Lichtenhagen (Rostock)

Lichtenhagen City of Rostock Coordinates: 54 ° 9 ′ 10 ″  N , 12 ° 3 ′ 38 ″  E
Height :	5 m above sea level NN
Area :	5.9 km²
Residents :	14,338  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density :	2,430 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	18109
Area code :	0381
Location of Lichtenhagen in Rostock

The Lichtenhagen district in the north-west of Rostock was built from 1972 to 1976 and was considered a prime example of successful urban development in the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s .

history

The new development area was named after the small nearby village of Lichtenhagen . The Klein-Lichtenhagen housing estate is in the west of the district . In the area of today's local part was 1942, a settlement from simple wooden single-family homes, to their time of wooden houses was called and to house technicians Arado served -Flugzeugwerke.

Sculpture on the Lichtenhäger Brink

The large housing estate in large slab construction was built between 1971 and 1976. Many five-storey buildings were built, as well as three high-rise buildings (including the sunflower house ) at the beginning of the 1980s . 6,925 apartments were built for around 18,000 residents. The streets mostly form rectangular squares and were named after important Rostock post-war politicians. With the political change in 1990, all streets were renamed and were given names of small towns in northern Germany.

The district attracted worldwide attention with the riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in August 1992, which resulted in the most massive racist riots in German post-war history.

architecture

The Rostock chief architect Christoph Weinhold was responsible for the design of this district and other districts. In spite of the rational, industrial construction, each district of the large housing estate in Rostock was given a characteristic character.

Lichtenhagen at a central intersection (the sunflower house on the right )

The pedestrian zone Lichtenhäger Brink forms the center of this district. In contrast to other new districts typical of the prefabricated building architecture of the former GDR, the " Brink " created a rather unusual gem - instead of the usual straight, wide streets or shopping malls (so-called magistrals), it is surrounded by many gardens, fountains and angled corners.

A characteristic of the Rostock prefabricated building from around 1970, first seen in Lütten Klein , was the use of facade elements with ceramic panels that are reminiscent of brick masonry (red clinker) and refer to the construction method typical of the region. Panels designed in this way were also used in Lichtenhagen. The facade (front) of the sunflower house was particularly elaborately designed . With the modernization of the prefabricated buildings after the fall of the Wall, their original impression was lost in many cases, but the whole district also became more colorful.

If the apartment blocks in Lichtenhagen were put together at right angles to form courtyards, in the subsequently built Schmarl they formed rather round shapes and in the subsequently built Groß Klein long blocks with oblique angles> 90 °. The design of the window division, the entrance areas and the balconies also differed in the individual prefabricated building areas. The redensification - residential buildings built in the mid-1980s using prefabricated panels - in Lichtenhagen therefore show the image of the prefabricated buildings in Dierkow . So-called “corner solutions” were also built in Lichtenhagen, small, single-storey prefabricated buildings that were placed in the right angles of the five-storey apartment blocks. These housed various supply facilities such as pubs or hairdressers.

Education and Social

Simultaneously with the progress of residential development, a number of schools with sports halls were built in the northern and southern outer areas of Lichtenhagen. The day-care centers, each with a crèche and kindergarten, were built in the courtyards that resulted from the square arrangement of the residential buildings.

In addition, some educational institutions have been concentrated in Lichtenhagen, which means that, beyond the normal size of large housing estates, jobs have also been created in the residential area, mainly for women because of the industries.

In 1981 the new building of the children's home was opened, which at that time had a capacity of 160 places. The youth welfare homes in the GDR belonged to the ministry for public education or to the public education departments with the departments of youth welfare / home education at the district and local level. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the facility was taken over by the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund and still exists today. In 1982 another home was built with the target group of mentally handicapped children and young people with 136 places. These homes were part of the health system in the GDR.

The Institute for Teacher Training was founded in 1975 near the residential area . This was one of several similar institutions in the GDR. This is where the lower-level teachers were trained (today's designation: elementary school teacher). In the GDR, no university studies were planned for lower-level teachers. After 1990 the buildings were converted for the new use by the law faculty of the University of Rostock .

Another educational institution was opened with the Rostock Medical College in 1978. Attached was a dormitory with 400 places, which should roughly reflect the capacity. In this technical school the training of medical professionals took place, u. a. Nurses. The medical college still exists today (2016).

Due to the large number of educational institutions, the children and young people of Lichtenhagen had a number of leisure activities at their disposal, for which the students committed themselves by offering working groups with a wide range either in the educational institutions themselves or in the schools in the afternoon.

In the southern area, counted as part of Lütten Klein before 1990, the SED district party school was built. The site was partially rebuilt after 1990, now houses the police and now belongs to Lichtenhagen.

Population development

At the end of 1988 the number of inhabitants in Lichtenhagen reached its highest level with 20,276. As in almost all districts of Rostock, this decreased continuously until 2002, but could then a. by building new apartments, mainly in single and two-family houses west of Schleswiger and Sternberger Straße. At the end of 2009, 13,506 residents were registered with their main residence. A further increase in residents was achieved from 2011 to 2013 through the new development area Auf dem Kalveradd with around 200 properties west of Mecklenburger Allee.

traffic

The Rostock-Lichtenhagen stop, opened in 1974, is on the Neustrelitz – Warnemünde railway line . Connected to the local S-Bahn , bus and tram network of the Hanseatic city, the districts of Warnemünde and Diedrichshagen on the Baltic Sea and the center of Rostock can be reached from Lichtenhagen in a few minutes .

Web links

Commons : Lichtenhagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rostock.de: Lichtenhagen district

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population by city area on rathaus.rostock.de
2. ↑ Schröder, Karsten; Koch, Ingo: Rostocker Chronik, Neuer Hochschulschriftenverlag, Rostock 1999, p. 353
3. ↑ Sachse, Christian: The final touch, The State Commissioner for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the records of the State Security Service of the former GDR, Schwerin 2010, p. 44
4. ↑ Rostock City Archives: Lichtenhäger Mosaik, Rostock 1985, p. 64 f.
5. ^ Rostock City Archives: Lichtenhäger Mosaik, Rostock 1985, p. 48 ff.
6. ↑ Rostock City Archives: Lichtenhäger Mosaik, Rostock 1985, p. 59 ff.