Sankt Georgen (Freiburg im Breisgau)
  Freiburg im Breisgau |
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| City district Freiburg (FR) Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany |
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| Basic data | |
| District of Freiburg | |
| District number: | 62 |
| Structure: | 2 districts: 621 St. Georgen North 622 St. Georgen South |
| incorporated on: | April 1, 1938 |
| Geographic location : | 47 ° 58 '52 " N , 7 ° 48' 15" E |
| Height : | 230 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 10.67 km² |
| Residents : | 12,231 (December 31, 2017) |
| Population density : | 1146 inhabitants per km² |
| Proportion of foreigners : | 12% |
| Postal code : | 79111 |
| Area code : | 0761 |
| Internet presence: | www.freiburg-stgeorgen.de |
Sankt Georgen is a district of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau . The community association Sankt Georgen im Breisgau, formed from the three village communities Uffhausen , Wendlingen and Sankt Georgen , was independent until March 31, 1938. Sankt Georgen is in the south from to Ebringen belonging Schoenberg and in the southeast of the town of Merzhausen , to the east of the new district of Freiburg, Vauban , to the northeast of the district Haslach and to the northwest by the district Rieselfeld limited. In the west of the Mooswald runs on a line between the Eugen-Keidel-Thermalbad and the Schlatthöfen, the district boundary to the Tuniberg districts of Tiengen and further north of Opfingen . In the southwest the district borders on the community of Schallstadt .
Sankt Georgen consists of the two Freiburg municipal districts 621 St. Georgen North and 622 St. Georgen South, the border of which forms the main line of the Rhine Valley Railway .
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the Verbandsgemeinde Sankt Georgen was probably awarded in the 16th century and shows Saint George slaying a dragon on the eight-pointed, red Maltese cross .
history
The first settlements in the area of the municipality can be traced back to the 8th century BC on the grounds of the later district of Uffhausen. The remains of a street and a well from Roman times date to around 50 BC. A nearby Roman homestead later formed the core of a village of Alemannic settlers. This settlement, first mentioned as Wendlingen on December 26th, 786, is considered to be the nucleus of Sankt Georgens, whose district of Uffhausen, however, only became literate in 873. Both settlements are located on Schönberg south of the highway to Basel . In 1178 a church was dedicated to St. George on this street. From 1306 a bailiff ruled the double village Wendlingen / Uffhausen, which is mentioned for the first time in 1302 under the name "Sankt Georgen". From 1390 both places are inherited from the Order of St. John . The village is mainly characterized by viticulture and timber industry.
During the Peasants' War , residents of Uffhausen took part in the siege of Freiburg in 1525. Both villages were severely damaged in the fighting because of their exposed location, the snow castle above Uffhausen was destroyed and removed in the following years. During the Thirty Years' War , Franz von Mercy stationed his imperial Bavarian troops in the area of St. Georgens in 1644. That is why the two villages were located in the middle of the fighting area during the armed conflicts around Freiburg, especially during the fighting on Schönberg . During the fighting, the population and the buildings suffered so much that there was practically no settlement at the end of the war. In the following years, Sankt Georgen was rebuilt and grew relatively slowly into one settlement area. In the 18th century, the name St. Georgen gradually gained acceptance .
As a fiefdom of the Order of St. John fell with the secularization by Napoleon Bonaparte Sankt Georgen in 1806 to the Grand Duchy of Baden . The place experienced a slight economic boom in 1859 when it was connected to the Freiburg-Schliengen railway line with a stop.
The growth of Freiburg towards the west created increasing tensions with St. Georgen. In 1890, Freiburg forcibly expropriated parts of the community forest , the Rieselfeld and private property of St. Georgen citizens in order to incorporate the land into the city. Soon afterwards the construction of the aqueduct followed, which is reminiscent of the Georgsbrunnen from 1895. Julius Seitz created it based on the model of the Georgsbrunnen in Rothenburg ob der Tauber .
The construction of a freight railway line in 1905, which cut through the Wendlingen district, aroused vigorous protests from the citizens. On the basis of the National Socialist economic planning , a little profitable iron ore mining was started on Schönberg in 1936 and the Schlageter barracks opened in 1936 in the area of today's Vauban . With their construction, Freiburg and Sankt Georgen finally grew together, whereupon the Gauleiter of Baden , Robert Wagner , ordered the affiliation of the community to the city of Freiburg in 1937. This was carried out on April 1, 1938 after an unsuccessful protest before the Baden State Court. The city of Freiburg had a large part of the Sankt Georgen forest in favor of the city treasury. After the war the barracks area was used by French troops .
Sankt Georgen, before incorporation with around 3000 inhabitants and a district area of 1620 hectares, the largest municipality in what was then the district of Freiburg, developed into a suburb of Freiburg. New residential and commercial areas were created on former agricultural land, which increased the population. In 1955, the Protestants in St. Georgen founded the Evangelical St. Luke Congregation as their own parish center on Mettweg. The mineral thermal bath was built in 1978 and named after the former mayor of Freiburg, Eugen Keidel . Further medical facilities were built in the spa district in Mooswald. The expansion of the Haid industrial park brought an economic upswing to the southwest of Freiburg. Despite its 12,000 inhabitants, at the request of the local civic associations, St. Georgen was not given a direct connection to the Freiburg tram network - the tram ends at Munzinger Strasse and, since 2006, at Innsbrucker Strasse.
