Paulusviertel (Recklinghausen)

Paulusviertel ; district of Recklinghausen
Coordinates	51 ° 36 '37 " N , 7 ° 11' 37" E Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '37 " N , 7 ° 11' 37" E
height	(am Hittorf) 79 m above sea level NHN
surface	2.445 km²
Residents	7563 (Sep 30, 2015) (8/18)
Population density	3093 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	45657
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The Paulusviertel is an old district bordering the historic old town of Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The Pauluskirche

The quarter is centered around the parish church of St. Paulus from 1906. This gave its name to the street that stretches from Herner Straße on both sides of the church via Kemnastraße to Hertener Straße and the entire residential area. The street is divided into three sections: “Untere Paulusstraße”, “An der Pauluskirche” and “Obere Paulusstraße”.

history

The neo-Romanesque Pauluskirche was built in 1906 as a counterpart to the central Petruskirche (1247) in the neighboring old town. The important couple of apostles each received their own city church. The Pauluskirche was laid out in the form of a Latin cross with a nave and a transept, which is surmounted by a 69 meter high bell tower. The planned second tower was not completed for cost reasons and remained a two-story stump with a terrace at church roof height.

The quarter around the Catholic Church had a rural suburban character until after the Second World War : Cornfields stretched on both sides of Hohenzollernstrasse to the New Prosper Hospital , which was accessible via a wide ramp. In addition to this there was an old Prosper Hospital from 1848 in Kemnastraße. Vegetable gardens defined the area around the houses. The Paulusstift neighboring the church , a sister house of the Ursulines , stood in a park and housed a St. Mary's grotto . In 1944, two bombs missed the already partially destroyed church and tore deep craters in the streets on both sides.

In the course of the reconstruction of the quarter, the area was increasingly built on with houses, doctors' offices and shops. A new rectory, a community center and a kindergarten were built on the site of the demolished Paulus monastery. The central street, renamed after him after the murder of the National Socialist Ernst Eduard vom Rath in 1938, was renamed Paulusstraße in 1945.

character

The originally rural district with the Catholic Paulus Church and the Protestant Gustav Adolf Church (1847) now has the character of an inner city. The main traffic runs along the edges of the Herner-, Hohenzollern- and Hertener Straße. A primary and secondary school, the scientifically oriented Hittorf-Gymnasium from 1904, the building complex of the former Catholic elementary school and the vocational school largely determine the character of the school and residential area today.