Kielseng

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On the two-lane Ziegeleistraße on both sides, drivers can get from Mürwik past Sonwik down to Kielseng. The Flensburg shipyard is located on the opposite bank of the Förde.
Kielseng to the naval port (today Sonwik) in 1990
Kielseng street during a partial closure in 2014

Kielseng ( Danish : Kielseng or Kilseng ) was a small town in the area of ​​the independent city of Flensburg . Nowadays the street of the same name runs through the Kielseng area.

location

The area of ​​Kielseng is located south of Mürwik and immediately north of the Harnis headland on the north east bank of the Flensburg harbor , the south-western tip of the Flensburg Fjord . The northern tip of the industrial area at the Osthafen is also sometimes included in Kielseng. The Volkspark is on the steep slope directly above the village .

history

The area from the 16th century to the 18th century

Kielseng was first mentioned as a homestead owned by Jürgen Ketel as early as 1500. The Danish place name is derived from its name (Eng = meadow, also "Ketels Wiese"). The property comprised a meadow area near the water directly below a wooded steep slope. In 1530, Ketel's son, who had become mayor of Tønder , sold the property. One after the other, Kielseng was owned by several Flensburg councilors and mayors, and the Kielseng owner paid a fee to St. Nikolai . From the 18th century, however, Kielseng was under the jurisdiction of the Flensburg Office, to which the city itself did not belong. Like the surrounding property of the Flensburg Hospital (Mürwik, Blasberg, Ballastbrücke), the village was subordinate to the Adelby parish , which in the local administration was mainly responsible for school and poor affairs and of course for all church matters.

Kielseng in the 19th century

The soldiers' home at the Mürwik meeting point inherited the legacy of the old Kielseng inn

In the 19th century, Kielseng consisted of the main courtyard, sometimes referred to as "Freilut", whose nineteen-axis and one-story residential building had been rebuilt before 1800, of three associated cottages south of the courtyard in the direction of Harnis, and the one high above the courtyard the hill located windmill (Graupenmühle or Kielsenger Mühle). Like the neighboring Mürwik , Kielseng has developed into a popular excursion destination for the population of the nearby city since the 1830s at the latest. One of the cottages functioned as an inn with a beer garden , which was expanded in 1874 into a small park with many flowers, known as the pleasure garden .

The steady growth of the city from the 1870s onwards should soon have serious consequences for the small town of Kielseng. With the final incorporation of St. Jürgen, which also included the ballast bridge with Harnis, the city's border moved immediately south to Kielseng. Kielseng was added to the rural community of Jürgensgaard and formed its northwestern end. In the course of expansion measures at Flensburg's east port, the bay was partially filled in at the end of the 1880s.

Kielseng since the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the Second World War

In 1900, Jürgensgaard was incorporated into Flensburg, so that Kielseng also fell to the city. The actual Jürgensgaard developed with the previously incorporated St. Jürgen and the Hohlwege in the following period to the district of Jürgensby . In 1910, the neighboring communities to the east of Fruerlund and Twedter Holz were incorporated. Kielseng was to merge with Fruerlund in the following years and was subsequently assigned to the district of Fruerlund. - The construction of the naval port in nearby Mürwik , which began at the beginning of the century, and the incorporation that took place in 1910 suddenly left Kielseng in the middle of the city's soft landscape .

In 1922/23 the area around Kielseng was completely redesigned for the purpose of building the Flensburg free port . On the outskirts of Harnis near Kielseng, a new small port consisting of a separate free port basin was created by dredging. The sand came to Solitude , where a new beach was created. The renovation work meant the end of the Kielseng farm. The windmill, a gallery Dutchman , had already been demolished around 1900. Kielseng's inn was not to last long either. The free port was unsuccessful. It was closed in 1935.

During the Second World War , various areas of the Flensburg harbor were hit by the air raids on the city . On September 22, 1941, the free port area near Kielseng was hit by three high explosive bombs and 30 incendiary bombs. A silo, a packing house, ten houses and a freight wagon of the Flensburg port railway were hit and damaged. During the war, the free port was converted into a submarine port (submarine base in Flensburg). During this time the still preserved hillside bunkers near Kielseng were built, which apparently served as fuel storage. The 33rd U-Flotilla was in the submarine base until the end of the war . Furthermore, at the end of the war, the remains of the 12th U-Flotilla were apparently moved to Flensburg.

The explosion in June 1945

The former submarine harbor was transformed into the Kielseng yacht harbor (photo 2016)

On the morning of June 14, 1945 there were two serious explosions in the ammunition collection point at the submarine base near Kielseng. A mistake was made during the briefing of new evacuation personnel, a hand grenade that was still live was activated. The first explosion in one of the camp barracks led to a chain of more ammunition explosions. The stored ammunition consisted of rifles, pistols and ammunition signal of the former Wehrmacht that had been collected by order of the British occupation authorities and stored there until her Wegtransport, torpedoes and 200 to 250 depth charges and artillery ammunition . The entire stock of ammunition ignited and exploded. The damage in the port area, on the ships lying there and in the surrounding areas was considerable. A strong pressure wave destroyed the north wall of the neighboring city ​​storage facility (free port silos). The Danube , a German submarine escort ship , was badly damaged and capsized, the German submarine escort ship Otto Wünsche was also severely damaged, whole trees were uprooted and roofs torn away. Some windows of the Marienkirche and several of the St. Jürgenkirche broke. In addition, the former Zoar chapel on Brixstrasse was severely damaged. Windows broke all over town, all the way to Husby . About 60 people were killed.

After the Second World War , a refugee camp was set up in Kielseng.

