Paradise (Constance)

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Paradies district in the south, west of the old town

Paradies used to be a village settlement and is now a district of the city ​​of Konstanz on Lake Constance . According to the officially defined district boundaries, it has an area of ​​63.2 hectares (632,034 m²) and 5,813 inhabitants (2012).

Territorial delimitation

Officially, the district is separated from the old town by the streets Schulthaißstraße, Maria-Ellenrieder-Straße and Löhrystraße. It is therefore smaller than is generally assumed in Constance (and among other things by the municipal monument office).

In a broader sense, the “paradise” is bounded by the Obere and Untere Laube streets - the boulevard on the western edge of the historic old town - the Seerhein and the border with neighboring Switzerland .

Emergence

Fishermen's and farmers' settlement

Paradise emerged as a fishing and farming settlement in the late Middle Ages . At that time it was called Eggenhusen . The current district got its current name from a nunnery called claustrum Paradysi apud Constantiam , which settled there around 1186. The nuns practiced hours of worship and nursing. As early as 1253, the nuns left their monastery at the gates of the bishop's residence at the time and moved to the Swiss Schaffhausen area , to Schlatt in the canton of Thurgau , where they founded a new monastery called Paradies . "Paradyse" was first mentioned in a document in 1324; it remained an independent village community until the 14th century . Cabbage, carrots, onions, leeks and celery were also grown around 1900. These were picked up by traders or sold at the weekly market. In 1969 there were 25 vegetable nurseries in paradise.

Suburb of Constance

Constance from the east: copper engraving by Merian in 1633. In the foreground today's old town. Behind it, clearly delineated, is paradise. The fortifications are easy to see

Then it was incorporated as a suburb of Constance. The original center point is St. Martin's Chapel on a 14th century foundation . In 1610 a total of about 300 people lived in Paradise. The Paradieser Bauern provided the residents of Konstanz with the yields from their fields in the area between today's B 33 ( Europastraße ) and the arbor .

Paradise was integrated into the city wall in the 17th century. Around 1639 the suburb was included in the defense system of the trading city of Constance with the construction of an earth wall and a ditch ( Saubach ). Paradise also received two watchtowers .

Constance has not been fortified since 1733 . The Grießeggturm at the end of Fischenzstrasse was the western corner point of the defense line. He stood at the end of the embankment along the Grenzbach. It was called Erker im Paradies, Paradieser Turm in the Rhine, became a residential building and is a listed building. It has been known as the Paradieser Schlössle since the 19th century .

The outer Paradieser Tor was partly demolished at the beginning of the 19th century, partly a residential building. In 1818 this became the “Swiss border” inn at Gottlieber Strasse 64 at Gottlieber Zoll . A worn 50 centimeter high stone of the Outer Paradieser Tor is still preserved on the southern corner of the Swiss border restaurant.

Housing is replacing agriculture

Historical " Geometric Map of Paradise", J. Eiselein, 1847. North is bottom right; " Scale 600 Nuremberg Shoe ".

Around 1880 the population rose to almost 1,500. With the disappearance of the fields, the cultivation of vegetables shifted to the neighboring Tägermoos to the west , which is part of the city of Constance, but legally part of the Swiss Thurgau . The areas dedicated to agriculture between the city of Konstanz and the old Paradies district ceased to exist until the end of the 1950s in favor of the construction of apartments. Until 1870 the paradise was hardly built on. From 1870 it was built from the east, from 1901 increasingly from the south and from 1961 from the north. The Schänzlebrücke was inaugurated in May 1978, and the north-west of Paradise is now needed for access ramps.

The number of vegetable gardeners is steadily decreasing. In 1969, 25 residents of paradise followed this acquisition, in 2006 about eight. After Konstanz no longer had its own farrenstall , the district had its own. Only since 1994 there has been no more livestock farming here .

population

Paradise (in the broader sense)

  • 1610: 300 residents (106 adults, 151 children, 16 servants, 27 maids)
  • 1781: 50 families who subsisted on gardening
  • 1817: 65 families in 45 houses
  • 1880: 1,467 inhabitants

Paradise (administrative district)

  • 1990: 4,736 inhabitants
  • 1995: 4,856 inhabitants
  • 2000: 5,029 inhabitants
  • 2005: 5,487 inhabitants
  • 2010: 6,017 inhabitants
  • 2012: 5,813 inhabitants
  • 2013: 6,030 inhabitants
  • 2016: 6,116 inhabitants
  • 2018: 6113 inhabitants

Today's structure

Construction began in the second half of the 19th century. Historic buildings were demolished during the construction of Wallgutstrasse, due to the construction of new buildings and the construction of the second Rhine bridge. The Marmorstraße is named after Johann Marmor .

