Oberzwehren

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Oberzwehren
district of Kassel
Location of Oberzwehren in Kassel
Coordinates 51 ° 16 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 1 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 1 ″  E.
height 173  m above sea level NHN
surface 3.43 km² (11/23)
Residents 12,902 (Dec. 31, 2019) (5/23)
Population density 3762 inhabitants / km² (8/23)
Proportion of foreigners 23.6% (Dec. 31, 2019) (5/23)
Incorporation Jun 1, 1936
Start-up 1074
Post Code 34132
prefix 0561
Website District info Oberzwehren
politics
Head of town Barbara Bogdon ( SPD )
Allocation of seats (local advisory board)
5
2
1
3
5 2 1 3 
A total of 11 seats
Source: Kassel Statistical Atlas

Oberzwehren is a southern district of Kassel ( Northern Hesse , Germany ).

geography

In the south Oberzwehren borders on the middle town of Baunatal . Characteristic for the appearance are two mountains, the Mattenberg (224.6 m above sea level) and the Schenkelsberg (217.9 m above sea level). The Baunsberg on the side of the Baunatal district of Altenbauna lies on the other side of the A49 motorway and divides the Kassel districts of Nordshausen and Oberzwehren on the northern border.

The extensive Dönche nature reserve is located north of Oberzwehren .

history

The historic village center ("s'Unnerdorf" in the vernacular) of Oberzwehren with the St. Thomas Church (built in 1821)

Traces of settlement on the Mattenberg from the La Tène culture and traces of fortifications on the Schenkelsberg can be found from around 400–500 BC. Chr.

Even before the 9th century there was a Chatti settlement in the area of ​​today's Niederzwehren , from which Oberzwehren and Nordshausen emerged as emigrant farms around 900 . Today's Oberzwehren had the Franconian name Dweron . The Saxons who moved from the north changed the Franconian Dweron in Tweren .

In 1074 there was a documentary mention of a settlement on Mathenberg (Mattenberg). The first documentary mention of Oberzwehren is in 1196 in a letter from Archbishop of Mainz Konrad I von Wittelsbach as Thveren Superior (name changes from 1311: Obern Tweren , from 1747: Ober Zweern ).

Oberzwehren was incorporated into Kassel in 1936 together with Harleshausen , Waldau , Wolfsanger , Niederzwehren and Nordshausen .

The first democratically elected (and at the same time last) mayor of Oberzwehren was Gottfried Trippel ( SPD ) from 1919 to 1934 .

religion

  • Catholic parish (St. Nikolaus von der Flüe)
  • Evang. Parishes: Thomaskirche, Stephanuskirche
  • Baptist Church
  • Russian-German Baptist Congregation
  • Muslim communities (including the DITIB ) with the new mosque on Heisebach

Schools and College

In Oberzwehren there are two primary schools and one comprehensive school , the Georg-August-Zinn-Schule (European school) and the high school of the Kassel district , the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Schule.

The AVZ (General Disposal Center - originally: Construction and Disposal Center) is located in Heinrich-Plett-Straße as a scientific location of the University of Kassel on the site of the former Pomological Institute . The horticultural schools of the Kassel workshops are right next door.

District life

Larger housing estates are the Keilsbergsiedlung , the Mattenbergsiedlung and the Brückenhof . The town center is still along Altenbaunaer Straße, which crosses the town from the rapid transit bridge in the direction of Baunatal. At the foothills of the Baunsberg are the residential estates on Schenkelsberg and the Mattenbergsiedlung built with the construction of the Henschel aircraft engine plant in Altenbauna in the 1930s. The settlement has its own small center with cafes and shops. The relocation of the grocery stores from the town center to Kronenackerstraße has pulled the coexistence in the district apart and brought vacancies. The settlement center on Heinrich-Plett-Straße in the neighboring Brückenhof was demolished last year. The new construction of the Mevlana Mosque at the foot of the Mattenberg followed a long discussion about the suitable location within the urban area of ​​Kassel. The TSV 1891 Oberzwehren club is based here.

The choral society Oberzwehren 1863 e. V. and the wind orchestra of TSV 91 Oberzwehren.

There is also the Kassel-Oberzwehren volunteer fire brigade with a youth fire brigade .

Every year since 1976, the “Bergfest” has been held on the Schenkelsberg in summer. Since 2006 it has been held as a "village square festival" in the center of Oberzwehren at the community center in Altenbaunaer Straße.

traffic

The most important tram stop is Oberzwehren Mitte. This is where the lines towards Baunatal and the city center (via Süsterfeld-Wilhelmshöhe and Frankfurter Straße) meet. The Oberzwehren stop is served by various regional transport lines.

At the Oberzwehren intersection , the high-speed line from the Main-Weser Railway crosses from Hanover to Würzburg .

literature

  • Becker, Kurt: Collected data from Oberzwehren and Kurhessen - formerly also called Niederhessen or Hessen-Cassel . Kassel-Oberzwehren 2000.

Web links

Commons : Oberzwehren  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle of the years 811 - 1499. City of Kassel, January 15, 2016, accessed on August 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Chronicle of the years 1900 - 1944. City of Kassel, January 15, 2016, accessed on August 6, 2017 .
  3. ↑ http://kassellexikon.hna.de/Henschel_-_Flugmotorenwerk