Petersweiher

Petersweiher

Petersweiher is a settlement in the university town of Giessen . From a legal point of view, the independent place is not a separate district but belongs to the core city.

Location and origin

Petersweiher is located about five kilometers south-east of Gießen in the 702.3 hectare district Schiffenberg, which is predominantly forested (553 hectares in this district are forest areas and make up the Gießen city forest). Petersweiher itself covers less than 40 hectares. It was only after a land swap between the state of Hesse and the city of Gießen in 1973, when the Schiffenberg became the property of the city, that this settlement could be built. The Schiffenberg district was annexed to the city in 1939, but remained in the possession of the state. The Petersweiher village, created in the 1970s, is located directly at the foot of the Schiffenberg . On the south side, Petersweiher borders directly on the Pohlheim district of Watzenborn-Steinberg. It takes its name from the pond of the same name , which is located on the edge of the village.

Petersweiher is a purely residential area , in which there are mostly detached single - family houses and bungalows , but there are also individual apartment buildings and terraced houses. Many teachers, academics, doctors and other people from the upper middle class live here. As of December 31, 2001, there were a total of 206 inhabited buildings in this settlement.

The street names are related to the immediate surroundings: Nonnenweg and Klosterweg are reminiscent of a no longer existing monastery that was west of Petersweiher. Lausköppel , houses Born , Sommerberg and Hofacker are the names of the surrounding parcels, Forsthausweg and Baumgarten come from the Forsthaus Baumgarten north of the country road. The Pohlheimer Straße leads to Pohlheim and the Petersweiher Straße leads to the pond of the same name.

population

The settlement had 674 inhabitants at the end of 2001. Of these, 327 were male and 347 female, there were 31 EU foreigners. The proportion of residents under the age of 18 was 10.4% in 2001, the proportion of those over 65 was 17.4%

Infrastructure and traffic

Watzenborn-Steinberg stop

Apart from the public transport stops and a telephone booth, there is no public infrastructure in the Petersweiher settlement, such as B. kindergartens, schools or shops. For this, the residents have to go to the neighboring Pohlheim districts of Watzenborn-Steinberg or Hausen or to Gießen . Petersweiher and Watzenborn-Steinberg are only separated by the tracks of the Gießen – Lich – Nidda – Gelnhausen ( Lahn-Kinzig-Bahn ) line. Petersweiher shares the Watzenborn-Steinberg railway station with Watzenborn-Steinberg , which is still in the Gießen area. This stop was called Schiffenberg until it was renamed in 1954 . Regional buses of the Regionalverkehr Kurhessen (RKH) and the trains of the Hessische Landesbahn connect Petersweiher with Gießen.

Web links

The Petersweiher settlement on the city of Giessen's website

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '  N , 8 ° 43'  E