Karl Marx settlement (Worms)

Karl Marx settlement City of Worms Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 48 ″  E
Area :	6.43 km²
Residents :	1139  (December 31, 2015)
Population density :	177 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	67547
Area code :	06241
Location of the Karl Marx settlement in Worms

The Karl-Marx-Siedlung is a district in the south of the city of Worms , which includes the southernmost part of the district of Worms. In addition to the Karl-Marx-Siedlung residential area, the city district also includes the Adlerberg, the Wormser Flugplatz , the Bürgerweide , the Middle Bush and the Upper Bush .

The settlement was created during the Great Depression in 1932 in the hallway Rohrlache as suburban retail development for housing and jobless families with many children. The settlement was built with state loans and under urban planning, largely in-house by the settlement community . The settler sites were furnished with a house, garden and stable for the residents to be self-sufficient. By 1935, 64 semi-detached houses with 128 settler sites had been built. In the same year a Protestant school for small children was inaugurated. Since the water from self-made wells was unsuitable as drinking water, it was connected to the municipal water network as early as 1934 . In 1940/41 the settlement received electricity. The original name of the settlement was Rosengrund . This name was replaced by the old field name Rohrlache in the first few years . The settlement was then called Rohrlache settlement . In 1947 the settlement was finally renamed the Karl-Marx-Siedlung . In the same year a primary school, today's Geschwister-Scholl-Schule, was founded in the settlement. Because of the great housing shortage in the bombed city, construction work in the settlement was resumed from 1947/48. More than a hundred more houses were built by 1957. In 1954 a Protestant parish hall was built, which was also a kindergarten, nursing ward and church. The kindergarten got its own building in 1973. The settlement was connected to the gas network in 1950 and, from 1969, also to the municipal sewage system . In 1981 the Worms school for the disabled moved to the vacant south wing of the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule. The Geschwister-Scholl-Schule is now an integrated special needs school .

literature

• Siedlergemeinschaft Karl-Marx-Siedlung (Ed.): 75 years of Karl-Marx-Siedlung . Worms 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inhabitants of the city of Worms by type of living. December 31, 2015, accessed March 6, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Siedlergemeinschaft Karl-Marx-Siedlung (Ed.): 75 years of Karl-Marx-Siedlung . Worms 2007.