Nordpark (Mönchengladbach)

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The north park is located between the A 61, Mönchengladbach-Holt exit and the B 57 in the western part of Mönchengladbach
Location of the Provincial Welfare Educational Institution between Rheindahlen, Hehn and Holt in the Gladbach district around 1925
SparkassenPark

The Nordpark is an area of ​​around 160 hectares in the Rheindahlen-Land district of Mönchengladbach's West District .

After the development at the beginning of the 20th century, buildings in the style of historicism were initially erected on the site , which housed a pupil's institution from 1904 until the Second World War .

During the National Socialist era , the area served as an airfield, among other things. From 1945 to 1996 the British Rhine Army used the North Park as barracks for the Ayrshire Barracks North and had a large material and vehicle warehouse in the immediate vicinity of the Mönchengladbach district of Joint Headquarters . The name Nordpark is due to the location north of Aachener and Gladbacher Straße (formerly Provinzialstraße). The area across the street is the South Park and is expected to be used by the British armed forces until 2020. On the grounds of North Park, which has its own Behelfszufahrt on the A61 has, there is the Borussia-Park , the home ground of Bundesliga club Borussia Moenchengladbach , Europe's largest Hockey Stadium, the Hockey Park and the "Theater in North Park" (TiN). In the so-called monument area are the 17 completely renovated buildings of the former pupil institution.

location

The approximately 160 hectare Nordpark is located in the western part of the city of Mönchengladbach in the city district West. He is one post to Rheindahlen (zip code: 41179). To the west the area borders on the districts of Dorthausen , Wolfsittard and Heiligenpesch, which belong to Rheindahlen ; in the north on Hehn and Hehnerholt and in the east on the A 61. The southern border is the Gladbacher Straße ( B 57 ) running from Rheindahlen to Holt .

Vegetation, flora and fauna

The vegetation of the North Park was primarily shaped by the nature of its soil . The entire area has a backwater bottom with the pseudogley . Because an impermeable layer of clay that is relatively close to the surface (at a depth of 1–3 meters) prevents the precipitation from seeping away, the flora was exposed to extreme living conditions in the past, depending on the weather. The soil was particularly soaked in spring, and forest areas remained flooded into early summer. Heathland dried up quickly in summer, which is why, with the seasonal changes, they had the characteristics of dry or wet heather. In order to enable construction work on the site, parts of the Wolfsittarder, Holter and Dahlener Heide have been drained and thus made arable since 1907 .

Favored by the relatively quiet and protected location in a military restricted area, some wet forests, temporary small bodies of water and soil monuments such as shallow caves were able to survive in the western and southwestern part of the area . In 2003, an area of ​​around 11.65 hectares was designated as a nature reserve wetland North Park with the key number MG-015.

history

First use

Until the 19th century flax farmers from the neighboring Rheindahlen used the area to prepare their harvests. Ideal conditions were found here for the flax roasting and the subsequent drying.

The flax roasting was carried out in water pits, so-called Flachskuhlen, which were dug in the forest. The flax plant had to lie in the water for one to two weeks. In order to prevent the bundles of flax from floating up, they were weighed down on top with turf that was cut in the Holter Heide to the west. The shallow caves were practically covered during the roasting.

After the roasting, the farmers had larger areas on the heather available as so-called spreading areas, where the flax could be spread out to dry. Flachskuhlen and spreading areas belonged to the community and could be leased at auctions. The light forest offered space for entire pit fields.

