North Park (Velbert)

Velbert, Am Nordpark: The skyscrapers 4 (right) and 6 can be seen. A playground has been built on the site of house no. 8, which was demolished in 2007.

The Nordpark is a district in the north of the city of Velbert on the edge of a forest area. The district of Nordpark / Schwanefeld had 3,255 inhabitants on January 1, 2019.

geography

The Nordpark is located in the north of the city of Velbert. In the middle of the district there is a small center with a supermarket, snack bar and other shops. To the east of the district is the Röbbeck industrial area , to the west is the Langenhorst district . In the south is the Velbert city center and to the north is the Velbert district of Hefel , which is on the border with Dilldorf , part of Essen-Kupferdreh . The old Jewish cemetery Velbert-Mitte is located on the edge of the north park .

population

On January 1, 2019, 24.9% of the 3,255 inhabitants were Protestant, 28.1% Roman Catholic and 47.1% other or without a denomination. The proportion of foreigners was 19.1% (city average 15.2%). The proportion of people over 65 was 16.6% (city average 21.1%).

history

The hill sloping to the northeast was uninhabited until modern times and was named Friedbusch. Between the Kotten Wildenburg, Auf`m Schwanefeld, Höfgessiepen and Kattensiepen, which were founded in the 18th century, there was arable land until the 20th century. The name of the Nordpark district goes back to an adjacent forest area in the Hespertal , which was created as a local recreation area around 1930 by the Velbert Beautification Association and the Nordstädtischer Bürgererverein.

The Nordpark district was originally characterized by low-storey residential buildings. In 1974, four high-rise buildings with 63 apartments each on ten floors were built in the Nordpark to offer living space to the employees of the nearby August Engels foundry. After this foundry closed in the 1980s, the settlement began to decline. The houses were poorly used due to the increasing number of families moving away. After a disproportionate influx of foreign residents and tenants with low income levels, the Nordpark, which was often reduced to the four high-rise buildings, gained the reputation of a social hotspot in the 1990s. At the end of 2006, an urban development concept was presented that provided for the skyscrapers to be gradually demolished in order to use the resulting open space differently. The demolition of the first of the four high-rise buildings began in November 2007, and the last was dismantled at the end of 2012. Since then, numerous new buildings with smaller residential units have been built.

supporting documents

1. ↑ Population statistics City of Velbert 2019
2. ↑ Velbert Beautification Association in the past, present and future on: velberter-platt.de
3. ↑ Description of the "Stadtumbau West" program of the city of Velbert  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 333 kB)  
4. ↑ District Management Velbert-Nordstadt ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 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. 

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '0.2 "  N , 7 ° 3' 0.9"  E