Waldhof (Mannheim)

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Waldhof
City of Mannheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 31 ′ 28 ″  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 6 ″  E
Area : 12.87 km²
Residents : 24,306  (Dec. 31, 2015)
Population density : 1,889 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1897

Waldhof is a district of Mannheim in the Rhine-Neckar triangle . Together with the Luzenberg and Gartenstadt districts, it forms the Waldhof district of the same name . The district is best known as a traditional working-class district and for its SV Waldhof Mannheim soccer club , which played in the Bundesliga in the 1980s .

geography

Waldhof is located in the north of Mannheim. Neighboring districts are Käfertal , Neckarstadt-Ost , Neckarstadt-West , Sandhofen and Schönau . In the northeast is the Hessian Viernheim ( Bergstrasse district ).

history

The Luzenberg School, built around the Luzenberg water tower .
The new center of Waldhof on Taunusplatz.

The settlement of Hutzelberg (Luzenberg) can be found in the Käfertaler district . The Waldhof was founded in the early 19th century, but quickly disappeared from the map because of the barren soil. The Spiegelmanufaktur Waldhof , founded by St. Gobain in 1853, referred to his name and had the mirror colony , one of the oldest workers' housing estates in Germany, built here in addition to the factory . In 1882 Luzenberg was incorporated into Mannheim. In 1885 the Waldhof pulp factory was founded . Rapid population growth was associated with advancing industrialization. In 1897 Waldhof came to the city of Mannheim together with the parent community Käfertal .

In 1908 the Benz factory was relocated to Waldhof. In 1910 the Mannheim Garden City Cooperative was founded , which in 1912 began to build housing developments in the new Gartenstadt district based on the model of the Garden City movement . After the Second World War, the Waldhof-Ost residential area was opened up.

Politics, administration

According to the main statute of the city of Mannheim, the city district has a district advisory council, which includes 12 residents who are appointed by the local council according to the results of the local council election. They are to be heard on important matters that affect the municipality and advise the local administration and committees of the municipal council.

Political party 2019 2014 2009 2004 1999 1994
SPD 4th 4th 7th 6th 6th 4th
GREEN 2 1 1 1 0 1
CDU 2 3 4th 4th 6th 6th
Mannheim list 1 2 0 1 0 0
The left 1 1 0 0 0 0
AfD 2 1 0 0 0 0

As one of the eleven outer city districts, Waldhof has a municipal secretariat, which is responsible for local administrative tasks.

Culture and sights

St. Francis Church

Churches

In the "old" Waldhof is the Catholic St. Francis Church, built by Ludwig Maier in 1907 . For the same year, the Protestant comes Paul Church by Hermann Behaghel that than today Jugendkirche is used. With the 1966 by Helmut Striffler completed Gethsemane Church , there is another Protestant church in Waldhof-Ost.

The originally Catholic Exaltation of the Cross in Luzenberg is now used by the Greek Orthodox Church .

  • Pauluskirche

  • Exaltation of the Cross Church

Sports

The former Bundesliga club SV Waldhof Mannheim , whose offices and training areas are in the garden city , and the traditional TV 1877 Waldhof are at home at the Waldhof.

leisure

In Waldhof-Ost there is an indoor swimming pool, in the garden city there is an open-air swimming pool ( Carl-Benz-Bad ). The Kulturverein Waldhof e. V. runs the KulturHaus Waldhof, directly behind the Paulus Church (today's youth church). The Waldhof cultural association organizes various cultural and civic events.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In the south of Waldhof is the Mercedes-Benz plant in Mannheim of Daimler AG , which employs around 8,500 people.
The company Bopp & Reuther oHG, today VAG Armaturen , moved to Waldhof after it was founded in Neckarstadt in 1897 and is still based there today. Bopp & Reuther built apartments and single-family houses in close proximity to the plant especially for its employees.
The Bauhaus AG, which was founded in Mannheim and to this day their Germany-based in Mannheim Wohlgelegen has, operates a large hardware store on one of Bopp & Reuther assigned area.
Roche Diagnostics - known for 138 years as Boehringer Mannheim - was bought by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant for 11 billion francs in 1997 - the largest investment by a foreign company in Germany to date. With around 7,000 employees, it is the second largest company in Waldhof.
In Waldhof-Ost, Aldi , the Rewe Group and the drugstore chain dm settled in a newly built shopping center - also on the former Bopp & Reuther site . A Lidl branch was added in Speckweg . One consequence of these new settlements was a severe devaluation of the old Waldhof-Ost shopping center . A revitalization of this center has been unsuccessful for years.

traffic

The districts of Waldhof, Gartenstadt and Luzenberg are served by RNV trams and buses . Mannheim-Waldhof station is on the Riedbahn and is served by regional and regional express trains. With the commissioning of the new route of the “Stadtbahn Mannheim Nord” in 2015/2016, a gap in the Mannheim light rail network will also be closed for Waldhof.

The station is to be modernized. The planning for this has not yet been started (status: June 2013).

For long-distance road traffic, Waldhof is connected to Groß-Gerau and Frankfurt to the north and to the center of Mannheim to the south via Bundesstraße 44 . Via the now four-lane Waldstrasse ( Landesstrasse 597), Bundesstrasse 38 to the Viernheim interchange with the A 6 and A 659 motorways can be quickly reached from Waldhof .

media

As an independent medium, the Gartenstadt-Journal is published monthly by the Gartenstadt Citizens' Association and distributed free of charge to all households in the Gartenstadt and Waldhof.

Personalities

Seppl-Herberger-Platz

literature

  • Lorenz Klingert: Festival book for the seven-century celebration of the former Käfertal community 1227–1927 . Mannheim 1927.
  • Evelyn Jutta Sandmann: Waldhof, then and now . Mannheim 1986. (Special publication of the Mannheim City Archives No. 14)
  • Josef Wysocki: Traces: 100 years of Waldhof - 100 years of economic history . Mannheim 1984.
  • Hartmut Ellrich: Mannheim - tours through history . Erfurt 2007.
  • Hartmut Ellrich: Waldhof, Luzenberg and Garden City. A historical foray . Erfurt 2010.
  • Walter Pahl: Resistance to National Socialism . Mannheim 2002
  • Alfred Heierling: Small Waldhof Chronicle - Festschrift 25 years of the Waldhof cultural association. Mannheim 2001

Web links

Commons : Waldhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Mannheim: Population 2015 in small-scale breakdown. (PDF 679 kB) Statistical data Mannheim № 1/2016. March 30, 2016, p. 5 ff. , Accessed on April 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Main Statute of the City of Mannheim. (PDF 234 kB) VII. City districts and district councils, § 22. City of Mannheim, April 28, 2009, p. 10 , accessed on April 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ SessionNet | City of Mannheim District Advisory Council Waldhof. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Info pages on the “Stadtbahn Mannheim Nord” project. Retrieved October 31, 2014 .
  5. ↑ German Bundestag (ed.): Answer of the federal government to the small question of the MPs Ute Kumpf, Michael Groß, Christian Lange (Backnang), other MPs and the parliamentary group of the SPD - printed matter 17/13198 - status of important transport projects for Baden-Württemberg ( PDF; 282 kB). Printed matter 17/13846 of June 6, 2013, p. 3.