Bockum

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Bockum
City of Krefeld
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 35 m
Residents : 20,686  (Dec. 31, 2015)
Postal code : 47800
Area code : 02151

The place Bockum is part of the city of Krefeld and has about 22,000 inhabitants. Bockum is considered one of the better residential areas in Krefeld. On Hüttenallee and Wilhelmshofallee - currently the most expensive residential areas in Krefeld - wealthy Krefeld families built stately villas on large properties. Apart from some settlements, more recent single-family house areas dominate. The place enjoys the advantage of extensive green areas and the associated numerous facilities that serve recreational, leisure and sports purposes. Its quiet and at the same time very central location, also in terms of transport connections, is very much appreciated. It also houses numerous public institutions in the city, e.g. B. the Bockum bathing center or the Krefeld zoo .

geography

Spatial location

Bockum is located on the left Lower Rhine in the Rhineland and belongs to the city of Krefeld . It is east of the city center and west of Uerdingen . The area of ​​the village borders in the west on Grenzstrasse and Jentgesallee (Cracau / Stadtmitte), in the north on the Nordtangente or Europaring and on Zwingenbergstrasse ( Verberg ), in the east on Bremer Strasse (Uerdingen), the southern end (to Oppum ) forms the Schönwasserpark or the Botanical Garden . An old arm of the Rhine runs through the village, which is still visible in Sollbrüggenpark , Schönhausenpark and Engerskull , for example .

Neighboring districts are Gartenstadt in the north, Uerdingen and Linn in the east, Oppum in the south, Cracau and the city ​​center in the south-west, Inrath / Kliedbruch in the west and Verberg in the north-west.

history

House guards

It is certain that the Archbishop of Cologne, Bruno, set up camp in “Buchholz sancte Gertrudis” in 1205 and that the place is mentioned for the first time. In 1273 the honors Bockum and Oppum are mentioned. From 1392 to 1794 Bockum belonged to the Electoral Cologne Office of Linn . Bockum was conquered by the French in 1794 and incorporated into the French Republic in 1801. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815 the place fell to Prussia . The municipalities of Bockum, Verberg , Oppum and Rath-Vennikel (later Traar) belonged to the mayor's office of Bockum in the Krefeld district formed in 1816 . Each parish had a parish leader. Bockum's seal was a flying eagle. Today's St. Gertrudis Church was built from 1857 to 1859 . In the years 1898 and 1899 it received a new approximately 70 m high tower.

The two communities Bockum and Verberg were merged in 1902 to form the community Bockum-Verberg . The Bockum Town Hall was built between 1902 and 1904. It was decided on December 12, 1906 and on October 15, 1907, the municipality of Bockum-Verberg was incorporated into the city of Krefeld together with Oppum . Since August 23, 1946, Bockum has belonged to the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia , which has been part of the Federal Republic of Germany since May 23, 1949 .

politics

General

The voters in Bockum are traditionally conservative and Christian Democratic, even if the CDU received just under 50% of the votes for the first time in the 2004 local elections. The independent voting communities play no role in Bockum.

District Representation

Bockum town hall

Bockum is divided into two districts (district representatives). The larger part (center of the district, Sollbrüggen , Stadtwald) belongs to the eastern district. The southern part ( zoo , Schönwasserpark) belongs to the municipality of Oppum - Linn .

The District Representation East since 2014:

Total (15 seats / 100%)

District Chairman: Wolfgang Merkel (SPD)

population

Bockumer shopping street

The population is largely Roman Catholic, until the beginning of the last century it was still rural. Today service occupations dominate. Many Bockumers work in Krefeld, Uerdingen and in the nearby cities of the Rhineland or the Ruhr area .

As of December 31, 2015, 11,010 of the 20,626 inhabitants were female, which corresponds to a share of 53.4%. The number of employees on December 31, 2014 was 6,621. There were 505 unemployed on June 30, 2015. On December 31, 2015, the proportion of foreigners was 1,367 at 6.6%.

religion

The majority of the Bockumers are Catholic. The oldest Catholic church is St. Gertrudis in the town center. From 1970 to 1987 Auxiliary Bishop Karl Reger was the pastor of this parish . Then there is the Church of the Heart of Jesus in the west of Bockum. Together with the parishes of Christ-King in Verberg , St. Hubertus in Kliedbruch and St. Josef in Traar , these previously independent parishes have formed the parish of St. Christophorus since January 1, 2010. It is run jointly by the two pastors Karl-Heinz Alders and Cathedral Chapter Karlheinz Teut. The parish belongs to the diocese of Aachen .

