Offenbach-Lohwald

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Hedges and meadows where houses once stood (June 2005)

Lohwald was a location within the Waldheim district of the Hessian city ​​of Offenbach am Main .

Location

The former location of Lohwald was in the east of Offenbach, in the north it bordered other parts of Waldheim and in the south on the district of Bieber . The neighboring community of Mühlheim am Main was to the east . In the west there were allotments and a few car recyclers. Until the 1970s, the district lacked any infrastructure, such as local transport, shops, schools and kindergartens.

history

Abandoned Roads (June 2005)

Around 1900 the Frankfurt entrepreneur Jakob Latscha founded the property company Marioth GmbH. In doing so, he planned to promote home ownership for the little man, as he did with the Waldheim country house colony built in 1911 . However, during the First World War he sold the so-called Marioth site (at that time the Rumpenheim district was not yet incorporated) to the city of Offenbach.

In the 1930s a settlement with old railway wagons was built there. That is why Offenbachers called the location Waggonhausen . Tramps, the homeless, refugees, the poor and the unemployed were housed here. At the end of the 1950s, people lived there in bunkers (without windows until this was prohibited in 1964) and barracks in Kirschenallee, with no water or electricity connections. In 1967 the city also moved the asylum for vagabonds to so-called Marioth . Poverty, vandalism and a high crime rate shaped the district.

In 1970 the city wanted to give the area a new face, so the location was renamed Lohwald and new accommodations were built. The name comes from a Lohwald between the Bürgeler , Rumpenheimer and Bieberer districts; There used to be a mill in the vicinity .

On May 20, 1999, the city of Offenbach decided to dissolve this social hotspot. In June 2002 around 1500 people lived here, the last families moved in July 2003. The houses were demolished and the residents were distributed to other parts of the city.

Sports

In 1974 the soccer team FC Lohwald was founded. An international game took place in 1981: FC Lohwald played against Mauve Weiss Raemerech from Esch an der Alzette ( Luxembourg ). The game, which was brokered by the sports and bathing office of the city of Offenbach, ended 4-0 for FC Lohwald.

Personalities

Long lived in the Lohwald district

On the oaks

The new location An den Eichen in June 2009 (bottom right)

In the meantime, the development of the area for the construction of single-family houses with a new street layout has been completed by the city's own development and development company . The sewer pipes were laid in February 2007 and road construction began in March of the same year.

The new location An den Eichen is currently being built in the Lohwald area . The new development area was initially to be named Waldheim-Süd and extends over 16.8 hectares. There are mainly two-storey detached houses in row house construction. Up to 1200 people should find a new home in around 480 residential units.

literature

  • Rudolph Bauer: Homeless in Marioth. From emergency accommodation to “modern asylum”. Beltz, Weinheim et al. 1980, ISBN 3-407-51147-7 .

Web links

Commons : Offenbach-Lohwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d story: From Waggonhausen to the garden city. In: fr-online.de. May 19, 2008, accessed June 12, 2015 .
  2. ^ MWR-International. In: mwr.lu. 2005, archived from the original on May 24, 2009 ; Retrieved June 12, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Markus Terharn: A boy from Lohwald. In: op-online.de. March 23, 2011, accessed May 4, 2016 .
  4. ^ Anton Jakob Weinberger: Bourgeois Quarter instead of a social hotspot. In: FAZ.net . January 9, 2010, accessed May 4, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Marcus Reinsch: “An den Eichen” becomes Offenbach's botanical quarter. In: op-online.de. May 16, 2009, accessed June 12, 2015 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '  N , 8 ° 49'  E