Südstadt (Heidelberg)
 district of Heidelberg |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 23 '37 " N , 8 ° 41' 9" E |
| surface | 1.73 km² |
| Residents | 4194 (2012) |
| Population density | 2424 inhabitants / km² |
| District number | 005 |
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The Heidelberg Südstadt is a relatively young district. It emerged after the Second World War from the expansion of the western city to the south and the Rohrbach district to the north and today has around 4,000 inhabitants. The Südstadt is the third smallest district of Heidelberg after Bahnstadt and Schlierbach .
Location, development
The Südstadt is divided into three areas:
- East of Rohrbacher Straße (Südstadt-Ost). Built with single-family houses and villas on the lower mountain slope.
- West of Rohrbacher Straße (Südstadt-West). Primarily built with single and smaller multi-family houses, especially in the north and along the west side of Rohrbacher Strasse, also larger 3 to 6-storey multi-family houses.
- In the west, the headquarters of Central Europe of the NATO land forces in the Campbell Barracks and the surrounding residential areas, especially for members of the US armed forces ( Mark-Twain-Village ).
The areas used by the US armed forces and NATO, including the Mark-Twain-Village, take up about a third of the southern part of the city and clearly shape it. In the area of South City is located southwest of Campbell Barracks small commercial area Bosseldorn west in the rest of the land used by the military are allotment facilities and sports facilities in the so-called "Kirchheimer hole" between several railway installations.
The southern part of the city also includes the mountain cemetery from 1842, where numerous famous Heidelberg personalities are buried. The tombs of Johann Heinrich Voss , Friedrich Ebert , Robert Bunsen and Wilhelm Furtwängler can be found in the park-like complex .
The southern part of the city is bordered by railway lines to the north and west. In the east, the border to the old town (Königstuhl district) is oriented along some hiking trails on the southwestern foothills of the Königstuhl. Since Rohrbach was incorporated into Heidelberg in 1929, the border to Rohrbach in the south has been Sickingenstrasse; before 1929 the border between Heidelberg and Rohrbach was about 200 meters north - along Saarstrasse and the Markscheide, the name of which still refers to the old border location. The Südstadt is politically represented by the District Advisory Board Weststadt / Südstadt.
history
- See also: History of Heidelberg
Before the Second World War, the area between Weststadt and Rohrbach was mainly used for agriculture. Only a few buildings were built there, such as the Bethanien Hospital in 1931, a few buildings on the mountainside east of Rohrbacher Straße and in 1937 the Großdeutschland Barracks (today the Campbell Barracks ). After 1945, new residential areas emerged in the Südstadt area, including within the scope of the 1950 escape and building plan, as well as the Mark Twain Village residential areas around the Campbell Barracks, which were taken over by the US armed forces and later expanded. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Südstadt developed into a district of its own.
The streets of the Südstadt that exist today are oriented, especially in the Südstadt-West district, to the profit limits of agricultural use prior to development.
The Mark-Twain-Village was not structurally clearly separated from the southern part of the city until 2003 by fencing and other security measures.
Infrastructure and schools
The Südstadt has no central squares or a center. The district development plan provides for the area around the Markushaus, "St. Mark's Square", to be developed into a district center. The district is developed exclusively from the north and south, it is oriented along the main traffic axes Rohrbacher Straße and Römerstraße, which both establish connections to Weststadt and Rohrbach. To the west over the Heidelberg – Karlsruhe railway line and to the east into the Königstuhl foothills, there are only a few footpaths and bicycle paths.
Most of the Südstadt is a purely residential area with only a few commercial operations. These are almost exclusively along Rohrbacher Straße and in the Bosseldorn industrial park southwest of the Campbell Barracks .
Two of the Heidelberg high schools are located in this district: the state Helmholtz high school and the state-recognized private high school English Institute . In addition, the Mark Twain Village was home to Heidelberg High School, the only high school for members of soldiers in the US armed forces in Heidelberg. This was closed in connection with the handover of the areas to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks . The Julius Springer School has been located in the former buildings since summer 2017.
The commercial vocational school Julius Springer School with buildings in the southern and western part of the city also belongs to the southern part of the city. The buildings of the Julius Springer School in the southern part of the city are also used by the Willy-Hellpach -Wirtschaftsgymnasium located in the western part of the city.
Südstadt does not have its own primary or secondary schools. Primary school students go to schools in these parts of the city, according to the old border between Rohrbach and Heidelberg, Saarstrasse and Markscheide. In the south of the southern part of the city is the private Free Montessori School Heidelberg with around 50 students.
In the southern city a lie dormitory of the student union Heidelberg and several privately funded student residences.
The US University College Europe of the University of Maryland is located in the Bosseldorn industrial park and primarily offers distance learning courses for US soldiers from here.
In the southern part of the city are the Protestant Markusgemeinde with community center, the Catholic parish of St. Michael with the church built in 1963 and the Hope Church of the Baptist Congregation built in the same year , as well as the meanwhile profaned Chapel of the Mark-Twain-Village.
The Bethanien special geriatric hospital is located in the southern part of the city .
The traffic connection in the southern part of the city
The Südstadt is well served by local public transport through the VRN with the tram lines 23 and 24 (formerly lines 3 and 4) through Rohrbacher Straße, and the bus lines 29 and 757 through Römerstraße. The southern part of the city is connected to Heidelberg's weekend night bus network with the Moonliner 1. The Weststadt / Südstadt S-Bahn station is located on the border with Weststadt .
politics
The Südtstadt district advisory board is composed as follows:
| Party / list | 2019 |
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| Green | 3 |
| SPD | 2 |
| GAL | 1 |
| The left | 1 |
| "The Heidelberg" | 1 |
| FDP | 1 |
| CDU | 1 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source: City of Heidelberg: History of the Südstadt district ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 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.
- ↑ History of the "Campbell Barracks" and the "Mark-Twain-Village" Federal Real Estate Agency
- ^ City of Heidelberg - District Advisory Board Südstadt. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
Web links
Old town |
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Emmertsgrund |
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Schlierbach |
Südstadt |
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