Neulobeda

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Lobeda-West (2014)
Stauffenbergstrasse in Lobeda-West (2011)
The Jena University Hospital in the foreground, behind it blocks of flats in Lobeda-Ost
Aerial view, in the foreground Lobeda-East, in the background left Lobeda-West (2008)

With over 22,000 inhabitants, Neulobeda is the largest district in the Thuringian university town of Jena . The inhabitants are spread over an area of ​​3.6 km². This results in a very high population density of 6164 inhabitants per km². The prefabricated building - Trabantenstadt , located about seven kilometers south of the city center, was built between 1966 and 1986 under the names Neulobeda-West and Neulobeda-Ost. Both parts of the so-called new development area border directly on the corridor of the eponymous district of Lobeda-Altstadt .

The border between Lobeda-West and Lobeda-Ost , so the common names, is the Stadtrodaer Straße, which was laid out in 1968 and was only named after 1989.

history

The first groundbreaking for the development took place on November 20, 1964. The new part of the city was built between 1966 and 1986 primarily for the employees of the Carl Zeiss combine. The aim was to create rental apartments with district heating and comfort for around 40,000 people. Young families with children in particular moved to the new development area.

Neulobeda was built in several sections from west to east: The first completed residential buildings were in Neulobeda-West along today's Stauffenbergstrasse (then Otto-Grotewohl-Strasse) and the adjacent Angerstrasse and were ready for occupancy from December 1967. The development was initially carried out via a makeshift construction exit from Stadtrodaer Straße. In the spring of 1968 there was a first provisional sales point in the food retail trade, as well as a post office and a doctor's office. In 1970 the first department store was opened. It was not until 1970 that the traffic conditions were radically improved when the first sections of Karl-Marx-Allee were completed. From 1971 the residential areas were built east of Stadtrodaer Straße up to about Ebereschenstraße, the then Heinrich-Rau-Straße. In May 1972 the first apartments were moved into in Neulobeda-Ost. The road bridge over Stadtrodaer Straße was completed in August 1975, so that Karl-Marx-Allee has been continuously passable ever since. Now Neulobeda was tied in its current form with the "Spider" as a powerful street cross in the Stadtrodaer Straße. The last section was the eastern settlement area, which extends beyond the city limits to the area of ​​the municipality of Drackendorf in the early 1980s. In 1985 it was possible to move into the apartments on Salvador-Allende-Platz first. In the period that followed, the last new buildings in Lobeda-Ost were completed, which meant that the new building project Neulobeda was completed around 1988. Karl-Marx-Allee was designed in such a way that a tram could be set up on its own track at a later point in time, but this was no longer done in GDR times. Therefore, it was necessary to set up numerous efficient bus routes that connected Neulobeda with Winzerla and the city center. The current industrial area Lobeda-Süd, which is located on the other side of the motorway, was not created until after 1990.

As a result of the political change in the GDR in 1989, social classes also formed in Jena whose representatives can be assigned relatively well on the basis of their material assets. This changed the demands of the so-called middle class on their living environment (from modern prefabricated apartment buildings to private homes with a garden) and the residential area went through its own dynamic downward spiral of image loss and social segregation.

Overarching post-turnaround phenomena such as increasing death surplus , population loss and mass unemployment, as well as the individually experienced lack of prospects resulting from this, thwarted the revaluation of Neulobeda for a long time and paved the way for symptoms of decline, specifically for the loss of mutual social control , rising crime, open extremism and Vandalism. From the mid-1990s onwards, Neulobeda was on the way to becoming a social hotspot , although the commercial infrastructure improved during these years .

In 1998, the districts of Lobeda-West and Lobeda-East were merged to form Neulobeda, which was the first time that the name, which had previously only been colloquial, was officially used. The residents elected the local council and mayor on November 27, 1998 . Since then, this office has been held by Volker Blumentritt ( SPD ).

Under the names Lobeda-West and Lobeda-Ost, the Jena city administration runs both localities as statistical districts, but separates the prefabricated buildings in the Drackendorf / Lobeda-Ost district from Lobeda-Ost, so that the following population figures result: L-West 9,724, L-Ost 5,774, Drackendorf / L-Ost 6,367 as well as L-Altstadt 1,572 and Drackendorf 816. The mentioned settlements border one another without any development gaps.

In order to improve the housing situation in the district, numerous apartments and areas from the federal-state program Die Soziale Stadt have been modernized. The adjacent federal motorway 4 was lowered and enclosed in the Lobeda area by 2010. The lowering was stabilized by large blocks of natural stone on the slope side, and an approx. 7 hectare green area was created above the almost 600 meter long enclosure.

religion

In Lobeda-Ost there is a branch of the Missionaries of Christ . From 1981 to 1983 the Evangelical Lutheran Martin-Niemöller-Haus, a parish hall with a church hall, was built in the immediate vicinity of Lobeda-Ost in the Lobeda-Altstadt district.

education

In Lobeda-West is u. a. the Otto-Schott-Gymnasium settled. There is also a special school Janis School , two regular schools (Lobeda-Ost, -West), various elementary schools and the SBBS for health and social affairs . Since the 2015/16 school year, the previously vacant school building of the former Emil Wölk POS in Lobeda-West has been rented to the Free Technical School for Social Work of the Thuringian Social Academy.

