Gladbeck

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Gladbeck
Map of Germany, position of the city of Gladbeck highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '  N , 7 ° 0'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Muenster
Circle : Recklinghausen
Height : 63 m above sea level NHN
Area : 35.97 km 2
Residents: 75,610 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 2102 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 45964, 45966, 45968
Area code : 02043
License plate : RE, CAS, GLA
Community key : 05 5 62 014
LOCODE : DE GLA
City structure: 9 districts

City administration address : 		Willy-Brandt-Platz 2
45964 Gladbeck
Website : www.gladbeck.de
Mayor : Ulrich Roland ( SPD )
Location of the city of Gladbeck in the Recklinghausen district
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The city of Gladbeck is located in the northern Ruhr area in the northwest of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is a large district town of the district of Recklinghausen in the administrative district of Münster . Gladbeck was originally a small rural community until coal mining began at the end of the 19th century. It developed into a typical mining town in the Ruhr area and in 1919 also received city rights. In World War II it was heavily damaged.

In the 1960s, coal mining fell into a crisis, and in 1971 the last mine in Gladbeck was closed. In 1975 the previously independent city of Gladbeck briefly belonged to Bottrop, but this incorporation was soon reversed (after a complaint by the city), and Gladbeck became part of the Recklinghausen district in 1976.

geography

Gladbeck is located in the northern Ruhr area . Gladbeck belongs to the so-called Emscher Zone , which was captured by mining relatively late . The city is located in the area of ​​the regional association Ruhr .

Map of the German Empire 1: 100,000 of today's Gladbeck area at the end of the 19th century

In the north, the hamlet of Breiker Höfe, which belongs to the urban area , is surrounded by the neighboring towns of Bottrop , Dorsten and Gelsenkirchen . In the south the city borders on Essen .

City structure

Since January 1, 1978, the six parts of Gladbeck have been subdivided into city districts as follows (in brackets, the population of June 30, 2013):

The old farming communities Zweckel (north), Rentfort (north west), Ellinghorst (south west), Butendorf (south, Kernort once south west of Gladbeck) and Braubauer (far south) belonged to the municipality of Gladbeck, which split off from Buer in 1885 and became its own Office was raised. In that year Gladbeck had 4,464 residents and Buer himself, with Horst and Westerholt, 7,715.

Schultendorf is separated from the actual Zweckel by the railway line to the Zweckel train station , and from Rentfort-Nord in the west the district is separated by an 80 to 250 meter wide green strip. The name of the settlement is based on the fact that it stretches from the location of the former Schulte-Zweckel farm in the north to the location of Schulte-Rebbelmund in the south-southwest (see also the adjacent map from the time of the German Empire ).

The old Rentfort is separated from Rentfort-Nord, which, in addition to the flowing continuation of Alt-Rentfort, consists of three somewhat separated new housing estates north and northeast of this, by Kirchhellener Strasse and Sandstrasse . From the core settlement of Alt-Rentfort, a narrower settlement stretches on both sides of Hegestrasse to the southwest until just before the Pilkington plant .

A sharp demarcation of the city center, divided into two segments by the railway line in the direction of Herne and Recklinghausen, to Schultendorf and Alt-Rentfort is formed by the railway line in the direction of Buer and Marl or Oberhausen .

The residential area of ​​Ellinghorst, which is narrow in a west-east direction, goes to the north close to Alt-Rentfort, but is separated in sections by a railway line, an almost 100 m wide green strip, Rockwool Straße and the north-easternmost section of Bottroper Straße. The segment of Ellinghorst east of the railway line from Oberhausen to Marl is uninhabited and ends to the north with the settlement of center 1, while the westernmost segment, beyond the western railway line, is only built on in the south.

The two southern districts of Butendorf and Brauck are separated to the northwest by the B 224 from Ellinghorst and Mitte, the route of the A 2 in turn separates the two districts from one another today. The Rosenhügel settlement in the extreme south-east of both Brauck and Gladbeck is part of an ECA settlement built between 1950 and 1955 , which continues in the ( Gelsenkirchen -) Beckhausen area. The district is usually not indicated by name on maps.

history

Pre-industrial society

Early historical finds such as the Gladbeck burial ground show settlement around 2000 BC. Chr.

