Loddenheide
The Loddenheide is a 0.9 km² large commercial and industrial area in the southeast of Münster in Westphalia . It was used by the military until 1993. In 1996, the development of the site into today's Münster-Loddenheide industrial park began, and in 1998 marketing began. The specialty is the peace park integrated in the middle of the industrial park with the peace chapel and the peace chestnut planted by the Dalai Lama in 1998 .
Location and distribution
The Loddenheide is located in the southeast of Münster between the Hansaviertel and Gremmendorf . It is significantly limited in the north by the federal highway 51 , in the east by the Albersloher Weg, in the south by the street An den Loddenbüschen and in the west by the Dortmund-Ems Canal . The total area is 0.9 km². It is divided into 0.061 km² (6.8%) public traffic areas, 0.157 km² (17.5%) public green areas, 0.007 km² (0.8%) private green areas and 0.674 km² (74.9%) building areas. The construction areas in turn are divided into 0.09 km² (14.7%) core area, 0.195 km² (28.9%) industrial area, 0.375 km² (55.7%) commercial area, 0.004 km² (0.6%) areas for public use and 0.001 km² (0.1%) areas for supply systems.
Münster-Loddenheide business park
The Loddenheide is considered an exemplary conversion project in terms of a sustainable urban planning and development process . The Münster-Loddenheide business park has developed into an attractive location for industrial, commercial, commercial and service companies since 1998.
The usage concept of the 66 hectare industrial and commercial area is based on a cooperation between the city of Münster , Sparkasse Münsterland Ost and Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank as part of a public-private partnership . For this purpose, they founded the Münster-Loddenheide GmbH (GML) industrial park in 1996, which bought the site. The reactivation of the wasteland had two priorities: the creation of high-quality commercial areas with resource-saving development and the creation of a park with green areas, ponds and walking paths. The park is freely accessible from all sides and is around 12.5 hectares in size.
The heart of the Münster-Loddenheide industrial park is the Peace Chapel, inaugurated in 1953. It is intended to symbolize the peaceful use of the site. All streets in the business park were named after Nobel Peace Prize winners : Willy Brandt , Dag Hammarskjöld , Martin Luther King , Fridtjof Nansen , Linus Pauling , Gustav Stresemann and Bertha von Suttner . In 1998, the year development started, the Dalai Lama planted a peace chestnut in the Peace Park.
In 1998 the Wirtschaftsförderung Münster GmbH started marketing the areas for trade and logistics, for classic and large-scale businesses, for companies with future-oriented architecture and sustainable production and sales structures (“Workplaces of the Future”) and for “Work on the Park” on behalf of GML ". Mosecker, a specialist wholesaler for building services, was the first to open a new location on Loddenheide in 2000. In 2001 the first office property ('Deilmann Park') was realized.
Ten years after the start of marketing, 64 percent of the space had been sold and around 2,450 people worked there for 63 companies. At the beginning of 2013 over 80% had been sold. Recently, a few companies and institutions were added that opened an office or administrative location in the industrial park, for example the main customs office (2011), GWS Gesellschaft für Warenwirtschafts-Systeme mbH (2012), an IT company called Eucon (2013), which Customs risk analysis (2014), the 'Studienwerk der Steuerberater in NRW eV' (2015), the German Pharmacists Association Westphalia-Lippe Pharmacists' Association (2015) and the Regional Finance Directorate NRW . In the building, which was inaugurated in 2016, there are also the 'Tax Office for Large and Group Tax Audits Münster', the 'Tax Office for Criminal Tax Matters and Tax Investigations' and the Münster branch of the State Office for Salaries and Supply in North Rhine-Westphalia (LBV).
Peace park
About 18% of the area of the Loddenheide are designated as public green spaces, which are spread over the entire area. The aim is to imitate the typical Münsterland park landscape on these areas . The green areas should clearly separate the individual businesses from one another and be provided with individual trees, groups of trees, hedges and natural hollows. They stand in contrast to the other areas that are used commercially. The green spaces are divided into three zones from north to south.
In the northern zone there are groups of trees with silver linden and at prominent points with horse chestnuts. They should shield the manufacturing industry.
The middle area is a large recreational area with relics of the former shooting range in the middle. This is the concrete sculpture The old shooting wall by the Hamburg artist Gabriele Staarmann . The ensemble consists of a total of 15 pink colossi, each weighing up to five tons.
Further features are the "Friedenslinden" and a horse chestnut with a memorial stone planted on June 7, 1998 by the 14th Dalai Lama ( Tendzin Gyatsho ) . Several benches are set up along the various paths in this area. Another special feature is a range of games for children in the middle of an industrial park.
The southern part is again planted with larger groups of silver linden trees. Here, too, natural hollows were created in which wet meadows and reed beds can form. In addition, the original, formative population of trees and plants was preserved in the An den Loddenbüschen and An der Loddenheide areas.
Almost exactly in the center of the Loddenheide, on the edge of the Friedenspark, is the Friedenskapelle, the former English garrison band All saints chapel, in which various concerts have been performed since 2003 .
history
There are several views as to the origin of the name. The name probably goes back to capelin or loden , which was used to describe new plantings of particularly young trees. It was originally 2,115 acres (5.2875 km²) and surrounded by hedgerows. It was mainly used as pasture, for hunting and fishing.
