Schanz (Böckingen)
The Schanz is a residential area that was built in the 1960s and 1970s in the Böckingen district of Heilbronn . The residential area was created around 1970 as the largest urban development measure to date. Around 5,000 to 6,000 people live on the Schanz, more than in some districts of Heilbronn. The 16-story residential building on Güglinger Strasse, completed in 1972, was the largest residential building in the city at the time.
location
The Schanz extends in the northwest of Böckingen mainly west of Heidelberger Straße. To the east the area is bounded by Heidelberger Straße, to the north and west by the settlement boundary, to the south by Bruchsaler Straße and Straße Auf der Schanz . The Sinsheim road separates the residential area in the quarters Schanz North and Schanz South .
history
The extended hill between the historic center Böckinger the south and the north neighboring district Heilbronn Frankenbach was originally Won names Trapp height , at the hill and Schanz . The area was used for agriculture. In the 1930s the Haselter settlement was built south of the Trappenhöhe and the Ernst-Weinstein-Siedlung (today: Kreuzgrund ) to the northeast of the Trappenhöhe . In the southeast of the Schanz, the development gradually expanded from the sun well along the Schollenhalde to the Schanz.
After the Second World War , the Americans set up the POW camp PWTE C-3 on the Schanz , one of the largest such camps in southwest Germany. The camp existed until 1948, some of the remaining barracks were used as emergency shelters until 1961 and then demolished.
In order to cover the entire city's housing needs, the city of Heilbronn decided to develop the Schanz as a residential area, after the Sachsenäcker residential area in the Neckargartach district had already been developed. The development work was carried out by the construction company Neue Heimat . In the western area of the Schanz mainly four and multi-storey apartment buildings were built in a heavily green area with generous traffic areas; to the east, plots for the construction of one and two-storey single-family houses, semi-detached houses and terraced houses were parceled out.
The Schanz is the largest and most populous building area that has ever been developed in Böckingen. With around 5,000 to 6,000 inhabitants, it has the population of a small town. The 16-story skyscraper on Güglinger Strasse, completed in 1972, was the largest building in the city at the time.
By 1965, several multi-storey apartment buildings on Böcklerstrasse had already been completed, and by 1968 the high-rise buildings on Heidelberger Strasse. The entire high-rise building was completed in 1975, the land for single-family houses was essentially built up until around 1980. The next major urban development measure was the construction area in Sontheim-Ost.
The center of the residential area is Kraichgauplatz , where two grocery stores, a pharmacy and other shops have been set up to supply the residents. The Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Gymnasium Heilbronn and the Elly-Heuss-Knapp elementary and secondary school with a technical secondary school with extensive sports facilities and several kindergartens were also built on Kraichgauplatz and along Pfaffenhofener Straße by 1971/75 . One of the notable facilities on the Schanz is the state transitional residence for ethnic German repatriates in Pfaffenhofener Strasse, which once comprised two high-rise buildings and which was transferred to municipal administration in 1990 and reduced to a high-rise in 1994. In the period between 1971 and 1998, around 14,000 people passed through this dormitory. The retirement and nursing home of the Richard Drautz Foundation on Bruchsaler Straße is also of significant size, which has been expanded several times and today also includes an extension on the site of the former second temporary residence building.
Due to its infrastructure and transport links, the Schanz residential area and the neighboring Kreuzgrund settlement are more oriented towards Heilbronn city center than towards the historic center of Böckingen. When the residential area was developed, there were plans to continue Sinsheimer Strasse and Bruchsaler Strasse to the west in order to a. to create a direct connection to the B 293 , which has not yet been implemented. Many of the rental apartments in the high-rise buildings on the Schanz have meanwhile been converted into residential property. One of the once three kindergartens was closed and another multi-storey residential building was built over it.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrike Plate: Settlement Development and Cultural Monuments of the City District. In: Julius Fekete et al .: Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg Volume I.5 Stadtkreis Heilbronn. Edition Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , p. 157.
literature
- Peter Wanner (Red.): Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998, ISBN 3-928990-65-9 (Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 37).
Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ' N , 9 ° 11' E