Koblenz gold mine

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Koblenz gold mine
Altstadt Arenberg Arzheim Asterstein Bubenheim Ehrenbreitstein Goldgrube Güls Horchheim Horchheimer Höhe Immendorf Karthause Kesselheim Lay Lützel Metternich Moselweiß Neuendorf Niederberg Oberwerth Pfaffendorf Pfaffendorfer Höhe Rauental Rübenach Stolzenfels Südliche Vorstadt Wallersheim KoblenzLocation of the Koblenz-Goldgrube district
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Basic data
District since: Founded around 1920
Area : 1.09 km²
Residents : 4,300 (Sep 30, 2012)
Population density : 3929 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 56073
Area code : 0261
License plate : KO

Koblenz-Goldgrube is a centrally located district of Koblenz . It is located between the Karthauser and the Moselle railway line Koblenz – Trier, only a few minutes' walk from the center of Koblenz. In addition to a residential area, there is the Brüderhaus St. Josef hospital , a retirement home , the Beatusbad and three schools . The main cemetery in Koblenz is located in the gold mine on the slope of the Karthauser .

history

The name of the district comes from an old field name (Unter den Goldgruben), which was first mentioned in 1397. It was derived from the fertile fields and vineyards in the slight depression that reached as far as the white of the Moselle . In the late Roman and Franconian times, however, one can already assume that the area was used for agriculture. The free area at the gates of Koblenz was suitable both as a deployment area and for defense in the many wars to which the city was exposed due to its strategic location. Today's main cemetery was built on the slope of the Karthaus from 1820 and was expanded further in the period that followed.

The gold mine was uninhabited until the end of the 19th century. It was only when the Prussian fortress Koblenz was abandoned in 1890 that permanent houses could also be built outside the city ​​fortifications . The construction of the first building began in 1898, so in 1899 the St. Josef Brothers House , in 1903 the Thielenschule (1903–1909 Catholic teachers' college, from 1909 elementary school) and in 1908 the neo-baroque orphanage (today the St. Barbara home for the elderly) was completed. A first zoning plan was drawn up by the city of Koblenz in 1902, but it was not implemented until the First World War . A few stonemasons and gardeners then settled along Beatusstrasse in front of the main cemetery. The first rows of houses were not built around today's Overbergplatz for employees of the railway, police, post office and city administration until the 1920s. This was followed by the construction of further apartment blocks and commercial areas in the gold mine.

During the Second World War , the neighboring goods station Koblenz-Mosel was often the target of air raids on Koblenz . The bombs devastated a large part of the still young part of the city. During the British attack on November 6, 1944, a Lancaster bomber with an eight-man crew hit what is now Johannes-Junglas-Strasse. Most of the reconstruction was completed by the end of the 1950s. On October 4, 1969, the Catholic parish church of St. Franziskus was inaugurated on Overbergplatz . The Beatusbad in the gold mine was opened in 1975.

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The construction of a new train stop is planned on the Moselle route between Rauental and Goldgrube (near Follmannstrasse). A pedestrian overpass is also being considered, with which Goldgrube and Rauental could be better connected.

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 gold mine  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horchheim, Goldgrube, Bendorf: New train stops are planned rhein-zeitung.de, July 26, 2016, accessed on September 23, 2016

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 34 ′ 40 ″  E