Culture

Lobeda is the setting of a weekly soap opera: In Lovely Lobeda , the employee of the campus radio Jena Tobi Krone has been reporting the latest from his student flat since May 2009.

traffic

Road traffic

Crossing in Lobeda, in the background the new buildings of the university clinic

Neulobeda is easily accessible via the partially crossing-free expressway ( B 88 ) and connects the satellite town with the city center of Jena. In a southerly direction there is one of the two Jenas motorway exits on the A4 . This previously unnamed street has been called Stadtrodaer Straße since 1991. Within Neulobeda there is a complex crossing structure (called "The Spider"), which connects Stadtrodaer Straße with a main access axis within the district. This axis, which Neulobeda runs through completely from east to west, is now called Karl-Marx-Allee and Erlanger Allee. The part in Lobeda-Ost, which is now called Erlanger Allee, was also called Karl-Marx-Allee until 1991. Furthermore, many, but by no means all, streets within the residential area were renamed after the fall of the Wall.

Rail transport

Lobeda-Ost can also be reached 24 hours a day with lines 3 and 5 and Lobeda-West with lines 1, 3 and 4 of the Jena tram . This tram, which runs largely on its own tracks, has only existed since December 1996, after concrete plans for such rail connections to Neulobeda began in 1991. Before that, Neulobeda was only connected to the city center by numerous bus routes: During the GDR era, a tram to Neulobeda was planned over and over again, but the economic conditions in the GDR did not allow construction. In the 1960s and early 1970s there were serious plans to build a high-performance Alwegbahn as an elevated railway from Neulobeda to the city center, but the planning was rejected by a Council of Ministers decision in 1971, as the construction of such a railway with "domestic" funds would not be feasible.

Tram stop "Lobeda-West", in the background the swimming pool (2013)

Neulobeda can be reached by train via Jena-Göschwitz station. All regional trains in the direction of Naumburg, Saalfeld, Erfurt, Gera and Pößneck run here. The train station is located west of Lobeda-West and can be reached on foot and by tram (lines 1 and 3). The connection to long-distance traffic is via the Jena Paradies train station in Jena city center and can also be reached by tram. The Neue Schenke station is also located southeast of the core development of Lobeda-Ost , but only the regional train from Weimar to Gera stops there.

Health and economy

Outpatient rehabilitation center Jena

The relocation of the university clinics of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena to Lobeda-Ost (opening of the first construction phase - Clinic for Internal Medicine - on December 11, 1980), which has been discussed since 1950 and started after 1970, was canceled and only after reunification in 1990 under the title "Klinikum 2000" continued.

The outpatient rehabilitation center Jena of the Graefliche Kliniken Bad Driburg is located in the immediate vicinity of the university hospital .

There is a commercial and shopping area in the Lobeda-Süd area.

sport and freetime

There are many sports and leisure opportunities in Neulobeda. These include the Lobeda-West swimming pool , several sports fields and sports halls as well as numerous small playgrounds. The Fair Resort in Lobeda-Ost offers indoor tennis, badminton, fitness and bowling courts, and there is another restaurant with bowling alleys in Lobeda-Ost. Find u. a. concerts of the Jena Philharmonic take place regularly .

The association KOMME e. In addition to school social work at three Lobeda schools, V. offers several childcare options:

  • Children and youth center KLEX
  • KuBuS ("Culture, Meeting and Sports Center")
  • District center LISA ("Lobeda Information, Fun and Action Center")
  • Youth center meeting point (as the only urban youth club)

Web links

Commons : Neulobeda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Carsten Keller: Life in the prefabricated building: To the dynamics of social exclusion. Campus publishing house. Frankfurt am Main 2005.
  2. Social inequality and urban development in East German cities ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iwh-halle.de
  3. Measures to improve the large housing estates: The case study Jena-Lobeda. in: http://www.grin.com/de/e-book/106867/das-wohnen-in-grosswohnsiedlungen
  4. according to the website of the city of Jena ("Team Statistics")
  5. http://jena.otz.de/web/lokal/leben/detail/-/specific/Vor-30-Jahren-wurde-das-Martin-Niemoeller-Haus-in-Jena-Lobeda-gebaut-302284125
  6. www.osg.de ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.osg.jena.de
  7. www.mefa.jena.de
  8. Michael Groß: Mozart and Ravel in Lobeda. Ostthüringer Zeitung , October 9, 2010, accessed on April 22, 2013 .
  9. ^ Homepage of LISA JenaKultur, district center LISA

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '  N , 11 ° 37'  E