Gladbeck is first mentioned in a register of the Werden monastery from the beginning of the 10th century as Gladbeki . On May 3, 1020 (correct 1019) Archbishop Heribert of Cologne (999-1021) is said to have transferred a courtyard [curtem] in Gladbeck, later Allinghof, to the Deutz Monastery as part of the foundation. The form is considered falsified, to what extent the content is correct has been discussed by the scholars O. Oppermann, H. Aubin, FW Oediger, AK Hömberg, E. Wisplinghoff, J. Milz and most recently W. Janssen for about 100 years. Evidence and evidence of place names in "Paul Derks: The settlement names of the city of Gladbeck, 2009". It could have meant "settlement on the shining, glittering brook" ( glad = bright, shiny, clear; beck = bach). In the list of possessions, later supplemented by notes in the Werdener Liber privilegiorum maior from the middle of the 12th century, Gladbeki and Gladebeke are mentioned.

The village with the five farmers (see below) was grouped around the St. Lamberti Church . It belonged to Vest Recklinghausen from 1180 to 1802 and was thus associated with Kurköln for the longest time . In the time of Napoleon , the municipality of Gladbeck was initially part of the Buer mayor and from 1844 to the Buer office in the Recklinghausen district in the Prussian province of Westphalia .

Period of coal mining 1873–1971

Former mining inspection (1905), now a music school
War damage in Gladbeck, Rentforter Strasse

The first mine was sunk in 1873 and coal was mined from 1878 . Gladbeck left the Buer office in 1885 and has since formed its own office. During the First World War there was a prisoner of war camp in Gladbeck, which became famous in 2005 for the Gladbeck camp money fund . The small village community grew into a medium-sized industrial settlement, which received town charter on July 21, 1919 (as the “youngest town in New Germany”, as the local newspaper wrote). In the meantime it had five pits. The years 1925–1929 had something of a small blooming phase in itself, in which important building projects could be carried out despite all the difficulties, for example:

In 1928 the investigations into the sex murder of the 19-year-old high school graduate Helmut Daube from Gladbeck pushed the transatlantic flight of the airship Graf Zeppelin out of the headlines.

Like all German cities, Gladbeck was “brought into line” after Hitler came to power in 1933 , under the previously elected conservative mayor Hackenberg, who immediately joined the NSDAP. Like many German cities, Gladbeck was badly damaged in the war , 43 percent in the inner city area. This made it one of the most heavily damaged cities in the Ruhr area . The heaviest air raid on Gladbeck, in which over 3,000 people were killed and around 40,000 became homeless, took place on March 24, 1945.

By 1960 the population rose to 84,000 and is now around 77,000. The last Gladbeck colliery, Graf Moltke , was closed in 1971, since then Gladbeck has been striving for structural change and fighting against unemployment.

Communal reorganization and recent history since 1975

During the municipal reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia, which came into force on January 1, 1975, the independent city of Gladbeck and the municipality of Kirchhellen (Recklinghausen district) became the neighboring city of Bottrop . Opponents of the reorganization criticized the low level of settlement on the border between Gladbeck and Bottrop and stated that Bottrop was only a little bigger than Gladbeck. Her slogan: " GlaBotKi is not".

The Higher Administrative Court of Münster , which was called upon by the former Gladbeck city director Rump, found in the "Nikolaus judgment" of December 6, 1975 that proximity to the citizen and higher administrative efficiency - the reasons for the reorganization - were not given. The unification was reversed and the local council election of 1975 to the ("large -") Bottrop local council declared invalid.

Since July 1, 1976, Gladbeck has belonged to the Recklinghausen district . The border with Dorsten and therefore with the rest of the district is less than 500 meters long and can only be crossed on foot or by bike. If you want to drive from Gladbeck to the rest of the district by car or public transport, you have to leave it beforehand and use Bottroper or Gelsenkirchen's urban area, which makes Gladbeck a “ functional exclave ” of the district.

