Niederfeld (Mannheim)

Niederfeld City of Mannheim Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 20 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 35 ″  E
Area :	4.19 km²
Residents :	7440  (December 31, 2015)
Population density :	1,774 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes :	68163, 68199
Area code :	0621

Niederfeld is a district of Mannheim and is - like the districts of Neckarau and Almenhof - in the Neckarau district .

location

Won "Niederfeld" (above) on a map from 1890

Niederfeld is one of the southern districts of Mannheim and is bordered by the districts of Lindenhof in the north, Almenhof in the east and Neckarau in the south. The forest park and the Reissinsel on the Rhine form the west of the Niederfeld . It gets its attractiveness from the urban design without through streets , the natural location, the public transport connection via the tram line 3 and the offers in the adjacent districts.

history

The formerly diked area of ​​the Niederfeld, mentioned in 1348, was old Neckarau arable land that was used for growing grain. The other areas of the Niederfeld were used as pasture, for arable farming and near the village of Neckarau as gardens. Today's Steubenstrasse served as "The New Mannheimer Way" of the connection between Neckarau and Mannheim. The name "Niederfeld" comes from the fact that in the villages along the Rhine, the fields towards the Rhine were called "Niederfeld" and the fields away from the Rhine were called "Hochfeld". In Neckarau in particular, however, the latter was called “Großfeld”. The Niederfeld as part of the Neckarau district was delimited from Mannheim by an arm of the former mouth of the Neckar delta. This ran roughly along Speyerer Strasse and east of Belchenstrasse, so that the area of ​​the so-called Black Forest Quarter has always belonged to Mannheim, now part of the Lindenhof district, and is still not part of Niederfeld.

Between 1870 and 1900, a right-angled network of paths was set up as part of the land consolidation, which existed until the final development in the 1980s. In 1899 the village of Neckarau was incorporated into Mannheim with the Niederfeld on its territory.

The Niederfeld is a comparatively young district of Mannheim. The northern part was created in the 1960s and 70s as an extension of the Lindenhof district. The deaconess hospital was built on the northern edge in 1959/60 , the minor high school in 1966 and the Heinrich Lanz hospital in 1969/70. This was integrated into the deaconess hospital in 2007 and its building was demolished in 2009/2010. From 1979 to the end of September 2014, the Goethe-Institut Mannheim-Heidelberg was located in Steubenstrasse on the eastern edge of the Niederfeld. Numerous language students from all over the world got to know the German language and culture here . The southern area was only sparsely built up and was used for agriculture. The residential development took place here from 1983 and completed the Niederfeld as a separate district. The tram went into operation along the eastern edge of the Niederfeld in 1995 and in 1999 on the southern edge.

leisure

There are various facilities for sports and leisure activities, especially in the west at the forest park, in the floodplain of the Rhine and formerly Neckar . The mouth of the Neckar was here until around 1275. At times, parts of the forest park are also flooded by the Rhine. This can be seen above all in the Reisinsel nature reserve, which is regularly partially flooded. The peninsula is separated from the rest of the forest park by the Bellenkappen ("Pappelgraben"), a narrow arm of the Rhine in which the Cuckoo Island is located.

Another special feature of the forest park is the lido in the Rhine loop between Rhine kilometers 419 and 420, which was opened in 1927, but where bathing is now prohibited for safety reasons. It serves as a popular excursion destination with a large lawn, barbecue area and two restaurants. There are bathing opportunities not far from the lido at the Stollenwörthweiher in the summer pool and in the Heinz-Hunzinger pool, which are run by associations.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City of Mannheim: Population 2015 in small-scale breakdown. (PDF 679 KB) Statistical data Mannheim № 1/2016. March 30, 2016, p. 5 ff. , Accessed on April 6, 2016 . 
2. ^ Hansjörg Probst : The Niederfeld. In: Neckarau (Volume 1): From the beginnings to the 18th century - Mannheim, 1988. P. 27 , accessed on December 21, 2015 . 
3. ↑ MARCHIVUM: street names, Acorn mountain road. Retrieved August 27, 2018 . 
4. ↑ MARCHIVUM: Street names, Tannhäuserring. Retrieved August 27, 2018 . 

Web links

• City of Mannheim: District life, Niederfeld. Retrieved October 28, 2014 . 
• City of Mannheim: Statistical data 2015, Niederfeld. (PDF 205 KB) December 31, 2014, accessed on September 21, 2015 .