Musikerviertel (Schweinfurt)

Musicians' quarter District of Schweinfurt; Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 44 ″ N , 10 ° 12 ′ 44 ″ E
Height :	230 m above sea level NN
Area :	1.4 km²
Residents :	3103 (December 31, 2015)
Population density :	2.216 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes :	97421, 97424
Area code :	09721
	District Musikerviertel (District 22)
	University of Applied Sciences, lecture hall building

The Musikerviertel is a district of the independent city of Schweinfurt in the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia . The district is listed as District 22 in the statistics of the city of Schweinfurt. The district is a (former) working-class district that is now largely inhabited by a population with a migrant background . In addition, the city's school and university district is located in District 22. The new Bellevue district is being built in the west of the district .

location

The musicians' quarter stretches directly south of the B 303 . It is identical to Niederwerrner Straße, a north-western arterial road to central and eastern Germany ( Autobahn 71 to Erfurt ) and to northern Germany ( Autobahn 7 via Kassel ).

The district lies west of the city center and is separated from it by Moritz-Fischer-Straße. In the north, the musician's quarter of the Niederwerrner road and is Northwest district , in the west of the city limits and south of the border of the district Oberndorf with the district Bergl limited.

etymology

At first, the Musikerviertel was just a popular name, as almost all streets in the core area of the district are named after German-speaking composers. When the new five-digit postcodes were introduced , the term was officially adopted for the first time in the new postcode book from 1993.

history

Desolation

In the area that, in the broader sense , is counted as part of today's Musikerviertel (statistical district 22), there are two deserted areas , both of which were first mentioned in a document in 951: Affeltrach and Hilpersdorf .

district

The musicians' quarter (in the narrower sense) was developed in the 1920s together with the north- western part of the city north of Niederwerrner Strasse, from the east towards the city center . The large, new residential area was planned from the beginning far west towards Niederwerrn in the style of the 1920s. In perimeter block development , with several large churches in squares that should serve as the center of the district. However, only a square with a large church St. Kilian was realized , as the construction of the tank barracks in the years 1935/36 stopped further development in the northwestern part of the city. In the 1950s, the western part of the musicians' quarter was built south of Niederwerrner Strasse.

In 2014, the US Army Garrison in Schweinfurt was dissolved, which opened up great urban planning opportunities for the west of statistical district 22 (see: Bellevue ).

Status December 31, 2015	Musicians' quarter	The entire Schweinfurt area
German	59.5%	70.1%
Dual nationals	20.1%	16.1%
Foreigners	20.4%	13.2%

Social structure and population development

With regard to the social statistics, it should be noted that citizens with a German passport and a migration background are not listed. This is why the proportion of the population with a migration background is higher than the sum of the proportions of residents with dual citizenship and foreigners.

Since the Americans were not included in the population statistics, a corresponding, strong increase in the population of the musicians' quarter is to be expected in the context of the US conversion (see section Bellevue ).

Districts

Musicians' quarter (in the strict sense)

The musicians' quarter in the narrower, name-related sense is characterized by a closed cityscape in the east. With three-storey blocks with mansard roofs from the 1920s, while on Niederwerrnerstrasse block edge development from the 1930s predominates. The west consists of apartment blocks from the 1950s. In the prevailing residential buildings of social housing with basic standards fellow citizens live mainly from immigrant backgrounds.

Former officers' mess
(1937, under monument protection)
in Richard-Wagner-Straße

The American Abrams Club , which was closed in 2014, is located in the Musikerviertel , an officer's casino, formerly an NCO club and, before that, a Wehrmacht casino . Not far from there are the two cinemas of the KuK (cinema and bar), location of the Schweinfurt Short Film Festival .

Bellevue

The former American residential area Askren Manor , which belongs to the statistical district 22 Musikerviertel , was completely empty after the dissolution of the US Army Garrison Schweinfurt in 2014 and has been developed as a new "district" (district) Bellevue for around 2,000 residents since 2018 . In 2018 the name Bellevue was transferred from a small historic district in the north to the area of the southern, former US housing estate Askren Manor or. Bellevue now refers to the new "district".

college for Applied Sciences

The Schweinfurt Campus 1 of the University of Applied Sciences is located on the southern edge of the musicians' quarter. The Schweinfurt university axis is to be developed along Richard-Strauss-Strasse through the residential area to the north of it . Campus 1 is to be connected to the new international university campus i-Campus Schweinfurt, which belongs to the university, to the north of the residential area, which is already part of the north-western part of the city . It is hoped that this will also generate positive, social impulses for the musicians' quarter.

School center west

The school center consists of several, in some cases very large, further education schools and a Montessori elementary and middle school. The Alexander von Humboldt High School was the late 1970s, with about 2,000 students, the largest high school in Bavaria and is located in a large, university-like campus. The most famous student was the famous Hollywood cameraman Michael Ballhaus .

Culture and sights

Parish fairs, festivals, events

Kiliani Parish Fair
Birdshot (spring folk festival)
Schweinfurt folk festival
Ufra lower franking inspection , every two years in the even calendar years
One of the largest flea markets in Germany, on the Volksfestplatz
Various trade fairs and exhibitions on the Volksfestplatz
Christmas circus

architecture

Branch of the Städtische Sparkasse
(1972, under monument protection)
in the Carl-Orff-Straße

The roof of the Auditorium Maximum of the University of Applied Sciences has the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid shell .

Branch of the Städtische Sparkasse , Carl-Orff-Straße, from 1972, under monument protection. By Pohl and Blenk, facade design with abstract reliefs by Gustl G. Kirchner (1920–1984) and concrete glass windows by Heinz Altschäffel .

Churches

Dreieinigkeitskirche (Protestant)
St. Michael (Catholic)
Evangelical Lutheran Student Congregation, Florian-Geyer-Straße

Infrastructure

In the west of the district is the Volksfestplatz, where many larger events take place, such as the Schweinfurt Volksfest with several hundred thousand visitors and large (Christmas) circuses such as Circus Krone or Circus Roncalli .