Münster-Geistviertel

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The water tower is considered the landmark of the Geistviertel and defines its skyline.

The Geistviertel is a district of the independent city of Münster in Westphalia and is located in the Mitte district . The district was built after the end of the First World War based on the model of a garden city in order to alleviate the ongoing housing shortage in the city. The model settlement Habichtshöhe / Grüner Grund, built between 1924 and 1931, is known and "in its entirety a monument of supra-local importance" .

The name Geistviertel goes back to the farming community Geist in the former rural community of Lamberti, incorporated into Münster on April 1, 1903. The term Geist ( feminine , the same word as Geest ) is already used in the Middle Ages and refers to the north-south Axis of the Münsterländer gravel belt , which is higher and drier than its surroundings. The term “on the ghost” for the district also relates to the gravel ridge, whereby the term “on the ghost” for the area of ​​the gravel ridge is older than the quarter itself.

location and size

The northern border of the Geistviertel is the Donders-Ring. In the west, the Geistviertel borders on Weseler Strasse on the Aaseestadt , further south it borders on the A 43 on Mecklenbeck in the west . In the east the area borders the Spirit Street and further south at the Hammer road to the south quarter . In the south-east, the Geistviertel borders on the railway line to Prussia (district of Lünen an der Lippe) on Berg Fidel . Nordkirchenweg forms the southern edge of the Geistviertel.

The Geistviertel has an area of ​​approx. 360 hectares , which corresponds to 1.19% of the entire urban area of ​​the city of Münster.

Statistical districts

Essentially, the Geistviertel consists of the statistical districts Geist (8929 inhabitants, as of December 31, 2011) and Düesberg (6992 inhabitants, as of December 31, 2011), which are separated by the bypass road ( B 51 ) completed in 1960 . The Geist district, in the statistical definition of the city of Münster, thus extends from Donders-Ring to the B51, the Düesberg district from the B51 to Nordkirchenweg.

Postcode areas

The northern part of the Geistviertel, north of the bypass road and the Düesbergweg settlement community, belong to the zip code area 48151. The southern part of the Geistviertel is located in two other zip code areas. The southeastern part, east of Kappenberger Damm, belongs to zip code area 48153. The southwestern part, Kappenberger Damm and west of it, belongs to zip code area 48163.

Infrastructure

Weekly market on the ghost market

The Geistviertel is a popular residential area with "very good" infrastructure . It is a quiet residential area close to the city center. The walk from the Heilig-Geist-Kirche to Prinzipalmarkt , the center of the city of Münster, is 2.6 km. A weekly market takes place twice a week on the Geistmarkt (own street name since November 2007) .

From 1966 to July 31, 2007, the district had its own indoor swimming pool , the Stadtbad-Süd , which the city of Münster closed and demolished for financial reasons.

schools

The following schools are located in the Geistviertel:

Day care centers

There are 6 day-care centers in the statistical district of Geist , these offer 74 childcare places for children under 3 years of age and 241 places for children from 3 to 6 years of age. For 3 to 6-year-old children, the number of childcare options covers the number of children in the statistical district by 111.6%.

In the statistical district of Düesberg there are 3 day-care centers, these offer 40 places for children under 3 years of age and 114 places for 3 to 6-year-old children.

Churches

Park Sentmaring in winter 2011
  • Christ Church Münster of the Evangelical Free Church Congregation Münster ( Baptists )
  • Gnadenkirche (Protestant Johannes-Kirchengemeinde Münster) was completed in 1961.
  • St. Gottfried
  • Holy Spirit Church
  • Trinitatiskirche (Ev. Thomasgemeinde, Trinitatis district, Münster), also called “the little one on the ghost”, was built in 1924 as a temporary solution and third Protestant church in Münster and rebuilt from 1949; since 2011 also the place of worship for the old Catholic community.
Haus Geist around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

hospital

The Clemenshospital has been located on the site of the former Geist house since 1959 .

District parks

The following district parks are located in the Geistviertel:

  • Park Sentmaring (here is the grave of Father Leppich , the "machine gun of God")
  • Düesberg Park
  • Sternbusch Park

fire Department

Fire fighting train 09 - Geist , the 9th fire brigade of the city of Münster, is located in the Geistviertel .

