Pomona (Neuss)

Pomona district 13 of Neuss
Coordinates	51 ° 10 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 41 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 41 ″  E
surface	1.7 km²
Residents	3524 (June 30, 2014)
Population density	2073 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	41464
prefix	02131
Borough	Pomona (13)
Transport links
Highway
DB connection	Neuss South S 11
Bus lines	843 844 848 852
Source: Timetable information from Stadtwerke Neuss

Pomona is a district of Neuss and is close to the city center. It has around 3,500 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2014) and consists of both commercial space and a residential area, plus a school center and a district sports facility. The district owes its name to the Roman fruit goddess Pomona . It is a reference to the orchards that used to be in today's residential area.

Geographical location

Pomona is around 3 km south of Neuss city center. In the north it borders on the Dreikönigenviertel , in the northeast on the Augustinusviertel , in the east on Gnadental , in the south on Selikum and Reuschenberg and in the west on the Stadionviertel . In the south Pomona is bounded by the federal highway 57 . The junction 21 Neuss-Reuschenberg allows direct access.

Ludwig Wolker plant

The Ludwig-Wolker-Anlage is a district sports facility on Jean-Pullem-Weg in the immediate vicinity of the school center. The facility is to be supplemented with an athletics center. It is home to the DJK Rheinkraft. In addition, a grandstand was built by summer 2015. Since the renovation in 2015, the sports facility has two tartan running tracks (one of which is a covered sprint running track), two grass football pitches and a hard court. The tennis facility of the TC Grün-Weiss Neuss is also located next to the football and athletics facilities. The facility has eight clay courts, three indoor courts and a clubhouse with a restaurant.

education

• Joseph Beuys School (special needs school)
• Cormenius School (comprehensive school)
• Alexander von Humboldt High School

Others

Within the Pomona district there is also the closed residential area Pomona, which is accessed by a single spur road of the same name. The place of origin of the protagonist Marleen Schuller is part of the novel “Nothing White” by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler . In addition, the women's second division basketball team TG Neuss Tigers plays its home game in the Elmar Frings Sports Hall (sports hall of the Alexander von Humboldt Gymnasium).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ District table - basic statistical data. City of Neuss, June 30, 2014, accessed on January 22, 2015 . 
2. ↑ District series: We in Pomona. Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung, accessed on September 27, 2012 . 
3. ↑ How an orchard became a district. Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung, April 3, 2014, accessed on January 26, 2015 . 
4. ↑ district brochure . (PDF, 950 kB) City of Neuss, December 31, 2011, accessed on September 27, 2012 .  (no longer available January 3, 2017)
5. ↑ Ulla Dahmen: Ludwig Wolker facility is to become an athletics center. WZ newsline, November 21, 2013, accessed January 26, 2015 . 
6. ↑ New athletics center. With the groundbreaking ceremony, the expansion of the Ludwig-Wolker sports facility into an athletics center has now begun. City of Neuss, accessed on January 26, 2015 . 
7. ^ Website of the DJK Rheinkraft