Phoenix district
The Phoenix quarter is a quarter in the Hamburg district of Harburg , named after Phoenix AG , a rubber factory that is still located there today.
It was built as a typical working-class district during the founding period . In the post-war period it gained a very bad reputation as a social hotspot with high crime and unemployment rates, and in 2005 it was declared a redevelopment area. In 2007, 4803 people lived in this area.
Geographical location
The approximately 20.4 hectare Phoenix district is located in the center of Hamburg's Harburg district and extends over the Harburg district and south of Hohen Straße to the Wilstorf area . It comprises the area between the streets Bunatwiete / Kalischer Straße in the north, Wilstorfer Straße in the east, where it borders on the Phoenix plant and the Phoenix-Center shopping center , the A 253 motorway slip road in the south and Maretstraße in the west (bounded by the Park of the old Harburg cemetery ) as well as the blocks south of Baererstrasse and Hohe Strasse on Maretstrasse.
history
founding
Around 1875, two of the largest Harburg factories were located on Wilstorfer Strasse: the coal oil and gas factory owned by Frenchman Noblée and the rubber factory owned by Albert and Louis Cohen from Hamburg. Housing was urgently needed for the workers employed in the factories, so that by 1895 the area of what would later become the Phoenix district was fully developed. According to old-established residents, it was a district with a high quality of life until the Second World War thanks to its convenient location to the city center and Harburg city park with the outdoor mill pond. In 1932 there were still 508 commercial, trading and industrial establishments in the Phoenix district, the majority of which were located on Wilstorfer Straße, which was once a popular shopping street.
World War II and post-war period
The first bombing raids on Harburg took place in 1940. Since the houses in the Phoenix district had no bomb-proof basement rooms, a bunker was built in Lassallestrasse. During the Second World War , many houses in the Phoenix district were destroyed, so that there was a great housing shortage after the war. As a result, much was done by the state for housing in the 1950s. Among other things, the "publicly subsidized housing" was introduced, apartments were built with the help of public funds (state loans). However, many homeowners in the Phoenix district saw this housing management after the Second World War as problematic. Because many houses in the quarter had been destroyed and had to be rebuilt with the Hamburg housing credit institution, many apartments were only rented to socially disadvantaged families, often with many children.
In addition to the problem of apartment management, there was the fact that many old houses that had not been destroyed were not renovated after the war and were slowly exposed to decay, which also attracted socially disadvantaged families, as rents were correspondingly low. This was accompanied by the disappearance of the small craft shops and shops in the district and the emergence of large supermarket chains . Many residents of the district did not have much money and therefore had to buy their groceries and daily necessities in the often cheaper large supermarkets. When the small businesses were displaced by supermarkets, the typical image of the Phoenix district, which was characterized by mom and pop shops , changed significantly.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the Hamburg Senate put money into "urban development improvements", one-way streets were redesigned and play streets were set up. However, the quarter became more and more of a social hotspot in Harburg with a high crime and unemployment rate, especially at the end of the 1990s negative headlines increased . In 1999, during a gang war, for example, shots were fired in a coffee shop on Hohe Strasse, in which one of the projectiles broke through a door to the adjacent apartment and injured the tenant there.
Efforts to upgrade the district
In June 2003, the Harburg security conference resulted in a "round table" on the subject of the Phoenix district. At that time there were some groups like the "Interest Group Lively Phoenix Quarter". After the death of its chairman Arne Buckenauer, volunteer residents of the district, owners of houses, citizens, members of existing facilities and interested parties formed the "Phoenix Quarter Working Group", which worked to ensure that the district becomes a redevelopment area using a simplified procedure. The Hamburg Senate announced the decision on July 12, 2005 . For a total of 350 buildings with around 2500 apartments and 4500 tenants, 25 million euros in public grants are available until 2015. Stadterneuerungs- und Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft Hamburg mbH (Steg) has qualified as the redevelopment agency in a Europe-wide tendering process.
Location, infrastructure and appearance
Due to the close proximity to downtown Harburg, there is a variety of services and supplies. The Phoenix Center was opened in the immediate vicinity in 2004, a large shopping center on the former Phoenix AG factory premises between Wilstorfer and Hannoversche Strasse. The Wilstorfer Straße itself still shows that it was once a popular shopping street, today there are still many shops and restaurants there. These are now largely multicultural . There are also a few pubs , kiosks , cafés and restaurants spread across the Phoenix district .
The pedestrian zone , the Harburg S- Bahn and regional train station as well as the Harburg Rathaus S-Bahn station can be reached in a few minutes on foot.
There are three social institutions in the Phoenix district: two kindergartens or day-care centers and a therapy center for addicts run by the German Red Cross (DRK) . There are also six cultural institutions (churches, cultural associations) and six recreational institutions (sports facilities, club houses). The area also has two large public playgrounds . There is a primary, secondary and secondary school on Bunatwiete / Maretstrasse, which also offers a school and care program for children and adolescents in the afternoon.
Of the 513 buildings in the Phoenix district, around two thirds were built before 1945 and almost exclusively between 1880 and 1900. These buildings are three to four storey old buildings typical of the Wilhelminian era . The buildings from the 1950s dominate the post-war buildings. 75% of all main buildings are purely residential buildings, commercial and commercial buildings are hardly represented at 5%, 18% are a hybrid of residential and commercial buildings. The small-scale mix of uses, the plot structure that can be seen on the streets and facades, and the closed block edges give the area a rather rare urban character for the district .
In the Phoenix district itself, apart from the playgrounds and a car-free section, there are no public open spaces or green spaces. In the immediate vicinity, however, are the Harburg city park with the outdoor mill pond and the green areas of the old cemetery, which can be reached quickly on foot.
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- ↑ steg: Renewal concept September 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Carola Siedhoff: Development of the Phoenix-Quarter ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Carola Siedhoff: Old Phoenix-Viertler tell ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Carola Siedhoff: Shops in the Phoenix quarter ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Carola Siedhoff: The reputation of the quarter changes (1945–1970) ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Authority for Urban Development and Environment Hamburg: Urban renewal Hamburg - Harburg Phoenix-Viertel
- ^ DIE WELT November 17, 1999: Shots in a coffee shop injured neighbors
- ↑ DIE WELT July 6, 2006: 90 million euros for the Harburg Phoenix district
- ^ Authority for Urban Development and Environment Hamburg: Urban renewal Hamburg - Harburg Phoenix-Viertel
Coordinates: 53 ° 27 ' N , 9 ° 59' E