Mainz-Lerchenberg

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Coat of arms of Lerchenberg
Mainz coat of arms
Lerchenberg
district of Mainz
Location of Lerchenberg in Mainz
Coordinates 49 ° 57 '30 "  N , 8 ° 11' 35"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '30 "  N , 8 ° 11' 35"  E.
height 228  m above sea level NHN
surface 2.411 km²
Residents 6274 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 2602 inhabitants / km²
Proportion of foreigners 18.7% (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation Apr 16, 1964
Post Code 55127
prefix 06131

Administration address		 Hebbelstrasse 2
55127 Mainz
Website www.mainz.de
politics
Head of town Sissi Westrich ( SPD )
Allocation of seats (local advisory board)
2
1
5
4th
1
2 1 5 4th 1 


CDU SPD Green ÖDP FDP
4th 5 2 1 1
Transport links
tram MVG line 51, 53
bus MVG line 54, 55, 71, 93, MVG & ORN joint line 75, ORN line 650
Local council election 2019
Turnout: 56.8%
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
39.6%
27.0%
18.8%
7.5%
7.2%
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-3.2  % p
-5.8  % p
+ 8.1  % p.p.
-0.8  % p
+1.7  % p

Mainz-Lerchenberg is a new local district of the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz, which was created in 1964 . It emerged from the "Jubiläumssiedlung", which was founded in 1962 for the Mainz two-millennium celebration . As a result, the housing problem in Mainz , which has been pressing since the end of the war, has been significantly alleviated, especially for young families. In 2019, around 6300 people had their main residence on the Lerchenberg. Mainz-Lerchenberg is known far beyond the city limits of Mainz for the broadcasting center of the Second German Television .

Geographical location

View of Mainz-Lerchenberg from ZDF

Lerchenberg is located on a hill above the "Draiser Senke" about six kilometers southwest of the center of Mainz. Towards Rheinhessen , the district is bounded by the Ober-Olmer Forest . Otherwise it is surrounded by fields and meadows.

Neighboring districts and municipalities

The following municipalities or districts of Mainz border Lerchenberg in a clockwise direction:

in the north Mainz-Drais , in the northeast of Mainz-Bretzenheim , east Mainz-Marienborn and the south and west Ober-Olm .

history

On May 25, 1961, the Mainz city council decided to set up an "anniversary settlement" on the occasion of the two millennium celebrations of the city of Mainz. After the destruction of the Second World War, there was still a housing shortage in Mainz, which this new district was intended to alleviate. In the anniversary year of 1962, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate under Prime Minister Peter Altmeier donated 62 hectares of land to the city of Mainz, part of the land required for this purpose, which the city of Mainz was able to expand to 154 hectares.

On April 16, 1964, the city council decided to officially incorporate the anniversary settlement, which had previously been named "Mainz-Lerchenberg" following an ideas competition among the Mainz population. Due to the relatively high development costs of around 25 million D-Marks, work on the new Mainz district was delayed. District heating was made compulsory for the supply of heat to supply buildings with heating and hot water . In September 1967 the first residents moved into their own homes , two years later 2900 people were already living in the Lerchenberg. In terms of urban planning, bungalows in the north, the painters' quarter, row houses in the south, the writers' and musicians' quarter and high-rise buildings in the center were planned. Almost twenty years later the population was just over 6000 people.

After Mainz was specified as the location of the station in the ZDF State Treaty , the city administration looked for a suitable property together with the Second German Television . On June 25, 1964, ZDF bought an area from the city in the immediate vicinity of the new Lerchenberg district. In 1966, the first construction work for the future broadcast center began there. First of all, in a first construction phase, buildings for the operation of vehicles and broadcast vehicles were erected, and in 1971 the foundation stone was laid for the editorial and administration building , which can be seen from afar and was inaugurated in 1974 as the second construction phase. In September 1977, the earthworks began for the third construction phase of the actual broadcasting operation building, a round building designed by the Stieldorf planning group with a diameter of up to 166 meters, which was moved into in 1984. In the meantime, further buildings complete the ZDF broadcasting center on the Mainz Lerchenberg.

coat of arms

The crest

The coat of arms of Mainz-Lerchenberg was introduced on the basis of a competition organized by the CDU local advisory group in 1978 for the Lerchenberg population. It is divided into four. In the heraldic top right corner there is a silver wheel on a red background based on the Mainz city arms , top left and bottom right a sketched black bird ( lark ) in flight from the front on a silver background, as well as the first ZDF station logo at the bottom left - a Roman two with two stylized eyes - in silver on a blue background. The latter is intended to symbolize the district's extraordinary ties to ZDF.

politics

Following the local elections in 2019, the Mainz-Lerchenberg local council consists of 13 members from a total of five parties. The strongest parliamentary group is the SPD with currently five seats, followed by the CDU with four seats.

Sissi Westrich (SPD) has been the mayor since September 2013.

Economy and Infrastructure

The German headquarters of the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk is on the Mainz Lerchenberg.

There is also a shopping center and a community center from the time the district was founded, the renovation of which was announced at the end of 2016.

traffic

The district has a Mainz-Lerchenberg junction on the A 60 , which is part of the Mainz motorway ring here .

In 2016 a new tram line was inaugurated from the main train station to the end of the line at Lerchenberg Hindemithstraße, the so-called “ Mainzelbahn ”. The new route will be used by lines 51 from Finthen and 53 from Hechtsheim . It was opened when the timetable changed on December 11, 2016. The Mainz Train Station can be reached with the new tram in about 20 minutes.

In addition, Mainz-Lerchenberg is served by several Mainer Mobility and ORN bus routes, which provide connections to the rest of the city and surrounding communities.

media

The Lerchenberg is also called "Medienberg" because not only the ZDF broadcasting center is located here , but also 3sat and Arte's German headquarters are located here. The ZDF television advertising and ZDF Enterprises also are based on the Lerchenberg. From September 1991 until the move to Berlin and Munich in summer 2001, the broadcasting center for Sat.1 was also located here . The newspaper publisher VRM is also headquartered there. The broadcast vehicle service provider TV-Skyline and the Media Service Center with various production companies are also located on the Lerchenberg.

Public facilities

Sports

The SC Lerchenberg offers twelve different sports activities on site.

literature

  • Claus Wolff: The districts of Mainz. Emons-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89705-361-6 .
  • Friedrich Schütz : 30 years of Mainz-Lerchenberg. On the history of an anniversary settlement. Der Verleger Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-88193-019-1 .
  • Chronicle Mainz-Lerchenberg. From the application for the establishment of a jubilee settlement on the occasion of the two thousandth anniversary of the city of Mainz up to the year 2005. 4 volumes.

Web links

Commons : Mainz-Lerchenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Local council elections 2019 - preliminary official results. Website of the city of Mainz, accessed on July 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ Mayor election in Mainz-Lerchenberg: Sissi Westrich has won. Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz , September 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ Local elections 2019: Mainz mayor and local councils. Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, May 27, 2019.
  4. ^ Novo Nordisk Germany.
  5. ↑ Lerchenberg shopping center. mainz-lerchenberg.de, August 16, 2014.
  6. ↑ Bürgerhaus Lerchenberg is being completely renovated inside. Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, December 30, 2016.
  7. ↑ Michael Bermeitinger: To Lerchenberg and back - more than 10,000 people ride the Mainzelbahn. General newspaper Mainz.
  8. ↑ sc-lerchenberg.de