Oststadt (Göttingen)

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The Oststadt is an eastern district of the Lower Saxony university city of Göttingen .

geography

The districts of Göttingen

The Göttingen Oststadt is located east of the city center on the western slope of the Hainberg . Adjacent boroughs are Nordstadt in the northwest, City Center in the west and Südstadt in the southwest. In the north the Oststadt borders on the Weende district , in the east on Herberhausen and in the south on Geismar . The eastern part of the Oststadt is forested, there are the Klausberg, the Warteberg, the Mittelberg and the Kleperberg . The Reinsgraben, the Hainholzgraben and the Eberbach have their source in the Oststadt and flow westwards through the Oststadt to the Leine . The city district ends in the east just before the Kerstlingeröder field .

See also: Göttingen city districts and localities

colonization

Since the second half of the 19th century, the area outside of the Göttingen Wall was settled during the tenure of Lord Mayor Georg Merkel . The eastern hillside location of the Göttingen city was less suitable for industrial use and therefore more of a quiet and popular area with a lot of green landscape. Mainly professors and doctors as well as famous and prominent personalities of the Göttingen population settled in this preferred location. From about 1890 onwards, the "Ostviertel" was created, which as a district makes up a large part of the Oststadt district. Even today, the east quarter has the reputation of being reserved for the well-off and better-off Göttingen population. There are 20 social housing in the district. At the end of 2018, 16,399 of the 135,299 Göttingen residents lived in the eastern part of the city.

Attractions

Hainberg and Göttingen Forest

The Hainberg and the adjacent forest areas in the Göttingen Forest have been created and reforested since 1871 as a recreation area for the city's growing population.

Small pure well

The Kleine Reinsbrunnen is a historical fountain in the Hainberg. There is a bronze sculpture in the spring grotto; it represents a water woman emerging from the water, who holds a child in her arms to hand it to its mother. It is reminiscent of a legend that is linked to this fountain, according to which you can see your unborn siblings in the spring water.

Observatory

A smaller observation station of the Göttingen observatory was put into operation in 1929 on the Hainberg, the larger observatory was in the Göttingen Geismar Landstrasse near the city center. The observatory on the Hainberg, like the neighboring solar observatory, which was built between 1942 and 1944, was taken over by the Göttingen Amateur Astronomical Association in 2009 .

Fridtjof Nansen House

Around 1900, the wealthy cloth manufacturer Ferdinand Levin had a representative residential building with a gardener's house and coach house built at Merkelstrasse 4, the Levin'sche Villa. The building, in whose premises the Goethe-Institut was located until summer 2018, has also been known as the Fridtjof-Nansen-Haus since the end of the war .

Schillerwiese
The Schillerwiese

In 1871 the reforestation of the Hainberg began. The aim was to make the area below the Hainberg park-like, starting with the construction of a chestnut avenue (Kaiserallee) along the Reinsrinne in 1880. On the 100th anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's death, a linden tree was planted in 1905 and the name "Schillerwiese" was given for the green area. On the 81,000 m² Schillerwiese you can meet a large number of walkers, joggers and dog owners. Since 2002 the Schillerwiese has been enriched with a "climbing forest" adventure playground that invites children to play and run around.

"Rohns"

On June 5, 1830, the building contractor Christian Friedrich Andreas Rohns opened the inn, which he built in the classicism style, above Göttingen on the Hainberg. This inn was a popular place to go out and dance until the Second World War . After the end of the war, the Rohns excursion restaurant was used as a makeshift hospital for refugees. The so-called Rohnsterrassen were built above the building in the early 1970s and consist of several blocks of flats attached to one another. In the mid-1970s, a residential park in concrete construction, consisting of an elongated building and a smaller single high-rise, was built below the Rohns building.

Hainholzhof

The former agricultural homestead with an excursion restaurant is a popular destination for families. It is also called "Kehr" after a previous owner. The agricultural buildings house since 1953 the riding club grove lumberyard Göttingen and Herberhausen, north of the building are out of the riding grounds of the club nor ever a game reserve for wild boar and deer . The inn "Jägerhaus am Kehr" is located below the Hainholzhof.

Owl Tower

The Owl Tower is an approximately four meter high round tower with a viewing platform made of limestone and sandstone, which was built into the slope of the Hainberg. The entrance in the front area was bricked up for security reasons. On April 12, 1876, the Göttingen Beautification Association (GVV) was founded at the instigation of the Lord Mayor of Göttingen, Merkel. In particular, he made sure that many benches were set up and lookout points created in the Göttingen Forest.

Bismarckstein

Otto von Bismarck studied at the Georgia-Augusta University in Göttingen from 1832 to 1833 . In his honor, a Bismarck stone was erected at the beginning of the 20th century , popularly disrespectfully called the “elephant toilet”. (Address: Auf dem Toppe)

Hainberg High School

The Hainberg-Gymnasium is a high school founded in Göttingen in 1866 with over 1000 students and has been a UNESCO project school since 1993. The former girls' high school moved to a new building in Friedländer Weg in 1913.

Hainberg Clinic

The Eye Clinic of the University Medical Center Göttingen has been operating a branch office for operations and inpatient treatment in a partly modern, partly historic building of the former Parkklinik am Hainberg since 2013.

Streets of the Oststadt (selection)

Theaterplatz, Herzberger Landstrasse, Planckstrasse, Wilhelm-Weber-Strasse, Hermann-Föge-Weg, Dahlmannstrasse, Düstere Eichenweg, Merkelstrasse, Brüder-Grimm-Allee, Ewaldstrasse, Rohnsweg, Hainbundstrasse, Nonnenstieg, Calsowstrasse, Hainholzweg, Beethovenstrasse, Konrad-Adenauer- Strasse, Grotefendstrasse, Breslauer Strasse.

societies

  • The Göttinger Schönerungsverein (GVV) eV has been trying to preserve the natural beauty of the Göttingen area since 1875.
  • Student Music Association Blue Singers has been a music-making, mixed student association in Göttingen since 1860.
  • Tennis- und Ski-Club Göttingen eV, founded in 1898, is the oldest tennis club in Göttingen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eligible population, main and secondary residents in the city districts, districts and localities 2018 in GÖSIS - Göttingen Statistical Information System, City of Göttingen - Statistics and Elections Service, accessed on December 30, 2019 (PDF)
  2. ↑ http://www.goettingen.de/pics/medien/1_1194001015/Schillerwiese.pdf , The Schillerwiese
  3. ↑ http://www.stadtarchiv.goettingen.de/texte/stadtgeschichte_stations_1830.htm , 1830 - Gasthaus Rohns is opened
  4. ↑ http://www.berndschwartz.de/Bilder/Goettingen/P3050022.jpg Photo of the residential park "Am Rohns"
  5. ↑ http://www.giak-licon.de/Gottingen__Unterm_Rohns.640x514.jpg Photo of the residential complex "Unter dem Rohns"
  6. ^ Reitverein Hainholzhof eV from 1893
  7. ↑ Reception of the RV Hainholzhof: State association honors Otto Manfred Hack ssb-goettingen.de
  8. ↑ Brief profile of the Hainberg high school. In: hainberg-gymnasium.de. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Eye Clinic Göttingen , accessed on June 30, 2014
  10. ↑ Göttinger Schönerungsverein eV
  11. ↑ http://www.blauesaenger.de/ , Student Music Association Blue Singer Göttingen in SV
  12. ↑ http://www.tsc-goettingen.com/ TSC-Göttingen