Churches

education

In this place the offer ranges from two elementary schools , a secondary school , two comprehensive schools to a vocational school and a special school .

schools

Primary schools :

  • Catholic primary school Sollbrüggenstrasse
  • Grotenburg School (formerly Eichendorffstrasse Community Primary School)

Hauptschulen :

  • Stephanusschule Municipal Catholic secondary school

Special schools :

  • Franz Stollwerck School (with special focus on language)

Comprehensive schools :

  • Comprehensive School Kaiserplatz
  • Free Waldorf School Krefeld

Vocational schools :

  • Glockenspitz vocational college

Attractions

Sollbrüggen house
Catholic parish church Sankt Gertrudis

Museums

Buildings

Animals and nature

Recreational areas and parks

Sports

Sport in Bockum is made up of the clubs TV Jahn Bockum 01 ( gymnastics , handball , badminton , diving ), TSV Bockum 01 (gymnastics, football , volleyball , table tennis , cycling , skiing ), created from the merger of the clubs Bockumer SV 1924 and Rheintreu Bockum 1924 , ISHC Bockum Bulldogs ( inline skater hockey ), Golfclub Bockum ( golf ) and the Krefelder Tennisgesellschaft (KTG) ( tennis ) operated. The Bockumer Sport has acquired national importance in some areas. In addition, other clubs from Krefeld are located in the Bockums area and there are also other sports facilities in the city.

sports

Table tennis

Currently, the men of TSV Bockum 01 (until 2006 Rheintreu Bockum 1924 ) play in the association league, but the top team played in the 2nd Bundesliga from 1994 to 1996 when patrons of the club still wanted to afford it, especially for certain games to fly in Chinese players . In 1994 the national player Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth also played in this club. The senior team won the German championship in 1993, 1995 and 1999 . In 2008 the senior team over 60 brought the title of German team champion to Bockum for the first time.

Cycling

The Rheintreu Bockum also included the cycling department that formed the König Pilsener Team (now Team EGN). This was a Krefeld cycling team that mainly competed in circuit races in NRW. In 2005, the drivers of the elite team, the junior and senior teams stood on the podium 171 times, 72 times as winners. In October 2005, however, this department split off and founded the RV Rheintreu Krefeld 05 , which now forms the basis of this elite cycling team. Nevertheless, there is also a cycling department at TSV Bockum 01 .

In addition, the Bockum cycling team was founded on September 21, 2007 , with the aim of working specifically in the disciplines of cycling and cycling. On May 22nd, 2008, the Lower Rhine and District Championships were held on a course in Bockum under the leadership of this club. A cycling race should be organized in this place every year.

Inline skate hockey

In 1996 the inline skate hockey department was founded at Rheintreu Bockum . Since 1998 there has been its own club, the ISHC Bockum Bulldogs . This year the juniors were promoted to the 1st junior national league. The 1st men's team played in the regional league. From 2000 to 2001 she even played in the 1st Bundesliga, until she was relegated in 2005 in the 2nd Bundesliga.

Soccer

The first men's team of TSV Bockum 01 (until 2006 Bockumer SV 1924 ), which will play in the regional league group 3 in the 2008/09 season , scored a respectable success in a test match in July 2006 against the Lower Rhine league club, former Bundesliga club and German cup winners from 1985 KFC Uerdingen 05 with a 3-3 draw, in which the Bockum team was even in the lead at times.

Sports facilities

View of the north stand of the Grotenburg Stadium

In addition to sports practiced by Bockumern, there are numerous well-known sports facilities in the city of Krefeld in Bockum. The Grotenburg Stadium , home of the KFC Uerdingen 05 , in which European Cups and international matches have already been played, the Gerd-Wellen hockey facility of Crefelder HTC , who became German hockey champion in 2006 , the Krefeld racecourse and the tennis facility of the German tennis league club HTC Blau-Weiß Krefeld are located in Bockumer area. The water polo Bundesliga team Aegir Uerdingen plays its games in the Bockum swimming center . The sports facility of TSV Bockum 01 is the district sports facility "Am Prozessionsweg".

literature

  • Citizens' Association Krefeld-Bockum (Ed.): Bockum. History - folk life - landscape in words and pictures . Krefeld 1982, ISBN not known or available.
  • Citizens' Association Krefeld-Bockum (ed.): B ockum. The district in the countryside . In: Niederrheinische Regionalkunde Volume 11, Krefeld 2007, ISBN 3-935526-13-X .

Web links

Commons : Krefeld-Bockum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Krefeld