Monument protection

In the “List of Cultural Monuments” of the city of Konstanz (published by the Lower Monument Protection Authority ), numerous listed buildings from the Wilhelminian era and Art Nouveau are listed in the eastern area, i.e. close to the Upper and Lower Arbor , as well as the Palm House and others individual buildings in the western part.

Art in public space

The sgraffito by Hans Sauerbruch from 1957 in Schobuliweg 9/11, in which the agricultural past of the Paradies district is remembered, was saved from being forgotten by restoring the facade and by insulating the inside instead of the outside.

Public buildings

There are several public buildings along the Seerhein, including the University of Konstanz Technology, Business and Design (HWTG) and the Wessenberg School (by the Bauhaus student Hermann Blomeier ). The Ellenrieder-Gymnasium , the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium and the Wallgutschule are also located here.

Paradise west of the federal highway 33

On the corner of Fischenzstrasse and Grießeggstrasse stood the St. Leonhard Chapel, which was demolished in 1624 due to its dilapidation. In 1773 it was replaced by the Nepomuk Chapel. In 1922, the St. Martin's Chapel was consecrated on the site of the previous churches. The owner is the Paradieser Kapellenbauverein. It is popularly known as the “Brissago Chapel” after the Brissago cigarette brand that was smuggled from Switzerland to Germany.

In front of the church is the Lienhardsbrunnen, which was moved here from the market place in 1897. As a new fountain figure on a column, Saint Lienhard , the patron saint of farmers and prisoners, was made by the sculptor Josef Franz Baumeister.

Memorials

The Hussenstein (2011)
Memorial plaque to Johann Martin Schleyer, who remembered the world language Volapük
  • The so-called "Hussenstein" in the street Am Hussenstein commemorates the execution of the Czech reformer Jan Hus by burning in front of the city walls, although he had previously been assured safe conduct by the Council of Constance . Jan Hus was executed in the area between Paradiesstrasse, Gottlieber Strasse and Grenzbachstrasse.
  • The memorial plaque on the facade of the house at Schottenstrasse 37 commemorates Johann Martin Schleyer , the inventor of the world language Volapük , who lived here from 1889–1912.
  • Wayside cross at Brüelstraße 6/8: This red sandstone wayside cross with Christ crucified, donated in 1886 by the Paradies citizenship, was moved here from Gottlieber Straße in the early 1980s due to construction work.

Curiosity: bus route "Friedhof - Paradies"

Up until the summer of 2004, the number 10 bus line operated by the Konstanz public utility company ( Roter Arnold ) ran the connection “Friedhof - Paradies”. The corresponding buses with the route names displayed were therefore a popular photo opportunity.

literature

  • Tobias Engelsing: People in Paradise. Pictures from a district of Constance around the turn of the century. Faude, Konstanz-Litzelstetten, November 1982, ISBN 3-922305-06-7 . (Black and white private photos of working life, houses and leisure time around 1900, little accompanying text).