Gladbeck was taken hostage in 1988

In August 1988, Gladbeck hit the headlines nationwide when a branch of Deutsche Bank in the Rentfort district was attacked and a hostage situation ensued. In this crime, known as the Gladbeck hostage drama, three people died.

politics

View of the historic town hall from Rentforter Strasse

Gladbeck and Bottrop form a Bundestag constituency (126: Bottrop - Recklinghausen III), the directly elected MP is Michael Gerdes (SPD).

With the largest part of Dorsten, Gladbeck forms the state electoral district of Recklinghausen III . Until 2010 the directly elected MP was Wolfgang Röken , since then it has been Michael Hübner (both SPD).

advice

Since the local elections on May 25, 2014, the city council has consisted of 46 members. It is composed like this:

fraction Seats
SPD 22nd
CDU 11
Green 3
The left 3
Social alliance in Gladbeck 3
Democratic Social Liberal Council Group 2
non-attached 2

The following list only includes parties and constituencies that received at least 1.95 percent of the votes in the respective election. The results for Gladbeck were:

year SPD CDU left Green 1 UBP FDP BIG Pirates DKP
1976 56.9% 32.9% 4.7% 5.6%
1979 52.9% 33.8% 4.6% 8.7%
1984 55.2% 29.6% 6.8% 1.6% 6.7%
1989 54.2% 27.7% 7.1% 3.1% 8.0%
1994 44.3% 34.8% 9.4% 1.7% 5.1% 4.7%
1999 39.7% 46.4% 4.3% 1.6% 5.1% 2.9%
2004 40.6% 37.1% 5.9% 3.6% 6.2% 4.5%
2009 46.1% 27.0% 6.5% 5.8% 4.3% 4.7% 1.8%
2014 47.3% 25.2% 6.0% 5.8% 2.9% 2.7% 2.6% 2.5% 1.4%

1 Greens: 1984 and 1989: Greens, from 1994: B'90 / Greens

mayor

City coat of arms in the new part of the town hall

On July 21, 1919, the Gladbeck office was granted city rights and has had a mayor since then. Until 1974/76 Gladbeck was independent, so since 1921 the official title was "Lord Mayor". Since then he has been called "Mayor". Since 1994 it has been a full-time position. The mayor is chairman of the council and head of administration.

The following mayors have presided over the municipality and city since 1885:

After decades of rule by the Social Democrats, mostly with an absolute majority, the Christian Democrat Eckhard Schwerhoff was elected (full-time) mayor by the council in 1994; this redesigned office without a city director at the same time was made possible prematurely by a NRW electoral reform. In the elections at that time, the ruling Social Democrats with the still honorary mayor Wolfgang Röken only narrowly missed an absolute majority. Since the full-time mayor by virtue of his office also has a voice in the council, a social-democratic mayor would have meant a stalemate in the council. That is why the Greens and the then new electoral association “Citizens in Gladbeck” decided, together with the CDU, to elect the administrative clerk Schwerhoff. Schwerhoff was a CDU member, but not actively involved in city politics.

In the local elections in 1999, when direct election of mayors was introduced across the board in North Rhine-Westphalia, Schwerhoff succeeded in being re-elected. Ulrich Roland (SPD) was elected as the new mayor in the runoff election for the local elections on October 10, 2004, for which Schwerhoff was no longer running.

coat of arms

Blazon: split by black and yellow and crowned with a red wall crown; A golden mallet and a golden iron crossed diagonally in front, three (2: 1) inclined black wolf rods in the back .

The Gladbeck city coat of arms, in black, red and gold, has a red battlement , this is a sign of the city's status acquired in 1919. In the front there is a black field that symbolizes coal, on top of which is mallets and irons for mining. The black hooks on the back are wolf fishing rods borrowed from the coat of arms of the Lords of Brabeck , who owned the Wittringen house at the end of the 14th century.

Town or municipality partnerships

Furthermore, there has been a partnership with a landing craft squadron of the German Navy since 1971.

Culture and sights

museum

Wittringen moated castle
Museum of the City of Gladbeck

In water Wittringen that's Museum of the City Gladbeck home. This is where the collections and the permanent exhibition on the history of Gladbeck and its surroundings are housed. The collections also include natural history objects from the fields of geology, mineralogy and paleontology. The permanent exhibition traces the development of the region from the natural history of mining (hard coal, lead and zinc ores) through the settlement and city history to the present.