Buildings

East facade of the spirit school

Notable buildings are the neo-Romanesque water tower (built in the open from 1901 to 1903), the Heilig-Geist-Kirche (1926–29) in the New Building style and the spirit school (1929), whose architecture was designed by Karl Schirmeyer and Felix Sittel is based on the adjacent spiritual church.

Office tower of the WL Bank

Office tower of the WL Bank

The WL Bank office tower is the only high-rise in the Geistviertel. Built from 1972 to 1978 by the architects Herbert Remmert, Herta-Maria Witzemann and Wolfgang Stadelmaier, with a height of 51 meters, it is one of the tallest non-church buildings in Münster.

Schützenhof bunker

Schützenhof bunker from 1942/43

The Schützenhof bunker was built in 1942 and 1943, and during the Second World War it offered space for 1,500 people. During a major attack on November 18, 1944, a bomb hit the Schützenhof bunker. Inmates were killed by falling concrete parts. A total of 68 people were recovered dead from the rubble. From 2000 to 2012 the Schützenhofbunker served as a rehearsal center for local bands. Long distance calling was founded and practiced here, among other things .

Natural monuments

The Geistviertel is home to a number of natural monuments . The choices are:

  • Park Sentmaring is home to several trees listed as natural monuments: plane trees , pedunculate oaks , red beeches , blood beeches and hanging beeches , a multi-stemmed horse magnolia
  • A row of 13 English oak trees on Kappenberger Damm between Inselbogen and bypass road
  • the park south of Gut Insel is home to trees listed as a natural monument and a bald cypress
  • in each case a row of trees of eight oaks at the south end of the LAP road and from 26 oaks from there to the Clemens-Hospital
  • A row of eleven English oaks and four other English oaks on the Düesbergweg as well as six robinia here at the St. Gottfried Church

Settlement development

Before the urban settlement, the Geist was used for agriculture and settled. In 1920, City Surveyor Clemens Brand presented the Geist development plan , which envisaged development for the area between Weseler Straße and Kappenberger Damm in the west, Geiststraße and Hammer Straße in the east and the railway line to Wanne in the south. The construction of the settlement began on the Geist around 1921. Many larger settlement units were built by settlement cooperatives, a few large non-profit housing associations and a few small building associations on the Geist.

Green ground at the height of the Habicht monument

From 1924 to 1931, under the lead architects Gustav Wolf (until 1927) and Eugen Lauffer from the Westfälische Heimstätte, the garden city Habichtshöhe / Grüner Grund with 650 residential units was built in the homeland security style. The construction of settlements on the Geist progressed rapidly over the years:

“No part of the city in Münster has seen such strong development in the years after the war as the south, the formerly almost completely rural Geist. Anyone who knew the conditions before the war and sees the spirit again today will hardly recognize them again. The new settlements extend over long stretches of fields from the past and have even spread into the beautiful forests of the Düesberg bush and far exceeded the railway to Wanne. "

- Franz Zons : Festschrift from 1929 (35.3 kB; PDF). Website of the Holy Spirit Parish of Münster. Retrieved September 7, 2010.

During the global economic crisis , non-profit housing construction came to a standstill. After 1931, several small settlements emerged on the Geist , for example Horst-Wessel -iedlung (1934, today Ascheberger Strasse, Davensberger Strasse, Rinkerodeweg), Siedlungsgemeinschaft Düesbergweg (1936).

At the end of the Second World War , after the occupation by the Allies , reconstruction began in Münster in April 1945. In the Geist district , over 60% of the buildings were destroyed.

The badly damaged model settlement Habichtshöhe / Grüner Grund was rebuilt in its original form. The buildings were extensively renovated in 1978 in coordination with the preservation authorities . The residential area is due to its urban and architectural history meaning under monument protection .

Example of the redensification of the Geistviertel

Non-profit housing construction was resumed at the beginning of the 1950s, for example the row house settlement on Werneweg, which was later re-densified, and other row houses on Habichtshöhe.

The settlement development of the Geistviertel after the reconstruction is characterized by densification and modernization of existing living space. While the original garden city character has largely been preserved in the part of the Geistviertel district near the city center, north of the bypass road, among other things through careful renovation of the model settlement Habichtshöhe / Grüner Grund , much of it was lost in the southern part through densification. For example, the automated property register shows a share of 14.1% of the total area for recreation in the northern part. This is the third highest proportion of recreational space in Münster after the statistical districts of Schloss and Kinderhaus-West. For the southern part of the Geistviertel this proportion is 9.9%. A citizens' initiative was founded in 2012 by residents around Brunnenplatz to counteract the densification caused by the demolition of old settlement houses and new developments with condominiums in the southern part of the Geistviertel .

