North Holland (Kassel)
 district of Kassel |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 19 '16 " N , 9 ° 30' 8" E | |
| height | 200 m above sea level NHN | |
| surface | 3.52 km² (10/23) | |
| Residents | 16,845 (Dec. 31, 2019) (1/23) | |
| Population density | 4786 inhabitants / km² (4/23) | |
| Proportion of foreigners | 46.4% (Dec. 31, 2019) (1/23) | |
| Postcodes | 34125, 34127 | |
| prefix | 0561 | |
| Website | District info North Holland | |
| politics | ||
| Mayor | Hannes Volz ( Greens ) | |
| Allocation of seats (local advisory board) | ||
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| Source: Kassel Statistical Atlas | ||
North Holland , officially North (Holland) , is a district of the North Hessian city of Kassel .
The so-called Nordstadt has been built since the beginning of the 19th century along the Dutch road leading to the north . The high concentration of industrial companies has been formative to this day. In between, small, disjointed quarters and settlements emerged in the course of the Wilhelminian era and the construction of social company housing. Today, the northern part of Kassel with its 34.8% non-German population is the district with the highest density of migrants , which resulted from the settlement of factory-based migrant workers in the post-war years. The headquarters of the Kassel Foreigners Advisory Council is located in this district.
The main location ( campus Holländischer Platz ) of the University of Kassel has been located here since the early 1980s .
geography
Clockwise from the north, the following districts border the north of the city : Philippinenhof-Warteberg , Fasanenhof , Wesertor , Mitte , Rothenditmold and finally the Jungfernkopf to the west . The border to the neighboring Fasanenhof district to the east is formed by the Möncheberg , at the foot of which the Ahna river, which rises from the Habichtswald, runs. Like the Mombach (course below today's street of the same name), the water was also canalised at the end of the 19th century. The main cemetery takes up a large part of the open space in the district. In the south, the Schillerviertel borders the Mitte district and the area around the main train station.
history
The history of the district is closely linked to the industrialization of Kassel. This only began with the connection to the railway network and as a result helped the Henschel & Sohn company to expand, especially in the construction of locomotives. Until the beginning of the 19th century, the Dutch Gate led from the densely built-up old town directly into the Ahnatal, which is used for fruit growing, to the north. The family company Henschel & Sohn first expanded on the property adjacent to the old town and at the beginning of the 20th century extended to Holländischer Platz .
In 1872, the Lower City Station was built between Wolfhager Strasse, Mombachstrasse and Westring as a freight station. From there, a siding led through Wolfhager Straße to Holländischer Platz. This was shut down after 1962 due to the redesign of Holländischer Platz.
In the years of the founding period, small quarters emerged as a result of the increasing demand for housing and the associated building boom, some of which can still be found today in their structure.
After the commissioning of the freight station on the Schenkebier Stanne on the northern outskirts, a siding was laid from the north through the district. For this purpose, the small Ahna brook was completely channeled and Henschel's suppliers in particular now settled on the sometimes narrow strip between Holländischer Straße and Ahna . The construction of the slaughterhouse and cattle yard on Mombachstrasse was also formative.
The situation after the war is characterized by the loss of many companies. The Henschel works, taken over by the Essen Thyssen group, closed the plant on Holländischer Platz in 1972. At Henschel, 3,000 jobs were lost when the plant was closed. In 1978 the slaughterhouse was relocated to Waldau. In 1996 the Gottschalk & Co. company closed in 1970, the Kolben-Seeger company closed. The country bought the building for the university in 1980, it was originally used as a canning factory and later engine parts were produced there. From 1984 to 1986 the factory was converted into a multi-purpose building for the architecture / urban planning / landscape planning department. Later this area was supplemented by a Biedermeier half-timbered house and the former building of the Kassel skin and fat recycling (Hafeka).
For several years, the American television product sales company QVC had its telephone center in the buildings of the former Hertel & Reuss company on Quellhofstrasse. In addition, there are a large number of small and medium-sized companies from the construction sector.