  • The most important find is a forest wisent from the Gladbeck district of Brauck , one of the few almost completely preserved skeletons in Europe. The museum shows a copy.
  • The Young Bronze Age burial ground in Ellinghorst with a keyhole-shaped trench, two circular trenches and 203 cremations is presented with objects and images.
  • Also worth mentioning from prehistoric times are a Bronze Age so-called type ax and a themed area on the urn field, which was found in Gladbeck-Ellinghorst.
  • Roman coins are shown in the permanent exhibition.
  • The rooms on the history of the mining era, which for Gladbeck lasted from 1873 to 1971, are particularly typical of the local area. A reconstructed tunnel and the furnishing of a miner's apartment are part of it.
  • The storage of hard coal in the northern Ruhr area, which led to the creation of the mines on Gladbeck soil, is explained with a block model.
  • The museum also collects modern art, including (since 1986) computer art. It owns works by Joseph Beuys and Timm Ulrichs , among others .

The museum also has an educational offer: all subject areas of the collections and the permanent exhibition can be inquired about for school classes and groups, for example the time of knights, since the moated castle Wittringen was a knight's seat.

Art in public space

See: List of works of art in public space in Gladbeck

religion

Gladbeck, Christ Church
Holy Cross Church Gladbeck-Butendorf

Catholic churches

Due to the restructuring in the diocese of Essen , there has only been one large Catholic parish in Gladbeck since September 1, 2007, St. Lamberti. This consists of the six "communities":

For the so-called "other church", Christ the King in Schultendorf, which in future will no longer be financed from church tax funds, there is not yet a utilization concept. The St. Elisabeth church in Ellinghorst was sold to the fashion company "Grubenhelden" in 2019.

Protestant churches

Protestant houses of worship (after the profanation of the Lukas Church in Butendorf on May 4, 2008 and the Markus Church on May 11, 2008):

  • Christ Church, center
  • Martin Luther Church, Rentfort
  • Petruskirche, Brauck
  • Sankt Stephani Church, Zweckel

Evangelical Free Church House of God:

  • Evangelical Free Church Congregation (Baptists) Friedenskirche , Mitte

Others

New Apostolic Houses of God:

  • Community of Gladbeck-Mitte
  • Community of Gladbeck-Zweckel

In addition to the mosque in the Butendorf district, there are a number of other Islamic prayer rooms in Gladbeck (specific numbers are missing), but they do not necessarily appear as such to the outside world.

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , in 2011 27.6% of the population were Protestant , 38.7% were predominantly Roman Catholic and 33.7% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Catholics and Protestants has decreased since then. According to the city of Gladbeck, as of December 2019 33.1% are Catholic, 22.2% Protestant and 44.7% belong to other religious communities or are without a denomination.

Buildings

Former post office on Postallee, now a brewery
Cenotaph in memory of those who fell in the city of Gladbeck in the world wars
  • Community center Gladbeck-Ost, Bülser Strasse 172
  • Cenotaph in the Wittringer Forest (1932)
  • former Protestant Markuskirche, Bülser Strasse / corner Lindenstrasse, (1966–1968) by Albrecht E. Wittig and Fred Janowski; as since 2008 listed building, from 2009 to 2018 Martin Luther Forum Ruhr used
  • Outdoor swimming pool (1927–1928), Schützenstrasse
  • Indoor swimming pool, Bottroper Strasse
  • Wiesenbusch Innovation Center
  • Catholic Christ-King Church in the Schultendorf district (1927–1928), by Josef Franke
  • Catholic Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in the district of Butendorf, Horster Straße, (1912–1914), by Otto Müller-Jena
  • Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Kardinal-Hengsbach-Platz, in Zweckel (1912–1914), by Ludwig Becker and Wilhelm Sunder-Plaßmann
  • Catholic St. Josef Church in the Alt-Rentfort district (1934–1935), by Josef Franke
  • Catholic town house on Humboldtstrasse
  • Machine hall of the former Zweckel colliery in the Zweckel district (1909), industrial monument, machine hall with two headframes , can now be booked for social events
  • Mathias-Jakobs-Stadthalle, Friedrichstrasse 53
  • (Ditib) Mosque, Turkish, on Wielandstrasse, built in 1997, with a 25 m high minaret
  • Music school, Am Bernskamp, ​​built in 1905 as royal mining inspection 2
  • Former post office (1928), since 2003 restaurant brewery
  • Old Town Hall , formerly the Amtshaus (1908–1910), by Otto Müller-Jena
  • Neue Galerie Gladbeck, in the Rathauspark, Bottroper Straße, an exhibition forum for young and current contemporary art
  • New Town Hall, brick building (2006) in the style of New Urbanism
  • Stadion Gladbeck (1928), since 1986 under monument protection
  • City library, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 8
  • Adult Education Center in the Jovy Villa, Friedrichstrasse 55
  • Residential and commercial building, 1911–1913 based on designs by Emil Fahrenkamp for the businessman and community leader Anton Hahne, Hochstrasse 35/37

