Northern ring area

City quarter of the northern ring area of the city of Braunschweig

District:	331 - north town
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Height:	72 m above sea level NN
Post Code:	38106
House of Science and Natural History Museum

The northern ring area is a city district in Braunschweig in the Nordstadt district . It extends from the Oker in the west to the Bülten in the east. In the north it borders on the Siegfriedviertel and in the south on the Eastern Umflutgraben and the Eastern Ring Area . In the northern ring area are two of the most important and busiest streets in Braunschweig, Hamburger Straße and Rebenring . The Schützenplatz has been located on Hamburger Strasse since 1890 and is regularly used for large annual markets.

history

The northern ring area was created during the city expansion in the 19th century. After the city fortifications of Braunschweig were razed, the first businesses and residents also settled in front of the city gates. New side streets were built on the existing streets, such as Hamburger Strasse and Rebenstrasse. Thus the new outer city was created. According to plans by Ludwig Winter , it was further developed at the end of the 19th century as part of the Wilhelminian era belt with a ring road system . The Braunschweiger Ring encloses the historic city center of Braunschweiger , today's city center district .

The plans for the ring area were never fully implemented, some streets were never built, others only partially built on. These plans gave the northern ring area its name. Since many large industrial companies settled in this area, there was little space left for residential buildings, which were concentrated on only a few streets.

In order to connect the industry in the northern ring area to the railway network, the ring railway and the northern station were created. In 1885 the private Braunschweigische Landes-Eisenbahn (BLE) established its headquarters at the Nordbahnhof . The administration and the depot were located there . From here the first section of the ring track was laid. It led from 1886 to Derneburg and from 1889 to Seesen and thus connected the south-western region with Braunschweig for a good 72 km. A branch line ran from the Hoheweg from 1886 to Wolfenbüttel .

In 2011, the city quarter became of interest to the city of Braunschweig. On the one hand, the ring track, as it has already been implemented in the western ring area , is to be redesigned into a pedestrian and cycle path, if the necessary funds are made available. On the other hand, the Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag and the company BS Energy turned to the city with the request to convert their land for other purposes. A third area was subsequently added, which is located on Ludwigstrasse and is also to be used as a construction area.

For the area on Taubenstrasse (BS-Energy site) there have been plans since 2013 that will initially be adapted. The planning for the other two areas is not yet ready.

Attractions

A large part of the facilities of the Technical University of Braunschweig , the Natural History Museum , the House of Science and the former North Station, which has housed the House of Cultures since October 2011, are located in the city quarter .

There is also the modern Albertus Magnus Church with an adjoining Dominican monastery . In addition to this Catholic church, there are also mosques of various Islamic communities in the city quarter (on Hamburger Strasse, Ludwigstrasse and Varrentrappstrasse).

In addition, there are some former cemeteries in the quarter, which are still used as green spaces and on which some gravestones of important personalities have been preserved. These include the Andreasfriedhof , the Garrisonfriedhof and the Katharinenfriedhof . The well-preserved old Jewish cemetery is located north of Schützenplatz .

The old part of the Botanical Garden is located in the southern end of the northern ring area. At the Nordbahnhof there is a large green area on which the Nordpark will be built in the future.

Former north station
St. Albertus Magnus Church

Industry

Several industrial companies settled in this urban area, including many companies that became known far beyond the borders of Braunschweig. These included: Braunschweiger Fahrradwerke AG, founded in 1896, which merged with Panther-Werke from Magdeburg in 1907 . The name Panter-Werke was also adopted for Braunschweig. The Friedrich Jürgens AG brewery, later National-Aktienbrauerei (founded in 1872) and finally National-Jürgens-Brauerei had its origins here. She brewed the gala beer and rose in Feldschlößchen . Schmalbach was a producer of tins. Grotrian-Steinweg had its origin here in 1881. Several chicory and canning factories and a grain distillery were also located in this urban area.