Hahnwald

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Coat of arms of Cologne
Hahnwald
district 207 of Cologne
Location of the Hahnwald district in district 2
Coordinates 50 ° 52 '35 "  N , 6 ° 58' 47"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '35 "  N , 6 ° 58' 47"  E
surface 2.99 km²
Residents 2058 (December 31, 2017)
Population density 688 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Jan. 1, 1975
Post Code 50996
prefix 02236
Borough Rodenkirchen (2)
Transport links
Highway A555
Bus route 135
Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information
House OBU based on plans by Erwin Zander
House X1 by Peter Neufert
Bronze curtain by Franz Mühl, State Prize NRW 1978

Hahnwald is a district on the left bank of the Rhine in the south of Cologne , in the Rodenkirchen district and is one of the most exclusive and expensive residential areas in Germany.

history

The Hahnwald is one of the youngest districts of Cologne. The place name refers to a grove forest that used to be located here, which is recorded as "Hendtgen" in 1610 and as "Haalen" around 1800. The official establishment (as a district of the then community Rondorf , which was called community Rodenkirchen from 1961 ) did not take place until 1949. The impulses that led to the creation of the new villa colony in the rural area outside the (then) city limits came from the neighboring Cologne villa suburb Marienburg , whose main architects included the German-American architect Theodor E. Merrill (1891–1978), who was born in Cologne . The founder of the settlement is his father Harvey Cotton Merrill (1862-1953), who built a manor in Hahnwald in 1913. His son Theodor was the initiator of the further structural development of the area and thus took up an idea of ​​the real estate businessman Ernst Leybold, who died in 1907. Since the late 1920s, various spacious villas of wealthy Cologne citizens have been built in the area of ​​today's Hahnwald . One of the first properties was the Kiefernhof, built around 1928 on Bonner Strasse (today Bonner Landstrasse ) . It was only after the Second World War that extensive development began (in 1950 the town had 235 inhabitants, in 1967 it had 812). The incorporation of 3 km² place to Cologne took place in the context of local government reform in North Rhine-Westphalia on 1 January 1975th

From 1970 to 2006 the residence of the Ambassador of the Republic of Niger to the Federal Republic of Germany was in the stately Birkhof country house on Bonner Landstrasse , which was one of the earliest villas in Hahnwald and was demolished in 2016/17 (→ List of diplomatic missions in Bonn ). The residence of the Polish ambassador was also located in Hahnwald (→ Embassy of the Republic of Poland (Cologne) ).

In 1981 there were two spectacular child abductions in Hahnwald: In the case of Johannes Erlemann , the eleven-year-old son of financial advisor Jochem Erlemann, who lived in Hahnwald, was kidnapped on March 6, 1981 ; on December 18, 1981, the kidnapping of Nina von Gallwitz took place, the then eight-year-old daughter of the Cologne bank manager Hubertus von Gallwitz. Both children were released again.

In 1995 the Hahnwald was the richest part of Germany with a share of welfare recipients of only 0.2% of the total population (that is 4 people). In 2005, however, he was no longer in the top ten. With an unemployment rate of 4%, the district only achieves a third of the city's total rate.

Demographic statistics

Structure of the population of Cologne-Hahnwald:

  • Share of under 18s: 20.3% (2014)
  • Proportion of over 64-year-olds: 20.8% (2014)
  • Proportion of foreigners: 11.7% (2015)
  • Unemployment rate: 2.6% (2014)

Location and infrastructure

Hahnwald, characterized by its relatively modern villa architecture, spacious gardens and the sometimes very old trees, is one of Cologne's upscale residential areas. The quiet district is about 15 minutes by car from Cologne city center in the classic southwest aisle for “good” residential areas in large cities .

The core of the place is a purely residential area. Apart from a garden center and an old farm used to raise geese, there are no shops or commercial space there, as well as no churches or other public institutions.

The development was carried out according to uniform building requirements (e.g. single-storey construction). Characteristic of the urban development are, among other things, the plot sizes of originally at least 2000 m², which offer space for extensive gardens (later reduced to 1000 m² in the so-called “new Hahnwald”, an expansion area in the east opened in the 1970s). Much larger plots of land with park-like garden landscapes of up to 20,000 m² were and are not uncommon, but most of them were divided into smaller plots and built on in the 1980s and 1990s. Today there are only four self-contained large estates left. In addition to the more conventional villas of the early days, the Hahnwald also features houses in a very modern style and extravagant buildings by renowned architects. In order to protect the residents from burglars, the property protectors of the Securitas company have patrolled the streets of the settlement day and night for over 25 years .

Shops and supplies can be found in the neighboring districts of Rondorf and Godorf , among others . Schools and educational institutions in the area are primarily the Rodenkirchen grammar school , the Johannes Gutenberg secondary school in Godorf and the St. George’s English school in Rondorf , which opened a few years ago .

Ecclesiastically the Hahnwald belongs to the Evangelical church Rondorf and was part of the former Roman Catholic parish of St. Remigius in Cologne Sürth that in the course of structural reforms in the Archdiocese of Cologne in the Catholic parish of St. Joseph and Remigius Rodenkirchen / Sürth / White risen is.

The district of Hahnwald also includes the Rodenkirchen industrial park on Emil-Hoffmann-Strasse in the east, which was built in the 1980s . It borders the districts of Rodenkirchen and Sürth.

In the south separates Kiesgrubenweg the Hahnwald from the premises of the refinery center Cologne-Godorf (factory north of the Rheinland refinery of Shell Oil Germany GmbH ), to the west is the behind the Bonner highway located 555 highway the limit of Hahn forest to the district Rondorf .

In the little wood that borders the Hahnwald in the north to Rodenkirchen, there is a large sports facility ( Marienburger Sportclub ) on the continuation of the Jewish trail . There the Hahnwald merges directly into the park landscape of the Friedenswald recreation area, which is already part of Rodenkirchen, and the forest botanical garden .

Known residents

Due to the exclusivity of the district, many well-known personalities live and have lived in the Hahnwald. The best known include:

literature

  • Wolfram Hagspiel : Villas in the south of Cologne. Rodenkirchen, Sürth, Weiss and Hahnwald. (with photographs by Hans-Georg Esch) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7616-2488-3 , pp. 122–207.

See also

Web links

Commons : Köln-Hahnwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich S. Soénius / Jürgen Wilhelm (eds.), Kölner Personen-Lexikon , Greven, Cologne 2007, p. 361.
  2. ↑ Peter Fuchs (Ed.), Chronicle of the History of the City of Cologne , Volume 2, Greven, Cologne 1991, p. 318.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Friedrichs / Sascha Triemer, Split Cities? Social and ethnic segregation in major German cities , 2nd edition, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, p. 36 in the Google book search
  4. ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  5. ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  6. ↑ Inhabitants by type of migration background - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  7. ↑ Employed and unemployed part of the city - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  8. ↑ Securitas: Security in the Hahnwald. Website of the Hahnwald Interest Group, accessed in August 2017.
  9. ^ About the person: Tobias Kollmann. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , July 7, 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  10. ^ Susanne Hengesbach: Furniture dealer Pesch died. Obituary in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger , October 24, 2013. Accessed June 3, 2017.
  11. ↑ Susanne Hengesbach: He's not afraid of getting older. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , September 23, 2002. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
  12. ↑ Daniel Taab, Jens Meifert: Villa of Rosemarie Trockel. Double-digit million damage after fire in Cologne-Hahnwald. In: Kölnische Rundschau , May 3, 2016. Retrieved October 31, 2019.