Stumbling blocks

On March 31, 2009 and July 9, 2010, at the initiative of the “Gladbeck Alliance for Courage”, so-called stumbling blocks were also laid in Gladbeck by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig . These square stones (10 × 10 cm) are flanged brass plates on concrete bodies in the pavement, which are meant to commemorate the victims of the extermination of the Jews and the political persecution under National Socialism by means of an inscription . The stumbling blocks "lie" spread out across the city. In December 2012, more stumbling blocks were laid.

Theater, cinema and music

The jazz festival and some other cultural events (e.g. in the machine hall Zeche Zweckel as part of the RuhrTriennale ) take place in Gladbeck. In the 1960s, Gladbeck had five cinemas: Schauburg, Metropol, Rex, Apollo, Capitol. The only cinema now is communal and is located in the city library.

Literary office

The “ Ruhr Literature Office ” has been based in Gladbeck since 1986 and awards the Ruhr Area Literature Prize , endowed by the Ruhr Regional Association , every autumn . The winners will receive a total of 15,110 € for poetic texts that refer to reality and art in the Ruhr area .

Green spaces

View from Oberhausen Gasometer to Gladbeck: at the second large chimney on the right the tower of the Lamberti Church, further left the brightly colored Sparkasse tower and a little further on the town hall tower. On the left in the picture the power plant in Scholven.

Approx. 600 hectares of publicly usable recreational areas are offered in the urban area. Of these, approx. 180 hectares of parks and playgrounds, approx. 200 hectares of urban forest and 200 hectares of recultivated piles of coal mining with paths. There are a total of 62 children's playgrounds and numerous play stations in the pedestrian zone in the city center. 34.7 hectares of allotment gardens and the city gardens Johowstrasse and Frochtwinkel / Schulstrasse with an area of ​​12.5 hectares contribute to the quality of leisure time. Two city garden houses can be rented for private celebrations.

Sports

  • The swimming club SV Gladbeck 13 provided some exceptional athletes in the history of swimming, such as the bronze medalist of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Michael Kraus .
  • The DJK Germania Gladbeck played in the Oberliga Westfalen in 2007/2008 .
  • The SV Zweckel plays in the season 2016/17 in Westphalia League first
  • The DLRG local group Gladbeck e. V. has been training swimmers and lifeguards since 1966.
  • The men's handball team of VfL Gladbeck has played in the 3rd League West since the 2012/2013 season.
  • The volleyball women of the Turnverein Gladbeck played in the 2nd Bundesliga North in 2009.
  • The men's water polo team at SV Gladbeck 13 played in the major league in 2010 and 2011.

