Oerlinghausen-Südstadt
The Oerlinghausen-Südstadt is a large settlement of the city of Oerlinghausen in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia , was created at the beginning of the 1960s and continuously expanded in the following years. It is located in the Senne south of the slopes of the Teutoburg Forest and extends to the border of the glider airfield . In addition to a few high-rise buildings, it has several apartment blocks and numerous terraced and single-family houses that are inhabited by around 3,400 (as of 2013) people.
history
In the post-war period there was a steady influx of new residents, making it urgently necessary to create new living space. A large new building area was needed, which the mountain town was not able to use at the time. Numerous negotiations with potential landowners were conducted under Mayor Heinrich Kramer and City Director Heinrich Kindsgrab . The Südstadt could only come into being because Mayor Kramer was friends with Heinrich Drake , head of the Lippe regional association . The estate successor of the Principality of Lippe , the Landesverband Lippe , was finally ready to sell the Dahlhausen domain to the city of Oerlinghausen. Dahlhausen was offered an exchange to the owners of the Sältemeier farm , on whose lands what would later become the southern town was to be built. These were mainly heather areas with pine and birch trees . The city council unanimously approved the exchange and purchase agreement on November 10, 1958, clearing the way for the planning and construction of the southern part of the city.
Just over a year after the decision, Professor Kühn from Aachen was commissioned to plan the new building area. Buildings with flat roofs and without chimneys were stipulated, because every house had to be connected to the new district heating plant . The first houses were built there in the early 1960s. From 1961 to 1968 Oerlinghausen grew by 1,800 inhabitants, mainly due to new residents in the southern part of the city. Since there were hardly any bus lines with which the so-called old town could be reached, the lack of connection was complained. At that time there were hardly any shopping opportunities in the southern part of the city and life there was difficult for the residents without a car. In the course of the following years, however, the situation relaxed when several grocery stores opened their doors in the southern part of the city and a regular bus service was set up to the old town.
In 1964, a building complex with 322 residential units, the so-called NATO settlement , was built in Südstadt and was occupied by the families of the British armed forces stationed in Bielefeld , which were to remain until 1995. The Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus of the Evangelical Reformed parish with regular church services was built on Heinrich-Kindsgrab-Straße in 1973 . In 2004 a Mennonite Brethren Church was built in the neighborhood .
Industrial companies, but the majority of them small and very small, settled on specially designated areas. The two largest companies were Hanning Elektro-Werke and Gundlach Verpackung GmbH . In 1947 Robert Hanning, a son of Adolf Hanning, founded Hanning Elektro-Werke GmbH & Co. KG. The company produces in the field of drive technology with 1,400 employees in Oerlinghausen and four other locations. Gundlach Holding (printing and publishing) in Oerlinghausen has been producing offset and gravure packaging since 1965 and today employs around 400 people at this location.
Conle settlement
The British soldiers left the settlement in July 1995, which has now been taken over by the Dieter Conle Immobilien group and has since been referred to as the Conle settlement . Most of the apartments were occupied by German-Russian resettlers and migrants of various nationalities. The majority were large families from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. The mixture of members of different nationalities and religions led at times to conflicts and increased fluctuation . The question of whether the Conle settlement should be viewed as a social hotspot was controversially discussed by the parties. They looked for possible solutions to promote the integration of young people and to counter the danger of ghetto formation . The AWO district association Lippe e. V. formed a project for open child and youth work in 2000 and opened a children and youth meeting place on the grounds of the settlement. The apartments are currently (2014) mostly owned by a Dutch investor and are in poor condition. The plaster is crumbling from the balconies, so that nets had to be stretched underneath for protection. Over 50 percent of the apartments are empty, especially all the apartments on the top floor. There is no thermal insulation to the flat roof, so that the heating costs are incalculably high. Despite all the efforts of the city, no satisfactory solution was found by 2014.
District heating plant
The district heating plant, built in 1961, took over the heat supply in the southern part of the city, to which all residents of the southern part of the city had to be connected. The operator of the district heating plant was initially Shell / Helios . The distribution network was around 15 km long and reached almost 100 households. The billed heating costs were relatively high compared to other heating variants and were heavily criticized by the residents. This resulted in the establishment of the South Interest Group (IG-Süd) in 1970 . This was able to prove that numerous heating bills were incorrect. There was a dispute between IG-Süd on the one hand and the city, as well as the operator Shell / Helios on the other, which ultimately resulted in a model trial and lasted over ten years. At the end there was a settlement in which Shell / Helios had to pay 80,000 DM. The IG-Süd, however, not only pursued material interests, but also tried to ensure the social cohesion of the people living in the south of the city. Among other things, joint Südstadt festivals were organized annually with the volunteer fire brigade and around 1,500 British citizens.
From 1988 the Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen , whose sole shareholder is the city of Oerlinghausen, took over the district heating supply and thus the district heating plant. In 1989 the district heating plant was converted into a combined heat and power plant by installing a combined heat and power unit and in 2005 it was converted into a wood-burning power plant .
See also
literature
- City of Oerlinghausen (ed.): Oerlinghausen - history and stories . Oerlinghausen 1984.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Dieter Burkamp: From 1945 to the reorganization in 1969. In: City of Oerlinghausen: Oerlinghausen. History and stories. Pages 153-154. Oerlinghausen 1984.
- ^ Oerlinghausen - then and now , accessed on May 12, 2014.
- ^ Conle Settlement , accessed May 12, 2014.
- ^ Christian Kuhnke: Lippe Lexikon . Detmold 2000, ISBN 3-935454-00-7 .
- ↑ Blome energy concept ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), (PDF 5.3 mb)
- ↑ Interest group-Süd , accessed on May 12, 2014.
- ↑ Stadtwerke Oerlinghausen ( Memento of the original dated May 14, 2014 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. , accessed May 12, 2012.
Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '41.9 " N , 8 ° 39' 16.8" E