Resser Mark

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The district of Resser Mark in the east of Gelsenkirchen is named after the heather and forest landscape Resser Mark , which adjoins the old farmers of Buers to the southeast . It is continued to the east by the Hertener Mark. The core of today's district is a settlement that emerged in the Emscherbruch east of Erle and south of the village of Resse at the end of the 1930s .

Geography and settlement structure

The districts of Gelsenkirchen with Resser Mark in the east

On March 31, 2019, the Gelsenkirchen district of Resser Mark had a total of 3,296 inhabitants on an area of ​​6.40 km²; this corresponds to a population density of around 515 inhabitants per km². Like the neighboring districts of Erle and Resse, Resser Mark belongs to the eastern district north of the Emscher and the Rhine-Herne Canal , which forms the southern border of the district. The northern border of the district forms the federal highway 2 .

The district of Resser Mark borders on the following neighboring districts:

The district has two main settlement areas: the center of Resser Mark along the street Im Emscherbruch and around the market square as well as the Eichkamp settlement east of the Münsterstraße , which cuts through the nearly square district area like a diagonal from southwest to northeast. The rest of the area consists mainly of forest and dump land. The settlement core of the Resser Mark on the Emscherbruch is directly adjacent to the built-up area in Erle in the southwest and Resse in the north and borders in the northwest on the site of the former medieval moated castle Haus Leythe , on which shaft 3/5 of the Graf Bismarck colliery was located until 1966 and where a large 9-hole golf course was built in 1989 . This fills the border triangle between alder, Resser Mark and Resse. To the east, the district merges into the forests of the Resser Mark and the Hertener Mark. The Central Garbage Dump Emscherbruch (ZDE), which opened in 1968 and has been operated by AGR since 1982, occupies a large area in the east of the district beyond the Eichkampsiedlung . It was the first “orderly landfill” in Germany (built with sealing systems from the start) Hazardous waste is deposited. In the southeast on the border to Herne on the canal bank is the port of Grimberg ; in the south-west, directly across from the district border in the Bismarck district, on the south side of the shipping route, is the Gelsenkirchen zoo . Several streams flow through the Resser Mark, such as the Leither Mühlenbach and the Knabenbach.

history

Like Erle and Resse, the area of ​​today's location Resser Mark (which at that time was not yet developed and belonged to the outer area of Erles) belonged to the former town of Buer , which (unlike Bismarck and Herne) historically belonged to the Vest and Recklinghausen district .

The Resser Mark settlement was established at the end of the 1930s on the initiative of the then Gauleiter of the NSDAP , Alfred Meyer , a former administrative employee of the Graf Bismarck colliery in Gelsenkirchen-Erle. The housing shortage in the Ruhr area was to be combated by building small settlements , which is why a housing construction program for Gelsenkirchen was decided in 1937, which included the development of the Resser Mark with multi-family houses on the Emscherbruch around a newly created market square.

The Im Eichkamp settlement was built in the 1950s as a colliery settlement for the employees of the immediately adjacent 7/8 mine of the Graf Bismarck colliery, which was located on the site of today's garbage dump and was demolished in 1966.

population

On March 31, 2019, 3,296 people lived in the Resser Mark, 1,612 of them women and 1,684 men. The proportion of foreigners is 6.9% (Gelsenkirchen average on the same reference date: 21%). The population development in recent years has declined slightly, the number of foreigners living in the district was constant between 220 and 230. On March 31, 2016, 3,473 inhabitants lived in the Resser Mark, the proportion of foreigners was 6.4% (total city: 18.6% ).

economy

The center of the district is the Resser Mark market in the Emscherbruch. At this place there is a small range of local supply shops including a supermarket branch , a pharmacy and doctor's house as well as two restaurants , a Chinese snack bar and an arcade . There is also a weekly market on the square, where farmers and traveling traders sell their products. The former state-owned housing company LEG , which to this day owns most of the real estate and was the owner of practically all apartment buildings in the district until it was privatized , has its tenant office on the square.

traffic

The Resser Mark motorway service station on federal motorway 2 .
Fire station 3 (Resser Mark) in the Emscherbruch before the renovation

Gelsenkirchen-Resser Mark is connected by several bus lines with the districts of Erle, Buer, Resse and Beckhausen ; a bus line goes to Rotthausen in the extreme south of the city. The Erle Forsthaus stop is located in the south-west at the beginning of Cranger Straße in the Erler area immediately beyond the city limits , from where the 301 tram enables a quick connection in a few minutes directly to Gelsenkirchen main station .

The main street is the street Im Emscherbruch , the old country road from Erle to Resse, which crosses today's center of Resser Mark from south to north. At its southern end, the junction from Münsterstrasse , is the fire station 3 , built in the 1970s and renovated in 2016/17 , where a department of the Gelsenkirchen volunteer fire brigade is ready for operations in the east of the city.

The Münsterstrasse traverses the area diagonally from southwest to northeast as a continuation of the federal highway 227 which immediately before the neighborhood boundary at the junction with the Federal Highway 226 (Willy-Brandt-Allee) ends on Forsthaus alder, and leaves the metropolitan area of Gelsenkirchen at the northeast corner of the District after crossing under the A2 motorway.

