List of streets in Oberhausen-Styrum

The list of streets in Oberhausen-Styrum describes the street system in the Oberhausen district of Styrum with the corresponding historical references.

overview

In Styrum, 6,778 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2014) live on an area of ​​0.97 km². Styrum forms together with the southern inner city and the west of Dümpten the postal code district 46045.

Starting in the north, the district is bounded clockwise as follows: Grenzstraße to the city ​​center , Mülheimer Straße ( Bundesstraße 223 ) to Dümpten , an imaginary line parallel to and south of the street Landwehr to the Mülheim part of Styrums , Oberstyrum and the streets Landwehr and Bogenstraße to Alstaden on the Ruhr .

There are 34 designated traffic areas in Styrum, including one square. Of these, nine streets are only partially in the district:
two streets belong partly to Alstaden ( Akazienstraße , Landwehr ), two streets partly belong to Oberstyrum ( Blumenstraße , Römerstraße ) and the remaining five streets continue in the city center ( Grenzstraße , Lothringer Straße , Mülheimer Strasse , Nohlstrasse , Stöckmannstrasse ).

Federal road 223 runs through Styrum on Mülheimer Strasse . The only part of the Oberhausen district road system is the border road as district road K14 , which leads from the B 223 to Alstaden.

Overview of streets and squares

The following table gives an overview of the existing streets, paths and squares in the district as well as some related information.

• Name : current name of the street or square.
• Length / dimensions in meters:
• The length information contained in the overview are rounded overview values ​​that were determined in Google Earth using the local scale. They are used for comparison purposes and, if official values ​​are known, are exchanged and marked separately.
  For squares, the dimensions are given in the form a × b.
• The addition in the district indicates that the length is that of the street section within Styrum, provided that the street continues into neighboring districts.
• The addition without spur streets indicates the length of the "main street" for branched streets.
• The addition (all street sections together) indicates that the street is so winding that there is no “main street”. Instead, the length of all road sections is added together.
• Derivation : origin or reference of the name
• Notes : additional information
• Image : Photo of the street or an adjacent object