Car-free settlement Weißenburg

On the site of the former New Train barracks, built around 1910 by the Westphalian Train Battalion No. 7 , which later became Hindenburg barracks and, after the military use was abandoned after the Second World War, also Weißenburg barracks , was built on Weißenburgstrasse Conversion from 1983 two new residential complexes in the Geistviertel: Breisacher Weg / Hagenauer Weg (40 single and multi-family houses) based on the model of Grüner Grund and from 1997 the car-free garden settlement Weißenburg (138 apartments). Since 2004, 70 houses have been built in the new Südterrasse residential area on Werlandstrasse, directly on the railway line to Wanne-Eickel . The service and residential park Haus Sentmaring has also been under construction east of Weseler Strasse and south of Sentmaringer Weg since 2004 .

Housing market

The housing market in the Geistviertel is characterized by a very low vacancy rate for rental apartments, below-average apartment sizes, below-average household incomes and above-average rent per square meter.

The postcode area 48151 with the northern part of the Geistviertel recorded the lowest vacancy rate in the Münster city area in 2008, less than a third of the average for the city of Münster. In the postcode area 48153, the vacancy rate is still only two thirds of the urban average.

The average apartment size in the two postcode areas mentioned is the smallest in the entire city. At the same time, the average purchasing power of households is the lowest here, more than 10% below the urban average. The statistical districts Geist and Düesberg, which make up the Geistviertel, with 56% and 46%, together with the statistical district Aaseestadt (48%), have the lowest proportion of single-person households of all statistical districts in the Mitte district. The proportion of households with children, at 15.6% and 18.6%, is again the highest proportion in the Mitte district.

In the two postcode areas 48151 and 48153, more than € 10 / m² / month basic rent, the urban average for this market segment, is paid for higher-quality living space. The average cold rent in the lower market segment in postcode area 48151 is the second highest after postcode area 48147, which essentially consists of the northeastern Kreuzviertel and Uppenberg .

literature

  • Ursula Richard-Wiegandt (Author), City Director of the City of Münster, City Planning Office (Ed.): The Settlement Growth of the City of Münster from the 19th Century to the Second World War. Edition 2000, 1991. Senior City Director of the City of Münster, City Planning Office, Münster 1991, ISBN 3-921290-56-2 , pp. 68–95. Secondary title: Münster, from provincial to district capital.
  • Ursula Richard-Wiegandt (author), the Oberstadtdirektor Münster - City Planning Office (ed.): The new Münster - 50 years of reconstruction and urban development 1945–1995. Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH & Co., Münster 1996, ISBN 3-402-05374-8 , pp. 179-185.
  • Ursula Richard-Wiegandt (author), City of Münster, Urban Planning Office (ed.): Münster and its districts - 30 years of incorporation 1975–2005; Urban development from the early beginnings to 2010. Aschendorff Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-402-00393-7 , pp. 155–167.