The A2 motorway forms the border in the north between Resser Mark and Gelsenkirchen-Resse. The Resser Mark service station (north side, direction Oberhausen ) in the northwest is already on the Resser area; the opposite parking lot on the south side of the motorway at the golf course still belongs to Resser Mark. The south ramp of the Herten exit (7) at the northeast end of the district on Münsterstrasse just before the city limits to Herten is still in the area of ​​the Resser Mark in Gelsenkirchen, while the north ramp runs over Resser Grund and is already in the Herten urban area on the continuation of the B227 (which is called Gelsenkirchener Straße there ) meets.

Access to the Im Eichkamp settlement east of Münsterstrasse is generally only permitted to residents, unless the western access via Kleiweg remains completely closed to motorized traffic during the toad migration period and the breeding season of grass snakes (May / June and August / September), so that in During these months only the traffic-restricted north access to Eichkamp from the Wiedehopfweg opposite the Waldhaus is open.

education

In the Resser Mark district there are two schools that are open all day:

Flora and fauna

The reed lake immediately south of the Eichkamp settlement at the foot of the landfill dump, which is now partly green, marks the approximate geographical center of the district and is located in the middle of the recreation area.

Apart from the settlement core and the landfill site, the Resser Mark district consists mostly of forest and meadow. Of all the districts of Gelsenkirchen, it has the largest area used for forestry. In the forest there is a forest station of the RVR , which maintains and manages the forest area Resser Mark by a specially appointed forester .

The Resser Mark is the largest forest and recreational area in the city and offers joggers, cyclists and walkers activities close to the city. On Schilfsee ( toads spawning pond ) is a rare grass snake -Brutgebiet that is especially protected by seasonal traffic restrictions on the adjacent tracks. Many other animal species are represented in the forest area, including hares , foxes , roe deer and many, sometimes rare, bird species such as gray herons , buzzards , sparrowhawks , eagle owls , woodpeckers , kingfisher , nuthatch and wrens .

leisure

There are several sports fields and playgrounds in Gelsenkirchen-Resser Mark. At Westfalenplatz at the northern end of Coesfelder Straße on the edge of the forest near the Knabenbach was the Gelsenkirchen Falcon's Erich Ollenhauer youth center , which was demolished in 2013/14 due to irreparable damage to the mountains and replaced by terraced houses. The Haus Leithe golf course is located in the northeast of the district.

church

The formerly independent Roman Catholic parish of St. Ida was merged in 2001 with the parishes of St. Suitbert, St. Bonifatius and St. Barbara in the neighboring districts of Erle and Beckhausen and, in 2007, joined the parish of the provost church of St. Urbanus in Gelsenkirchen-Buer , the largest parish in the diocese of Essen with over 40,000 Catholics, which covers the entire northern half of the city of Gelsenkirchen. In January 2018 it became known that the parish of St. Urbanus is giving up the small church of St. Ida, built in 1949/1950 as a Catholic emergency church , in the course of rationalizing its pastoral care activities. The last Holy Mass took place on November 29, 2018 , and the last Ecumenical Service on November 30, 2018, which was closed at the beginning of the new church year on Advent.

From 2004 to 2018 the Ecumenical Center St. Ida existed in the Idakirche, which the Roman Catholic parish St. Barbara and the Evangelical parish Resser Mark shared. As a result, a church and community center could be maintained on site for the two small parishes after the Johanneskirche of the Evangelical parish of Resser Mark had to be demolished due to mountain damage . Services of both denominations took place here until November 2018. Events of the church social associations ( EAB , KAB , Kolping Family ) at the city level were also held in the Ecumenical Center.

The Evangelical Congregation Resser Mark, which at that time comprised around 1700 believers, was merged with the congregations Erle and Middelich after a resolution passed at the end of 2007 by the affected presbyteries and today, together with the former Evangelical Congregation Resse, forms the Christ Church Congregation Buer, which has been involved for a long time existing cooperation area north-east of the Evangelical Church District Gelsenkirchen and Wattenscheid.

Today, the housing estate is located on the former site of the Evangelical Church of St. John in the Resser Mark Johanneshof .

Social

There are two large social institutions in the Resser Mark: the Wichernhaus of the Evangelical Diakonie , a dormitory for people with disabilities, and the Johanniter-Stift of the Order of St. John , a care facility for the elderly.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Population structure in Gelsenkirchen as of March 31, 2019 - Data source: City of Gelsenkirchen - opendata.gelsenkirchen.de
  2. ↑ Waste management is also climate protection. In: metropoleruhr , September 23, 2014, accessed August 2017.
  3. ↑ Ludger Breitbach u. a., Institute for City History (Ed.): Historical traces on site. Gelsenkirchen under National Socialism (series of publications by the Institute for City History Gelsenkirchen, Volume 3). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1998, p. 41 f.
  4. ↑ Official city map , accessed on June 20, 2016.
  5. ↑ The Urbanus quake. In: Buer! The Buersche monthly newspaper. 10th year, No. 2 (February 2018), p. 6 f.
  6. ↑ Martin Lohof: St. Ida and the ecumenical movement. In: Parish Council of the Catholic Community of St. Barbara (ed.): Barbarabrief. Advent / Christmas 2018. S. 6/7.
  7. ^ Christiane Rautenberg: On course for unification. In: WAZ , January 2, 2008, accessed September 26, 2017.
  8. ↑ Ecumenical Center St. Ida, Im Emscherbruch 63a, GE-Resser Mark. Presentation of the Ecumenical Center (with virtual church tour) on the website of the Protestant church district Gelsenkirchen and Wattenscheid, accessed on September 26, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '  N , 7 ° 7'  E