Rabenberg (Wolfsburg)

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Rabenberg
City of Wolfsburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 23 "  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 57"  E
Residents : 2380  (December 31, 2015)
Postal code : 38444
Area code : 05361
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Location in Wolfsburg
Stream loop of the Stemmelriede around a wall of the Rothehof Castle
Burgwall Center

The Rabenberg is a district of Wolfsburg .

Location and description

Centrally located, not far from the city center, the Rabenberg lies directly on the forest (Raumehorstgehege) . Numerous bodies of water shape the surroundings of the district, such as various springs as well as the Stemmelteich and the Ziegelteich. The street name "Burgwall" is reminiscent of the Rothehof hilltop castle on the Stemmelriede brook located in the city ​​forest . The castle hill, which is still around 3 m high and surrounded by a rampart and moat, was the aristocratic seat of the Rothehöfer line of the von Bartensleben family . A few meters from the former castle site, some half-timbered houses of the historic Rothehof residential area, which have now been restored, are still preserved in the forest . The district also includes Hegeberg, located in the forest south of the Rabenberg, with around 20 single-family houses, the only road connection to the Rabenberg.

history

In 1938 - the year the city ​​was founded - the only existing development in the area of ​​today's Rabenberg district was the Rothehof forest settlement ; the ponds on the edge of the district were also already there. In 1958 residential construction began in the Rabenberg district, initially the emerging district could only be reached via Burgwall. In 1960 the market square was laid out. In 1960/61 the Catholic Church of St. Heinrich was built, and in 1961 a post office and a Volksbank branch opened on the market square . In 1962 the Rabenberg School (elementary school XI., Today Eichendorff Elementary School) opened and in 1964 the VW guest house. In the 1960s, the small settlement Hegeberg in the forest was built. With the Burgwall Center, built in 1968/69, the development of the district was largely completed. From 2009 to 2013, a few more terraced houses were built west of Uhlenhorst Street.

politics

Together with the neighboring districts of Eichelkamp , Hageberg , Hohenstein , Klieversberg , Laagberg and Wohltberg, the Rabenberg forms the town of Mitte-West , which is represented by a local council. The local mayor is Matthias Presia ( SPD ).

Attractions

Art in the cityscape

Golf Sculpture (2019)
  • Sculpture “Die Waage” (1991) by Michael Hischer on Braunschweiger Strasse.
  • Golf sculpture - oversized replica of a VW Golf VII GTI. The present silver-gray sculpture was erected on July 12, 2016. The body was manufactured by Edag ; the substructure was made by Stahlbau Hahner GmbH & Co. KG from Böckels . Before that, a golf sculpture was erected for the first time on May 19, 2015, a gift from Volkswagen AG to the city of Wolfsburg on their 75th birthday. The company am surf in Wettstetten manufactured them in 2013. This original white sculpture turned out to be insufficiently resistant to environmental influences and was disposed of. The color of today's sculpture is called Tungsten Silver Metallic by Volkswagen .

Infrastructure

The Rabenberg can be accessed via two approaches from Braunschweiger Straße , Burgwall and Rabenbergstraße . A high-rise complex (Burgwall Center) is located on the castle wall, some of which is used as office space by AutoVision . There is a small market square at the confluence of the Burgwall with Rabenbergstraße. The district is close to the city center and the VW bath .

The shopping opportunities on the Rabenberg are limited as there are only a few local supply shops and doctors. There is a Catholic and Protestant kindergarten with after-school care and a Catholic primary school.

religion

St. Heinrich Church

The St. Heinrich Church , 1960/61 by Peter Koller jun. built as a Roman Catholic church in the shape of a crown, is located on the western edge of the district. The church named after Heinrich II. And most recently part of the Wolfsburg parish of St. Christophorus was profaned in 2019 . Next to the church is the catholic day care center of the same name, on the eastern edge of the district the catholic elementary school Eichendorff school with school kindergarten.

The parish hall of the Evangelical Lutheran Johannesgemeinde on the corner of Rabenbergstraße / Am Ziegelteich has belonged to the then newly founded town church of Wolfsburg since 2006, into which the Johannesgemeinde was merged. On August 3, 2008, the last service of the town church took place there. However, it was last leased to the Evangelical Christ Brothers Congregation as a community center. Since the ChristusBrüderGemeinde bought the St. Joseph Church at the end of 2015 , the Johanneshaus was closed and sold to a construction company that had demolished the parish hall in 2016 and built a residential building on the property in 2017. The Johannes day-care center at Ziegelteich is still used by the Evangelical Lutheran Church and is also used for events by the town parish. In the gym there, the regular church services of the parish took place, from October 19, 2014 the music room of the Catholic Eichendorff School was used for this. On March 17, 2019, the last church service of the city parish in the Rabenberg district took place there due to the reduced number of visitors.

literature

  • Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. Building a city. 1948-1968. Wolfsburg, undated (around 1976).
  • Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. 1st edition 2011. ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 . Pp. 92, 93, 98/99.

Web links

Commons : Rabenberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New concept for Rabenberg market square. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of February 27, 2018.
  2. ↑ Stephanie Giesecke: "The scales" stands still in the bushes. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Friday Packet for December 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ http://www.waz-online.de/Wolfsburg/Stadt-Wolfsburg/Neuer-Golf-soll-kein- Jahreseswagen- sein
  4. ↑ http://www.hahner-stahlbau.de/index.php?site=Aktuelles
  5. ↑ http://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/ingolstadt/Wettstetten-Huckepack-in-die-Autostadt;art599,3054144
  6. ↑ XXL Golf ends up in the shredder. In: hello Wolfsburg. Edition 2/2017 of January 14, 2017, p. 1.
  7. ↑ http://www.waz-online.de/Wolfsburg/Stadt-Wolfsburg/Rabenberg-Gemeindehaus-wird-Ostern-abgerissen
  8. ↑ Horizons. Community letter from the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Community of Wolfsburg, issue No. 78, March – May 2019, p. 9