Nordstadt (Herford)

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North city
City of Herford
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 67 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 32049
Area code : 05221
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Location of the northern city in the Herford district of Herford-Stadt

The Herford Nordstadt is a small district in the north of the Neustädter Feldmark east of the Mindener Straße. The name Nordstadt has only gradually gained acceptance since the 1970s, after the area was developed and developed.

location

The northern part of the city is located on the northern edge of the Neustädter Feldmark just before the border with the Schwarzenmoor district near Herford's main cemetery, Eternal Peace. The northeast border is the Mindener Straße, the southeast border is the Butterbach with the Buttersee. In the north, the northern part of the city is delimited by the buildings on Wittenberger Strasse, while in the south the “Mühlentrift” street is also included.

The largest street is Magdeburger Strasse, which joins Mindener Strasse at the northern and southern ends. In between it runs parallel to Mindener Straße. The center is Magdeburger Platz, which however does not officially bear this name. The other streets were named after the towns of Quedlinburg, Halberstadt, Wittenberg and Marienburg.

Population structure

At the beginning of 2011, around 6,000 people from around 20 nations lived in the northern part of the city.

With more than 180 inhabitants per hectare, the district has a very high population density. The proportion of the young population as well as residents with a migration background and recipients of state transfer payments is above average. Due to the less attractive urban structures, a rudimentary infrastructure and a lack of offers for adolescents and young adults as well as a concentration of socially disadvantaged residents, socially better off tenant groups are moving out of the neighborhood. The concentration of problematic tenant groups is increasing significantly, as is the vacancy rate.

history

Originally, the area of ​​what is now the northern part of the city was not built on. Only in the area of ​​the "Bombrede" were some gypsies resident. After the Second World War, refugees were settled in the barracks built there in the area of ​​the street “Nagelskamp”. The Bombrede was also seen as a “poor district” or as a living area for the socially disadvantaged. The term social hotspot did not exist back then.

After the residents had gradually been relocated, the barracks were demolished and the area was called “Bornbrede” in order not to use the disreputable name “Bombrede”.

The north city is the only large housing estate ever built in Herford . Erected in the early 1970s, the urban structure consists predominantly of four to eight-storey apartment buildings, surrounded by a ring with one and two-family houses. The vast majority of the building stock within the multi-storey housing estate was built with public funds and is subject to the social obligations of publicly subsidized housing construction until 2025.

Since 2006, concepts to improve the socio-economic situation in the district have been developed within the framework of the “Urban Redevelopment in North Rhine-Westphalia” program funded by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Facilities

There is a communal kindergarten on Quedlinburger Strasse, and on Magdeburger Strasse, directly on Magdeburger Platz, next to the Punch youth center run by the Stadtjugendring, there is the Nordstern community meeting point. This district meeting is an institution of the Diakonisches Werk Herford in cooperation with the housing associations and the city of Herford. In the supply center on Mühlentrift, built in 1990, there is a small self-service supermarket, a branch of the Sparkasse Herford , a hairdressing salon, a pharmacy, a dental practice and a driving school on a usable area of ​​1,500 square meters . Since 2008, the rooms of the disabled sports club have also been located on Magdeburger Platz and a mixed market as a further shopping option.

Former landfill

Until the end of the 1920s, there were two ponds in the course of the Butterbach in the area of ​​the Old Post Route. When they were filled in, a plow was created, in which from 1967 to 1971 Herford's household waste was dumped on around 30,000 square meters . When the depression was filled, it was properly sealed with soil, covered and planted. Thereafter, the Herford garbage was brought to the landfill in Kirchlengern , which was opened in 1970 and which had been created for the entire Herford district . In 2002 the Herford landfill was rehabilitated because the sealing was no longer functional and no longer corresponded to the state of the art. Drainage troughs were built over a length of 900 meters , an 800-meter-long seepage water drainage system was created and 11,000 square meters of waterproofing membranes were installed. The landfill was then closed again, so that nothing of it can be found today.

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