City District North City Center (Dortmund)

Downtown North District City of Dortmund Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 45 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 18 ″  E
Area :	14.42 km²
Residents :	59,604  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	4,135 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	44145-44147
Area code :	0231
Location of the inner city-north district within Dortmund.

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The city ​​district Innenstadt-Nord is the northern inner city district in Dortmund , which is also called Nordstadt . With around 60,000 inhabitants and a high population density, Dortmund's northern city is considered a multicultural melting pot and the largest coherent Wilhelminian-style district in North Rhine-Westphalia. Due to the low rents and the proximity to the city center, parts of the north city are increasingly chosen by students, freelancers, artists and creative entrepreneurs as living and working locations. Due to the expanding gastronomic offer and the settlement of creative companies, z. For example, the area around the port is sometimes referred to as a trendy area in the Ruhr area with emerging gentrification processes. There are numerous parks and playgrounds in the city district, such as the Fredenbaumpark or the Blücherpark in the harbor district .

The city district is divided into the statistical districts Hafen, Nordmarkt and Borsigplatz .

statistics

As of December 31, 2018, 59,502 residents lived in the city district Innenstadt-Nord.

Structure of the population:

• Minor quota: 25.4% [Dortmund average: 16.2%]
• Elderly rate: 15.4% [Dortmund average: 20.2%]
• Proportion of foreigners: 52.2% [Dortmund average: 18.2%]
• Unemployment rate: 21.3% [Dortmund average: 9.8%]

Population development

1998	2003	2007	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
58.505	55,149	53,826	52,893	53.164	54.992	57.504	59,016	59,649	59,479	59.502	59,604

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history

The area of ​​the north city in 1804

Until the 19th century

In the Middle Ages and modern times until 1840, today's area of ​​the northern part of the city in front of the city gates of the free imperial and Hanseatic city of Dortmund was a landscape with extensive meadows, fields and the common rural forests of Oester-, Burg- and Westerholz.

19th century

The Westfalenhütte area in 1895

Level crossing at the Burgtor to Münsterstrasse

Münsterstrasse during industrialization

The history of Dortmund's northern city began with the opening of the Cöln-Mindener Railway in 1847. When the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahngesellschaft was commissioned to build a railway line from Cologne via Lünen to Minden in 1843 , the Dortmund magistrate Hansmann was able to arrange a route transfer via Dortmund win by giving investors 9,000 thalers and 52 hectares of land on the northern city wall. From 1847 the railroad started operating from Duisburg via Dortmund to Minden. Two years later, the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahnlinie was added, both railways employ almost 1,200 people in Dortmund in 1857.

Due to the high demand for hard coal for the railways' company cars, the United Westphalia stock corporation began to sink a first shaft north of the railway line. In 1856, the Dortmund mining and smelting company with a puddling plant and foundry settled next to the coal mine in Westphalia . In a very short time the Union developed north of Dortmund city center as a merger of coal and steel production.

As part of the railway construction and the beginning of industrialization , primarily Eastern European workers from the former Eastern Prussian regions (East and West Prussia, Poznan, Pomerania, Silesia) initially settled in barracks north of the railway line. A nearby pond was so heavily polluted by sewage that the vernacular christened it the Black Sea . The area along the pond has since been called Krim (today Krimstrasse), named after the large peninsula in the Black Sea . A sprawling suburb with muddy paths, barracks and a lack of sewers and catastrophic hygienic conditions formed around the station.

Postcard Steinplatz and Steinstrasse (Postlauf 1914)

Due to the precarious conditions, a right-angled street network with decorative squares ( Steinplatz , Nordmarkt , Borsigplatz ) in the north of Dortmund was planned and built from 1858 by the city architect Ludwig . The construction of workers' housing in mines and steelworks is initially rather subdued; In 1871 the Unionvorstadt was built , a settlement of the Union steelworks northwest of the old port authority (demolished in September 1961). By 1876, the Hoesch steelworks erected a significant number of apartments on Borsigplatz. However, many Dortmund craftsmen and citizens had tenement houses built along the streets and squares, mostly as investment properties. Overall, a kind of “gold rush mood” arose during this time, with large property speculators and exorbitant potential returns due to soaring property prices. As a countermeasure, the Spar- und Bauverein eG Dortmund was founded in 1893 (today known, among other things, from the Concordia-Haus on Borsigplatz), which countered from around 1903 with large-scale square buildings, especially on Borsigplatz and in Wambeler Straße. The Dortmund non-profit housing company DoGeWo followed after its founding in 1918 with larger projects, especially on Uhland-, Franz-Liszt- and Grisarstraße.

Saalbau Fredenbaum in the Lunapark

With the expansion of the Westfalenhütte by Leopold Hoesch , more workers poured into the city; the Hoesch residential area around Borsigplatz was built. In the course of the skyrocketing number of Protestant Christians in the northern part of the city, this led to the establishment of new parishes and sacred buildings: Paulus (1894), Johannes (1896) and Luther (1907). It is similar with the Roman Catholic parishes. They are parish off from large inner-city parishes: Joseph (1891), Trinity (1900), St. Apostles (1902), St. Antonius (1908) and St. Michael (1914).

The construction of the Dortmund port on the Dortmund-Ems Canal began in 1895 on the northern edge of what was then the urban area of Dortmund on the area of Unionvorstadt , a factory settlement of the Dortmund group , which made the settlement of 40 buildings into a residential enclave in the middle of the port area. The opening of the Dortmund harbor in 1899 by Kaiser Wilhelm II is another milestone in the development of the northern part of the city.

The northern part of the city took its current urban design in the years 1890–1913. In addition to the pure residential areas, the amusement district around Steinplatz with standing beer halls, as well as the parks ( Fredenbaumpark and Hoeschpark ) for the recreation of the urban population were created.

Between 1900 and 1933

Borsigplatz is considered the birthplace of Borussia Dortmund

Former Steinwache, prison, Steinstrasse 48

On December 19, 1909, 21 Catholic altar boys founded the Kath. Dreifaltigkeitsgemeinde not far from Borsigplatz in the hall of the restaurant "Zum Wildschütz" with Heinrich Trott senior. in Oesterholzstraße 60 the ball game club Borussia Dortmund . The occasion is the decree of the youth chaplain Hubert Dewald to move the Sunday mass to 2 p.m. in order to spoil the young people from the sport of rough kicking, which is practiced at this time. Initially, the game was played on the White Meadow , an area of ​​grass surrounded by poplars at the eastern end of Wambeler Straße. In 1924, club members and players built the space to the Borussia Stadium on their own. The Stockheide swimming pool is located in the same place today.

The city district, which is separated from the rest of the city center to the south by the railway tracks, housed over 60,000 people in 1914, one in five of whom was of Polish origin . By 1939 the population rose to up to 75,000 people. Before the National Socialists came to power, there were frequent clashes between the traditionally communist workers and the National Socialists in the northern part of the city . In the "battle" on the north market on October 16, 1932 two people died and 14 others were injured.

The urban development of the northern part of the city was severely neglected by the National Socialists from 1933 onwards . There was too great a risk of a social democratic and communist run-up to triggering further unrest in the densely built-up area. The population between the port and Hoeschpark , however, continued to increase: in 1939, 75,000 people lived in the northern part of the city.

The old police station No. 6 on Steinstrasse called Steinwache was handed over to the secret state police (GeStaPo) on April 1, 1934. The cell wing built in 1927 becomes the central Gestapo prison in Westphalia; Between 1934 and 1945 around 57,000 people were imprisoned in the "Hell of West Germany".

Second World War

During the Second World War , Dortmund, especially the northern part of the city, was badly damaged by air raids due to the industrial facilities and arms production of the German Reich . In 1945 almost all production facilities and approx. 85% of the apartments in the northern part of the city were destroyed.

Reconstruction and post-war

Headquarters Hoesch on the Westfalenhütte

After the reconstruction , many southern European guest workers settled in Dortmund's northern part of the city during the economic miracle . This was due to the fact that with the coal mine "Kaiserstuhl", the Hoesch AG and Dortmund-Hörder Hütten-Union as well as the Dortmunder Actien brewery and Hansa brewery, the three classic Dortmund economic pillars (coal, steel and beer) are rooted directly in the northern part of the city were.

In the period that followed, the district also attracted immigrants from various countries, especially from Turkey , Spain , Portugal , Italy and Yugoslavia, with low rents . However, since the second half of the 1960s, crises, merger and concentration effects and the economic decline of the coal and steel industry have increasingly threatened people's jobs. In 1964 there were 34,000 jobs in Dortmund's steel industry; in 1979, the number was reduced to just under 20,000.

1980s to 2010

Depot cultural center on Immermannstrasse

Multi-cinema complex on Xian Square

In order to counter the social problems and to shape the structural change positively, the north city has been supported by public funding measures since the 1980s. In addition, Nordstadt is one of 12 German districts that have been supported by the EU community initiative URBAN II . In total, more than € 28 million in funding was invested in various social and cultural projects and a. Renovation of the Hoeschpark and the depot invested. However, the high unemployment in parts of the northern part of the city should not be concealed .

In addition, on the edge of the main station in the area of ​​the former slaughterhouse, with the employment agency and the "Dietrich-Keuning-Haus", a cultural event center and a district-oriented meeting place was created in a completely new urban space. With the Museum of Natural History , another important anchor point was distributed across the entire northern part of the city. In addition, the e-port-dortmund was set up at the port as a start-up and competence center to promote the future -oriented logistics and IT sectors .

The Steinwache memorial with the permanent exhibition “Resistance and Persecution in Dortmund 1933–1945” is located along Steinstrasse . The neighboring building is the headquarters of the German subsidiary in the immediate vicinity of the Cinestar multiplex cinema at the north exit of Dortmund Central Station . A bus station for long-distance bus services in Germany was also created at the multiplex cinema in 2010 .

Due to the EU enlargement in 2004 and the increased influx from Eastern Europe, which is mostly referred to in the media as "poverty immigration" from Romania and Bulgaria, the entire city district was incorrectly referred to in some media as a " ghetto ". Some residents of the district complain about the media coverage, which gives the northern city a bad image, but the good aspects, such as B. the young population and large parking areas are silent.

On April 4, 2006, Mehmet Kubaşık was murdered by the right-wing extremist terrorist organization National Socialist Underground (NSU) in the northern part of Dortmund . The racist background to the offense only became known through the self-exposure of the NSU in 2011. Until then, the investigative authorities accused Kubaşık of criminal activities and his family to be involved in the crime. On November 8, 2019, the Mehmet-Kubaşık-Platz in Mallinckrodtstraße, near Münsterstraße , in the city district was inaugurated in memory of the murdered .

present

Trendy gastronomy at the harbor basin

Refurbished Wilhelminian style building on Bornstrasse

Eyup-Sultan Mosque for the Muslim population

Competence center e-Port

Due to the cheap rents and the proximity to the city center, parts of the district, especially the harbor. increasingly chosen by students, freelancers, artists and creative entrepreneurs as a place to live and work. Due to the expanding gastronomic offer, theaters, art house cinemas and the settlement of creative companies, the district is occasionally referred to as a trendy district in the Ruhr area . In this process, an increase in the number of inhabitants and rising rental and real estate prices for existing condominiums from 896 € / sqm to 1035 € / sqm could be observed within a few years. The local population at the port, however, fear displacement through gentrification.

Many initiatives, sponsors and associations are active in Dortmund's northern part of the city today. Numerous artists who have their studios in Nordstadt are represented in the Nordstadt culture mile. Artists like Boris Gott or İlhan Atasoy are involved in the culture mile and support the district with various activities. The Nordstadt youth forum is also located in the district, where young people can contribute their ideas and become (politically) active.

The proportion of the population with a migration background was around 73.5% in 2018.

For more than ten years, a development of the city harbor basin along Speicherstraße at the old harbor office based on the model of the Kreativkai in Münster has been considered. The search for investors was not very successful, however, despite extensive planning over the years, due to existing rental contracts that slowed down development. Since 2015, however, local politicians have been increasingly promoting the conversion of sections of the city harbor.

The development company d-port21, a subsidiary of DSW21 and Dortmunder Hafen AG, was founded to attract companies from the creative and digital industries to the Dortmund harbor. The city is thus following a model that has already proven itself within the framework of the Phoenix Lake project . The development project is financed by the European Regional Development Fund , the federal government , the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city ​​of Dortmund , among others . Investments in the three-digit million range are expected.

The plans drawn up by d-port21 include, among other things, the settlement of start-ups and companies in the southern Speicherstrasse . Cafés and restaurants are to be built on the planned bank promenade . The port of Dortmund is to be stabilized as an industrial and economic area and to create 3,000 to 5,000 jobs through the settlement of companies .

After the plans for the development of the port became known, residents founded the port initiative to support the preservation of the port as a public space .

Since 2015, thanks to large-scale funding measures by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the city of Dortmund has observed a total of 112 difficult-to-urban properties, processed them and, if possible, developed them again into a functioning property. The strategic purchase of the houses by the municipalities should help to revalue the quality of living in Nordstadt. The Social City Foundation with its non-profit subsidiary GrünBau ​​renovated the Wilhelminian-style building in order to then sell it back to the municipality. Long-term unemployed people in particular are employed and trained on the construction site.

Culture and sights

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in the city district Innenstadt-Nord

The list of monuments of the city of Dortmund includes 117 monuments in the city district of Innenstadt-Nord, including 65 residential buildings or settlements, 33 residential and commercial buildings, six sacred buildings, five industrial plants, three public buildings, two commercial buildings and two traffic systems as well as a park.

Museums

• Brewery Museum
• Natural History Museum
• Steinwache as a reminder and memorial to the time of National Socialism
• Hoesch Museum
• Old port authority

Churches

• Pauluskirche
• St. Gertrudis
• Trinity Church

Green spaces

• Fredenbaumpark as the green lung of the municipality
• Blücherpark
• Dietrich Keuning Park
• North market

Further sights in the municipality

• Depot as a cultural center and arthouse cinema
• Water tower
• Big Tipi as a climbing and event center in adventure educational youth work

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Panorama at Borsigplatz

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  Art Nouveau architecture on Bornstrasse

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  Hoesch Museum (2006)

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  "Roxy" arthouse cinema and burger shop on Münsterstrasse

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  Nordstadt "Logo" near the Nordmarkt

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  O Nosso Café

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  Sculpture near the main train station

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  Railway bridge between Nordstadt (towards Borsigplatz) and the city center

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  Blücherpark in the harbor district

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  Skatepark Dietrich-Keuning-Haus

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  Schützenstrasse

Red light district

A very small part of Dortmund's Nordstadt is also the location of Dortmund's prostitution : The red light district in Linienstraße and the former street prostitution in Ravensberger Straße (in the Bornstraße-Ost industrial area) are or were well-known contact points for customers beyond Dortmund. The Dortmund drug scene used to be located around the Nordmarkt, which had found a place here since it had migrated from Brückstrasse when the new concert hall was built, but now hardly appears after violent public protests due to the heavy police presence. "Behind Hornbach" was a popular saying in Dortmund for street prostitution that was known to many Dortmunders. It was often used in the context of a joke, for example: "I saw you the other day behind Hornbach."

Since May 16, 2011, the entire Dortmund urban area has been a restricted area , with the exception of one brothel street and individual brothels. The former street prostitute has been strictly controlled since then, the infrastructure built up since 2006 (the so-called execution boxes ) was demolished immediately after the restricted area ordinance came into force. Particularly in the initial phase, the ban on street prostitution was enforced with a large number of police and public order offices.

The north city in the film

• North city. 2005. Director: Michael Kupczyk
• Rap, Koran and Grandma Bonke. Nordstadt - a German quarter. Three-part ZDF documentary. 2007.
• Life in focus. Dortmund north city. 2008
• Tatort, episode 848 Mein Revier , ARD / WDR 2012
• Germany's new slums - The business with immigrants from poverty, ARD / WDR 2013
• Marija . 2016. Director: Michael Koch
• My country, your country - one neighborhood, two faces. Two-part ZDF documentary 2017.

Web links

Commons : Dortmund Innenstadt-Nord  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the municipality
• Nordstadtblogger: News from Dortmund's Nordstadt (volunteer journalist blog)

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 June 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ https://www.dortmund-tourismus.de/enthaben-erleben/sehenswuerdheiten/nordstadt.html
3. ↑ https://www.wr.de/staedte/dortmund/strassenfussball-als-mutmacher-fuer-nordstadt-kinder-id3403505.html
4. ↑ trendy district at Dortmund harbor. Westfälische Rundschau, July 7, 2017, accessed on July 10, 2017 . 
5. ^ Housing market report of the city of Dortmund. City of Dortmund, July 7, 2017, accessed on July 10, 2017 . 
6. ↑ City of Dortmund: Population by gender and nationality in the statistical districts on December 31, 2018. In: City of Dortmund. December 31, 2018, accessed July 11, 2019 .  (PDF file)
7. ^ City of Dortmund: Statistics Atlas. Dortmund statistics 2019. (PDF) City of Dortmund. Statistics Department, 2020, pp. 20–22, 30–32, 66, 108 , accessed on June 14, 2020 . 
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10. ^ History of the port , accessed July 8, 2014
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13. ^ Hendrik Ankenbrand: Alarm in the Dortmund-Nord ghetto. faz.net, October 12, 2013, accessed August 11, 2014
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15. ↑ Mehmet-Kubasik-Platz inaugurated in Dortmund. November 8, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 . 
16. ↑ trendy district at Dortmund harbor. Westfälische Rundschau, July 7, 2017, accessed on July 10, 2017 . 
17. ^ Housing market report of the city of Dortmund. City of Dortmund, July 7, 2017, accessed on July 10, 2017 . 
18. ↑ Protest against port planning: Port initiative invites you to a large dance demo “Dreams under asphalt - make the city yourself!” September 5, 2019, accessed on June 14, 2020 (German). 
19. ^ City of Dortmund: Annual report 2019 (publication 213). (PDF; 512 kB) In: Statistics Department of the City of Dortmund - Annual Reports. dortmunderstatistik, 2019, p. 14 , accessed on August 19, 2019 . 
20. ↑ The trendy port of Dortmund. Westfälische Rundschau datum = 2017-07-07, accessed on July 10, 2017 . 
21. ↑ From Nordstadtblogger-Redaktion: Full house in the home port of Dortmund: optimism among the city, planners, investors, users and neighbors. October 2, 2017, accessed on November 12, 2019 (German). 
22. ↑ Digital Campus at the port is to create 5,000 jobs - the city founds a society. Retrieved November 12, 2019 . 
23. ↑ alexpressedo: Hafen AG and Gerber Architects present their visions for Speicherstraße - harbor promenade and 4,000 jobs. September 15, 2016, accessed on November 12, 2019 (German). 
24. ^ Economic development city of Dortmund (ed.): Real estate market Dortmund . Dortmund September 2017, p. 9 ( wirtschaftsfoerderung-dortmund.de [PDF]).
25. ↑ Gerber_Demo. Retrieved November 12, 2019 . 
26. ↑ Dortmund: The north city is reinventing itself. January 9, 2019, accessed on November 12, 2019 (German). 
27. ↑ Dortmunder Hafen AG (Ed.): DOCK.Hafenmagazin . Dortmund April 2019, p. 5 ( dortmunder-hafen.de [PDF]).
28. ↑ alexpressedo: Hafen AG and Gerber Architects present their visions for Speicherstraße - harbor promenade and 4,000 jobs. September 15, 2016, accessed November 12, 2019 . 
29. ↑ Dortmund: The north city is reinventing itself. January 9, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 . 
30. ↑ Port Initiative - Who Owns the Port of Dortmund? Retrieved November 12, 2019 . 
31. ^ From Nordstadtblogger-Redaktion: Neighborly exchange: development, planning and perspectives of the quarter - Speicherstrasse in the north of the city. October 22, 2018, accessed November 12, 2019 . 
32. ↑ Dortmund: The north city is reinventing itself. January 9, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 . 
33. ↑ Protest against port planning: Port initiative invites you to a large dance demo "Dreams under asphalt - make the city yourself!" September 5, 2019, accessed on November 12, 2019 . 
34. ^ Scrap real estate in NRW. September 5, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 . 
35. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; Retrieved June 10, 2014 (size: 180 KB). 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.