Rheinhausen-Mitte

Rheinhausen-Mitte is a district of Duisburg in the Rheinhausen district . It has 9,594 inhabitants ( as of December 31, 2016 ). As a specially designated district, it has only existed since the municipal reorganization , i.e. the incorporation of the city of Rheinhausen into the city of Duisburg on January 1, 1975. Before that, the area in question was in the northern part of the district, before 1923 the mayor's office of Hochemmerich and the southern part of the district , before 1923 part of the mayor's office in Friemersheim . In the field of Rheinhausen-Mitte lying farming communities Atrop and Schwarzenberg. From the beginning of the 1950s, the largely undeveloped area was referred to as the "city center area"; the new city center of Rheinhausen was to be built here.

location

Rheinhausen-Mitte is located in the middle of the Rheinhausen district. To the northeast is adjacent Hochemmerich , northwest Bergheim , south Friemersheim. Rheinhausen-Mitte has neither a direct connection to the Rhine nor to the neighboring towns of the Rheinhausen district or the neighboring city districts. To the east borders the Margarethensiedlung belonging to Hochemmerich , to the south the railway line of the Rhein-Niers-Bahn with the Rheinhausen train station , which is already on the Friemersheim area.

In addition to the area around the town hall , the district includes the so-called musicians and poets' settlements, because the street names are named after classical composers and poets (for example Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Handel, Lortzing, Franz Schubert -, Mozart, Joseph-Haydn-Straße as well as for example Eichendorff-, Goethe-, Hölderlin-, Lessing-, Rückert-, Stormstraße). Furthermore, the mayor - Johann-Asch-Platz , named after the last mayor and the Glückaufplatz (former theater forecourt) belong to the district.

City center

District Office Rheinhausen at Körnerplatz

Residential buildings in the city center (Beethovenstrasse)

For a long time Rheinhausen was a city without a city center . Most of the largest shops were in Hochemmerich. For a long time there was also the only traffic light there : a turn indicator light that hung on a steel cable that was pulled across the intersection of Krefeld and Friedrich-Alfred-Straße.

In order to give the city, which was composed of the independent communities Hochemmerich and Friemersheim before 1923, a center (the town hall building on Körnerplatz was quite isolated in the geographical center of the city), a city hall was built as a multi-purpose hall (Rheinhausenhalle) from the beginning of the 1960s. and an indoor swimming pool (now demolished) and built on the open meadows and fields with a housing estate.

History of the city center development

From the beginning of the 1920s one of the few buildings (next to the town hall) was the site of the Belgian military camp on Schwarzenberger Straße as part of the Allied occupation of the Rhineland , the main building of which was initially used as a riding stable, then as a cinema, from April 1939 as a city theater and after war-related damage had been repaired was used again in 1947; it was fundamentally rebuilt in 1952 and demolished in 1979. A (new) design of the city center was already in 1941 according to a plan by the government master builder a. D. Walter Corinth († 1942) intended. According to this, z. B. instead of the city theater, a party forum for mass events has been planned. Due to the war, these plans were not implemented.

Today's settlements were built after an urban development competition for "urban development" from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s by the then Krupp Housing Institute (Gemeinnützige Siedlungsgesellschaft Essen-Rossenray mbH) as part of social rental housing for employees of the Krupp ironworks and have been in existence for several years managed by the company Immeo Wohnen . They are heated by the Stadtwerke Duisburg using district heating . Initially, a coke-fired power station from Krupp on Beethovenstrasse provided the heating.

The town hall building on Körnerplatz

The town hall itself was built between 1915 and 1918 as a secondary school and was used as a town hall from the mid-1930s. Before that, the old mayor's office building at Hochemmerich at Moerser Straße 24 served the same purpose. In 1939, a two-storey building for the police station was added to the south, transforming the east view of the complex into a representative three-wing complex. Although the building had not been damaged during the war, the modernization and further expansion of the town hall began after the Second World War . In 1952, the gymnasium was divided into two office floors by adding a false ceiling, in 1954 the auditorium was redesigned as a council meeting room and in 1969 the town hall canteen was moved into the basement. In 1970 the glazed vestibule with the city coat of arms was built as the new main entrance on the east side.

