Kettwig

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Coat of arms of Kettwig
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Kettwig
district of Essen

Location of Kettwig in the district IX Werden / Kettwig / Bredeney
Basic data
surface 15  km²
Residents 18,126 (March 31, 2020)
Coordinates 51 ° 22 '6 "  N , 6 ° 56' 24"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '6 "  N , 6 ° 56' 24"  E
height 53  m
Incorporation Jan. 1, 1975
Spatial assignment
Post Code 45219
District number 49
district District IX Werden / Kettwig / Bredeney
image
View from the Ruhr Bridge towards the old town

View from the Ruhr Bridge towards the old town

Source: City of Essen statistics

Kettwig is the largest district in terms of area in Essen , located in the extreme southwest and directly on the Ruhr . It is characterized by partly dense residential developments and local recreation areas, including on Lake Kettwiger . The old town forms the center. Historically, Kettwig, together with Werden and Mülheim an der Ruhr, was one of the northernmost parts of the Duchy of Berg , which is currently known as the Niederbergisches Land .

history

The Kettwig Ruhr Bridge was first mentioned in 1282. The river crossing was fought over in the Thirty Years War . The village and the peasantry Kettwig - north of the Ruhr - belonged to 1803 to the imperial abbey of Werden , was then administered Prussian until 1806 and then came to 1813 as spots for the Grand Duchy of Berg . Since 1815 the place was again Prussian, first in the Duisburg district , then in the Essen district (until August 1, 1929). Since 1857 Kettwig was an independent town.

In 1929, the city of Kettwig was incorporated into the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district , as the district was dissolved with the freedom of Essen. The part south of the Ruhr - Kettwig in front of the bridge - belonged to the Duchy of Berg until 1806 , then to the Grand Duchy of Berg until 1813, later Prussian in the district of Düsseldorf - was not incorporated into Kettwig until May 15, 1930 as part of the dissolved municipality of Laupendahl . The former rule of Oefte belonged to the Mettmann district from 1815 to 1930 and was ceded by Heiligenhaus to Kettwig on April 1, 1936 .

As Kettwig, which was characterized solely by the cloth industry, was not home to any war-related industry, it was largely spared from the bombing of the Second World War . The historic old town with numerous half-timbered houses was largely preserved, although some intact half-timbered houses - including the restaurant "Zum Treppchen" - were demolished there between 1975 and 1977 as part of the redesign of Schulstrasse and Mayor-Fiedler-Platz. After the incorporation into the city of Essen in October 1979, the Bürgermeister-Fiedler-Platz in front of the historic Kettwig town hall was named in honor of the last mayor of the city of Kettwig, Albert Fiedler (born October 3, 1903 in Heidhausen , † June 3, 1976 in Kettwig).

On January 1, 1975 the city of Kettwig was incorporated into the city of Essen from the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district, despite massive resistance from the population as part of the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia ; the westernmost district of Kettwig , Mintard , which was not incorporated into the municipality until 1930, fell to Mülheim an der Ruhr . A 1996 run in Kettwig public petition for the restoration of the city and return overheads Dung in Mettmann that called for a majority of nearly 55 percent of voters, was rejected by the state government in the fall 1997th

When Kettwig was incorporated into the Archdiocese of Cologne in 1975, nothing changed. The St. Altfrid youth education center located in Kettwig was given to the diocese of Essen when it was founded in 1958 by the archbishopric of Cologne. The predominantly Protestant population (around 58 percent) of Kettwig belonged to the Mülheim an der Ruhr parish until 2015, but then moved to the Essen parish. Kettwig also kept its own telephone code “02144”, changed in 1978 to “02054”, and the names of its stations “ Kettwig ” (not “Essen-Kettwig”) and “ Kettwig Stausee ”. Until 1975 Kettwig had the postcode 4307, then "4300 Essen 18" and with the introduction of the five-digit postcodes since 1993 "45219 Essen-Kettwig". Until 1975 motor vehicles were registered with a "D", after the incorporation an "E" for Essen. Until 1975, the license plate with the "D" was the registration number for the city of Düsseldorf and for the district of Düsseldorf-Mettmann . It was only through different combinations of letters and numbers after the "D" that one could tell whether the vehicle was from the city of Düsseldorf or from the district of Düsseldorf-Mettmann.

population

On March 31, 2020, 18,126 people lived in Kettwig.

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

  • Share of the population under 18 years of age: 14% (Essen average: 16.2%)
  • Population of at least 65-year-olds: 29% (Essen average: 21.5%)
  • Proportion of foreigners: 6.7% (Essen average: 16.9%)

Transport links

Rail and bus transport

Kettwig has the stations Kettwig and Kettwig reservoir . They are located on the Ruhr Valley Railway and are served by S-Bahn line 6 , which runs from Essen via Düsseldorf to Cologne . The Kettwig train station is located north of the Ruhr in a decentralized location at the extreme end of the development on the Ruhrtalstrasse after Werden, sandwiched between a mountain slope and the Ruhr. The Kettwig Reservoir stop is located directly on the south bank of the Kettwiger See in the Kettwig Vor der Brücke district . The Kettwig station was opened in 1872 and was a large railway junction, as two further routes branched off to the south, namely the Lower Ruhr Valley Railway to Mülheim an der Ruhr and the Niederberg Railway via Heiligenhaus to Velbert . The Kettwig Reservoir stop was created in 1945; he was a Behelfshalt originally after the Second World War the railway bridge Kettwig had been blown up, so that the trains are already south ended the Ruhr.

In addition to the S-Bahn, there are bus routes 142, 151, 190, 772, 774 and NE13 at night . You have the starting point at Kettwiger Markt (142 and NE13 at the Kettwig S-Bahn station) and go to

These public transport buses in Essen are supplemented by a citizens' bus system . Three lines that are used in the ring open up the Kettwig districts Auf der Höhe, Ickten , Vor der Brücke and Stadtmitte away from the urban lines.

There is no longer any public transport connection to the neighboring districts of Mülheim-Mintard and Ratingen-Breitscheid . However, this is repeatedly requested in vain.

The main traffic junction in Kettwig is 500 m south of the Kettwig train station at the level of the railway line, about 200 to m away from it. At this main traffic intersection, the bus routes branch out in all directions, as the streets located there branch off to all of the surrounding towns, i.e. to Mülheim an der Ruhr , Schuir , Essen-Werden and Heiligenhaus . The station should be relocated there, which would eliminate its decentralization - since it would then be located within a lot of development and closer to the town center - and at the same time achieve a better bus connection. However, this was rejected for reasons not mentioned in the Essen local transport plan. There is currently a new settlement area in the vicinity of the S-Bahn line with the Kettwiger Ruhrbogen, which must be developed for traffic.

Road traffic

In terms of road traffic, Kettwig is connected to the Bundesautobahn 52 (Essen – Düsseldorf) built in the 1960s . Kettwig crosses this on the edge over the Mintarder Ruhrtalbrücke . The Essen-Kettwig motorway junction (until the mid-1990s Essen-Haarzopf ) of the A 52 is not in Kettwig, but in Schuir , about 2.5 km north of the entrance to the Kettwig-Nord industrial park ( circumstance ) or 3.5 km the entrance to Kettwig at the swimming center Kettwig or 4.5 km north of the old town. For comparison, the L450 (Mendener Straße) crosses the A 52 about 2 km west of the entrance to the town at the swimming center, which crosses the Mintarder  Ruhrtal over the Mintarder Ruhrtalbrücke. There are technical reasons for this. The 65-meter height of the Ruhrtalbrücke did not allow a more southerly position of the connection point - except at the northern bridgehead at the Ickten settlement . The Meisenburgstraße connects the motorway junction with Kettwig. Since the junction and the train station are separate and decentralized from the center of Kettwig, Kettwig Vor der Brücke can be reached faster from the Autobahn from the Breitscheid junction than from the Essen-Kettwig junction . At the Breitscheid interchange there is a connection to the federal highways 3 , 52 and 524 .

The only way to cross the Ruhr that flows through the district is the Ruhr Bridge Kettwig . The next crossing options are the Gustav Heinemann Bridge in Essen-Werden , about eight kilometers away, and the Menden Bridge in Mülheim an der Ruhr, as well as the Mintarder Ruhr Valley Bridge .

politics

Mayor of the city of Kettwig:

Guntmar Kipphardt (CDU) is currently the representative in the Essen City Council.

coat of arms

Blazon : In blue over a silver (white) bridge (Kettwiger Bridge over the Ruhr) a silver (white) double-headed eagle (from the coat of arms of the Reichsabbey of Werden). The coat of arms was awarded to the garden city of Kettwig by the President of the Rhine Province on November 26, 1937.