Educational institution

Typical development in the north park

The complex of a total of 22 individual buildings for several hundred educators and residents was built between 1904 and 1909 on a decision of the Provincial Association of the Rhine Province on Provinzialstrasse (today Gladbacher Strasse) in the district of Rheindahlen as an educational institution for male welfare pupils and Catholic denominations there should be drawn into "able members of society". The construction costs amounted to 2 million marks . On October 1, 1909, the institution started operating. On October 24th, 1909 , Arthur Schreiber , then President of the District of Düsseldorf , inaugurated the facility. Initially, school dropouts, known as “young pupils”, who may have stood before the start of a criminal career, were admitted. Between 1909 and 1924, 45.7 pupils from 10,000 inhabitants of the cities of Mönchengladbach and Rheydt were admitted. In addition to the administration building and a chapel dedicated to Saint Barbara , where nuns, pupils and visitors from the neighboring house went to worship, there were five pupil houses, a house for lung patients with a hospital, an isolation building, a farm building, and a machine house School building, a parsonage and officials' house, a nursery, a cemetery and a fire-fighting equipment shed. There was also a locksmith's shop, a carpenter's shop, a bakery, a mat weaving shop, a shoemaker's shop and a tailoring shop. Connected was a twelve- acre vegetable garden and a 27-acre agricultural operation to supply the educational institution. The young people housed were able to learn a trade there, as the masters of the craft businesses belonged to the respective guilds. The prison staff consisted of the director, a pastor as well as officials, masters and assistants. Twelve nuns of the Augustinian order were responsible for the division of the work in the kitchen, laundry and bakery . From July 21, 1926, the educational institution was called Provinzial-Erziehungsheim . Because of the sometimes inhuman and impersonal conditions in dealing with the pupils, the Catholic priest, head of Lenzen, introduced new educational methods. Due to budget cuts on the part of the executing agency, these measures later failed. The National Socialists released Lenzen in 1933 and introduced drill, harsh tones and draconian punishments. The doctor appointed by the National Socialists at the institution Joseph Noll stated:

"It is not acceptable that criminal, incorrigible elements constantly cause the state and thus the people uncanny and never productive costs again."

He had the inmates of the institution selected as “educable” or “inferior” on a hereditary level. In 1938 the National Socialists confiscated the entire site and the nuns were exchanged for secular personnel on February 1, 1938.

Airfield and use of the area after the Second World War

In 1910, citizens from Munich-Gladbach interested in flying set up an airfield on the Holter Heide , on which a flight day took place in the summer of 1911. After the First World War , a Belgian military airfield was to be built on this area. Despite the Belgian occupation , the government in Berlin foiled this plan by delaying it. The Belgian occupiers were also criticized by local farmers who protested against the construction of an airfield because their arable land was affected. Between 1927 and 1929 the airfield was expanded for civil aviation and connected to the international air traffic network by means of a shuttle service.

During the Nazi era , the NSFK was stationed there and day and night fighter squadrons were stationed there during World War II . During this time the St. Barbara Chapel was closed; the buildings were used for administration. The entire area was spared from Allied bombing attacks, although there was a Wehrmacht fuel depot there. After the war, the British military seized the area as one of the victorious powers and renamed it Ayrshire Barracks North ; it served, among other things, as the 17th Vehicle Depot for military vehicles and tanks of all types of the units stationed there. It received three train stations and a direct single-track connection to the rail network of Deutsche Bahn in the neighboring Rheindahlen. This meant that hospital trains could be transported to the depot via its own siding, which originated from the Rheindahlen train station.

Present and current use

Area in hectares according to type of use
area surface
Sports, leisure and culture 55
Services, living and working 13
Residential areas west of the highway 26th
Traffic and parking areas 25th
public green spaces and forest areas 28
Nature reserve 12
total area 159
Borussia Park Mönchengladbach 002.jpg
Host City Logo Moenchengladbach.jpg


Borussia-Park was the central point in Nordpark and one of the venues for the 2011 women's soccer world championship.

The Rhine Army cleared the site on June 28, 1996 and moved to the Südpark south of Gladbacher Strasse, which had been used as a warehouse by the US Army until then ( Ayrshire Barracks South and Fife Barracks ). The area of ​​the north park was bought on May 28, 1998 by the city of Mönchengladbach through the business development Mönchengladbach (WFMG) founded especially for this purpose from federal property and could thus be privatized. In the so-called monument area are the listed buildings of the educational institution, which were built in the architectural style of historicism and renovated, modernized and sold to new owners in accordance with listed buildings . In addition to event, media and advertising agencies, the buildings are home to numerous companies that are primarily active in the communications industry as well as in the IT and software sector. The Chapel of St. Barbara , called St. George's Church by the British armed forces , has also been renovated. In it there is a hotel with an attached restaurant, the former church space is used as an event room. Around 2,000 jobs were created in around 17,500 square meters of office space. The Bundesliga soccer team Borussia Mönchengladbach acquired a total of 20.9 hectares of land and began on March 15, 2002 with the construction work for a new and larger stadium.

