Südstadt (Tübingen)

Südstadt District of Tübingen Coordinates: 48 ° 30 ′ 48 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 55 ″  E
Height :	323 m above sea level NN
Residents :	9897  (Dec. 31, 2007)
Postal code :	72072
Area code :	07071
Tübingen-Südstadt

The Südstadt is a district of the university city of Tübingen . It is south of the city ​​center .

The southern part of Tübingen as seen from the air from the north

View over the southern part of Tübingen and the Galgenberg from the Hechinger Eck

location

It is separated from the Derendingen district to the west by Steinlach and Moltkestrasse . The northern boundary to the city ​​center is the railway line and to the Au / Unterer Wert district it is Reutlinger Straße / B 28 . The demarcation to the French Quarter is Marienburger Strasse to the east and Eisenhutstrasse to the north . In the south the area extends to the Galgenberg . The district is cut through by the B 27 . Also part of the southern part of the city is the Loretto area , whose concept “ Quarter of short distances ” has already won several awards.

In the north, the southern part of the city is separated from the city center by the blue bridge

Blue Bridge at night in Tübingen

Südstadt at night

Districts

Loretto area

Until the beginning of the 1990s, the French military was stationed there, where many new apartments have now been built. Most of those who have moved in in recent years live on the former parade ground . The German military was stationed here until 1945. The barracks were built between 1914 and 1916. At that time, the old, later “ Thiepval barracks ” at the train station had become too small. By the time the “New Barracks” was finished, the soldiers for whom it was intended had long been at the front or had died. It was only named Loretto Barracks in 1938 in memory of the battle in World War I.

The “quarter of short distances” is characterized by the spatial proximity of apartments, workplaces and shops and is therefore a model for future urban and community development. You can do all important errands on foot, which was also an important objective when planning the Loretto area. Resident initiatives and close neighborly relationships are characteristic. The residents' initiative Lorettina organizes regular cultural events as well as a big Lorettofest in September .

structure

Quarter names for parts of the southern part of the city can be heard in Tübingen: the Loretto area or 's Loretto for short , the Galgenberg for the residential development on the northern slope below the mountain cemetery , the Wennfeld garden for the post-war development in that side valley, Am Sternplatz for everything around the Sternplatz and An der Steinlach for the older residential development next to this diked river.

history

Essentially, this part of the city consisted of facilities from the former garrison town : the Thiepval barracks , the Loretto barracks , the military hospital on Alexanderstraße and the Hindenburg barracks . The older residential development between these barracks areas with their parade grounds was partly related to the initially strong military character of this district: officers' apartments and houses of civil servants. There was also a gas works (forerunner of the municipal works), a chair factory (Schäfer, today Landestheater Tübingen ), a vinegar factory (Schweickhardt) and some other commercial facilities.

At the end of the Second World War , all military installations and a few more buildings were seized by the French garrison of occupation. During the occupation, additional military buildings, the French school and some somewhat French-looking residential buildings were built in the southern part of the city.

Only after the withdrawal of the French military did the people of Tübingen have these areas and buildings available again. In the early 1990s, under the leadership of the City Redevelopment Office and its then head Andreas Feldtkeller , an urban framework plan for southern urban development was drawn up and in 1993 the Tübingen City Council decided on a redevelopment area called the development area Stuttgarter Straße / French Quarter .

The development area includes the Loretto area in the west, the former officers' apartment blocks on Stuttgarter Strasse / B 27 and the Hindenburg area in the east. The term French Quarter in the narrower sense has meanwhile only become naturalized for the eastern part, i.e. the area of ​​the former Hindenburg barracks, probably because the supplementary new building work began here.

The Thiepval barracks in Schellingstrasse was named " Monument of the Month October 2006" by the Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation.

particularities

In the north of the southern part of the city is the well-known Tübingen State Theater . In addition, the Tübingen adult education center and the state study seminar are located in the Loretto area. The main square of the district is the Sternplatz .

literature

• Cyrus Zahiri: Between Reglement and Laissez-faire , Kassel, 2013, pp. 252–268.
• Elek Pafka: "Urbanity on the outskirts: the Tübingen Südstadtentwicklung" , in Wolfgang Christ, Martin Fladt (Ed.) Yearbook of Model Projects 2003 , Bauhaus University Weimar, 2004.
• Gudrun Theresia de Maddalena, Matthias Schuster, Andreas Feldtkeller : go south . Wasmuth-Verlag, Tübingen et al. 2005, ISBN 3-8030-0647-3 .

Web links

• Website of the university city of Tübingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive of the Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.