Attractions

The church on the market in the middle of the old town became Protestant in 1592. The 40 meter high tower dates from the 13th century. The current nave made of Ruhr sandstone was built in 1720/21 as a baroque hall church, but larger than the original. This made a roof 4.2 meters higher necessary. Adam Wunderlich replaced a previous building that had burned down several times.

In 1830 the Catholic parish church of St. Peter was consecrated. It is a neo-classical flat-roofed building by the architects Otto von Gloeden , Adolph von Vagedes with the help of Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The baroque tower was added in 1886. The high altar, which is also baroque, comes from the abolished Katharinenkloster in Gerresheim . In 1975/1976 the whole church was completely renovated.

The parish church of St. Joseph, completed in 1936 from the remains, is also located in the former district of “Vor der Brücke”. In "Auf der Höhe" the church of St. Matthias and its community center was built in the years up to 1977. Until 1983 the extension to a Protestant community center took place. The church hall is used ecumenically, and the complex also houses a Protestant and a Catholic day-care center as well as a youth center for the Protestant parish.

Other points include the Kettwig town hall , which was once a cloth factory and now houses the registry office and the Kettwig city museum , Hugenpoet Castle with the Renaissance chimneys from Horst Castle, Oefte Castle, as well as the Kettwiger See and Mühlengraben with the year Mühlengrabenbrücke built in 1786 by the penultimate abbot from Werden , Bernhard II . Erected from Ruhr sandstone, it was probably the first construction phase of a bridge that completely spanned the Ruhr, but was not completed. In 1865 it was rebuilt after being destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The coat of arms of Abbot Bernhard II is incorporated in the middle arch of the bridge. In the north of Kettwig is the Maria im Maien chapel , which is used for weddings, but was originally intended to make it easier for Catholics at the Pierburg to take part in mass on foot.

Landsberg Castle is located in the area of ​​the city of Ratingen, but with access only from Kettwig . Today this is used as the training center of the ThyssenKrupp group.

Upstream is the so-called Kattenturm on the right side of the Ruhr. These are the ruins of Luttelnau Castle , which was probably razed in the 14th century .

In Kettwig there are the nature reserves Untere Kettwiger Ruhraue and Asey brick factory .

The Kettwig Sculpture Park was founded in 1985 on the initiative of the artist Marianne Kühn and today comprises 14 works spread across the local area, including a. by Herbert Lungwitz, Carl Emanuel Wolff, Johannes Brus and Werner Graeff.

Economy and Social

In the MediClin Fachklinik Rhein / Ruhr, a rehabilitation clinic, with the departments of internal medicine and cardiology, neurology and orthopedics, people with diseases of the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems are treated. With 460 beds and around 395 employees, it is one of the largest facilities of its kind in North Rhine-Westphalia. Every year more than 5,800 patients are prepared for their return to an active day-to-day life after the illness with targeted rehabilitation and healing measures.

In Teelbruch , a Kettwig industrial park, around 400 employees work in an Axel Springer AG printing company . Around a million daily and weekly newspapers are produced there - own titles and paid print jobs.

The Kettwig swimming center with indoor and outdoor pools is located near this industrial park . The indoor pool was built by the city of Kettwig from 1972 to 1973. The outdoor pool was completed by the city of Essen after the incorporation.

The Grimberg Edelstahl factory was present in the Vor der Brücke district for a long time . In 2003 the company was liquidated.

The tourist development takes place under its own steam and is favored by the natural and attractive location of the Ruhr Valley, the local heritage and tourist office maintains a system of hiking trails.

Since 2015, the new settlement area Kettwiger Ruhrbogen , consisting of condominiums with a view of the Ruhr and the Kettwiger See , has been under construction in the Güterstraße area near the main street crossing between the S-Bahn line and the Ruhr . Because the main traffic junction is the local public transport hub and the area to be newly developed through the Ruhrbogen, the Kettwig train station should be relocated there. However, this project will not be realized. This is unfounded in the local transport plan.

