Osterfeld (Oberhausen)

Osterfeld district of Oberhausen
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Basic data
Area :	10.77 km²
Residents :	38,081 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	3,632 inhabitants / km²
Structure :
Postcodes :	46117, 46119, 46145
Telephone code :	+49 208 ...
Distribution of seats for the district council (2014)
SPD: 6 CDU: 5 BOB: 2 GREENS: 1 Left: 1

Detailed map of Osterfeld

Osterfeld has been a district of Oberhausen since 1929 , which is divided into the districts of Klosterhardt , Osterfeld-Heide , Osterfeld-Mitte, Rothebusch , Tackenberg and Vonderort . It borders in the north and east on the independent city of Bottrop , in the south on the district of Alt-Oberhausen (where the Emscher marks the border) and in the west on the district of Sterkrade . With an area of ​​around 11 km² and a population of almost 40,000, it is the smallest of the three Oberhausen districts.

history

A place called Osteruelde was first mentioned in 1047. The place remained a peasantry consisting of individual farms without supra-regional transport connections until the 19th century . Little is known about the extent of the place before 1800, it can be assumed that there was a sparse population at this time.

Only in the course of industrialization did Osterfeld quickly grow beyond its old town center, which was grouped around the church of St. Pankratius, first mentioned in 1146. After iron smelting began in the Osterfeld area with the St. Antony hut in the 18th century, coal mining followed in the 19th century, with the Osterfeld colliery , the Vondern colliery and the Jacobi colliery . Coking plants and other processing plants were added. Numerous factory settlements were built to accommodate the newly arrived workers; the population rose between 1837 and 1906 from 694 to 23,700 inhabitants. More than half of the Osterfeld population now lived in the northern parts of the city, while the old town center was increasingly moving into a "southern peripheral location".

The long time the Vest Recklinghausen associated Osterfeld 1811 under Napoleon Bonaparte the Mairie slammed Bottrop. In 1815 Osterfeld came to Prussia ( Westphalia province ) and was now part of the Bottrop mayor's office (from 1845: Bottrop office ) in the Recklinghausen district, Münster district . On July 1, 1891, it was removed from the Bottrop office and raised to office itself. On June 17, 1921, Osterfeld was granted city rights . After it had exceeded the mark of 30,000 inhabitants, it left the district of Recklinghausen on January 1, 1922, and became an independent urban district, in accordance with the Westphalian provincial order. On August 1, 1929, Osterfeld was combined with Sterkrade and (Alt-) Oberhausen to form the new urban district of Oberhausen in the Rhineland as part of the major regional reform of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area. The eastern part of Vonderorts was ceded to the neighboring town of Bottrop.

Culture and sights

Bailey of Vondern Castle, view from the west (2005)

Vondern Castle , whose origins date back to the 12th century, is located in the Vonderort district . Not far from there, also in the Vonderort district, is the old, meanwhile partially renovated and restored workers' settlement of the Vondern colliery.

The Eisenheim settlement is located in the Osterfeld-Heide district and is considered the oldest workers' settlement in the Ruhr area . The Eisenheim Museum is located in the settlement's former wash house .

The former office building of the St.-Antony-Hütte , which - founded in 1757/1758 - is considered to be the cradle of the steel industry in the Ruhr area, is located in the district of Klosterhardt . For a long time the house housed the company archive of Gutehoffnungshütte , today MAN-GHH. For several years it has been called the St.Antony Museum. Hut is part of the LVR industrial museum in Oberhausen .

The grounds of the old Osterfeld colliery are now the grounds of the State Horticultural Show 1999, the OLGA Park , where the Olgas Rock music festival takes place every year. The Revierpark Vonderort is known far beyond the city limits . The Antoniepark with the Elpenbach green corridor, the Volksgarten Osterfeld and the Volksgolfplatz on the former site of the Jacobi colliery offer further recreational opportunities .

• St. Pankratius (Oberhausen-Osterfeld)

Rail transport

Passenger station Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd, 2015

In the heyday of the railways in Osterfeld there were stations of four different railway companies:

• The Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was the first to reach Osterfeld in 1873 with the construction of its Duisburg-Ruhrort-Dortmund line (called "Emschertalbahn") and built the Osterfeld CME station , today's Oberhausen-Osterfeld station .
• In 1879 the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft built its Osterfeld RhE station , today Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord, where its line from Mülheim-Heißen flowed into the Duisburg – Quakenbrück line, which was built at the same time .
• Also in 1879 the Royal Westphalian Railway Company opened its Welver – Sterkrade railway line (also known as the “Emschertal Railway”). Until the completion of the last section to Sterkrade a year later, the Westphalian train station was the end point of the route, which you can still vaguely see in aerial photographs, the train station, however, was completely demolished and new residential buildings were built on its area. Today only the Westfälische Straße reminds of the former train station.
• Finally, in 1880, the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) was the last of the four large railroad companies, their station on the Bochum – Essen / Oberhausen railway line was in the area of ​​today's marshalling yard, only the Märkische Strasse reminds of it .

After the Prussian State Railway had taken over the (nominally) private railway company, it built the large Osterfeld Süd marshalling yard (later Oberhausen-Osterfeld) in 1891 , which in 1905 became the starting point for the freight line to Hamm , but also for passenger traffic. At times it was the "largest marshalling yard in Europe". Before the First World War, there were almost 2000 railway employees in Osterfeld, a large part of whom lived along the route between Eisenheim and Vonderort.

Sports

Osterfeld is the home of the soccer clubs Adler Osterfeld , member of the Oberliga Nordrhein from 1998/99 to 2004/05, and BV Osterfeld , the German amateur runner-up in 1960. In Osterfeld, not only soccer is played, but also two handball clubs like HSC Osterfeld and the Turnerbund Osterfeld, run the sporting competition in Osterfeld. The Sportgemeinschaft Osterfeld (SGO) is an association with numerous specialist departments. Osterfeld is also home to the Pflugbeil Arena, where the Miners Oberhausen play skater hockey .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the parish and borough

• Johann Franz Joseph Graf von Nesselrode-Reichenstein (1755–1824), civil servant
• Hermann Imbusch (1877–1914), trade union official and politician (center)
• Heinrich Imbusch (1878–1945), union leader and politician (center)
• Josef Ernst (1882–1959), businessman and politician
• Friedrich Peppmüller (1892–1972), politician (NSDAP)
• Daniela Kerin (1897–1986), religious sister and writer
• Fritz Hartmann (1920–2007), physician, founder of scientific rheumatology
• Alfred Van Loen (1924–1993), visual artist living in the United States
• Ludger Schepers (* 1953), auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Essen
• Gerburg Jahnke (* 1955), cabaret artist and director
• Peter Johannes Droste (* 1959), high school teacher and university lecturer

literature

• Helmut Rönz (arrangement): Osterfeld . Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008. ISBN 978-3-412-20222-4 ( Rheinischer Städteatlas , Lfg. XVII, No. 91)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Figures. Retrieved April 21, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Helmut Rönz: Osterfeld , Cologne 2008, p 2/3.
3. ↑ Werner Kroetz: Die Industriestadt Oberhausen , Cologne 1985, p. 11.
4. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 271 .
5. ↑ Rönz: Osterfeld , p. 3
6. ^ Krötz: Industriestadt Oberhausen , p. 11.

Web links

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

• http://www.oberhausen-osterfeld.de/
• http://www.osterfeld-westfalen.de/
• Location of the four train stations

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '  N , 6 ° 53'  E