During the Seven Years' War between 1756 and 1763, the Loddenheide was used for the first time as a military camp by the Allies allied with Prussia . After the troops withdrew, it was again used for military purposes from 1802 to 1806, when Münster was occupied by Prussian troops after the death of the last prince-bishop. During this time it served primarily as a parade ground and training ground.
The subdivision of the Loddenheide began in 1822 and continued until November 5, 1829. An area of around 420 acres (1.05 km²) was sold to the Prussian military in 1827 at a price of 10,500 Reichstalers . It roughly corresponded to today's area of the Loddenheide. Except for the shooting ranges, however, the area was still open to the general public.
In the summer of 1836, the first horse race in Westphalia took place on the parade ground, hosted by the Westphalian Riding Club . The races were to be held regularly until 1897.
After the Prussian military acquired a new, larger training area north of Münster in 1906, the Loddenheide was only rarely used for exercises. There was a more intensive use by the population. Encouraged by the first successful flight attempts by the Wright brothers in the USA , thoughts arose in Münster to become active in aviation and to found an air sports club. The extensive area offered ideal conditions for this. Anton Knubel and Karl Rösner began designing and building aircraft, the first test flights of which took place in 1910 on the Loddenheide. On the evening of September 8, 1915, Anton Knubel crashed fatally on a test flight on the Loddenheide.
During this time the Luftschiffahrtsverein Münster for Münster and the Münsterland eV organized the first flight days on the grounds of the Loddenheide, which in the following years were to develop into real folk festivals with dance and fair and were called "Heidefest". The first flight day took place in June 1911. A special event was June 9, 1912, when the Zeppelin Viktoria Luise visited Münster and landed on the Loddenheide. The first visit of a zeppelin was observed and celebrated by thousands of Münster residents. The largest flight day, however, was June 15, 1930, when over 100,000 spectators greeted the Graf Zeppelin airship .
At the time of the First World War , it was rather quiet around the Loddenheide, as there were no more flight days. For this purpose, an ammunition depot was built on Loddenheide after the depot on Warendorfer Strasse was destroyed by an explosion.
After the end of the First World War and the restriction of the German armed forces, the Loddenheide was no longer needed for the military. The city of Münster wanted to use the site as an airport and won out against the Westphalian Riding Club, which wanted to use it for equestrian sports. One of the first users was the air force of the security police. The squadron was disbanded on April 14, 1920.
In the same year, however, the scheduled air traffic of Lloyd-Luftverkehr and Junkers-Luft-Verkehrs-AG started. The first flight connection between Münster and Bremen was subsidized by the Reich Postal Ministry . It was discontinued in 1922 due to low demand. Scheduled air traffic was resumed in 1925 when Junkers-Luftverkehr-AG opened the Hamburg - Bremen - Münster - Essen route. After the founding of Deutsche Luft Hansa AG in January 1926, Münster dropped out of this route at the beginning of February; there were no more stopovers. Instead, a new route to Cologne was opened from June 1, 1926 , and to the North Sea baths from August 1926. Despite regular investments by the city of Münster, the establishment of the Luftverkehrsgesellschaft Münster GmbH on January 10, 1928 and the establishment of Flughafen Münster GmbH on April 19, 1929, flight operations were discontinued by a resolution of the city's municipal authorities in 1930. Instead, a larger area was sought for a new airport and found near Handorf in 1934, where the Münster-Handorf airfield was built in 1935 .
The year 1933 brought a profound change when the Reichswehr claimed the Loddenheide again for itself. On April 27, 1934, construction began on an air base where a reconnaissance squadron was to be stationed. In addition, approx. 161 hectares of land were bought, but this is no longer part of today's Loddenheide. Fixed runways were built during the construction work . Until the beginning of the Second World War , the air base was continuously built and expanded continuously. Nothing is known about the exact development during the war.
After the Second World War, the Loddenheide was used by the British Army of the Rhine and was a restricted military area . From 1980 it was marked as commercial space in the zoning plan ; in the fall of 1993 the last British forces withdrew from the site. Then all buildings on the site with the exception of the chapel were demolished and the infrastructure completely rebuilt. The Münster-Loddenheide-GmbH (GML) business park, owner of the commercial space, has been organizing the marketing since 1996. The Münster Economic Development Corporation has been commissioned to do this.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ muenster.de
- ↑ muenster.de
- ↑ http://www.muenster.de/stadt/exwost/projekt_V1.html
- ↑ http://www.muenster.de/stadt/exwost/beispiel_I2.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ muenster.de
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ In some parts of the city Münster will be tight in the future
- ↑ http://www.muensterschezeitung.de/lokales/muenster/Fuenf-Dienststellen-unter-einem-Dach-vereint;art993,1281793
- ↑ http://www.gws-muenster.de/aktuelles/news_html?mitid=104
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ http://www.derwald.de/presse/aktuelles/news-detail/article/zora-ein-weiteres-derwald-projekt-in-muenster.html
- ↑ http://www.presse-service.de/data.cfm/static/890757.html?CFID=18429280&CFTOKEN=65143902
- ↑ [3]
- ^ Clear commitment to Münster
- ↑ muenster.de
- ↑ 100 years of the free balloon association - exhibition from Friday - Münstersche Zeitung from October 8, 2009
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