A demographic change in the district from Henschel workers to guest workers of foreign origin began in the course of the closure of the plant in the 1970s. As a result, the structure has changed significantly. At that time, the simple apartments were no longer in demand by the German population. In the course of this, the small-scale local economy in the district also changed. Shops such as bakeries and butchers migrated and were replaced by migrant trades.
The establishment of the University of Kassel between Holländischer Platz, Moritzstrasse and Mönchebergstrasse has led to a far-reaching change in the population structure in the southern part of the district. For the expansion of the university north of Moritzstrasse, a large part of the buildings of the former tent and cloth factory Gottschalk & Co. and the areas of the Kohlen Koch site facing Mombachstrasse were demolished. Since then u. a. a student dormitory, a daycare center and the Science Park Kassel as well as facilities for the Department of "Architecture - Urban planning and landscape planning" emerged. In 2015, the University of Kassel was provided with 100 million euros by the Hessian state government for construction and renovation measures. In the course of this , the natural sciences previously located in the Oberzwehren district will be relocated to the Holländischer Platz campus in the long term .
The quarters behind the vocational school on the former slaughterhouse, in particular the Friedrich-Wöhler -iedlung, are now considered to be disadvantaged in many respects. The Nordstadt has therefore been involved in various urban development funding programs since 1980. It was a model project of the “ Socially Integrative City ” (until 2008, since then “dormant participation”) and from 2000 to 2006 the funding area of the European “ URBAN II ” program. The renovation of the Nordstadtstadion (2003 to 2006) and the Nordstadtpark (completion in 2004) were implemented as part of the URBAN II program.
District image and district life
After the end of the funding phases for urban planning and urban development in the 1980s and 1990s, from which many social institutions in the northern part of Kassel emerged, many self-organized projects have been founded in recent years that support alternative development and greatly enrich life in the district . These include the “Agathe e. V. "in Tannenheckerweg and the State Domain Frankenhausen cooperating association" edible City e. V. “On the other hand, with the continuation of the campus expansion between Moritzstraße and Mombachstraße, a locally limited but structurally comprehensive change is to be expected in the coming years, which means that self-dynamic gentrification processes can be expected.
The Kasseler Tafel is based on Holländische Strasse.
From 2007 to 2010, business start-ups, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises were advised in the “Service Point Local Economy” project. In addition, the networking of the companies should be strengthened. Before that, from 2001 to 2005 there had been a project “Local economy for the promotion of training and qualification opportunities through cooperation with small and medium-sized enterprises”, which was funded by the “Hegiss - Socially Integrative City” program.
There are several cultural institutions in the north of the city, such as the student club “K19”, the municipal facility “Schlachthof”, as well as the autonomously managed projects “HAUS” and “Karoshi”. The area between the Nordstadtpark, which is used by residents until late in the night in summer, and Holländischer Platz can also be seen as the pub district for alternatives, punks and students. In this area you will find the pubs “Mutter”, “bei Ali”, “Beat Bar”, “Hurricane”, “Bar 39”, “Nordpol” and others. The area between the campus and the district is strongly influenced by public life on the “ Lucius-Burckhardt- Platz”, which, with the DesAStA café and the bicycle workshop, acts as an interface between the university and the district on Gottschalkstrasse. Here, as part of the ongoing construction work, an initiative has been set up that aims to anchor the planning more firmly with residents and users. The space, on the other hand, including the bicycle workshop that has existed there for many years, has been sacrificed to a large extent for construction logistics due to the incooperativity between the university, city (district) and initiatives.
In contrast to the student life in the southern northern part of the city along Gottschalkstrasse, the Schillerviertel, which is characterized by many medium-sized businesses, seems deserted. Along Wolfhager Strasse in the direction of Rothenditmold, legal street prostitution changes the image of the quarter, especially during the dark. The high volume of traffic around Holländischer Platz significantly reduces the quality of living in the entire district.
