellow.

Local mayor

Together with the district of Sandkamp, Kästorf forms the village of Kästorf-Sandkamp , which is represented by a local council. The local mayor is Francescantonio Garippo ( SPD ).

Culture and sights

Kästorf post mill

Buildings

The Romantik Park Landleben with its specialized hall houses is currently closed. In 2007 the newly built park was opened as Gehrmanns Landleben and closed in 2008 due to inefficiency. In 2009 the facility was taken over by Romantik Park Landleben Vermietungs- und Verwaltungs GmbH and reopened, which however filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and closed the park.

The Kästorf post mill from 1861 is the only surviving windmill in Wolfsburg. Their windmill blades can also be found in the coat of arms of Kästorf. Since the 1960s, however, the windmill has belonged to the Kreuzheide district due to a re-city .

Churches

The only church in Kästorf is the Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Church, it was built according to a design by PG Lachmann, Braunschweig. The foundation stone was laid on December 2, 1960 , and it was inaugurated on April 15, 1962. Previously, Kästorf was parish off to the St. Petrus Church in Vorsfelde. The consecration of the bells, which hang in a free-standing tower, followed on October 31, 1964. The parish belongs to the Provostei Vorsfelde of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig . Catholics in Kästorf belong to the St. Bernward Church in Alt-Wolfsburg .

societies

The volunteer fire brigade founded in 1936 , the sports club SSV Kästorf / Warmenau eV from 1946 and the Kyffhäuser-Kameradschaft Kästorf eV are active in Kästorf .

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

North office center

In the district there is an Aldi supermarket, two bakery branches, two hairdressing salons and a drinks store, most of which are located in the shopping center that opened in 2003. Fernet offers Kästorf pubs and restaurants as well as a veterinary practice. The retail stores in the old town center, the Erich Kempe bakery and the Gustav Helbig grocery store, were closed.

The post office ("Kästorf", later "Wolfsburg 32") was closed, as were the branches of Volksbank Vorsfelde eG and Commerzbank , the Jeans Fritz branch , the shoe store and the two gas stations.

Several craft businesses are based in Kästorf. The newly built IT-City , also a building complex of Volkswagen AG, was officially opened on May 11, 2017 . It offers around 1,500 jobs for employees in the field of information technology .

To the south of Kästorf is the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg , which can be reached from Kästorf through the North Gate. From Kästorf, Hall 54 and the Wolfsburg West thermal power station can be seen from the factory . Northeast of Kästorf, on a formerly belonging to Kästorf land, which operates Volkswagen AG , the Office Center North , whose multi-storey building in 1970 as residences for Italian, and later Tunisian guest workers had been built. The 12 high-rise buildings built by VW-Siedlungsgesellschaft and moved into from 1971 initially offered 3,439 residential spaces.

Road traffic

Entrance

In the 1990s, a northern bypass road was built and the B 188 was relocated out of the village, thereby relieving the town of through traffic. About three kilometers west of Kästorf which runs Federal Highway 39 , from the Kästorf via the junction Weyhausen is achievable.

In 1993 three streets were renamed, the names of which existed several times after several villages were incorporated into Wolfsburg in 1972. The Brackstedter street in Jembker road , the main road in to the bar , and the new road in at the Sneede .

A bus line operated by Wolfsburger Verkehrs GmbH runs from Kästorf to Brackstedt and via the city ​​center to Detmerode . At times there is also a bus connection via Wolfsburg Central Station to Fallersleben . The Verkehrsgesellschaft Landkreis Gifhorn mbH offers a bus route to Gifhorn .

Public facilities

In Kästorf there is a call center for the city of Wolfsburg, a multi-purpose hall, a fire station, a sports field, a shooting range, a stop for the mobile library , the Protestant parish hall, which has also had a public bookcase since 2019 , and a cemetery with a chapel .

education

Former school (1989)

With the day care center “Behind the Gardens”, Kästorf has had its own day care center since autumn 2017. The facility, which is located near Volkswagen's IT City, is sponsored by the City of Wolfsburg and offers 125 places for children from 0 to 6 years.

The elementary school was closed and, apart from the tower, which was preserved as a building that characterizes the townscape, was torn down around 1989 and replaced by an Aldi store, which has meanwhile been relocated to the opposite side of the street.

A Volkswagen AG service academy has been located on the site of the Schönberger DIY store, which was closed at the end of 2002 .

literature

• Heinz Pohlendt: The district of Helmstedt. Bremen-Horn, 1957

Web links

Commons : Kästorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kästorf on the website of the city of Wolfsburg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 221 .
2. ^ Arnold Rabbow: Wolfsburg coat of arms. Wolfsburg 1979, pp. 30 and 60.
3. ^ Wolfsburg News. Friday Packet for April 21, 2017.
4. ↑ Technical monument of wind power: the Kästorf post mill ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Church on the website of the Provosty Vorsfelde , accessed on December 23, 2017.
6. ↑ Kästorf local fire brigade on the Wolfsburg fire brigade's website , accessed on December 24, 2017.
7. ↑ Hendrik Rasehorn: The supermarket is being expanded and everything else is being spruced up. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition September 5, 2017.
8. ^ Opening of the IT-City on news38.de , accessed on May 12, 2017.
9. ↑ Eberhard Rohde: Foreigners helped shape the Wolfsburg cityscape. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of February 27, 2019.
10. ↑ Bürozentrum Nord on Volkswagen Immobilien's website , accessed on December 26, 2017.
11. ↑ architecture & economy. No. 52, Verlag für Architektur GmbH, Wiesbaden 1986, p. 141.
12. ↑ Bookcase in the parish hall. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of October 21, 2019.
13. ↑ Kästorf: Nice rooms and a bilingual concept. waz-online.de, December 6, 2017, accessed December 26, 2017.
14. ↑ Volkswagen Service Academy opened. kfz-betrieb.vogel.de, October 10, 2008, accessed on December 26, 2017.