Laagberg

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Laagberg
City of Wolfsburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 53 ″  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 56 ″  E
Residents : 5837  (December 31, 2015)
Postal code : 38440
Area code : 05361
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Location in Wolfsburg

Laagberg is a district of the city of Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony ( Germany ). It was created in the late 1950s.

The Laagberg borders the city forest and has a wide range of shops and a leisure center.

history

The district is named after an old field name that referred to a small piece of forest. In 1938, the year the city was founded, the area of ​​today's district was not built on. In 1940 the construction of stone barracks began, north of today's Mecklenburger Strasse. They were initially set up as an alternative camp for residents of the city ​​of the KdF-Wagen , in case their homes should become uninhabitable due to the effects of the war. However, the city's residential buildings were almost completely spared from war damage.

Barrack foundations of the Laagberg satellite camp (2017)

In April 1944, at the instigation of Volkswagen, a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp was set up for male prisoners in the north-eastern part of the camp . On May 31, 1944, the first prisoners from the Neuengamme main camp arrived. Until April 7 or 8, 1945, at least 800 concentration camp prisoners from France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the Soviet Union were interned there. The subcamp was surrounded by a barbed wire fence about two meters high, which was under high voltage. Many concentration camp inmates died there from the inhumane conditions. On April 7 or 8, 1945, the satellite camp was abandoned and the prisoners were transported by train to the Wöbbelin concentration camp .

After the end of the war, the camp was referred to as an A camp , and the British military government housed displaced persons there . From around 1946, refugees moved into the camp. The Laagberg restaurant had existed since at least 1949 ; it was renamed to Zur Heimat in the 1950s . The restaurant existed until at least the 1990s and was then demolished; today row houses are in its place. In 1950 the dirt road leading to the Laagberg was expanded into a solid road. In 1950 TSV Wolfsburg was also founded, the club (football and gymnastics) is now based at the West Stadium . In 1954, classes began in the newly built Laagberg School (elementary school VI.). In 1958, construction began in the Laagberg-Süd area , south of Mecklenburger Strasse. First the Sachsenring with its side streets was built, in 1972 the development with the residential complex at the southern end of the Breslauer Straße was completed. In 1960 the Evangelical Lutheran Pauluskirche was consecrated. In 1960 the barracks began to be cleared and in the first half of the 1960s they were demolished and replaced by multi-storey residential buildings. The rifle house was also built around 1960, and a ballroom was added in 1980. In 1963 the West open-air swimming pool went into operation; In 1970 it was given an air dome so that the swimming pool can also be used in the winter months. Around 1963 the hockey rink and the hockey home were also built. In 1964, apartments for the elderly were built on Breslauer Straße. There were 40 small apartments in single-storey row construction, they have since been demolished again. In 1966, the Seventh-day Adventist Advent house was inaugurated, before the congregation met in various rented rooms in the city. In 1973 the youth club Onkel Max was opened. In 1987 a memorial stone was erected in memory of the Laagberg satellite camp. From 1994 the district of Hageberg-West was built northwest of Laagberg. In 2002 the open-air swimming pool West was closed and the air dome demolished, in 2009 the open-air swimming pool was demolished. After years of delay, construction of residential buildings began in 2014 on the site of the former outdoor swimming pool. In 2017, during construction work on Breslauer Straße, the foundations of barracks were uncovered, which come from the Laagberg subcamp from the 1940s. In 2018 a youth center, the X-trem , opened in the building of the former Café Extrem.

politics

The Laagberg forms, together with the neighboring districts Eichelkamp , Hageberg , Hohenstein , Klieversberg , Rabenberg and Wohltberg the town center-west , by a Ortsrat is represented. The local mayor is Matthias Presia ( SPD ).

Attractions

Art in the cityscape

  • The fountain of the wolf Burgers Peter Szaif is located in the shopping center at Schlesierweg.
Pauluskirche

Churches

schools

  • Laagbergschule (elementary school)

literature

  • Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. Building a city. 1948-1968. Wolfsburg, undated (around 1976), pp. 34, 36, 68, 79.
  • Henk 't Hoen: Two years at the Volkswagen factory. Wolfsburg 2005, ISBN 3-935112-03-3 , pp. 72-123. (Laagberg camp)
  • Christian Jansen: Forced labor for the Volkswagen factory. Everyday life in prisoners on the Laagberg near Wolfsburg. Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-24033-3 .
  • Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. 1st edition 2011. ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 96. (Pauluskirche)

Web links

Commons : Laagberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Rohde: The modern city of Wolfsburg retains the old field names. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten of June 21, 2014, p. 12.
  2. ^ Adolf Koehler: Wolfsburg. A chronicle. 1938-1948. Wolfsburg 1974, p. 64.
  3. ↑ Robert Gellately : Looked At and Looked Away. Hitler and his people . bpb publication series Volume 416, p. 299.
  4. ↑ kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de
  5. ↑ Manfred Grieger: The working and living conditions of the concentration camp prisoners on the Laagberg in: Hans Mommsen, Manfred Grieger: Das Volkswagenwerk und seine Arbeiter im Third Reich., Düsseldorf, 1996, S. 766-800, Christian Jansen: Zwangsarbeit für das Volkswagenwerk: Everyday life in prisoners on the Laagberg near Wolfsburg in: Exploitation, extermination, the public: New studies on National Socialist camp policy. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2000, pp. 81-107; Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , pp. 551-554.
  6. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/geschichte/zeitgeschichte/deutschlandarchiv/riederer20130319/?p=all
  7. ↑ Eberhard Rohde: The bathing cap offered a kind of greenhouse atmosphere. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of September 29, 2018.
  8. ^ Eberhard Rohde: Laagberg: Apartments for the elderly disappeared overnight. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition 11 November 2017.
  9. ^ Bettina Jaeschke: Jugendhaus X-trem opened. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Friday Packet for May 24, 2018.