Katernberg (Essen)

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Coat of arms of Katernberg
Coat of arms of the city of Essen

Katernberg
district of Essen

Location of Katernberg in the city district VI Katernberg / Schonnebeck / Stoppenberg
Basic data
surface 4.82  km²
Residents 23,938 (March 31, 2020)
Coordinates 51 ° 29 '49 "  N , 7 ° 2' 56"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '49 "  N , 7 ° 2' 56"  E
height 42  m
Incorporation Aug 1, 1929
Spatial assignment
Post Code 45327
District number 39
district District VI Katernberg / Schonnebeck / Stoppenberg
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Red Dot Design Museum in the boiler house of mine XII of the former Zeche Zollverein in Essen

Red Dot Design Museum in the boiler house of mine XII of the former Zeche Zollverein in Essen

Source: City of Essen statistics

Katernberg has been a northeastern part of Essen since 1929 . Katernberg borders Altenessen in the west , Stoppenberg and Schonnebeck in the south and the city of Gelsenkirchen in the northeast .

history

Katernberg was first mentioned in 1220 in the bailiff's role by Count Friedrich von Isenberg-Altena from the Princely Bentheim Archive in Rheda .

From 1808 Katernberg belonged to the newly founded municipality of Altenessen, which was raised to an independent mayor's office in 1813. On January 1, 1874, the new mayor's office Stoppenberg was spun off, to which Katernberg fell. This affiliation remained until it was incorporated into the city of Essen in 1929.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Katernberg

Blazon : “In gold (yellow) a black mountain topped with a silver (white) house with black half-timbering and a silver (white) gate; then a black cat looking forward. "

The coat of arms was designed by Kurt Schweder and never had an official character. At the end of the 1980s, the heraldist created coats of arms for all of Essen's districts. It is a classic " talking coat of arms "; the hangover on the mountain. The old spelling Kat (h) erenberge indicates this meaning; but there are also other opinions according to which it should mean "a cottage on the mountain". The coat of arms does justice to both readings here. 

Industrialization and economy

Part of the Zeche Zollverein , which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001, is located in Katernberg . In the Katernberg area there is the mine shaft 4/5/11 , meanwhile rededicated to a start-up center with the name “ Future Center Zollverein - Triple Z ” as well as the former shaft system 3/7/10 . The main site of the colliery with the systems shaft 12 and shaft 1/2/8 is, directly adjacent to Katernberg, formally in the area of ​​the neighboring Stoppenberg. However, the world cultural heritage is also identified with Katernberg because the colliery lies in the middle between the settlement centers of the two districts.

The Zeche Zollverein has been active since 1847 and has significantly shaped the history of the district. There are numerous miners' settlements in Katernberg , such as the Hegemannshof colony , the Ottekampshof colony and the Zollverein III colony, as well as dumps , railway facilities and Zollvereinstraße. The district has literally grown around the colliery. In 1815 there were still 371 inhabitants, in 1868 there were already 1,755 and 1900 over 15,000 inhabitants.

The closings of the colliery (1986) and the Zollverein coking plant (1993) were followed by significant job losses and social problems. According to the city network "Soziale Stadt NRW", the situation has meanwhile been improved again as part of the urban renewal programs. In particular, the establishment of modern branches of industry with a focus on design and media in the restored Zollverein buildings has led to the upswing.

After a former tram depot was demolished, the Zollverein cube was built right next to the colliery in 2006 and has been used by the Folkwang University for its design department since the beginning of 2010 . A new building has also been put out to tender to accommodate the entire design department with around 550 students.

traffic

Katernberg can be reached via junction no. 15 Gelsenkirchen-Hessler / -Horst / Essen-Katernberg on federal motorway 42 .

In local public transport, Katernberg is located on the Duisburg – Dortmund railway line and can be reached via the Essen Zollverein Nord stop (until the end of 2009: Essen-Katernberg Süd). In 2010, the Rhein-Emscher-Express RE3 also stopped here due to Essen's appointment as the 2010 Capital of Culture . Line S2 stopped there until December 2019 and established a connection to Duisburg or Dortmund . Since then, the stop has been served by the regional train lines RB 32 (Duisburg – Dortmund) and RB 35 ( Gelsenkirchen - Mönchengladbach ).

In addition, tram line 107 runs through Katernberg to Essen Hbf - Bredeney and the neighboring town of Gelsenkirchen. The offer is supplemented with various bus lines which, like the tram , are operated by the Ruhrbahn .

population

On March 31, 2020, 23,938 residents lived in Katernberg.

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

  • Proportion of population under 18-year-olds: 21.5% (Essen average: 16.2%)
  • Share of the population of at least 65-year-olds: 17.1% (Essen average: 21.5%)
  • Proportion of foreigners: 24.4% (Essen average: 16.9%)

religion

In 1901 the Evangelical Church Katernberg was built, which is popularly known as Bergmannsdom as the largest Evangelical church in Essen . Today it is a listed building and since its construction it has replaced a predecessor building from 1877, which had become too small and was put down in 1903. The Evangelical Church of Katernberg North was added recently. Furthermore, there was the Protestant church Neuhof between 1960 and 2011, where there are residential buildings today.

The Catholic Church of St. Joseph was built from 1888 to 1889, consecrated in 1907 and listed as a historical monument in 1991. Between 1955 and 1958 the Heilig-Geist-Kirche was built by the architect Gottfried Böhm , replacing a previous building from 1934. This fell victim to mining and war damage. The church of St. Albertus Magnus was only consecrated in 1988, but closed again in 2008. It also replaced a previous building from the mid-1950s, which was abandoned in 1978 due to mountain damage. All Catholic churches in Katernberg today belong to the parish of St. Nikolaus in Stoppenberg.

In 1970 a New Apostolic Church was established in Katernberg , which has been used as a day-care center since December 2012.

The Fatih Mosque has been a domed building of the Turkish community since 1997.

Sports

In the 1940s and 1950s, the Sportfreunde Katernberg were a successful football club.

The chess department of Sportfreunde Katernberg played in the 1st Bundesliga from 1975 to 1981 and from 2003 to 2015 .

Sons and daughters of the former parish

literature

  • Barbara Fischer, Horst Hahn: "Choose Thälmann". Examination of an inscription from the time of the Weimar Republic on the residential building at Röckenstrasse 15a in Essen-Katernberg. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. No. 4, 1999, ISSN 0177-2619 , pp. 170-171.
  • Detlef Hopp , Elke Schneider: Memorable times. The recovery of a "time capsule" in Essen-Katernberg. In: Archeology in the Rhineland 2008. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, pp. 179–180.
  • Barbara Schallow-Gröne: Sacred dignity in profane forms. The Holy Spirit Church in Essen-Katernberg by Gottfried Böhm. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. No. 1, 2014, ISSN 0177-2619 , pp. 1-5.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See on this Johann Rainer Busch: Kurt Schweders coat of arms of the Essen districts. Essen 2009, p. 83.
  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