The Borussia Park was inaugurated on July 30, 2004 with a blitz tournament against FC Bayern Munich and AS Monaco . The former Lady-Ada-Lovelace- Strasse was converted into an access road and has been leading to the football stadium since December 13, 2000. As a connecting road between the Rheindahlen district of Hehn and Gladbacher Strasse, it has been called Am Borussiapark since July 21, 2004 . In addition to the Konrad-Zuse -Ring and the Heinz-Nixdorf- Strasse, other streets are related to personalities in Mönchengladbach's football history. These include Hennes-Weisweiler -Allee, Helmut-Grashoff- Strasse and Albert-Brülls- Strasse. The 2.8 km long main traffic axis connecting the B 57 (Aachener Straße) with the B 230 (Roermonder Straße) was completed between November 2002 and June 2004. The main traffic axis serves as a feeder road to the parking lots of the football stadium and has a system of coordinated traffic management with variable message signs .

Next to the stadium is the club's training area with several grass pitches and six parking spaces for the home games with around 10,000 parking spaces, which, as well as a multifunctional area for trade fairs, circus guest performances and other events, are operated by the parking company PPG-Nordpark GmbH, which was founded for this purpose become. This company is owned by 60.60% of the EWMG-Entwicklungsgesellschaft der Stadt Mönchengladbach mbH, which was founded as a city- owned subsidiary for the urban reorganization and development of the Nordpark , and 39.40% of Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach GmbH. In 2004, the motorway exit 10 of the A 61 was renamed from Mönchengladbach-West to Mönchengladbach-Nordpark. The sometimes chaotic traffic conditions before and after the home games of Borussia Mönchengladbach were counteracted in 2007 with the three-lane expansion of Aachener Straße in the area of ​​the Nordpark entrance and exit and in 2008 with the construction of a driveway from parking lot 7 to the A 61 in the direction of Koblenz . The access driveway can only be used on match days.

At the beginning of 2011, among other things, with a view to the games of the women's soccer World Cup scheduled in the stadium , work began on building another access road to relieve the load on Aachener Strasse and the parking lots. In June 2011, a parking information system for the parking spaces in Nordpark was put into operation. Around the Borussia-Park and the SparkassenPark there are further areas available for commercial use which (as of November 2009) are already being used or built on. In the summer of 2009, the Mönchengladbach and Rheydt tax offices were merged and moved into a newly constructed building in the Nordpark. Original plans included moving the Mönchengladbach trotting track from the Uedding district to the Nordpark in order to gain more space for trade and industry. However, the plans did not materialize. For this purpose, an Area of ​​Sports with a focus on fitness, health, wellness, art, culture and shopping is to be created on 135,000 square meters, divided into ten differently sized areas with areas from 2200 to 38,000 square meters . A multifunctional hall in direct contact with the SparkassenPark is also being planned. The NEW AG travels to North Park with the dedicated bus line 014 from the direction Rheydt and the bus line 017 from Rheindahlen coming and out of the city center, at. A large turning hammer serves as the bus stop at Nordpark Busbahnhof . In March 2009, renovation work began on a catering depot formerly used by the Bundeswehr. This hall was used from September 2009 under the name Theater im Nordpark (TiN) until July 23, 2011 as an alternative location for the Krefeld and Mönchengladbach theaters , as the town hall in the Rheydt district was renovated.

future

In an area of ​​47.5 hectares to the southeast of the Nordpark, between the A 61 and Borussia Park, an industrial area with a total of 30 hectares of usable space and nine hectares of green space is to be built over the next few years . The area previously used by the THW , Mönchengladbach local association , as accommodation and by members of the British Rhine Army as a residential area, was visually upgraded for the 2011 Women's Soccer World Cup in Mönchengladbach . The previous owner of the total of 140 residential buildings on Lilienthal- and Hugo-Eckener- Strasse is the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (Bima), which would like to sell the area to the development company Mönchengladbach (EWMG) for further use. The price of 160 euros / square meter expected for this by the Bima cannot be financed for the city of Mönchengladbach, as extensive floor renovations also have to be carried out. According to information from the Rheinische Post, 150 houses were sold to an investor who was not named on better terms than. The houses will be renovated and then sold. The companies based in the Nordpark will be connected to the Internet with a broadband connection line from 2013 onwards, according to a cooperation agreement between EWMG and Deutsche Telekom . By 2015, Santander Bank will have built a new office building on Mailänder Strasse for 1,500 employees. The company had already secured the purchase option for the 18,000 square meter property in mid-2012.

