Nordviertel (Essen)

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[[File: | left | 40px | Coat of arms of North Quarter]]

Coat of arms of the city of Essen

Nordviertel
district of Essen

Location of Nordviertel in the city district I Stadtmitte / Frillendorf / Huttrop
Basic data
surface 2.86  km²
Residents 8450 (March 31, 2020)
Coordinates 51 ° 28 '14 "  N , 7 ° 0' 53"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '14 "  N , 7 ° 0' 53"  E
height 48  m
Spatial assignment
Post Code 45141, 45143
District number 03
district District I city center / Frillendorf / Huttrop
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university Duisburg-Essen

university Duisburg-Essen

Source: City of Essen statistics

The north quarter of the city of Essen together with the west quarter , the south quarter , the east quarter , the southeast quarter and the city ​​center form the city ​​center .

character

The north quarter covers roughly the area of ​​the former colliery area of ​​the Victoria Mathias colliery and the former Essen working-class district of Segeroth , which is no longer an independent district today. This is exactly where the Essen campus of the University of Duisburg-Essen is located today (the former University of Essen) with around 20,000 students. Other schools are elementary school crucibles school and the elementary school Northern Quarter , the main school at Beisingstraße , special schools Bernetalschule and the special school of the Rhineland Regional Council .

Another large part of the north quarter consists of residential developments, including the Elting quarter . It is named after the entrepreneur and sawmill owner Hermann Elting , who at the end of the 19th century had the quarter built in the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Mathias colliery as a northern extension of the city for workers. A settlement of tenement houses in the Wilhelminian style emerged within around twenty years, many of which are now listed. A large number were rebuilt close to the original after being destroyed in World War II . Eltingplatz was once a market square.

The listed brick building of the former St. Peter's Church has housed the Catholic School for Nursing Professions in Essen since April 2008 . There are also larger green areas with the north and Segeroth parks. The latter emerged from the old Segeroth cemetery, which borders Essen's largest Jewish cemetery in the northeast, which has been a listed building since 1985. The Sportbad am Thurmfeld was opened nearby in January 2016 . It is located on the fallow land created during World War II, where the municipal gas works on Reckhammerweg and Maschinenbau AG Union had been located since 1867 .

The two tall chimneys belonging to the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätsgesellschaft ( RWE ) located on Altenessener Strasse , which were founded here in 1898 and built their first power station here, are striking . The Victoria Mathias colliery and the first tram depot of the former "Essener Straßenbahnen" (later Essener Verkehrs-AG , since September 2017 Ruhrbahn ) were located on this property . On August 17th, the foundation stone for the new corporate headquarters of RWE AG was laid here in the presence of Lord Mayor Thomas Kufen and the CEO of RWE AG, Rolf Martin Schmitz , where up to 3000 employees will have their jobs. After the RWE Executive Board moved into the renovated historic administration building of the former in June 2018, the company is now returning to its roots.

population

On March 31, 2020, 8,450 people lived in the north quarter.

Structural data of the population in the north quarter (as of March 31, 2020):

  • Proportion of population under 18-year-olds: 18.8% (Essen average: 16.2%)
  • Population of at least 65-year-olds: 11.9% (Essen average: 21.5%)
  • Proportion of foreigners: 41.0% (Essen average: 16.9%)

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Essen city center

Blazon : "In blue an oblique left golden (yellow) sword, accompanied above and below by three golden (yellow) balls."

The sword as an attribute of the city patrons Cosmas and Damian makes the reference to the Essen city coat of arms. The golden balls symbolize the six districts city ​​center , north quarter, east quarter , southeast quarter , south quarter and west quarter . The coat of arms was designed by Kurt Schweder and never had an official character. At the end of the 1980s, the heraldist created coats of arms for all of Essen's districts. They have meanwhile been well received by the Essen population.

literature

  • Detlef Hopp : In Essen's new Green Center: Traces of the Rheinische Bahn on Bargmannstrasse. (= Reports from the Essen Monument Preservation. Volume 9). City of Essen, Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation / Urban Archeology, Essen 2014 ( PDF )

See also

Web links

Commons : Essen-Nordviertel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DerWesten.de of October 28, 2014: The Eltingviertel in the north quarter, an unknown beauty ; accessed on August 19, 2018
  2. ↑ Janet Lindgens: Energy company RWE needs a larger headquarters in Essen; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 18, 2018
  3. ↑ Population figures of the districts
  4. ↑ Proportion of the population under 18 years of age
  5. ↑ Proportion of the population aged 65 and over
  6. ↑ Proportion of foreigners in the city districts
  7. ↑ See Johann Rainer Busch: Kurt Schweders Wappen der Essener Stadtteile Essen 2009, p. 48