Web links

Commons : Paradies (Konstanz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ konstanz.de: Konstanzer district profiles 2013. Statistics and key figures ( memento of the original from November 10, 2012 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. , P. 11 - Paradise @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.konstanz.de
  2. ↑ Claudia Rindt: Paradise is smaller than many think. In: Südkurier . January 7, 2019, p. 15.
  3. ↑ a b The district of Paradise. In: Constance in focus. Norbert Höpfinger Verlag, Konstanz 2013/2014, p. 23.
  4. ↑ Tobias Engelsing: People in Paradise. Pictures from a district of Constance around the turn of the century. Faude, Konstanz-Litzelstetten, November 1982, ISBN 3-922305-06-7 , p. 7.
  5. ↑ Heike Thissen: St. Martin's Chapel. Smuggling in Heaven on Earth. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland . Konstanz, Edition Südkurier , 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 , pp. 75-77.
  6. ↑ Tobias Engelsing : People in Paradise. Pictures from a district of Constance around the turn of the century. Faude, Konstanz-Litzelstetten, November 1982, ISBN 3-922305-06-7 , pp. 8-29.
  7. ↑ Heike Thissen: Paradieser Schlössle. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland . Konstanz, Edition Südkurier , 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 .
  8. ↑ Tobias Engelsing: People in Paradise. Pictures from a district of Constance around the turn of the century. Faude, Konstanz-Litzelstetten, November 1982, ISBN 3-922305-06-7 , p. 65.
  9. ↑ Claudia Rindt: Paradise is smaller than many think. In: Südkurier . January 7, 2019, p. 15.
  10. ↑ Heike Thissen: Eckstein. Last witness of an important goal. In: Eva-Maria Bast and Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland. 50 exciting stories from Constance. Volume 2, ISBN 978-3-9815564-6-9 , pp. 126-128.
  11. ↑ Heike Thissen: wayside cross in the Brüel. Devotion in the parking lot. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland . Konstanz, Edition Südkurier , 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 , pp. 100-102.
  12. ↑ Immo Göpfrich: The urban development of the Constance district of Paradise. In: Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium (ed.): Citizens' School , Zeppelin- Oberrealschule , Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium 1830–1980. The font for the anniversary of the school on Schottenplatz in Konstanz . Editing: Franz Eberhard Bühler, Ulf Göpfrich, Erich Keller, Walter Lehn, Wilhelm Leonhard, Dieter Städele. Konstanz: Verlag Friedrich Stadler, 1980, ISBN 3-7977-0060-1 , pp. 178-194.
  13. ↑ Tobias Engelsing: People in Paradise. Pictures from a district of Constance around the turn of the century. Faude, Konstanz-Litzelstetten, November 1982, ISBN 3-922305-06-7 , p. 8.
  14. ↑ konstanz.de: Population of the city of Konstanz by district from 1990 ( Memento from November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ konstanz.de: Population of the city of Konstanz by district from 1990 ( Memento from November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ City of Konstanz, Main Office Statistics and Control Support (Ed.): Konstanz in Numbers 2014. P. 7 - Resident population (main residence) by district
  17. ↑ Population projection up to 2035 : City of Konstanz, Mayor's Department, statistics and management support. P. 8 - Paradise
  18. ↑ Konstanz - data, facts and figures. In: Konstanzer Kompass 2020, Stadler Verlagsgesellschaft Konstanz, pp. 8–9.
  19. ↑ Tobias Engelsing: People in Paradise. Pictures from a district of Constance around the turn of the century. Faude, Konstanz-Litzelstetten, November 1982, ISBN 3-922305-06-7 , pp. 69-79.
  20. ↑ Michael Lünstroth: Sauerbruch mural completely restored. In: Südkurier of April 29, 2015.
  21. ↑ Claudia Rindt: Paradise is smaller than many think. In: Südkurier . January 7, 2019, p. 15.
  22. ↑ Tobias Engelsing: People in Paradise. Pictures from a district of Constance around the turn of the century. Faude, Konstanz-Litzelstetten, November 1982, ISBN 3-922305-06-7 , p. 35.
  23. ↑ Heike Thissen: St. Martin's Chapel. Smuggling in Heaven on Earth. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland . Konstanz, Edition Südkurier , 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 , pp. 75-77.
  24. ↑ Heike Thissen: Lienhardsbrunnen. Rolled out of the city center into paradise. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland . Konstanz, Edition Südkurier , 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 , pp. 115–117.
  25. ↑ Josua Eiselein: Justified evidence of the plaz near the city of Constanz, on which Johannes Hus and Hieronymus of Prague in the years 1415 a. Burned in 1416.
  26. ↑ Ulrich Büttner, Egon Schwär: The Hussenstein. In memory of the execution of two reformers. In: Ulrich Büttner and Egon Schwär: Konstanzer Council story (s) . Publishing house Stadler. Konstanz 2014, ISBN 978-3-7977-0580-8 , pp. 181 to 182.
  27. ↑ Heike Thissen: Schleyer memorial plaque. Volapük - One language for the world. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland . Konstanz, Edition Südkurier , 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 , pp. 40–42.
  28. ↑ Heike Thissen: wayside cross in the Brüel. Devotion in the parking lot. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland . Konstanz, Edition Südkurier , 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 , pp. 100-102.
  29. ^ Ralf Seuffert: Constance. 2000 years of history. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Konstanz and Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86764-209-5 , p. 209.

Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′  N , 9 ° 10 ′  E