Since the municipal reorganization in 1975, the town hall building has housed the Rheinhausen district administration office, including the citizens' service station and the meeting room of the Rheinhausen district council (former council hall) as well as a branch of the youth welfare institute. The Duisburg-West registry office is located in the north wing and the Duisburg-West office of the Duisburg Adult Education Center is in the courtyard building . The last three institutions are also responsible for the Homberg / Ruhrort / Baerl district. At times there was also a branch of the Duisburg job center in the building . Under the town hall forecourt (Körnerplatz) is one of the air raid shelters (underground bunkers) built before the Second World War .

Further urban development

Old new building of the Rheinhausen secondary school

With the Alpha-Haus, a small complex with one of the first medical centers in West Germany and various shops, a pharmacy and a bar or restaurant, a sign for a new center was to be created in the immediate vicinity of the town hall in the mid-1960s. Until the early 1970s, the main offices of the Rheinhauser Stadtbücherei , the Stadtsparkasse , the main post office and the health department had been built in the planned area of the city center .

When the German and thus also the Rheinhausen economic upswing did not continue, the oil crisis (1973) and incorporation into Duisburg (1975), the city fathers' dreams of a large city gate (multi-storey building that was to be built over a wide, four-lane street) and a new center burst the corresponding plans could not be pursued further.

At the planned location, the Duisburg-West tax office , a Catholic family education center , a residential complex for the elderly and a nursing home are also located at the planned location , not far from the Rheinhausenhalle, which opened in 1977, and the Protestant Church of the Redeemer, which opened in 1962, the Beethovenstraße primary school , the Rheinhausen secondary school , a municipal and a Catholic one Day care center .

The center of the Rheinhausen district is still the Hochemmerich district , which still hosts the largest North Rhine-Westphalian weekly market twice a week , which has existed since 1901.

The administrative buildings of the former Krupp-Industrietechnik company also belong to the city center . Some of them are currently being used as office properties (Business Park 2000) and for the Alevi community in Duisburg.

traffic

Local public transport in the Rheinhausen-Mitte district is operated by the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft (DVG). Some of the lines are operated in joint traffic with NIAG Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe . The bus lines 914, 920, 921 and 922 run through Rheinhausen-Mitte. On the southern edge of Rheinhausen-Mitte is the Rheinhausen Ost stop , which is located directly opposite the former factory gate 1 of the former Krupp company and, according to earlier, but not implemented, plans, should be expanded to a Rheinhauser central station.

literature

The Krupp factory settlements in Rheinhausen 1898 - 1978 (catalog for the exhibition from November 17, 1989 to January 6, 1990, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum of the City of Duisburg in the Duisburg-Rheinhausen Municipal Collection) Catalog, text and editing by Katharina Lepper, Duisburg 1989 , ISBN 3923576609 .
Contemporary witness exchange Duisburg ev: Rheinhausen , Sutton Verlag Erfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-152-1 .
Helmut Mootz: Rheinhaus train stations - a degrading calling card . In: Freundeskreis lively Grafschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the districts on the left bank of the Rhine in the city of Duisburg 1995/96 . 1996, ISSN 0931-2137 , pp. 53 ff .

Web links

Development plan for Rheinhausen-Mitte

History of the Rheinhaus town hall

Entry on Rheinhausen district town hall in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council
Duisburg Monument Topics Volume 1: Rheinhausen Town Hall, Duisburg 2007 (PDF; 557 kB)
Picture from Rheinhausen town hall 1962 (digit.wdr.de)
Image from the Rheinhauser Stadttheater (digit.wdr.de)
Picture of the indoor swimming pool at Glückaufplatz (digit.wdr.de)
Image of the Church of the Redeemer (digit.wdr.de)
Image of Fr.-Ebert-Str. with Alpha House under construction (digit.wdr.de)
Street directory Rheinhausen-Mitte (onlinestreet)

Individual evidence

↑ Population statistics of the city of Duisburg from December 31, 2016 (PDF; 21 kB)

[EinwohnerStatistik-1] Population statistics of the city of Duisburg from December 31, 2016 (PDF; 21 kB)