Karnap

Karnap district of Essen
Basic data
surface	4.04  km²
Residents	8167 (March 31, 2020)
Coordinates	51 ° 31 '25 "  N , 7 ° 0' 32"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '25 "  N , 7 ° 0' 32"  E
height	26  m
Incorporation	Aug 1, 1929
Spatial assignment
Post Code	45329
District number	40
district	District V Altenessen / Karnap / Vogelheim
Source: City of Essen statistics

Karnap is the northernmost district of Essen and the only one north of the Emscher .

location

Karnap measures 2.1 kilometers in north-south direction, 1.6 kilometers east-west. In the south of the district, the Rhine-Herne Canal, which runs parallel to the Emscher, forms the border to the neighboring districts of Altenessen and Vogelheim . In the west, Karnap borders on Bottrop , in the north on Gladbeck and in the east on Gelsenkirchen . The lowest point in Essen is 26.5 meters above sea level in the district.

history

Church of St. Marien , architect: Hans Schilling

Carnap, first mentioned in a document in 1332, was written with "C" until 1910. It is characterized by its special geographical location. The former farmers of Karnap belonged to the municipality of Altenessen, formed in 1808 , and thus from 1813 to the mayor's office of Altenessen. When they were incorporated into the city of Essen in 1915, Karnap left the company and achieved communal independence for a short time. Mayor during this time was Carl Hold . In August 1929, Karnap was also incorporated into Essen.

For over 100 years, Karnap was strongly influenced by mining with its numerous ancillary businesses. Until the 1950s it was a district that had more jobs than residents. The decline of mining dragged on through the 1960s and reached its climax at the end of December 1972 with the closure of the Mathias Stinnes colliery . Over 6,000 jobs had been lost in just under a decade. The rope sheave of the Mathias Stinnes 3/4 colliery in Brauck, installed at the Arenbergstraße stop in 1982, is a reminder of the mining tradition.

population

On March 31, 2020, 8,167 people lived in Karnap.

Structural data of the population in Karnap (as of March 31, 2020):

• Proportion of population under 18-year-olds: 19.3% (Essen average: 16.2%)
• Population of at least 65-year-olds: 17.8% (Essen average: 21.5%)
• Proportion of foreigners: 20.7% (Essen average: 16.9%)

Infrastructure

In the district are the Maria Kunigunda primary school as well as the soccer club Karnap 07/27, the tennis club Essen-Karnap 1928, the gymnastics club Karnap 04, the civic association Karnap and the Carnap history circle.

Essen-Karnap is on the Duisburg-Ruhrort-Dortmund railway line , which is not used by people . In public transport , Karnap is accessible with the U11 tram line, bus lines 189, 263 and the NE1 night express. The main stop in Essen-Karnaps is Boyer Strasse .

line	course	Tact
U 11	GE-Horst , Buerer Straße - Schloss Horst - GE-Horst, Fischerstraße - E-Karnap , Alte Landstraße - Boyer Straße - E-Karnap, Arenbergstraße - E-Altenessen , Heßlerstraße - II .schichtstraße - U  Karlsplatz - U  Altenessen Mitte - U  Kaiser-Wilhelm-Park - U  Altenessen Bf - U  Bäuminghausstraße - U  Bamlerstraße - U  Universität Essen - U  Berliner Platz - U  Hirschlandplatz - U  Essen Hbf - U  Philharmonie - U  Rüttenscheider Stern - U  Martinstraße - U  Messe Ost / Gruga - Essen, Messe West / South / Gruga	10 min
189	Gladbeck Oberhof  - Bottrop-Boyer market  - Bottrop Welheim  - Essen-Karnap Boyer Street Continue from Gladbeck Oberhof as a line 188 to Bottrop-Feldhausen and Dorsten ZOB .	20 min
263	OB-Sterkrade Bf  - Bottrop ZOB Berliner Platz  - Bottrop-Welheim  - Essen-Karnap, Boyer Straße	20 min
NE1	Essen Central Station  - Essen Town Hall  - Altenessen Bf  - Altenessen  Zeche Carl  - Karlstrasse  - Essen-Karnap Boyer Strasse  - Essen-Karnap, Alte Landstrasse - Gelsenkirchen-Horst, Essener Strasse	60 min

economy

Today, the largest industrial plant in Karnap is the Essen-Karnap waste incineration plant , the joint waste incineration plant of the cities of Bottrop, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Gladbeck and Mülheim an der Ruhr . It was built in the early 1960s after the former hard coal power station had been converted. There are also glass factories in the district.

coat of arms

Karnap Coat of Arms

Blazon : In blue, a silver (white) horse ram lying obliquely to the left with a golden (yellow) cord. In the 14th century the von Carnap family gave themselves a similar coat of arms; in the penultimate form with a vertical pram and brown cord, but the color brown does not appear in heraldry and has been replaced here by gold.

literature

• Walter Buschmann : Karnap: Street design in the Mathias Stinnes settlement. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. No. 2, 1989, ISSN  0177-2619 , pp. 42-43.
• Detlef Hopp : The rediscovery of a statue of "St. Nepomuk" at St. Marien in Karnap. In: Detlef Hopp (Hrsg.): Stadtarchäologie in Essen . Pomp Verlag, Bottrop 1999, ISBN 3-89355-203-0 , pp. 84-86.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Karnap

Web links

Commons : Essen-Karnap  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Civic Association Karnap eV
• Carnap history circle
• Brief portrait of the district on www.essen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Karnap city history ; accessed on May 6, 2014
2. ↑ Population figures of the districts
3. ↑ Proportion of the population under 18 years of age
4. ↑ Proportion of the population aged 65 and over
5. ↑ Proportion of foreigners in the city districts
6. ↑ Karnap Civic Association. Retrieved May 6, 2014 .