The Kielseng area after the Second World War

The city's sewage treatment plant with the Mürwik Naval School in the background
Ship operations research at the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences near Kielseng 15a

In the 1960s, the area was redesigned again. The small country road was expanded to a partially four-lane main connection from the city center to Mürwik, and in 1962 Kielseng became the location of the municipal sewage treatment plant , and since the 1970s it has been the location for ship operations research at the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences . At the beginning of the 1980s, the soldiers' home at Treffpunkt Mürwik (Kielseng No. 30) took over the legacy of the old Kielseng inn. Historical buildings have not survived to this day. In 1980 the free port basin began to be used as a sports boat harbor .

The present area of ​​Kielseng

The city's sewage treatment plant is still located in the Kielseng area. The name Kielseng was retained in the name of the section of the thoroughfare mentioned above. Next to the Soldiersheim restaurant, Mürwik meeting point, at Kielseng No. 30, a path leads into the Volkspark. In 2014, Flensburg's politicians suggested reducing the street to a total of two lanes from the Flensburg City Hall . The local economy as well as many citizens questioned this proposal. The former submarine harbor is now operated as the Kielseng yacht harbor .

Buildings and facilities

Former Kielseng glider base

After the First World War , Germany was committed to extensive disarmament under the Versailles Treaty . The contract banned all military aircraft structures, so they had to be dismantled. As a result, the Flensburg-Schäferhaus airfield and the Fahrensodde aviary were largely dismantled. The ban on powered flight led to new developments in gliding in the Weimar Republic . In 1923, a local branch of the German Aviation Association was founded in Flensburg, which set up the Kielseng glider base. The constructed glider pilots took off from the neighboring Finisberg , which has hardly been built up to this day . The Kielseng glider air base existed until the early 1930s.

Soldiers' Home Flensburg-Mürwik or OASE - Mürwik meeting point

Between 1980 and 1983, the Flensburg-Mürwik soldiers' home , now “OASE - Mürwik Meeting Point”, was built below the Finisberg on the edge of the Volkspark near Kielseng . As a soldiers' home, it was primarily used to look after the marines at the Flensburg-Mürwik base . A restaurant with billiard tables , halls, handicraft and group rooms, bowling alleys and a discotheque were built in a building complex of 2,200 m 2 .

various

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Active pensioners, torsdagsholdet (Ed.): Flensborgs gadenavne . Flensburg 1995, p. 15 .
  2. ↑ Anders Bjerrum, Kristian Hald and Peter Jørgensen: Sydslesvigs stednavne , Volume 7.1, København 1948, p. 38
  3. ^ Johannes Kok: Det Danske folkesprog i Sønderjylland. Volume 2, Copenhagen 1867, p. 219.
  4. ↑ Flensburg Atlas, Flensburg 1978, map 10 f.
  5. ↑ Flensburg Atlas, Flensburg 1978, map 12
  6. ↑ Gerret Liebing Schlaber: From the country to the district. Flensburg's Stadtfeld and the incorporated villages in pictures and words approx. 1860-1930. Flensburg 2009, p. 105
  7. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : More land, less sand: Solitüde in Flensburg: “There used to be more beach!” , From: 5th August 2016; Retrieved on: June 17, 2017
  8. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : 150 years of city history from a newspaper perspective Kiel / Hamburg 2016, p. 85
  9. ↑ See Flensburg North (1933)
  10. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : 1284 to 2009: Die Stadtchronik , from: January 1, 2009; accessed on: January 30, 2020
  11. ^ Broder Schwensen , Dieter Nickel : Flensburg in the air war 1939-1945. Flensburg 2009, p. 101
  12. ↑ table of the bunkers in Flensburg ; accessed on: June 15, 2017
  13. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Real Estate: Ebay: Lawyer auctioned Bunker , from: June 4, 2009; accessed on: June 15, 2017
  14. ↑ See Forum Geschichtsspuren. Bunker in Flensburg ; accessed on: June 15, 2017
  15. ↑ 33rd U-Flotilla , accessed on: June 14, 2017 and the Navy Archives. Submarine base Flensburg , accessed on: January 30, 2020
  16. ↑ 12th U-Flotilla on uboatnet.de ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on: June 15, 2017
  17. ↑ Eksplosionen i Flensborg (1945):
  18. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! Flensburg 2009, article: Explosion accident
  19. ↑ City Archives Flensburg: Kielseng sewage treatment plant ... supplying the research status of the University of Applied Sciences ; Retrieved on: November 10, 2014
  20. ↑ Flensburg Mobil, ship operation research of the FH ; Retrieved on: November 10, 2014
  21. ↑ Hafen-Ost preparatory studies according to §141 BauGB with an integrated urban development concept , p. 16; from: January 22, 2019; accessed on: January 29, 2020
  22. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Traffic planning: “The industry thinks four lanes” , from: November 8, 2014; Retrieved on November 9, 2014.
  23. ↑ Manfred Bühring, Broder Schwensen (Ed.): Flensburg in flight. A journey through 100 years of the Flensburg-Schäferhaus airfield , Flensburg 2011, p. 23 ff.
  24. ↑ Homepage. In: oase-flensburg.de. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
  25. ^ Eiko Wenzel: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg after 1945, p. 88

literature

  • The art monuments of Schleswig-Holstein: City of Flensburg. Modifications made by Ludwig Rohling. Deutscher Kunstverlag 1955, p. 551 f.
  • Gerret L. Schlaber: From the country to the district. Flensburg's Stadtfeld and the incorporated villages in pictures and words approx. 1860–1930. Flensburg 2009, p. 106 f. ISBN 978-87-89178-73-8 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 54 ° 48 '  N , 9 ° 27'  E