Regular events

The Appeltatenfest (apple cake festival) is celebrated on the first weekend in September. The Appeltaten Queen is chosen for this. In May there is also the city festival “Gladbeck Total” and the music festival “Free & Outside”. In December there is the Zimtsternfest and the tower blowing.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Companies based in Gladbeck include: a .:

  • Borsig GmbH, on Bottroper Str., Belongs to the Borsig group and manufactures special equipment. In 2014 it had 100 employees.
  • CFT (CompactFiltertechnik), on Beisenstrasse in Ellinghorst, builds dedusting systems with 99.5% efficiency, has (2010) around 95 employees.
  • Deutsche Rockwool Mineralwoll-GmbH , stone wool production in Ellinghorst, 1,100 employees throughout Germany, 600 of them in Gladbeck (2011).
  • Surteco, on Beisenstrasse, produces plastic edging and has 1,200 employees worldwide, 450 of them in Gladbeck (2012).
  • Former GAT catalysts GmbH, produced diesel soot particle filters that did not conform to standards. GAT had 165 employees at Haldenstrasse 18 and a branch in Eisenach. The company became insolvent on May 21, 2010.
  • Hitzing & Paetzold GmbH, in the Wiesenbusch innovation center west of the Gladbeck center between the Rentfort district and the A31 motorway, is the German market leader for engine control unit repairs and employs 17 specialists here (2013).
  • Ineos Phenol, on Dechenstrasse in Zweckel, operates the world's largest plant for phenol production and employs 286 people in Gladbeck (2012).
  • Klingenburg GmbH produces heat exchangers in Brauck and has around 400 employees worldwide in 2012 and 220 in Gladbeck.
  • Pilkington , glass manufacture in Rentfort
  • RBH Logistics GmbH , Güterbahnen, with 572 employees (2015).
  • TCM (Tool Consulting & Management) is an automotive supplier on Haldenstr. 18 with (2014) 35 in Gladbeck and a total of 480 employees.
  • The Russian bank VTB Direkt with its Austrian head office has a department in Gladbeck. Gladbeck is used as the postal address.

Employees subject to social security contributions

As of December 31, 2002

Business Employees
absolutely relative
Agriculture, forestry, fishing 71 0.5%
Manufacturing 6,010 37.9%
trade 2,738 17.3%
Hospitality 271 1.7%
Transport and communications 750 4.7%
Banking and insurance 389 2.5%
Business services 1,426 9.0%
Public administration u. Ä. 840 5.3%
Public and private services (excluding public administration) 3,345 21.1%
total 15,480 100.0%

Land use

Status: December 31, 2003, figures in hectares

Land use surface
in hectares relative
Built up area 1,322.84 36.8%
Agricultural area 998.31 27.8%
Operating area 156.88 4.4%
Recreation area 202.58 5.6%
traffic area 473.87 13.2%
Forest area 316.55 8.8%
Water surface 69.89 1.9%
Other use 49.53 1.4%
total 3,590.45 99.9%

traffic

Road traffic

Gladbeck is connected to the trunk road network via the motorways and junctions listed below.

  • A 2 ( E 34 ): Oberhausen – Dortmund – Hannover – Berlin (junction 5: Essen / Gladbeck, junction 4: Gladbeck-Ellinghorst)
  • A 31 : Bottrop – Gronau – Emden (junction 41: Gladbeck)
  • A 52 : Marl-Nord – Gelsenkirchen – Gladbeck (junction 42: Gelsenkirchen Buer-West / Gladbeck)
  • B 224 : Raesfeld – Erle – Dorsten – Gladbeck – Essen – Velbert – Wuppertal – Solingen; Junction: Gladbeck-Zentrum, junction: Gladbeck Castle Wittringen , motorway junction: Gladbeck A 2 , junction: Gladbeck-Kösheide

The Mitte district is connected to the Rentfort and Schultendorf districts via the Europabrücke.

Public transportation

Gladbeck is about the district of Recklinghausen the transport association Rhein-Ruhr connected. The NRW tariff has been in effect for connections outside the VRR and within North Rhine-Westphalia since mid-2005 .

railroad
Bf Gladbeck West
Hp Gladbeck Ost

Gladbeck has three train stations:

The Gladbeck train stations are served by the following lines

Moreover, there is in Gladbeck a private track network for Zechenbahn operation of Ruhrkohle AG . The next long-distance train station with ICE and IC / EC traffic is Essen main station .

