Rieth

Location of the Rieth in Erfurt

Ambulance Center (1977)

The front part of the square in 2010

International Friendship Road 1978

Same view in 2010

The Rieth is a district in the north of the Thuringian capital Erfurt . It is a prefabricated housing estate built in 1969 with 5650 inhabitants (December 31, 2012) on an area of 0.72 km². Before the fall of the Wall , however, significantly more people lived in this district. Neighboring districts are Hohenwind-Sulza (industrial area) in the east, Ilversgehofen (Wilhelminian-style district) in the south, Berliner Platz (prefabricated building area) in the west, Moskauer Platz (prefabricated building area) in the northwest, Gispersleben (village) in the north and Roter Berg (prefabricated building area ) in the Northeast. The district is located on the Gera , its center is the Platz der Völkerfreundschaft with the Vilnius-Passagen shopping center .

The neighboring district of Berliner Platz is de facto regarded by many Erfurt residents as belonging to the Rieth and is often included when speaking of the Rieth.

The Rieth is connected to the center of Erfurt by tram lines 1 and 6. The name Rieth occurs frequently in Thuringia as part of place names. These are floodplains reclaimed in the Middle Ages that were previously swampy and drained. Today's Rieth district is also located in such a floodplain between the Gera in the west and the Narrow Gera in the east. The Rieth was the first GDR housing estate with a complex center in its center, but Johannesplatz was the first prefabricated housing estate , which was built in Erfurt in 1965.

Population development

Data from the city administration of Erfurt as of December 31st.

year	population	Development (1990 = 100%)	Development in Erfurt (1990 = 100%)
1990	9,391	100.0	100.0
1995	9,105	97.0	93.4
1996	8,831	94.0	91.9
1997	8,227	87.6	90.6
1998	7,688	81.9	89.3
1999	6,951	74.0	88.0
2000	6,526	69.5	87.6
2001	6,072	64.7	87.4
2002	5,801	61.8	87.2
2003	5,674	60.4	88.0
2004	5,703	60.7	88.4
2005	5,727	61.0	88.5
2006	5,763	61.4	88.4
2007	5,771	61.5	88.5
2008	5,789	61.6	88.5
2009	5,782	61.6	88.8
2010	5,758	61.3	89.2
2011	5,687	60.6	89.8
2012	5,650	60.2	90.4
2013	5,638	60.0	91.1
2014	5,625	59.9	91.7
2015	5,797	61.7	93.3
2016	5,950	63.4	93.9

elections

Political party	City Council 2009	State Parliament 2009	Bundestag 2013	Europe 2009
voter turnout	29.7	38.2	45.2	29.6
CDU	18.6	23.3	30.7	20.8
The left	25.9	39.4	32.4	31.5
SPD	36.1	18.9	19.8	23.8
Green	3.0	4.7	3.1	4.1
FDP	3.9	4.2	1.5	4.6

Web links

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

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