Web links

Commons : Münster-Geistviertel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sylvaine Hänsel: History, architecture and urban development in Münster. In: Sylvaine Hänsel and Stefan Rethfeld: Architekturführer Münster. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-496-01276-4 , p. 22.
  2. ^ Office for Urban Development, Urban Planning, Transport Planning of the City of Münster: Explanation for the draft of the development plan No. 518: Weseler Straße 225–241 / Althoffstraße. P. 2 ( PDF file; 0.2 MB ). Website of the city of Münster. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
  3. ^ A b c d e Sylvaine Hänsel, Stefan Rethfeld: Architecture Guide Münster. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-496-01276-4 , p. 201 f.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang R. Krabbe: The incorporation and urban expansion of Münster in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Subtitle: Population pressure, urban space requirements and compulsory state-municipal administrative action. In: Helmut Lahrkamp (editor): Contributions to city history. Volume 11. Aschendorff, Münster 1984, ISBN 3-402-05538-4 , p. 151. Series: Sources and research on the history of the city of Münster.
  5. ↑ Ursula Richard-Wiegandt (author), senior city director of the city of Münster, city planning office (ed.): The settlement growth of the city of Münster from the 19th century to the Second World War. Edition 2000, 1991. Senior City Director of the City of Münster, City Planning Office, Münster 1991, ISBN 3-921290-56-2 , pp. 16-17. Secondary title: Münster, from provincial to district capital.
  6. ^ Jost Trier (author), Hans Schwarz (editor): ways of etymology . Volume 101. Publisher E. Schmidt, Berlin 1981. ISBN 3-503-01625-2 , p. 27. Series: Philological studies and sources.
  7. ^ Joseph Prinz: Mimigernaford-Munster. Aschendorff, Münster 1960, ISBN 3-402-05210-5 , p. 38 f.
  8. ↑ Angela Weiper: "You live here on the ghost". Retrieved on January 20, 2011 (publication by Medienhaus Lensing).
  9. ↑ Still used today, among other things, as a name for the water tower, a family doctor's practice, a pharmacy and a restaurant. As of January 20, 2011.
  10. ↑ L. von Sichart: History of the royal Hanoverian army . Third volume. Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1870, p. 563.
  11. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Office for Urban Development, Urban Planning, Transport Planning of the City of Münster: District profile for the Münster-Mitte district / sub-area Mitte-Süd. ( PDF file; 9 MB ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ). Website of the city of Münster. Retrieved December 19, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muenster.de
  12. ↑ a b Statistics for Münster's districts, population of the city of Münster 2011. ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2012 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. (PDF; 923 kB) p. 10. Website of the Office for Urban Development, Urban Planning, Transport Planning of the City of Münster. Retrieved April 21, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muenster.de
  13. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Ursula Richard-Wiegandt (author), Der Oberstadtdirektor Münster - City Planning Office (ed.): The new Münster - 50 years of reconstruction and urban development 1945–1995. Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH & Co., Münster 1996. ISBN 3-402-05374-8 , p. 179 ff.
  14. ↑ a b c Postcode search. Retrieved on December 8, 2010 (postcode search with different streets from the Geistviertel).
  15. ^ A b Thomas Börtz: Experience report on the Weißenburg garden settlement. Sections 2-3. ( PDF file; 458 kB  ( 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. ). Case study  ( 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. at ELTIS (European Local Transport Information Service). Retrieved November 18, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eltis.org  @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eltis.org  
  16. ↑ 2009 annual statistics of the city of Münster. ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2012 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. (PDF; 3.6 MB) p. 12. Website of the Office for Urban Development, Urban Planning, Transport Planning of the City of Münster. Retrieved August 11, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muenster.de
  17. ↑ Route calculation on Google maps . Retrieved September 7, 2010.
  18. ↑ New street names in Münster (from November 21, 2002), as of April 26, 2010 ( memento of the original from June 2, 2010 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. (PDF; 24 kB), p. 1. Website of the Office for Urban Development, Urban Planning, Transport Planning of the City of Münster. Retrieved August 8, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muenster.de
  19. ↑ Home page of the Evangelical Free Church Congregation Münster (Baptists). Retrieved on March 21, 2011 (website of the Evangelical Free Church Community of Münster (Baptists).).
  20. ↑ Homepage of the Protestant Johannes-Kirchengemeinde Münster. Retrieved April 11, 2011 .
  21. ^ Detlef Fischer: Münster from A to Z. 2nd edition. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-05367-5 , p. 410.
  22. ↑ Homepage of the Catholic parish of St. Gottfried - St. Maximilian Kolbe. Retrieved March 21, 2011 .
  23. ↑ Trinity Church. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 12, 2013 ; Retrieved on March 21, 2011 (website of the Ev. Thomas Church - Trinitatis district.). 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.trinitatis-ms.de