Due to the history of the city, Kettwig has two fire stations . Schulstraße the larger fire and rescue station is 8. Here is part of the fire engine of the volunteer fire department Kettwig and an ambulance the fire brigade stationed food. The fire station of the fire fighting group Kettwig Vor der Brücke is located in the Vor der Brücke district on Werdender Strasse . A fire brigade's multi-purpose boat is stationed on the Kettwig reservoir all year round, which is used to rescue people and avert danger on the Ruhr between the Baldeneysee and the Kettwig reservoir.

There is a police station manned during the day in the main street . Outside of her working hours, Kettwig falls under the responsibility of the Police Inspection South in Rüttenscheid , to which the guard in Kettwig is subordinate.

education

Elementary schools

Schmachtenberg School

The Schmachtenbergschule is located in the northern part of Kettwig on Schmachtenbergstrasse. In addition to a sports hall, it was the only elementary school in Kettwig to have its own small swimming pool, also known as a teaching pool, which is located under the sports hall. It had to be closed because of high repair costs. The older part was handed over to the destination in 1955 as a Protestant elementary school with the name Froebel School . The newer part was the Catholic elementary school Albertusschule II , which was completed in 1962 . The former Albertus School I (elementary school) was located at Brederbachstrasse No. 1 at the corner of Essener-Strasse (renamed Corneliusstrasse as an extension in 1978). After its renovation, a primary school and later the secondary school (secondary building) were set up on the site, which was given a new school building (1978) with a sports hall on the former site of the old PH (demolished in 1977). It was not until 1968 that the two elementary schools, Fröbelschule and Albertusschule, were replaced by elementary and secondary schools . At this point in time the Schmachtenbergschule Kettwig was established.

School on the Ruhr

The Erich Kästner Primary School and the Brücker School were merged in 2007 as a joint school and managed under the working name of the Kettwig Community Primary School . The Mintarder Weg location (formerly the Brücker School) was initially the new composite school, the Gustavstrasse location (formerly Erich Kästner primary school) was a sub-location. Since September 9th, 2008 the school has been called Schule an der Ruhr .

In 2014, some rooms at the Mintarder Weg location were closed due to mold growth. A major renovation was scheduled. As part of the preparations, pollutant measurements in 2017 revealed heavy levels of tetrachlorethylene . The building was therefore closed, and the students are now housed, among other things, in temporary containers on Gustavstrasse. In 2019 the city of Essen announced that it wanted to build a new building at this location.

Higher schools

Albert Einstein Secondary School

Until 2016, there was a secondary school in Kettwig on Brederbachstrasse, attended by around 700 students. Her successful flag football team, which had made it to the state championship, was also known outside of Kettwig . The building of the Realschule Kettwig dates back to 1978. Before that, the old PH, also known as the teachers' seminar, stood here. This was demolished in 1977.

Due to a lack of students, the school was merged with the Albert Einstein Realschule in 2016 . Some of the lessons are currently taking place in the Rellinghausen district of Essen . The teachers commute between the two locations. Since the number of pupils is now increasing again, the city of Essen is planning to operate the Kettwig secondary school again as an independent school from 2020.

Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium

The grammar school, named after the first Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Theodor Heuss , is attended by around 800 pupils who can choose a bilingual branch when they visit . Affiliated is a large sports hall, which is used by schools and sports clubs and is also an annual meeting point for the international rowing elite who hold the Indoor Cup here. At the beginning of 2010 and 2013 the European championship in ergometer rowing was held in this sports hall .

Technical schools

The Medicoreha Welsink Academy , with its state-recognized technical college for physiotherapy, offers over 140 apprenticeships and the dual bachelor's degree in "Applied Therapy Sciences" at the Academy in the Mediclin specialist clinic Rhein / Ruhr in Essen-Kettwig.

photos

  • Aerial view of Kettwig looking to the east

  • Coat of arms of Kettwig

  • Old town Kettwig church stairs seen from the Tuchmacherplatz

  • Kettwig town hall

  • Old town Kettwig Kaiserstraße

  • District “Vor der Brücke”, St. Joseph on the left

  • Map from 1640 by Blaeu

  • View before the reservoir time in the 1920s

  • Old Kettwig train station in 1905

Personalities

Sons and daughters of Kettwig:

  • Johann Adolf Engels (born August 20, 1767 in Kettwig, † October 16, 1828 in Werden) German paper manufacturer
  • Ferdinand Kattenbusch (born October 3, 1851 in Kettwig, † December 28, 1935 in Halle / Saale), ev. Theologian, church historian and founder of denominational studies
  • Erhard August Scheidt (born January 24, 1865 in Kettwig; † February 7, 1929 in St. Wolfgang, Austria), cloth manufacturer, honorary citizen of the city of Kettwig
  • Otto Fee (born May 29, 1877 in Kettwig, † March 13, 1954 in Wiesbaden), actor
  • Herbert Göring (born December 9, 1889 in Kettwig; † after 1945), cousin Hermann Göring and Nazi economic functionary in the rank of SS Obersturmbannführer
  • Uwe Schulten-Baumer (born January 14, 1926 in Kettwig; † October 28, 2014 in Rheinberg), riding master, dressage trainer
  • Bernd Küpperbusch (born June 18, 1955 in Kettwig), politician (SPD)
  • Ilona Kalmbach (born December 10, 1955 in Kettwig), film producer
  • Björn Dirk Krapohl (born January 26, 1965 in Kettwig), specialist in plastic surgery, aesthetic surgery and hand surgery
  • Jens Kölker (born August 30, 1970 in Kettwig), journalist and television presenter
  • Florian Baxmeyer (born December 30, 1974 in Kettwig), film director

People with a relationship to the city of Kettwig:

  • Friedrich Adolf Krummacher (born July 13, 1767 in Tecklenburg, † April 4, 1845 in Bremen), Reformed theologian; 1807–1812 pastor in Kettwig
  • Paul Henckels (born September 9, 1885 in Hürth, Rhineland, † May 27, 1967 in Kettwig), German actor, died in Kettwig
  • Eva Hesse (1936–1970), American artist of German origin, lived in Kettwig an der Ruhr for a year in 1964/1965
  • Maik Cioni (born October 17, 1979 in Essen), German-Italian professional cyclist

See also

literature

Web links

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

Footnotes

  1. ^ Erwin Dickhoff: Essener streets . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
  2. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 291 .
  3. ↑ Population figures of the districts
  4. ↑ Proportion of the population under 18 years of age
  5. ↑ Proportion of the population aged 65 and over
  6. ↑ Proportion of foreigners in the city districts
  7. ↑ Citizens Bus Kettweg
  8. ^ WAZ: MH-Mintard - dead end in the south
  9. ↑ WAZ: MH-Mintard - Faster on foot than by bus
  10. ↑ a b Essen local transport plan 2008/2012. Relocation of Kettwig station on page 229 ( Memento from May 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ a b Website Kettwiger Ruhrbogen ( Memento from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ a b Feasibility study by the city of Essen on the development of the Kettwiger Ruhrbogen ( memento from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Old road atlas from 1998 ( signposted there under both the name Essen-Haarzopf and the name Essen-Kettwig ) and ADAC road maps from the 1990s
  14. ↑ See Johann Rainer Busch: Kurt Schweders Wappen der Essener Stadtteile Essen 2009, p. 111
  15. ↑ Ev. Kettwig parish - history of the church on the market
  16. ↑ Children's and Family Center: Website of the Evangelical Church Community Kettwig. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  17. ↑ ° Saint Matthias. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Cardiology, Neurology and Orthopedics - MediClin Fachklinik Rhein-Ruhr. Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Information on hiking opportunities in Kettwig
  20. ^ Sabine Moseler-Worm: Mold in primary school - renovation is inevitable. May 19, 2014, accessed on October 14, 2019 (German).
  21. ↑ Pollutants in two areas around the school on the Ruhr. April 3, 2017, accessed on October 14, 2019 (German).
  22. ^ New building project for a school on the Ruhr on Mintarder Weg in Essen-Kettwig - essen.de. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  23. ^ Sabine Moseler-Worm: School on the Ruhr: New building at the Mintarder Weg location. May 23, 2019, accessed on October 14, 2019 (German).
  24. ↑ Martin Spletter: Essen-Kettwig secondary school should lose independence. September 1, 2015, accessed October 14, 2019 .
  25. ↑ New foundation of the Kettwig secondary school in planning - essen.de. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  26. ↑ medicoreha Welsink Academy