Südstadt (Hildesheim)
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Südstadt (Hildesheim)
City of Hildesheim
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 26 " N , 9 ° 57 ′ 29" E
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| Area : | 2.06 km² |
| Residents : | 4061 |
| Population density : | 1,971 inhabitants / km² |
| Postal code : | 31134 |
| Area code : | 05121 |
The Südstadt is a district and statistical district in Hildesheim . Today it belongs to the Mitte and Neustadt districts .
location
The Südstadt connects to the Hildesheim city center to the south and extends on both sides of the “Hohnsen” street, at the southern end of which there is a bridge over the Innerste . It is separated from the historic Neustadt by Kehrwiederwall, Kehrwiedergraben and the “Goschentor” square and from the Galgenberg district further to the east by the Hildesheim – Goslar railway line . The Innerste flows west of the Südstadt. The Ernst Ehrlicher Park is also located in the west of the southern part of the city. To the south, the district is separated from the Ochtersum district by a permanent allotment garden and by the Hohnsensee.
The distance to the market square is around two kilometers, and Hildesheim main station is around three kilometers away.
The southern part of the city was laid out on sloping terrain that rises from the Hohnsenbrücke in the south and the Innerste in the west and southwest to the north to the Goschentor and to the east to the Wiesenstrasse and Sprengerstrasse.
history
In the field of the south town in the Middle Ages were the villages lots Beck and Hohnsen , the deserted villages were. The area in which the “Weinberg” road was laid out in the 19th century belonged to the Godehardikloster in the Middle Ages . Wine was grown at the nearby innermost.
When the population of Hildesheim rose sharply during the founding period , space was needed to expand the city. The area of today's Südstadt was not used immediately because of the slightly sloping location and the proximity of the innermost. Therefore, the southern city was created a little later than the eastern or western city . The short distance to the Ostbahnhof , inaugurated in 1875, proved to be an advantage. One of the first streets to be laid out was Wiesenstraße, by widening a footpath in 1873 and turning it into a street. The road from Hildesheim to Ochtersum was named "Hohnsen" in 1898, and the "Weinberg" got its name in the same year.
Because of the increased population of Hildesheim, a second hospital had to be built. A municipal hospital was founded south of the Kehrwiederwall from 1890 and expanded and expanded in the following years. An upscale residential area was built around the hospital. On May 21, 1894 the course of Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse was determined.
In addition to the hospital, other representative buildings were erected in the new district. Gustav Schwartz built the Royal Building Trade School on Hohnsen in 1900–01, which was renamed the “State Building School” in 1918 and is still used today as a technical college. At the same time, the Evangelical Citizens' School was established. In 1909 an orphanage was built in Tappenstrasse in the style of historicism and art nouveau , which is now used by the technical school for social education.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a ring road around Hildesheim was planned based on the Cologne model . Today's Struckmannstrasse was laid out as one of the first sections; it was originally called "Hohenzollernring".
The southern part of the city benefited from the establishment of the municipal tram . Since 1913, line 3 had its terminus at Marienburger Strasse and Struckmannstrasse. In 1929, the line was extended by expansion in the area of Struckmannstrasse and the terminus was moved to the corner of Wiesenstrasse and Struckmannstrasse. Line 2 also ran to Wiesenstrasse from 1929 after its route had been extended from Goslarschen Strasse via Gravelottestrasse, Ostbahnhof and Immengarten.
The Südstadt survived the Second World War almost unscathed. During the second air raid on Hildesheim on the night of 12./13. In August 1944, a house on Wiesenstrasse was destroyed and a nursery on Hohnsen opposite the confluence with Wildefüerstrasse was almost completely devastated. Several houses were damaged, mainly in the area of Wiesenstrasse and Struckmannstrasse, five of them seriously. In addition, the vineyard was hit by bombs on February 22, 1945, resulting in fatalities. In the heaviest air raid on Hildesheim on March 22, 1945, a house in Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse was destroyed, and damage was also caused to the eastern part of Renatastrasse. The other buildings in the southern part of the city, especially the hospital, were virtually undamaged.
Townscape
The Südstadt was planned and developed as a residential area, so no commercial enterprises were founded in it. It is a location for offices, law firms and practices. Shops and kiosks can only be found on Wiesenstrasse. Churches were not built in the southern part of the city, as the churches in the adjacent parts of the city - e.g. B. on the Galgenberg the Catholic Church of St. Joseph and the Protestant Paul-Gerhard-Church - are not far away. A large old people's home was built in Harlessemstrasse.
At the Weinberg and at the Hohnsen there are several villas that were built in the style of historicism or classicism . Generously sized plots of land, some of which border the innermost, are typical of the vineyard . The buildings of the former municipal hospital, some of which date from the 1890s, are listed as historical monuments. The brick buildings of the former Royal Building Trade School and the former Evangelical Civic School on Hohnsen characterize the district.
While the buildings west of the Hohnsen up to the vineyard were built using the open construction method on larger plots, the area east of the Hohnsen is characterized by a closed construction method. Multi-family houses predominate here, some of which are brick buildings from the 1890s, some of which are from the beginning of the 20th century. B. at the corner of Hohnsen Struckmannstrasse and Sprengerstrasse - bay windows, stucco ornaments, stepped gables or half-timbered gables are loosened up.
The city bus line 2 connects the southern part of the Hildesheim city center and the main railway station and with the districts Ochtersum and northern city.
There are extensive green spaces in the vicinity of the Südstadt: in the north the Kehrwiederwalles, in the south the Lönsbruch forest and a permanent allotment garden with the bathing lake Hohnsensee and in the west the Ernst-Ehrlicher-Park . At the innermost there is a network of cycling and hiking trails.