Middle (Kassel)

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Coat of arms of Kassel
Middle
district of Kassel
Location of Mitte in Kassel
Coordinates 51 ° 18 '49 "  N , 9 ° 29' 40"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '49 "  N , 9 ° 29' 40"  E.
height 200  m above sea level NHN
surface 1.95 km² (18/23)
Residents 8479 (Dec. 31, 2019) (12/23)
Population density 4348 inhabitants / km² (6/23)
Proportion of foreigners 23.2% (Dec. 31, 2019) (6/23)
Postcodes 34117, 34119, 34121
prefix 0561
Website District info center
politics
Mayor Christof Stefaniak ( Greens )
Allocation of seats (local advisory board)
Local advisory board in mid-2016
  • SPD: 3 seats
  • Greens: 3 seats
  • FW: 1 seat
  • FDP: 1 seat
  • CDU: 1 seat
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    Source: Kassel Statistical Atlas
    The Königsplatz in the center of Kassel around 1900 ( photochrom )

    The Mitte district includes the city ​​center of the north Hessian city ​​of Kassel .

    geography

    The district is divided into three parts:

    • The actual city center, which extends to the beautiful view in the southwest and to the cultural station in the north. The southern part is also called Oberneustadt .
    • the smaller residential and business district around Entenanger and Markthalle, which extends south to the Fulda with the shipping pier.
    • The western and largest district extends from the vineyard in the south to the cultural station in the north.

    The old town of Kassel in what is now the Mitte district was one of the most important in Central Europe before the war damage from 1943 and the demolition of the post-war period . The center of the medieval city was the old market . Few of the buildings in the old city center have been preserved after the bombing of Kassel. The rebuilding that took place in the 1950s and 1960s is still formative today. Some post-war ensembles are listed , for example on stairs street .

    Pedestrian zones have been established since 1961. Shopping centers such as the Kurfürstengalerie in 1991 , the Königs-Galerie in 1995 and City-Point in 2002 were built in the city ​​center .

    Squares and structures

    Places are Königsplatz , Friedrichsplatz , Lutherplatz and Brüder-Grimm-Platz .

    Buildings

    On Friedrichsplatz is the Fridericianum , which is used as an exhibition space for contemporary art, the documenta hall by Jochem Jourdan and the state theater of the documenta founder Arnold Bode . The documenta archive is located in the building of the former Gerhart Hauptmann School and today's Dock4 , which was developed as a cultural center in the 1990s. In the Entenanger area there is the market hall in the stables , which also houses the city ​​archive . Next to the Marstall is the Brothers Church , the oldest still existing building in the city from the 13th century with Renthof building, which was used as a chancellery building at the time of the early reformation in the beginning of the 15th century.

    The area of ​​the Altmarkt , formerly the town's marketplace, is shaped by the Martinskirche , which was the main church in the city center until modern times. On the opposite side of Kurt-Schumacher-Straße is the Hansahaus , built in 1962 by Walter Grüning .

    The destroyed hulls of the Luther Church are on Lutherplatz . To the south of it was the Stadtbad Mitte, which was demolished in the 2010s .

    Web links

    Commons : middle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ Mitte district in the Kassel city portal , accessed on July 19, 2020.
    2. ↑ How Kassel's old town could be rebuilt , the main thing is culture, Hessischer Rundfunk , March 26, 2015
    3. ↑ Historical development of the Mitte district. In: City portal Kassel. City of Kassel, documenta city; represented by the magistrate, October 16, 2009, accessed on August 18, 2015 .