Kreuzgrund (Böckingen)

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Eichenhof in Kreuzgrund with equally parceled houses of the Ensle Volkswohnhaus type

The Kreuzgrund is a settlement in the Heilbronn district of Böckingen , which was inaugurated in 1938.

location

The Kreuzgrund is located in the northwest of Böckingen, the area extends in the angle between Saarlandstrasse and Heidelberger Strasse and north of Saarlandstrasse.

history

The construction of the settlement comprising around 200 houses was planned on the basis of the Reichsheimstätten Act as early as 1935 and was completed by 1938 after a three-year construction period. The idea of ​​autonomy or self-sufficiency was in the foreground in this settlement. The settlers should also be able to provide for themselves through a large garden, so affordable small houses of the "Volkswohnhaus Ensle" type with a floor area of ​​6.50 × 7.75 meters were built on large plots. For the settlers it was initially a duty to join the Kreuzgrund settlers' association founded in 1935 . V. to join. The residents were also expected to make certain contributions to the construction of the houses, which were offset against the purchase price. The salt works provided 180,000 Reichsmarks for pre-financing, in return, 40 of the 200 houses for employees of the salt works and the glassworks were agreed.

At the inauguration of the first construction phase (between Saarlandstraße and Eulenweg or the western part of the street Im Kreuzgrund and north of Saarlandstraße from Florian-Geyer-Straße to the northwest) on July 17, 1938, it was given the name of an SA man killed in Stuttgart, namely Ernst-Weinstein-Siedlung . The heart of the New Settlement was made up of commercial buildings on Im Kreuzgrund Street and a Catholic community center. After 1945 the settlement was given the original name of Kreuzgrund . In the immediate vicinity of the settlement from 1945 to 1947 was the POW camp PWTE C-3 (today: residential area Schanz ). Guards from this camp occupied the Kreuzgrund from May 30, 1945. The chairman of the settlers' association, Adolf Strietter, arranged for the settlement to be cleared again in 1946.

The settlement houses were often enlarged over time, and the kitchen gardens mostly became ornamental gardens. By 1953 the settlement was extended to the south as far as Platanenstrasse, later the corner between Kastanienweg and Heidelberger Strasse and the area to the west and north of the Böckinger cemetery were also built in the extreme south . This settlement expansion is called Vorderer Kreuzgrund .

In 1953 the Holy Cross Church was built according to plans by Rudolf Gabel as a branch church of the Böckinger Kilianskirche . In 1970/71 the Heinrich von Kleist secondary school and a Protestant community center in Elderweg followed. The old Catholic Heilig-Geist-Kirche was replaced in 1990 by a neighboring new building, today's parish church Heilig Kreuz and then demolished in favor of a new community building. The Protestant community center on Elderweg was expanded in 1996 to include the Church of Reconciliation .

Due to the heavy construction activity in the 1960s and 1970s, especially the construction of the Schanz residential area west of Heidelberger Strasse and bordering Kreuzgrund, the expansion of the Gesundbrunnen Clinic to the northeast bordering Kreuzgrund, with its numerous residential buildings, and the densification of settlements in the In the area of ​​the Böckingen cemetery, the once isolated Kreuzgrund settlement has grown together with the northern part of Böckingen. Both in terms of infrastructure and transport connections, the settlements in Kreuzgrund and on Schanz are more geared towards Heilbronn city center than the historic center of Böckingen.

The Kreuzgrund was awarded prizes as the most beautiful or exemplary small settlement in 1953 and 1985. The development of the settlement continues to be determined by the settlement association, which in 1998 still had 240 members.

Buildings

The Kreuzgrund is still characterized by the single-family houses of the 1930s, which make up a large part of the building stock. There are younger apartment buildings in the south of the settlement. There are only a few outstanding buildings in the settlement:

  • The Catholic parish church Heilig Kreuz replaced an older church building in 1990.
  • The Protestant Reconciliation Church was built between 1994 and 1996 as an extension of a community center from the 1970s.
  • The Heinrich von Kleist Realschule was founded in 1970/71. The range of schools in the north-western part of Böckingen is supplemented by the school center on Kraichgauplatz, which was built around the same time and only a few hundred meters away, with Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Gymnasium and Elly-Heuss-Knapp primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule.
  • In a small green area on Kastanienweg there is a sandstone sculpture (monogrammed HWB ), which shows a boy with a dog and which was originally a fountain sculpture at the time the settlement was founded.

  • Holy Cross Church

  • Church of Reconciliation

  • Sandstone sculpture in the cross ground

  • Heinrich von Kleist Secondary School

literature

  • Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998 (publication of the Heilbronn City Archives, 37), ISBN 3-928990-65-9

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 1 ″  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 10 ″  E