Bus and tram

The bus connections within Gladbeck and to the neighboring cities are part of the Vestische trams network , with the exception of bus routes 188 and 189, which are operated by Busverkehr Rheinland GmbH. The formerly existing tram lines 10 and 17 were discontinued in 1976 and 1978. The most important hubs of the bus routes are the Gladbeck Oberhof bus station in the city center and the Goetheplatz stop, which is also centrally located in the city center . The bus station Gladbeck Oberhof is curiously in the immediate vicinity of the railway line Dorsten Dortmund with the RB43, without any possibility to change this to offer. The trains stop at Gladbeck Ost station, 300 m further north . However, there are now plans to merge the two nodes .

media

The local daily newspaper is the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ); until the local edition was discontinued at the end of March 2006, there was also the Ruhr Nachrichten (RN). The " Stadtspiegel Gladbeck" is a free advertising paper .

The local radio radio Emscher Lippe reports on all the news from the neighboring cities of Bottrop and Gelsenkirchen as well as from Gladbeck.

education

In Gladbeck there is a city music school and a community college . The Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen-Buer is in the immediate vicinity.

Ratsgymnasium, the oldest grammar school in Gladbeck, near the city center

There is also:

  • 11 primary schools with 13 school locations
  • a secondary school (Erich Fried School)
  • a comprehensive school (Ingeborg-Drewitz-Gesamtschule, formerly called the comprehensive school Rentfort-Nord)
  • three secondary schools (Werner von Siemens secondary school, Anne Frank secondary school, Erich Kästner secondary school)
  • three grammar schools ( Heisenberg grammar school , Ratsgymnasium , Riesener grammar school )
  • two vocational colleges (one of which is private and sponsored by an association belonging to Caritas), each with a vocational high school
  • a free Waldorf school
  • a special school with a special focus on learning
  • a special school with a special focus on intellectual development

In the Brauck school center, an all-day school is housed in a secondary school and a secondary school.

The primary schools in Gladbeck are without exception being expanded to open all-day primary schools.

The city of Gladbeck operates four children's and youth facilities as extracurricular educational locations:

  • Leisure center Karo (Schachtstraße 51, now also the headquarters of the youth art school Gladbeck)
  • Kinderhaus Kotten Never
  • Brauck leisure center
  • Rentfort leisure center

Personalities

Others

The city of Gladbeck was part of RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture. The Local Heros Week in Gladbeck took place from September 26th to October 2nd, 2010. Active cultural contributions were made to RUHR.2010 throughout the year - plus the big events SchachtZeichen , Sing and Still-Leben Ruhrschnellweg .

Children's and Youth University

Gladbeck received a children's university in autumn 2006. Various courses are offered, such as computers, mathematics, languages ​​and many other subject areas. The project started on September 8, 2006. The child and youth university is run by the municipal youth care organization.

Sponsorship in the German Navy

The city of Gladbeck has sponsored two units of the German Navy. These are the two multi-purpose landing craft L762 Lachs and L765 Schlei of class 520 , which are stationed with the Marine Specialized Forces in Eckernförde.

Technical relief organization Gladbeck / Dorsten

The Gladbeck / Dorsten technical aid organization is stationed in Gladbeck. This local association has two rescue groups and the water damage / pumps specialist group. The accommodation is located on Stollenstraße.

literature

  • Ludwig Bette: Festschrift for the inauguration of the new office building of the community Gladbeck iW on December 6, 1910. History of the community Gladbeck. Gladbeck 1910.
  • Frank Bajohr : Displaced years. Gladbeck under the swastika. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1983, ISBN 3-88474-103-9 .
  • Ludger Tewes : Middle Ages on the Lippe and Ruhr. Reimar Hobbing Verlag, Essen 2nd edition 1988, pp. 49–114, ISBN 3-920460-40-5 .
  • Rainer Weichelt: History of the City of Gladbeck. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2004, ISBN 3-8313-1332-6 .
  • Paul Derks : The settlement names of the city of Gladbeck. Linguistic and historical research. 1st edition, City of Gladbeck, Gladbeck 2009, ISBN 978-3-923815-47-0 .
  • Harald Landgraf: You my Gladbeck. Multifaceted city between the Emscher and Lippe. Anno-Verlag, Ahlen 2015, ISBN 978-3-939256-28-1 .
  • Katrin Bürgel / Ludger Tewes: War culture and experience in the Westphalian office of Gladbeck 1914–1918. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8375-1579-4 .
  • Ralph Eberhard Brachthäuser: The craftsmen's move in 1950. Gladbeck has never seen anything like it. In: Vestischer Kalender 2019, 90th year, Recklinghausen 2018, ISSN 0938-8745, pp. 184–190.
  • Ralph Eberhard Brachthäuser: With passion for our city. The women and men of the first Gladbeck city council. Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8107-0308-8 .

