Lünen-South

Lünen-South City of Lünen Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 26 ″  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 46 ″  E
Height :	55 m
Residents :	7932  (December 31, 2017)
Postal code :	44532
Area code :	02306

Lünen-Süd is one of the fourteen districts or newly established statistical districts of the city of Lünen (North Rhine-Westphalia) and has almost 8,000 inhabitants. It belongs to the district 1283 Lünen .

In addition to Lüner city center, Lünen-Brambauer and Nordlünen , Lünen-Süd functions as a district center.

location

The district, 2.95 km² in size, is located in the south of the urban area and borders the city of Dortmund . In the middle of the district are the main streets Jäger- / Bahn- / and Alsenstraße, which serve as shopping streets with various shops.

history

Lünen-Süd, still almost uninhabited at the beginning of the 20th century, was very much characterized by mining . So many settlers came there from the former East German areas at that time. They found work at the nearby mines " Prussia I 1/2 and Prussia II 1/2 " in the neighboring districts of Lünen-Gahmen and Lünen-Horstmar. Both mines were shut down in the 1920s and 1930s. Many miners then found work at the Gneisenau colliery in Dortmund-Derne , which also took over the coal fields. The Prussia I 1/2 colliery in Gahmen was reopened in the mid-1960s as part of the cable car and material transport for the Gneisenau colliery and finally shut down at the end of the 1970s.

In 1987 the district had a total of 7982 inhabitants. In 2012 there were 7,783 inhabitants.

traffic

Prussia station

Lünen-Süd is well connected to local public transport. In the directly adjacent district of Horstmar is the Preußen train station, where the trains of the regional traffic lines Dortmund - Lünen - Münster and Dortmund - Lünen - Coesfeld - Enschede stop.

In Lünen-Süd itself is the Preußenhafen with a connection to the Datteln-Hamm Canal . The connection point to the A2 is also nearby (only in the direction of Hanover) . The Preußenhafen has now been converted into a resting place for water hikers .

Until 1933 a tram ran in the district, which was connected to the Dortmund tram network via Derne and Gahmen . The route ran over Bahnstrasse and Jägerstrasse to the final stop at Bebelstrasse near today's canal bridge. There was also a coal mine railway in Lünen-Süd, which connected the Preußenhafen as a coal handling point and the Gneisenau colliery in neighboring Derne . Nowadays the Zechenbahn route is used as a bike and hiking trail under the name Leezenpatt.

Attractions

Today the listed Ziethenstraße settlement , which was once a miners' settlement, and the Prussian port are part of the route of industrial culture .

In 1993 , the artist Hannes Forster created the controversial installation Der Berg ruft (a building half sunk in the ground) in the Bergmannsmuseum, which draws attention to the mountain damage that has occurred in the region.

Culture and events

• The annual attractions in Lünen-Süd include the carnival parade and the Oktoberfest on Jägerstrasse, which is the main traffic axis in Lünen-Süd.
• Leisure options include the “Südpark” public park, the Preußenhafen water hiking rest area and the mining dump in the western part of the village.

Individual evidence

1. ^ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics (ed.): Population and private households as well as buildings and apartments. Selected results for parts of the community. Arnsberg administrative district . Düsseldorf 1990, p. 282 .