Südstadt (Bonn)

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Südstadt
Federal city of Bonn
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 58 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 9477  (Dec 31, 2018)
Postcodes : 53113, 53115
Area code : 0228
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Location of the Südstadt district in the Bonn district

The southern part is a district of the federal city of Bonn in the same district with about 10,000 inhabitants. Located south of the center , the district is bounded by Regina-Pacis-Weg, Poppelsdorfer Allee, Reuterstraße, Kaiserstraße, Weberstraße and the Rhine . It is also known as the Bonn valley district , the southeastern foothills of the southern part of the district of Gronau .

Wilhelminian style houses in the southern part of the city, Venusbergweg

Together with Bonn's Weststadt , the Südstadt is often referred to as the largest contiguous (and preserved) Wilhelminian-style district in Germany . Its architects include Anton Becker , Anton Butscheidt , Max Cronenberg , Carl Edler , Hermann Schmitt and Wilhelm Weinreis . Many students and families with children live in the southern part of the city. There are also many fraternity houses . The many restaurants and pubs contribute to the quality of living and the popularity of the heavily leafy district.

Particularly noteworthy is the Catholic St. Elisabeth Church , which was built in the style of historicism as a neo-Romanesque basilica. The Evangelical equivalent is the Luther Church on Reuterstraße.

Elisabeth Church

The southern part is from the busy left Rhine line intersected what the origin of the Bonn saying "Either et räänt or de Barrier is eraff" (either raining or barrier is closed) represents to capital times was supplemented by the addition of "un when beidet zesammekütt, es Staatsbesooch ”(“ and when both coincide, it is a state visit ”).

The green spaces that characterize the district include the Poppelsdorfer Allee , the Stadtgarten and, above all, the Hofgarten , which became famous throughout Germany in the 1980s through large-scale political demonstrations.

education

In the eastern part of the southern part of the city there are some buildings of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , in particular the institutes of the law and political science faculty , the university and state library , the student union , the academic art museum and the Arithmeum . Another museum is the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Haus , the former residence of Ernst Moritz Arndt , in the southern part of the city. Today it is a branch of the Bonn City Museum .

There is a high density of grammar schools in Südstadt:

The university of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe is also located in Simrockstrasse .

barracks

The Ermekeil barracks seen from Venusberg around 1900

The Ermekeil barracks are surrounded by residential buildings in the middle of the southern part of the city . The oldest buildings of the barracks built for the Prussian army were built in the historicist style as early as 1880.

Bounded by the streets Bonner Talweg, Reuterstraße , Ermekeilstraße and Argelanderstraße , it covers a total area of ​​24,000 m². Despite this large total area, the main striking features are the large brown team building and the red staff building , a Wilhelmine building from 1904.

The Ermekeil barracks is considered the birthplace of the Bundeswehr . The barracks have not been used for military purposes since June 17, 2013. Since August 1, 2015, part of the Ermekeil barracks has been used as refugee emergency accommodation for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for at least three years and will still be active as such in 2020.

Sports

The soccer club 1. FC Südstadt-Bonn e. V. The club, which is represented by two teams in the Bonn district league, plays and trains in the district of Endenich, as there is no soccer field in the Südstadt itself.

Trivia

The popular Rhenish folk song Villa Billa by Willi Ostermann plays a. a. to a villa in the southern part of the city, but Poppelsdorf is mentioned in the lyrics . The villa was demolished in 1938.

See also

literature

  • Franz Josef Talbot (with photographs by Achim Bednorz): Bonn Südstadt . Emons Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0468-8 .
  • Gerhard Kirchlinne: The Bonn south town. One of the most magnificent Wilhelminian style quarters in Germany. 3rd edition, self-published, Bonn 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-050248-4 .
  • Birgitta Gruber: City expansion in the Rhineland: Commune, citizens and state as actors in the development process of Bonn's Südstadt 1855-1899 . Zugl .: Bonn, Univ., Diss., 2001. ISBN 3-922832-36-9 . Publications of the Bonn City Archives (volume 64), 2004 ( University Library Bonn, Bonn dissertations and habilitations online )
  • Vilma Sturm (text), Waldemar Habery (photos): Bonn town houses . University bookstore Bouvier, Bonn 1976.
  • Landeskonservator Rheinland, workbook 14: We're changing a bit of Bonn ...: Documentation about new construction plans for an insurance company in Bonn's Südstadt , Rheinland-Verlag Cologne, 1975.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population in Bonn by districts (according to the main statute) on December 31 , 2018 , Federal City of Bonn - Statistics Office, February 2019