  24. ^ Website of the Ev. Thomasgemeinde - District Trinitatis: Trinitatiskirche - About our parish district ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  25. ↑ Information sheet on the Trinitatis Church Münster / Westphalia of the Trinitatis district of the Ev. Thomas Parish, as of 2011
  26. ↑ Reinhard Potts: Auf ein Wort In: Katholische Pfarrgemeinde der Alt-Katholiken St. Johannes Münster: Gemeindebrief. June / July 2011 ( PDF file; 1.88 MB ). Page 3. Website of the Catholic Diocese of Old Catholics in Germany. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
  27. ↑ The Lord Mayor of the City of Münster, Office for Green Areas and Environmental Protection: Public draft resolution concerns Park Sentmaring (draft no .: V / 0538/2008). ( PDF file; 40 kB ). Website of the city of Münster. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
  28. ^ City of Münster: Minutes of the 41st meeting (public part) of the Münster-Mitte district council. P. 5 f. ( PDF file; 42 kB ). Website of the city of Münster. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
  29. ↑ Michael Hess in "Come to the park that was said to be dead" in: outside! - Street magazine for Münster and the Münsterland, issue 11/2008 ( PDF file; 0.48 MB ). Street magazine website out there! Retrieved December 11, 2011.
  30. ↑ a b Fire Brigade 09 - Spirit. Retrieved on October 27, 2010 (website of the city of Münster, the Münster fire department is responsible for the content).
  31. ↑ Stadtwerke Münster: Sign at the entrance to the site of the water tower. Read on August 9, 2010.
  32. ↑ a b c d e f g Ursula Richard-Wiegandt (author), senior city director of the city of Münster, city planning office (ed.): The settlement growth of the city of Münster from the 19th century to the second world war. Edition 2000, 1991. City Director of the City of Münster, City Planning Office, Münster 1991, ISBN 3-921290-56-2 , pp. 80–95. Secondary title: Münster, from provincial to district capital.
  33. ↑ "Schützenhofbunker" on Hammer Strasse. Retrieved on February 9, 2012 (website from www.7grad.org - Bunker in Münster).
  34. ^ War chronicle - Münster in the Second World War. Retrieved on February 9, 2012 (website of the City Archives of Münster).
  35. ↑ Schützenhofbunker: Musicians should give way to houses. Retrieved on February 9, 2012 (website of the Münsterschen Zeitung).
  36. ^ A Long Distance Calling Interview in Frankfurt ... (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 22, 2012 ; accessed on February 20, 2012 (interview from new-core.de with David Jordan). 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.new-core.de
  37. ↑ Pinboard. Retrieved on February 20, 2012 (Message from Long Distance Calling on the Facebook page wall dated February 9, 2012 (12:37 am)).
  38. ↑ Regulatory authority ordinance on the protection of natural monuments within the built-up districts and the scope of the development plans in the area of ​​the city of Münster  ( 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; 101 kB). Website of the forestry company for work at height Eckbert Altenhöner. Retrieved April 21, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.baumpfleger.org  
  39. ↑ a b c d e Ursula Richard-Wiegandt (author), City of Münster, Urban Planning Office (ed.): Münster and its districts - 30 years of incorporation 1975–2005; Urban development from the early beginnings to 2010. Aschendorff Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-402-00393-7 , p. 155 ff.
  40. ↑ Ursula Richard-Wiegandt (author), City Director of the City of Münster, City Planning Office (ed.): The Settlement Growth of the City of Münster from the 19th Century to the Second World War. Edition 2000, 1991. Senior City Director of the City of Münster, City Planning Office, Münster 1991, ISBN 3-921290-56-2 , Figure 183. Secondary title: Münster, from provincial to district capital.
  41. ↑ Winfried Nerdinger, Cornelius Tafel: Architecture Guide Germany - 20th Century. Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, Berlin, 1996, p. 262.
  42. ↑ a b Ursula Richard-Wiegandt (author), Der Oberstadtdirektor Münster - City Planning Office (ed.): The new Münster - 50 years of reconstruction and urban development 1945–1995. Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH & Co., Münster 1996, ISBN 3-402-05374-8 , p. 10 f.
  43. ^ Dieter Ansorge: Heat protection, moisture protection, salt damage. Pfusch am Bau, Volume 4. Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8167-7010-7 , pp. 102-107. Reading sample of heat protection, moisture protection, salt damage. Retrieved on November 18, 2010 (with full text search).
  44. ↑ Klaus Baumeister: Strangers in their own quarter. Retrieved on May 31, 2012 (website of the Westfälische Nachrichten).
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  46. ↑ Münster "Car-free Weissenburg". Retrieved on October 27, 2010 (Werkstatt-Stadt is a project database and internet platform of the Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research (BBSR) in the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR)).
  47. ↑ Christian Krajewski and Jana Werring: New neighborhoods in Muenster military by conversion properties. Retrieved on October 27, 2010 (website of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association (LWL)).
  48. ^ Car-free garden settlement in Weißenburg. Retrieved on September 18, 2010 (LEG NRW GmbH website).
  49. ↑ Town houses on the south terrace. Retrieved on September 18, 2010 (website of dmb Projektentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '  N , 7 ° 37'  E