Pomona (Neuss)

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Coat of arms of Neuss
Pomona
district 13 of Neuss
Location of Pomona in 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 A57
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