Neudorf (Duisburg)

Neudorf is a district of Duisburg in the Duisburg-Mitte district . The double district has 27,194 inhabitants ( as of December 31, 2016 ) on an area of 10.71 km², consisting of the two districts Neudorf-Nord (14,300 inhabitants) and Neudorf-Süd (12,894 inhabitants).

location

The district is located directly southeast of the city center. It is framed by Wanheimerort and the Dellviertel in the west, Duissern in the north, the Duisburg city forest in the east and the districts of Wedau and Bissingheim in the south. Neudorf-Süd is traversed by the railway line of today's main line between Cologne and Hamm (former lines of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ).

history

On the heath, between the Landwehr and the Duisburg Forest , the Friedrichsdorf , also called Op de Heid , was built in 1770 . It was founded by Frederick the Great , who gave uncultivated land to some Palatinate families on September 1, 1769. They were promised freedom to practice their religion, exemption from military service, ten years of tax exemption, housing subsidies and travel allowances. This attempt at settlement failed, however, as all colonists returned to their homeland within a few months.

On May 30, 1770, there was another influx of "colonists" to Duisburg-Neudorf with 13 families from Hesse and Darmstadt, and four more families followed by August 1770. The street name "Koloniestraße" still reminds of this settlement phase.

The twin city district had its highest population in the 1960s with almost 45,000 inhabitants.

today

Attractions

Duisburg city forest
Haus Hartenfels (located in the city forest)
Expo bridge to the city forest over the federal highway 3
catholic church St. Ludger
St. Gabriel Catholic Church

Wolfsburgweg in the Duisburg city forest
Industrial mansion Haus Hartenfels
Expo bridge
Catholic Church of St. Ludger
Catholic Church of St. Gabriel

Institutions

The following are important for Neudorf these days:

Duisburg campus , university library

the University of Duisburg-Essen : The University of Duisburg was re-established on August 7, 1972 from the former college of education and the engineering school for inland shipping. It has since been merged with the University of Essen.
the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits: The Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems is located here in the immediate vicinity of the university and has already been expanded several times.
the technology center: A technology park was established on a former commercial / industrial area (Carstanjenpark) after the Institute for Foundry Technology of the University of Duisburg had been located there for a long time.
the development center for ship technology and transport systems e. V. with a shallow water tank 190 m long for towing tests.
the commercial vocational college in Duisburg-Mitte
the technical and industrial Friedrich Albert Lange vocational college

Old graveyard

The largest cemetery in the area of the old city of Duisburg is located on the well-known Duisburger Strasse “Sternbuschweg”, which was run as Bundesstrasse 8 until 2006 . Many well-known personalities from the economic and social life of the city lie on it. The best known are: the factory owner families Carl Böninger -Merrem and the Carl Carstanjen family .

Chapel of the old cemetery

The 30 hectare cemetery was built in 1870 and replaced the cemeteries at the Salvatorkirche , the old Duisburg city church and at today's Mercatorhalle . The tombs of the old cemeteries were put up again in different places on the newly created cemetery. The cemetery is characterized by very old trees. The center of the cemetery is adorned with a neo-Gothic brick chapel with a domed roof, built in 1874. After the severe destruction of the Second World War , the chapel was repaired and repeatedly renovated and modernized in the years that followed.

At the beginning of the 1920s, when it became apparent that what was then the main cemetery on Sternbuschweg was fully occupied, the city decided to build a new burial site. With regard to the site, a decision was made in favor of part of the Duisburg city forest on today's Düsseldorfer Strasse. After the preparation of the area, the burial began in 1923. The new cemetery was named Waldfriedhof and is alternatively also known as the New Cemetery.

Sports

Well-known Neudorf sports clubs include ASC Duisburg , Duisburg swimming club from 1898 , Duisburg rowing club, TuRa 88 Duisburg and Club Raffelberg .

Sportpark Duisburg

Sportpark Duisburg , regatta track

In Neudorf-Süd there is the Sportpark Duisburg (actually Sportpark Wedau ), which covers around 200 hectares, with the Wedau Stadium, which was converted into the MSV Arena in 2004 (today: Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena ), home of the third division soccer club MSV Duisburg , and the Kenston Arena , an ice rink, which serves as the home ground of the Füchse Duisburg (ice hockey league).

Furthermore, there are several swimming clubs (such as the ASC Duisburg ), the State Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia, the West German Football Association, canoe clubs, the internationally recognized regatta track, a water ski facility, a climbing garden, other gymnastics and sports clubs and numerous restaurants and pubs in the Wedau Sports Park .

partnership

Neudorf has a partnership with New Dorp ( Anglicization of Nieuw dorp , New Dutch for Neudorf ), a district in the Borough of Staten Island , a district of New York City in the United States of America . The Neudorf Citizens' Association had initiated the "district partnership" with New Dorp.

literature

Citizens' Association Duisburg-Neudorf eV: Ob de Heid , Neudorfer Chronicle from the village to the university quarter, 2006
Contemporary witness exchange Duisburg ev: Duisburg-Neudorf , Sutton Verlag Erfurt, ISBN 978-3-95400-299-3

Web links

Commons : Neudorf (Duisburg) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Streets in the Neudorf-Nord district on onlinestreet.de
Streets in the Neudorf-Süd district on onlinestreet.de

Individual evidence

↑ Population statistics of the city of Duisburg from December 31, 2016 (PDF; 21 kB)

↑ For the history of the founding of Neudorf, the names of the colonists and the family composition, for floor plans and views of the colonist houses see: Roden, Günter von: Zur Geschichte von Duisburg-Neudorf. Summary, additions, suggestions for further research . In: Duisburger Forschungen, Volume 14. Duisburg: Walter Braun Verlag, 1970, pp. 160-179

^ Marie-Louise Seidenfaden: Colonists from South Hesse on the Duisburger Heide (1770). In: Geschichtsblätter Kreis Bergstrasse, Volume 26, page 259 ff.

↑ Chronicle of the Duisburg-Neudorf Citizens' Association ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2010 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@ 2

[EinwohnerStatistik-1] Population statistics of the city of Duisburg from December 31, 2016 (PDF; 21 kB)

[2] For the history of the founding of Neudorf, the names of the colonists and the family composition, for floor plans and views of the colonist houses see: Roden, Günter von: Zur Geschichte von Duisburg-Neudorf. Summary, additions, suggestions for further research . In: Duisburger Forschungen, Volume 14. Duisburg: Walter Braun Verlag, 1970, pp. 160-179

[3] Marie-Louise Seidenfaden: Colonists from South Hesse on the Duisburger Heide (1770). In: Geschichtsblätter Kreis Bergstrasse, Volume 26, page 259 ff.