St. Georgen celebrated its 1200th anniversary in 1986 with a festival week and a pageant. The organizers were the "12 Apostles" of the honorary festival committee headed by Gerolf Kniehl. On the occasion of the anniversary, the city of Freiburg had various Sankt Georgen buildings such as the festival hall (renovation) and the historic Peter and Paul Chapel restored. After a one-year renovation period, the swimming pool in der Häge was put back into operation for its 68th bathing season on June 6, 1998, after a closure was originally planned. Together with two beach volleyball playgrounds, it is one of the most popular leisure facilities in the south of Freiburg.
In September 1998, the then First Mayor, Sven von Ungern-Sternberg (CDU) and Gerdi Staiblin , the Minister of Agriculture of Baden-Württemberg, opened the first farmers' market on the church square of the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Uffhausen. This was followed a year later by the second farmers' market in the Vauban residential area . Both markets are run by the St. Georgen e. V. organized on a voluntary basis.
The Vauban district, built on the former barracks area, was spun off from St. Georgen on January 1, 2008 and has been run as a separate district ever since.
In 2010 the St. Georgen Citizens' Association celebrated its 60th anniversary.
At the end of 2012 it was announced that the city of Freiburg was considering the construction of a new district of around 160 hectares on previously agricultural land on the south-western edge of the St. Georgen development, because the population growth in the city continues and living space is becoming scarce; In order to curb the associated rise in rents and the cost of building property, new residential areas must be found in the urban area.
Infrastructure
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The business world in the old town center of Saint George has been orphaned due to the close connection to the city of Freiburg and the Haid industrial area , so that only a sub-center is still available in Blumenstrasse. Bus lines 11 and 14, tram line 3 (final stops: Innsbrucker Straße and Munzinger Straße ) and the Freiburg-St. Georgen of the Rheintalbahn guarantee a connection to the Freiburg city center in the outskirts of the place. Supermarkets as well as electrical and hardware stores have set up shop in the Haid industrial park. The federal highways 3 and 31 connect Sankt Georgen with the Freiburg city center and the federal highway 5 Karlsruhe - Basel . Since the end of 1987, they no longer run along Basler Landstrasse, but rather a bypass road.
Sankt Georgen has two primary schools, a secondary school, a grammar school and a Waldorf school . There has been an outdoor pool since 1930; After a committed demonstration of the will of the people, it was not closed, but modernized. As the only one of the districts that were incorporated into Baden-Württemberg before the regional reform (from 1968), St. Georgen has a municipal secretariat as a branch of the Freiburg Citizens' Registration Office, where simple administrative matters can be dealt with locally.
Especially to the south and west, Sankt Georgen is surrounded by forest, which can be considered a local recreation area with hiking trails. There are also vineyards on the western edge of the Schönberg, some of which are still members of the Freiburg-Sankt Georgen winegrowers' cooperative. The Freiburg-Sankt Georgen winegrowers' cooperative merged with the neighboring WG Wolfenweiler in 2006; There will also continue to be a selection of wines from the “Steinler” location. There are also some private wineries in St. Georgen. The St. Georgen wines belong to the Markgräflerland area of the Baden wine-growing region .
Life
At its core, St. Georgen still has a rural atmosphere, which is also expressed in various clubs. The cityscape is characterized by single-family houses from the time after the Second World War , while only the old town hall in Blumenstrasse and a few buildings in the old village centers are historic. At the end of the 19th century the old village church, the Romanesque Hardkirche , was torn down and replaced by a "modern", much larger church in the neo-Romanesque style . In addition to the Schönberg backdrop, the church towers of St. Peter and Paul in Uffhausen (1967–1969) and St. Georg at the southern entrance to the town and the historic Peter and Paul Chapel in the Kapellenwinkel are the landmarks of St. George .
The St. Georgen Wine Days in Breisgau have been held every mid-May since 1977. There is also an annual equestrian procession, the "Georgsritt", with a horse blessing by the local Catholic priest in memory of the patron saint Georg, who is also the city saint in Freiburg and is depicted there on the outside of the Schwabentor .
Individual evidence
- ↑ St Georgen - old parish suburb. In: Historical local dictionary. leo-bw.de, accessed on October 18, 2015 .
- ^ Rosemarie Beck, Roland Meinig: Brunnen in Freiburg , Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1991, ISBN 3-7930-0550-X , p. 109
- ↑ http://kartan.de/index.php?id=bergwerk_schoenberg Eisenerzbergbau St. Georgen / Schönberg
- ↑ Armin Scharf: Color in Architecture: Design Criteria and Examples for Housing Construction , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2002, ISBN 978-3-421-03290-4
- ^ Information from the Freiburg-St. Georgen (PDF; 80 kB) and City of Freiburg: Municipal Action Program Housing ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ St. Georgener Bote 1/17
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