Lütten Klein

Lütten Klein City of Rostock Coordinates: 54 ° 8 ′ 21 ″  N , 12 ° 3 ′ 8 ″  E
Height :	5 m above sea level NN
Area :	3.6 km²
Residents :	17,234  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density :	4,787 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 8, 1934
Postal code :	18107
Area code :	0381
Location of Lütten Klein in Rostock

Lütten Klein is a district in the northwest of the city of Rostock in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The large , prefabricated housing estate with 10,531 apartments for around 26,000 residents, which characterizes the district, was built between 1965 and 1975 under the planning direction of Erich Kaufmann as the first and largest district in the northwest. The residential area was laid out very regularly in the style of the time. Detached apartment blocks with up to five storeys predominate, interrupted by individual high-rise buildings or rows of high-rise buildings that set urban accents at prominent points. In the south, Lütten Klein ends at the Schmarler Bach in the fishing village , a park with a toboggan hill and a pond, which extends into the neighboring district of Evershagen . The streets are named after port cities in the Baltic Sea region.

location

Lütten Klein is located between Rostock city center and Warnemünde. The original village of Lütten Klein was mostly east of the current route of the railway line to Warnemünde, the housing estate was built to the west of it. Today the railway line forms the border between the districts of Lütten Klein and Groß Klein in the east and Schmarl in the southeast. The remaining houses in the old village of Lütten Klein are in the Groß Kleiner area. In the north, Lütten Klein borders the Rostock district of Lichtenhagen , in the west on the village of Lichtenhagen, district of the municipality of Elmenhorst / Lichtenhagen , and in the south on the Rostock district of Evershagen .

history

Large housing estate built from 1965 to 1969, June 1969

Warnowallee in Rostock Lütten Klein, January 2010

Name meaning

The name of the district goes back to the Warnowdorf wendeske klene , which originated in the 13th century and was first mentioned in a document in 1345 , which means something like Wendish maple village . The origin of the name comes from the time when Slavs and Germans lived here together, but in separate settlements. Accordingly, today's Groß Klein was called "dudesche klene" (German maple town), which was first mentioned in a document in 1364.

20th century

The community of Lütten Klein was incorporated into Rostock on March 8, 1934. Some buildings in the former village of Lütten Klein can still be found today between the Lütten Klein S-Bahn station and the Dänenberg, but according to the official district boundaries, they belong to the "Groß Klein" district.

At the beginning of the 1960s, there was a desire to merge Rostock and Warnemünde into a socialist city, so that in spring 1964 the plans for today's large housing estate arose. In October 1965, five-storey residential construction began in the northern part of the village, so to speak in the open. The first apartments were handed over at Easter 1966. The first high-rise in Lütten Klein was also built in 1966. The southern district was also completed by 1971. The “Rostock housing series adaptation” was first used there. At the end of 1973, the “Salvador Allende” polyclinic was ceremoniously handed over (after years of vacancy, the building was demolished in 2017). The plan to connect the north-west of Rostock to the tram network was made in the first few years of the residential area, but Lütten Klein was not connected to the city tram network until 2001. From the beginning, the Lütten Klein residential area was generously planted with trees and bushes, so that at the beginning of the 1980s, people spoke of the greenest of Rostock's new development areas.

Population development

As in almost all Rostock districts, the number of inhabitants in Lütten Klein fell sharply after the political change in 1989. Large-scale renovation measures on most of the apartment blocks since the 1990s and the creation of a “Boulevard Lütten Klein” shopping street with a large cinema , however, cushioned this trend. The urban center of the north-west of Rostock was created in Lütten Klein through the construction of the large Warnow Park shopping center and the good connection to the local transport system (bus, S-Bahn, tram).

Specialty

High-rise buildings Rigaer Strasse July 2010

The four 18-storey so-called windmill high-rises (1972/75) in Rigaer and Ahlbecker Strasse, as well as the multi-purpose hall in the center of Lütten Klein, designed by Ulrich Müther and built using a shell construction, are considered to be the landmarks of Lütten Klein .

culture and education

In Lütten Klein there is a district library, a residents' meeting place and a wide variety of school types.

literature

• Steffen Mau : Lütten Klein. Life in the East German Transformation Society . Berlin: Suhrkamp 2019. ISBN 978-3-518-42894-8 .

Web links

Commons : Lütten Klein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population by city area on rathaus.rostock.de
2. ↑ ostsee-zeitung.de: The big and the small Ahornort. Retrieved August 17, 2018 . 
3. ↑ wiro Aktuell  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Edition 09/2006 of the customer magazine Wiro Aktuell.