Monument description

Building of the former Rhenish welfare educational institution

To the north-west of Aachener / Gladbacher Straße are the buildings that were erected in a park-like setting at the beginning of the 20th century for the former Rhenish Provincial Welfare Educational Institution, which the British armed forces moved into after the Second World War. The buildings of the former Rhenish Provincial Welfare Educational Institution in today's Nordpark are characterized by a uniform design concept - despite all the differences in building volume and detail design. The majority of these are mostly two-storey brick buildings built above a high base, individually standing brick buildings with brightly contrasting joints, the protruding and recessed facades of which are interrupted by plastered wall surfaces that are framed by brick strips and are mostly on the upper floors.

Some of the upper floors or gables are also clad with slate with an old German covering. Interlocking tile roofs with occasionally inserted small and flat dormers characterize the lively, moving roof surfaces. Window and door openings, inserted differently as arched openings or as openings with a straight lintel, are predominantly framed with brick walls . Fronts - but also in some cases gable triangles - are designed as visible wooden structures with profiled beams and fillers. Passing in front of the gable roof rafters are headbands supported. Originally preserved windows are not available.

Inside, the buildings mostly show the original floor plan structure . Simple ceiling stucco work has seldom been preserved in larger room units. Interior doors, some of which are also designed as sliding doors , face the predominantly renewed exterior doors. The stairwells , including the railings, were largely preserved in their original state, but their floor coverings were renewed.

The "Nordpark" property is worthy of protection as a monument for urban, architectural, art-historical, social-historical and local historical reasons. The buildings of the former Rhenish Welfare Educational Institution were entered under No. N 020 on June 18, 1986 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

Others

The production company action concept shot two episodes of the RTL television series Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Autobahn Police in Nordpark: The Last Coup (episode 155; first broadcast: November 2, 2006) and Laura's decision (episode 149; first broadcast: September 21, 2006) .

On April 11, 2011, a dud was discovered during sewer work . The defusing of the US 250-kilo high- explosive bomb from World War II took place on the morning of April 13, 2011 between 9.45 and 10.30 a.m. Experts from the ordnance disposal service were deployed , as well as 40 officers from the police and public order office of the city of Mönchengladbach, who were responsible for securing the area. Before the start of the work, residents were evacuated within a radius of 250 meters and roads in the vicinity of the safety zone of 500 meters were blocked. Road traffic had to be rerouted because, among other things, the Aachener Strasse in this section and the A 61 between the Mönchengladbach and Wanlo motorway junctions had to be closed. The employees of the neighboring tax office and the Warsteiner Hockey Park were encouraged to stay in the buildings.

literature

  • Paul Hilgers: 100 years of St. Barbara Chapel in the listed building complex of the former Rhenish Provincial Welfare and Educational Institution Rheindahlen . In: Stadtsparkasse Mönchengladbach (ed.): Geschichtsfreunde RheinDahlen . No. 4 . Mönchengladbach November 2009.
  • Wolfgang Löhr with the support of the Sparkasse Foundation for Art and Science, the Reiners Foundation GmbH and the Josef and Hilde Wilberz Foundation (ed.): Loca Desiderata, Mönchengladbacher Stadtgeschichte . tape 3.1 . Rheinland-Verlag- und Betriebsgesellschaft des Landschaftsverband Rheinland mbH, Brauweiler Abbey, Pulheim 2003, ISBN 3-7927-1883-9 .
  • In the spotlight . In: Business Development Mönchengladbach (Ed.): Nordpark Mönchengladbach . September 2009 ( wfmg.de ( memento of December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 31.5 ″  N , 6 ° 23 ′ 21.7 ″  E