Surname	Length / dimensions (in meters)	Derivation	Date of designation	Remarks	image
Akazienstrasse	500 in the district	after the acacia	1910	Akazienstrasse leads from Alstaden to Lothringer Strasse. The street is already marked on the Prussian first record from 1830 to 1865 and was once known as Vegetasche , later it was listed as Weststraße in the address books. It was given its current name at the request of local residents.
Almastrasse	400	Alma , female name	1937	Almastraße leads from Nohlstraße toügelstraße. She was named arbitrarily after the female first name.
Bergmannstrasse	140	Miner , job title		Bergmannstrasse leads from Josefstrasse to Klörenstrasse.
Flower Street	100 in the district			Blumenstrasse is the continuation of the street of the same name in Oberstyrum, which leads from Schwerinstrasse to the Landwehr.
Bogenstrasse	650	Course of the road		The Bogenstraße leads from the Landwehr to Grenzstraße, behind the Grenzstraße it is continued in the city center as Friedenstraße . The western half of the street belongs to Alstaden, the eastern half of the street to Styrum. The street takes its name from two right-angled arches in its course.
Ironing Street	210	Course of the road		Theügelstraße leads from the Grenzstraße to the Mülheimer Straße. With these two streets it forms roughly the shape of an iron, which gave rise to the name.
Druckerstrasse	240	Printer , job title	1910	The Druckerstrasse leads from the Akazienstrasse to the Grevenstrasse. It was originally called Gutenbergstrasse , and it probably got its current name based on it.
Friedhofstrasse	110	Cemetery of the Catholic parish of St. Joseph		Friedhofstrasse is a short connecting road between Nohlstrasse and Glockenstrasse. It thus leads directly to the cemetery of the Styrum parish of St. Joseph, which today belongs to the parish Herz Jesu Oberhausen .
Glockenstrasse	300	Bells of the St. Joseph Catholic Church		Glockenstrasse leads from Josefstrasse past the St. Elisabeth Clinic and the cemetery of the St. Joseph parish to the Landwehr. This means that it is in close proximity to the Catholic Church of St. Joseph, whose bells can be heard well here and have led to the street name. The eponymous bells have been replaced several times since they were named, most recently in 2014. The Catholic elementary school Luisenschule is located on Glockenstrasse .
Gotenstrasse	160 without footpath to Lothringer Straße: 110	Goths , Germanic people		Gotenstrasse is a short spur road to Römerstrasse. Several streets in the western part of Styrum are named after Iron Age peoples.
Border road	1200 in the district	until 1910 the southern border of Oberhausen	Traditionally (back renaming: 1947)	This road has always been a border road and therefore bears this name to this day. When Oberhausen was founded in 1862, it was the southern border of the new mayor's office to the Mülheim-Land mayor's office, and from 1878 to the Styrum mayor's office. In 1910 the northern part of Styrum was incorporated into Oberhausen, and since then the Grenzstraße has separated the districts of Styrum and the inner city. The Grenzstraße leads from Alstaden, where it is called Alstadener Straße , to Bundesstraße 223 (Mülheimer Straße). Between 1936 and 1947 it was called Erich-König-Straße .
Grevenstrasse	220	Ferdinand Greven		Ferdinand Greven was a medical councilor who lived on this street for a long time and practiced as a doctor. Grevenstrasse leads from Schlägelstrasse to Lothringer Strasse.
Gundlachstrasse	110	Gundlach family		Gundlachstrasse, a short connecting road between Schlägelstrasse and Scheffelstrasse, is named after a long-established Styrum family.
Josefstrasse	750	Joseph of Nazareth , holy and legal father of Jesus of Nazareth .		Josefstrasse is located at the Catholic Church of St. Joseph. It leads from Lothringer Strasse to Mülheimer Strasse. The St. Elisabeth Clinic is located on it.
Kaplan-Küppers-Weg	140	Heinrich Küppers , 1896–1955, chaplain to St. Joseph and resistance fighter	1956	Chaplain Heinrich Küppers was chaplain at St. Joseph in Styrum from 1929 to 1945 and a staunch opponent of National Socialism . He was imprisoned several times between 1933 and 1943 and finally taken to Dachau concentration camp , where he stayed until 1945. The Kaplan-Küppers-Weg leads from Josefstrasse to Klörenstrasse. The parish home of the parish of St. Joseph and the associated youth home Thomas More are located on it. Until 1910 the street was called Kirchstraße , then until 1956 Leostraße .
Celtic road	260	Celts , Iron Age people	1936	The Keltenstraße is a cul-de-sac to Rechenacker in Alstaden and is only connected to Styrum by a footpath to Römerstraße. Several streets in the western part of Styrum are named after Iron Age peoples.
Klörenstrasse	700	Klören, master mason		The first houses on Klörenstrasse, which connects Lothringer Strasse withügelstrasse, were built by the master mason Klören.
Landwehr	1200 in the district	Bergische Landwehr	handed down	The Bergische Landwehr was established here in the Middle Ages, offering protection from attacks by robbers and soldiers. The Landwehr consisted of two to three densely overgrown and therefore insurmountable walls with hornbeams and willows, black and hawthorns and dog roses. The ramparts can no longer be seen today, but the Landwehr road has followed the course of the old defensive system for centuries: It connects Alstaden via Styrum and Lothringer Strasse with Mülheimer Strasse. Based on the street Landwehr, Styrum is often divided into Lower Landwehr (west) and Upper Landwehr (east).