The outdoor areas of the Friedrich-Wöhler-Siedlung at Wiener Straße have been upgraded in recent years through urban funding and the city of Kassel. The formerly publicly owned residential buildings were sold to private companies. The city of Kassel has set up a district management system that aims to improve the social problems within the settlement and the district. For a number of years, the Nordwind district magazine tried to promote intercultural communication between residents. The various social initiatives that were connected to it still exist, the level of communication that was built up by the magazine has not been continued by the city since then.
Public facilities
General education schools
The Carl Anton Henschel primary school is located on Holländische Straße .
Vocational schools
The Arnold-Bode-Schule (formerly the Walter-Hecker-Schule), the Martin-Luther-King-Schule and the Paul-Julius-von-Reuter-Schule are located on Schillerstrasse. The fourth vocational school, the Elisabeth Knipping School, is located on Mombachstrasse on the site of the former Kassel slaughterhouse.
The local concentration, which is continued at a stone's throw in the neighboring Wesertor district with two other vocational schools, arose in the late sixties to the mid-seventies when a vocational school center was to be built within this area, which is centrally located for students from the surrounding area should be achievable.
further education
The North Hesse vocational training center has its premises on Sickingenstrasse.
Philipp Scheidemann House
At the corner of Holländische Strasse and Mombachstrasse is the Philipp-Scheidemann-Haus , which, in addition to the adult education center, also functions as a district center. The post-war modern building was to be expanded as a Nordstadt shopping center a few years ago. Instead, it was repaired and a part of the building was added that offers private office space.
Slaughterhouse cultural center
The Schlachthof cultural center , which is located in the immediate vicinity, also offers event rooms, especially for cultural and social initiatives. The Nordstadt youth center is also located in the gatehouses.
Foundation Archive of the German Women's Movement
The Archive of the German Women's Movement Foundation is located in Gottschalkstrasse . It maintains a special library, an archive and a research center for the purpose of transmission and research into the history of women and women's movements in Germany.
Transport links
The district of North Holland is crossed in a north-south direction by the Holländische Straße (part of the B 7 and B 83 ). Holländische Strasse is served by RegioTram lines RT1 and RT4, tram lines 1 and 5 and night tram 5, while Holländische Platz is also served by bus lines 52 and 100. Bus lines 12 and 13 still serve at Wienerstraße additionally. The terminus Holländische Straße is served by several lines.
literature
- Annette Ulbricht (Ed.): From Henschelei to University. The campus of the University of Kassel on Holländischer Platz and its history. Kassel 2004; ISBN 3-89958-099-0
See also
Individual references and sources
- ↑ North Holland. In: City portal Kassel. City of Kassel, documenta city; represented by the magistrate, July 18, 2014, accessed on August 17, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Kulbarsch, Ulrike; Marsen, Holger; Soltau, Peter: District history as city history. Kassel. Self-published, Kassel January 1980, p. 90 .
- ↑ Annette Ulbricht: From Henschelei to college . kassel university press GmbH, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89958-099-0 , p. 19 .
- ↑ Annette Ulbricht: From Henschelei to college . kassel university press GmbH, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89958-099-0 , p. 51 .
- ↑ Annette Ulbricht: From Henschelei to college . kassel university press GmbH, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89958-099-0 , p. 53 .
- ↑ a b Annette Ulbricht: From Henschelei to University . kassel university press GmbH, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89958-099-0 , p. 86 .
- ↑ http://www.hna.de/kassel/universitaet-kassel-org306269/millionen-euro-kassel-uni-5589305.html "100 million euros for the University of Kassel". hna.de, from October 1, 2015.
- ↑ Program areas Kassel, Nordstadt. In: Urban development funding from the federal government, states and municipalities. Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), accessed on August 17, 2015 .
- ^ Urban II Kassel. European Commission, archived from the original on December 23, 2013 ; accessed on August 17, 2015 .
- ^ Kasseler Tafel eV Kasseler Tafel eV, accessed on August 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Service Point Local Economy - Final Documentation 2007 - 2010. (PDF) Kulturzentrum Schlachthof, p. 7 , accessed on August 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Kassel location. State vocational school in the vocational training center North Hesse - Bad Arolsen and Kassel, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
Web links
- Local Advisory Board North Holland ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
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