Web links

Commons : Gladbeck  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ^ E-mail correspondence with the town hall on Jan. 16, 2015
  3. ↑ Population statistics of the city of Gladbeck with an overview of the city districts on p. 3 and population statistics on p. 5. (Status: June 30, 2013; PDF; 1.0 MB).
  4. ↑ not to be confused with the brewery , the former name of Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck .
  5. ↑ Rosenhügel , WAZ .
  6. ^ Wolfgang Leesch: Administration in Westphalia 1815-1945 . In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . tape 38 . Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-06845-1 .
  7. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 237 .
  8. ↑ AC Grayling: The Dead Cities: Were Allied Bombing War Crimes? Goldmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-15542-2 , p. 388.
  9. ↑ a b c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 311 .
  10. ^ Lists of the results of the local elections for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (LDS NRW) from 1976 to 2004.
  11. ↑ Elective profile of the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NW ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.it.nrw.de
  12. ↑ Election results 1999  ( 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. (PDF file; 5.6 MB).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / webshop.it.nrw.de  
  13. ↑ 2004 election results  ( 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. (PDF file; 6.7 MB).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / webshop.it.nrw.de  
  14. ↑ Election results 2009  ( 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. (PDF file; 3.3 MB).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / webshop.it.nrw.de  
  15. ^ Chronology of the mayors of Gladbeck , City of Gladbeck
  16. ↑ a b The referenced website of the city of Gladbeck indicates for Schulte “30.03 1945-14.06. 1945 ”and for Olejnik“ 14.06. – 25.10. 1946 “from; apparently it is a mistake and the same June 14th, which was either 1945 or 1946.
  17. ↑ See up to 2004: Rainer Weichelt: History of the City of Gladbeck . Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2004, p. 122.
  18. ↑ Gladbeck.de , accessed on June 9, 2010.
  19. ↑ Fashion instead of mass - good luck, Elisabeth Church! , WAZ, Glabeck edition, December 19, 2019, accessed on December 20, 2019.
  20. ^ City of Gladbeck Religion , 2011 census
  21. ↑ Population by religious affiliation in the city districts of Gladbeck , accessed on May 15, 2020
  22. ↑ POPULATION STATISTICS of the city of Gladbeck December 31, 2018 , accessed on July 3, 2019
  23. ↑ The sponsoring association has stopped operating the forum. In: WAZ. from July 10, 2018.
  24. ↑ rbh-logistics.com: RBH in numbers. (No longer available online.) In: www.rbh-logistics.com. Archived from the original on July 1, 2016 ; accessed on June 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rbh-logistics.com
  25. ↑ monuments. from: heimatverein-gladbeck.de , accessed on June 2, 2013.
  26. ↑ Georg Meinert: Vestische relies on the bus station with short distances. In: WAZ.de. August 18, 2013, accessed March 12, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Georg Meinert: The tunnel will soon be obsolete. In: NRZ . July 30, 2013, accessed March 12, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Relocation of the train station and renovation of the Oberhof from 2016. In: WAZ. August 20, 2014, accessed March 12, 2017 .
  29. ↑ Marcus Esser: Conversion of Ost Bahnhof from 2016. In: WAZ. September 15, 2013, accessed March 12, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Georg Meinert: Kombibahnsteig allows quick transfers. In: WAZ. April 21, 2014, accessed March 12, 2017 .
  31. ^ Rainer Holstein: In a boat with salmon and tench. In: WAZ. December 29, 2009. Retrieved March 12, 2017 .