North market (Dortmund)

North market City of Dortmund Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 33 "  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 56"  E
Height :	approx. 75 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.25 km²
Residents :	28,346  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	8,733 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	44145
Area code :	0231
Statistical District :	05
Location of Nordmarkt in Dortmund

View from Mallinckrodtstrasse into the north market (2006)

Weekly market on the north market (2009)

View of Lortzingstrasse, the course of which takes up the route to the north market (2013)

Memorial stone in memory of the "Battle of the North Market"

The North Market is an existing in its current form since 1909, horticulturally designed space in the district Downtown North (North city) from Dortmund . A weekly market is held on Tuesdays and Fridays on the roadside . The north market is the namesake for the statistical district that surrounds it, which lies between the other two quarters of Borsigplatz and Hafen . The north market is therefore also known as the “place in the heart of the north city”.

space

History of origin

In 1858 the magistrate appointed a city ​​architect for the north city, which was growing rapidly due to industrialization . Ludwig König introduced the first building regulations. His successor Brandhoff planned the northern part of the city as a right-angled street network with eleven “decorative squares” to loosen up the residential areas. Of these, apart from the Nordmarkt, only Borsigplatz, Steinplatz and Hackländer Platz were realized. In the “general plan” of 1889, a rectangular square appeared at today's location, which was planned as a marketplace and for which the magistrate initially wanted to purchase the property. The realization of the square, however, goes back to a contract, which today would be referred to as the urban development contract , from 1893 between the city and Heinrich Schulte-Witten , whose family based in Dorstfeld owned extensive building land along the planned north-south axis. The city undertook to build roads and drainage, in particular to relocate a disruptive sewage flow, and received the initially so-called “North Square”, which at that time was still on the northern periphery of the newly emerging suburb, as a gift.

The four- hectare square was initially just a "decorative complex" with fenced lawns. Its shape, which is still visible today - especially after the "dismantling" completed in 1996 with funds from the NRW state initiative, City districts with special need for renovation - was given by redesigning from 1907 to 1909 based on a design by Cologne gardening inspector Hermann Robert Jung , who with his contribution "Geometry" emerged as the winner of a competition. An x-shaped system of paths - an extension of the streets leading to the north market - opened up an open space in the center of the square.

Name story

The name “Nordmarkt” became established for the square, although weekly markets were initially set up on Borsigplatz, Steinplatz and Viehmarktplatz to supply the rapidly growing population. The names "Nordplatz" and "Schulte-Witten-Platz", after his sponsor who died in 1907, did not prevail.

Over the next few decades, the square became a place steeped in history, which was also reflected in the name changes. As early as 1919, the young Weimar Republic renamed it “Platz der Republik”. During the March riots in 1920 , marauding soldiers killed a worker there. A memorial erected in 1995 on the south side of the square commemorates the “Battle on the North Market” between SA , Communists, Social Democrats and law enforcement officers on October 16, 1932. From March 9, 1933 until the end of World War II , the North Market was then called “ Horst-Wessel Place ". It got its original name back in 1945. In 2005, the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - the Association of Antifascists - renamed the North Market to “Opa-Wille-Platz” did not find a political majority . "Grandpa Wille" refused to greet some SA men with the swastika flag on September 1, 1934, whereupon they beat him so brutally that he later succumbed to his injuries.

Usage history

The north market was built as a “place to stroll and linger”. A little later, a public lavatory and kiosk were built on the south side of the square. Of the five children's playgrounds in Dortmund in 1904, one was in the northern area of ​​the square. This was expanded and fenced in in 1971. Contrary to what the name suggests, the weekly market only established itself after the Second World War and the reconstruction . On March 31, 1950, it was still in operation indoors as a replacement for the alternative weekly market on Lortzingplatz.

