Koblenz-Asterstein

Koblenz-Asterstein
Basic data
District since:	Established in 1982
Area :	1.68 km²
Residents :	2,937 (Nov 2018)
Population density :	1,614 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	56077
Area code :	0261
License plate :	KO

Koblenz-Asterstein is the youngest part of Koblenz . It is on the right bank of the Rhine between Pfaffendorf and Arzheim . 2,937 people live on the Asterstein, 48.2% of them male and 51.8% female. Originally the area on a ridge belonged to the Pfaffendorfer Höhe and was formed into a separate district in 1982. In addition to a purely residential area, the Rhineland-Palatinate fire brigade and disaster control school is located here .

history

The area of ​​today's Koblenz district of Asterstein, which was virtually uninhabited for a long time, belonged to Ehrenbreitstein , Arzheim and Pfaffendorf for a long time . In the 19th century, the works of the Prussian fortress Koblenz occupied the area on the heights that are in front of the Ehrenbreitstein fortress to the south. The center of the facilities was Fort Asterstein , which was preceded by two flank towers as well as the Glockenberg plant , Fort Rheinhell and the Bienhornschanze . The construction of half-timbered barracks in the throat of Fort Asterstein began around 1870 .

After the fortifications on the Asterstein had been razed in 1927, the space was free for civilian settlement that was now slowly beginning. As part of the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the Goeben barracks, named after the Prussian general August Karl von Goeben , were built for the 80th Infantry Regiment from 1938 . As a Goeben settlement , it was redesigned for residential purposes after the Second World War and was incorporated into the now growing residential area.

In the middle of the 20th century, the name Asterstein became more and more common for the surrounding residential areas, so that the Koblenz city council officially named the district Asterstein in its session on October 22, 1981 .

It was named after Fort Asterstein from the 19th century, which was part of the Koblenz Fortress . This in turn was named after the Prussian general Ernst Ludwig von Aster , who was honored by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia for his services to the construction of the Prussian fortress Koblenz.

Buildings

• Fort Asterstein
• Catholic parish church Maria Himmelfahrt
• Memorial to those who fell in the 1866 campaign
• Devil's Staircase

See also : List of cultural monuments in Koblenz-Asterstein

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  Fort Asterstein

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  The Catholic Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary

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  Memorial to those who fell in the 1866 campaign

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  Devil's Staircase

literature

• Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .

Web links

Commons : Koblenz-Asterstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local portrait by the SWR
• Initiative Fort Asterstein eV
• Historical information on regionalgeschichte.net
• Literature about Koblenz-Asterstein in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Koblenz population statistics
2. ↑ Population register for the city and district of Koblenz and Höhr-Grenzhausen 1939/1940 . Krabbensche Buchdruckerei, Koblenz September 1939 ( online [accessed April 5, 2020]).

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 53 ″  E