Lorenzstrasse	120	Lorenz , male first name	1910	Lorenzstrasse was called Körnerstrasse until 1910 and was then arbitrarily named after the male first name. It leads from Klörenstrasse to Grenzstrasse.
Lothringer Strasse	700 in the district	Lorraine , formerly German and now French region	1910	Lothringer Strasse leads from downtown Oberhausen from Marktstrasse through Styrum to the city limits to Mülheim, where it is continued as Heidstrasse (this is the name it used to be in Styrum). It is named after the former German region of Lorraine in connection with the Elsässer Straße which is adjacent to Marktstraße. Lothringer Straße is the main and commercial street of Styrum, it forms the center of the district. The Catholic Church of St. Joseph is also located here.
Martin-Heix-Platz	180	Martin Heix, 1903–1977, German politician	1977	After the Second World War, Martin Heix played a key role in the reconstruction of the city of Oberhausen. He was a trade unionist, workers secretary in the Catholic labor movement and a CDU politician. From 1949 to 1956 he was a member of the Bundestag. Martin-Heix-Platz has had his name since 1977, previously it was called Josefplatz and before that it was called Friedenstraße until 1910 . It essentially consists of a street on which the Catholic Church of St. Joseph and some green areas are located.
Mülheimer Strasse	850 in the district	Mülheim an der Ruhr	1910	Mülheimer Strasse leads from Oberhausener Neue Mitte through Marienviertel , the city ​​center , Styrum and Dümpten to the neighboring town of Mülheim, where it continues as Oberhausener Strasse . It is part of the federal highway 223 . Originally it crossed Styrum, the east behind Mülheimer Straße is now mostly assigned to Dümpten, so that the street forms the eastern border of Styrum today. Until 1910, Mülheimer Strasse was also called Oberhausener Strasse in Styrum .
Nohlstrasse	750 in the district	Max Nohl , 1830–1863, German architect	1910	Max Nohl built the Christ Church , which is located at the northern end of the street in downtown Oberhausen. Nohlstrasse crosses the city center and Styrum and leads to the city limits to Mülheim, where it continues as Blumenthalstrasse .
Pompstrasse	70	Rector Pomp		In 1864, Rector Pomp took over the care of the first emergency church in Styrum, which had been set up by the parish of St. Mary's Birth in Mülheim. In 1889 the rectorate was raised to a parish under the name of St. Joseph and only a few years later it became the mother parish of most of the churches in the south and south-west of Oberhausen. Pompstraße is a short connecting road between Almastraße and Josefstraße.
Reuterstrasse	350	Fritz Reuter , 1810–1874, poet		Reuterstraße is named after Fritz Reuter, a Low German poet . It leads from the Landwehr to Josefstrasse.
Roman road	400 in the district	Romans , ethnic group		Coming from Mülheim-Styrum, the Römerstraße leads through the allotment garden complex Römerstraße and the western Styrum to behind the Akazienstraße. It is therefore close to the Bergische Landwehr, which was previously believed to have been built by the Romans. Hence it got its name. More recently, based on the name of the Roman road, the Keltenstrasse and the Gotenstrasse were named after other ethnic groups from the Iron Age .
Scheffelstrasse	230	Josef Victor von Scheffel , 1826–1886, poet		Scheffelstrasse is named after Josef von Scheffel, a poet, lawyer and librarian. It leads from the Landwehr to Akazienstrasse.
Schlägelstrasse	650	Mallet , symbol of mining	1910	The Schlägelstraße leads from the Landwehr to the Grenzstraße, behind the Landwehr it continues as a rake field in Alstaden . It was called Friedrichstrasse until 1910 .
Stockmannstrasse	280 in the district	Wilhelm Stöckmann, 1801–1877, influential Styrum farmer		The Stöckmannstrasse is named after the Styrum farmer Stöckmann, who in 1859 donated a plot of land north of the Grenzstrasse to the municipality of Styrum, on which they built a market. After this area and market were ceded to the newly founded mayor's office in Oberhausen in 1862, this market became today's old market . Stöckmannstrasse leads from Grevenstrasse to Wachstrasse, makes a right-angled curve and forms the continuation of Wachstrasse, makes another right-angled curve and then leads into the city center until it ends there at Friedrich-Karl-Strasse.
Styrumer Allee	650	Styrum	1936	The Styrumer Allee is a tree-planted connection between the border road and the Landwehr, laid across Styrum. It is only accessible to pedestrians and cyclists. Until 1936 it was called the Alte Bahn .
Tersteegenstrasse	270	Gerhard Tersteegen , 1697–1769, poet	1945	Tersteegenstraße is named after Gerhard Tersteegen, a pietistic preacher and songwriter who worked in Mülheim an der Ruhr . It branches off from Reuterstraße, then makes a right-angled curve and runs parallel to Reuterstraße to Josefstraße. Until 1910 the street was called Mittelstraße , then until 1933 Zwischenstraße , then until 1945 Herbert-Norkus-Straße .
Vincenzstrasse	95	Vincenz of Paul , saint		Vincenzstraße is a short connecting road between Grenzstraße and Klörenstraße. It is located directly at the Vincenzhaus retirement home , which explains its name. The Vincenzhaus, in turn, is named after St. Vincent von Paul, the founder of modern Caritas .
Guard street	210	old guard of the gendarmerie	1910	The Wachstrasse leads from Lothringer Strasse to behind Stöckmannstrasse. Until 1910 it was called Schillerstrasse .
Wielandstrasse	280	Christoph Martin Wieland , 1733–1813, poet		Wielandstraße leads Reuterstraße to Mülheimer Straße.

List of no longer existent streets in Styrum

Surname	from	to	renamed to (current)	Derivation	Remarks
Old train		1936	→  Styrumer Allee
Erich-Koenig-Strasse	1936	1947	→  border road	Erich König, Oberhausen fighter pilot who fell in World War I	Even before 1936 the street was called Grenzstraße .
Friedenstrasse		1910	→  Martin-Heix-Platz		Until 1977 the street was called Josefplatz .
Friedrichstrasse		1910	→  Schlägelstrasse	Emperor Friedrich III. , 1831–1888, Emperor of Germany for 99 days
Fürstenstrasse		1929	moved in		After 1929 the street was initially called Grammansmeer before it was drawn in when the Landwehr cemetery was expanded.
Grammansmeer	1929		moved in	The Grammansmeer was a large heathland south of the Landwehr.	Until 1929 the street was called Fürstenstraße . When the Landwehr cemetery was expanded, the Grammansmeer disappeared.
Gutenbergstrasse		1910	→  Druckerstrasse	Johannes Gutenberg , 1397–1468, inventor of the printing press
Heidstrasse		1910	→  Lothringer Strasse
Herbert-Norkus-Strasse	1933	1945	→  Tersteegenstrasse	Herbert Norkus , 1916–1932, Hitler Youth , who was killed by Communists and then glorified by the National Socialists as a “role model for the fighting commitment of the Hitler Youth”.	Before 1910 the street was initially called Mittelstraße , then until 1933 Zwischenstraße .
Josefplatz	1910	1977	→  Martin-Heix-Platz	The place is at the Josephskirche .	Until 1910 the square was called Friedenstrasse .
Kirchstrasse		1910	→  Kaplan-Küppers-Weg	The street is near the Josephskirche .	Until 1956 the street was called Leostraße .
Körnerstrasse		1910	→  Lorenzstrasse	Theodor Körner , 1791–1813, writer and poet
Leostrasse	1910	1956	→  Kaplan-Küppers-Weg	Leo XIII. , 1810–1903, from 1878 Pope of the Catholic Church	Until 1910 the street was called Kirchstraße .
Mittelstrasse		1910	→  Tersteegenstrasse		After 1910 the street was called Zwischenstraße until 1933 , then until 1945 Herbert-Norkus-Straße .
Oberhausener Strasse		1910	→  Mülheimer Strasse	The street used to lead to the then mayor's office in Oberhausen .
Schiller Street		1910	→  Guard Street	Friedrich von Schiller , 1759–1805, most important German poet alongside Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Vegetable ash	handed down		→  Akazienstrasse	In the Middle Ages, “Vegetash” was the name given to highwaymen who “swept”, that is, robbed them of the pockets of their victims. In the past, there often seems to have been “vegetas” on this street.	The street was later called Weststrasse until 1910 .
West Street		1910	→  Akazienstrasse	The street is to the west of Styrum.	The continuation in Alstaden was called Oststrasse . Originally both parts were called Vegetash .
Intermediate road	1910	1933	→  Tersteegenstrasse		Before 1910 the street was called Mittelstraße , after 1933 to 1945 it was initially called Herbert-Norkus-Straße .

See also

• List of streets in Oberhausen
• List of streets in Alstaden
• List of streets in Oberhausen-Dümpten
• List of streets in downtown Oberhausen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the source used is: Alfred and Ulrich Lindemann: 500 kilometers of Oberhausen street history. 1997.
2. ↑ Statistical Yearbook of the City of Oberhausen 2018 (PDF) Retrieved on February 8, 2019 . 
3. ^ City of Oberhausen (Hrsg.): Statistical yearbook of the city of Oberhausen. Born 2014. City of Oberhausen, Statistics and Elections Department , Oberhausen 2014, p. 31 ( online , PDF file; 3.07 MB), accessed on April 4, 2015.