With the complete renovation from 1993 to 1996, the original function should be restored, even if this is now referred to as "quality of stay". In connection with the decline of the coal and steel industry and the rise in unemployment and poverty, conflicts of use had arisen, especially with residents who consume alcohol and other drugs . With different, sometimes changing strategies, the city, social associations and citizen groups still try to do justice to the different user groups. With funding from the so-called Urban II program , a restaurant designed as a family café was built for 210,000 euros in the eastern area of ​​the north market as a counterbalance to the drinking scene. The private operator model under the names "Café Killefitt" and "Rasthaus Fink" failed, however. The "Salon Fink" is now part of the club scene. The Diakonisches Werk maintains a contact point for street social work and addiction counseling in the “Nordmarkt-Kiosk” for funding periods . Conflicts of use could be defused through the district management , which organizes cultural offers on the Nordmarkt, among other things, the residents' association "Nordmarkt Plus", employment and advisory services, but also through the increased presence of municipal security services and the police.

Statistical district

Population development

Residential high-rise Hannibal in the statistical sub-district Nordmarkt-Südost

year	1987	2003	2008	2013	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Residents	24,414	25,686	24,811	25,776	27,996	28,245	28,027	28,111	28,346

statistics

Structural data of the population in the Nordmarkt district:

• Minor quota: 28.6% [Dortmund average: 19.4% (2016)]
• Old age quota: 15.1% [Dortmund average: 30.0% (2016)]
• Proportion of foreigners: 56.1% [Dortmund average: 18.2% (2018)]
• Unemployment rate: 21.9% [Dortmund average: 11.0% (2017)]

The average income is around 45% below the Dortmund average.

Residential development

The quarter is one of the residential areas with a very high population density of 8,600 inhabitants / km², which is particularly concentrated in the southern part of the quarter. There are mainly commercial areas in the northern part of the northern market. Most of the buildings are rental apartments from the Wilhelminian era (19th and early 20th centuries) with mostly four to five floors; the cityscape is made up of closed perimeter blocks . In the sub-district Nordmarkt-Südost with a population density of 43,200 inhabitants / km² there is a perimeter block development and in the former redevelopment area North II there are high-rise buildings. One of the three high-rise buildings, for example, is the Hannibal residential complex with 232 apartments.

Web links

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

literature

• City of Dortmund et al. (Hrsg.): 100 years north market. Dortmund 2009, DNB 999580884 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Dortmund: Population by gender and nationality in the statistical districts on December 31, 2019. (PDF) Department of Statistics, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2020 . 
2. ^ City of Dortmund, culture and leisure calendar , accessed on May 6, 2015.
3. ^ City of Dortmund (Internet portal): The history of the north city , accessed on May 11, 2015.
4. ^ City of Dortmund, Parks and Gardens in Dortmund / Nordmarkt , accessed on May 6, 2015.
5. ^ ^{A b} Hermann Josef Bausch: The north market - history of a green city square in Dortmund. In: City of Dortmund u. a. (Ed.): 100 Years of Nordmarkt. Dortmund 2009.
6. ↑ Communists commemorate the “Battle of the North Market”. ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Nordstadtblogger. October 23, 2014, accessed May 7, 2015.
7. ↑ I've never said hello to cleaning rags. In: Our time, newspaper of the DKP. October 21, 2005, accessed May 6, 2015.
8. ↑ Diakonie improves the situation. In: City of Dortmund, news portal. June 4, 2012, accessed May 12, 2015.
9. ↑ City wants to ban alcohol on the north market. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Local edition Dortmund, March 24, 2010, accessed on May 12, 2015.
10. ↑ Café Killefitt opened on Nordmarkt. May 23, 2008. ( dortmund21.de ( memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ))
11. ↑ A day in the living room of Dortmund's Nordstadt. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Local edition Dortmund, June 2, 2011, accessed on May 12, 2015.
12. ↑ Gallery: Surprising insights into the north market. ( Memento from July 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Nordstadtblogger. June 9, 2013, accessed May 16, 2015.
13. ↑ Population structures annual report 2016 (PDF file)
14. ↑ Population structures annual report 2016 (PDF file)
15. ↑ Nationalities in the statistical districts as of December 31, 2018 (PDF file)
16. ↑ Unemployment rates by statistical district on June 30, 2017 (PDF file)
17. ↑ Repair and modernization "Hannibal I" (website) ( Memento from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )