Schillerteich

Schillerteich City of Wolfsburg Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 9 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 42 ″  E
Residents :	2324  (December 31, 2015)
Postal code :	38440
Area code :	05361
Location in Wolfsburg

Large Schillerteich with Schillerteich Center

Schillerteich is a district of Wolfsburg ( Lower Saxony ). It was named after the Great Schillerteich , which lies on the edge of the district. The residential area in the Schillerteich district is one of the first residential quarters in the new city of Wolfsburg, which was still under construction as the city ​​of the KdF car from 1938 .

history

Location of the Schillermühle around 1900

Before 1938 - the year the city was founded - the Schillermühle was located in what is now the Schillerteich district, a water mill that was expanded to include a sawmill in the 19th century. A few other houses were on the street Am Mühlengraben between Schillermühle and Heßlingen. The road from Heßlingen to Nordsteimke passed north- east of the Großer Schillerteich, while the road to Reislingen branched off north of the Schillermühle .

The Schillerteich district was one of the first districts to emerge after the City of the KdF-Wagons was founded in 1938 . From 1939 until the war-related cessation of residential construction around 1942, the streets (today different names in brackets) were Admiral-Scheer-Straße (Fichtestraße), Graf-Spee-Straße (Stresemannstraße), Hötzendorfplan (Rathenauplan), Lindengasse (Kettlerstraße), Litzmannstraße ( Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse), Prinz-Eugen-Strasse (Bebelstrasse), Rothenfelder Strasse, Suhlgarten, Teichgarten and Weddigenstrasse (Windhorststrasse). Residential houses with rental apartments were built as well as retail stores serving local supplies for the residents. A crèche was set up west of Litzmannstrasse, the local branch of the NSDAP had its seat on Weddigenstrasse.

In 1945 the American local commander of the Catholic Church made the house available to the NSDAP local group for their pastoral office. In 1946/47 the first Evangelical Lutheran church was built in the district, in the form of a barrack with a bell tower. In 1947 an outdoor pool was set up in the Großer Schillerteich, for which the city administration hired a pool attendant. In 1947/48 the Catholic kindergarten St.-Christophorus-Haus was built on Lindengasse, its entrance portal is still preserved today.

The Catholic St. Christophorus Church and the Protestant Christ Church were built in 1950/51 . In 1951 the middle school (today's Ferdinand-Porsche-Realschule) and the first construction phase of the high school (today's Ratsgymnasium ) were opened, and an emergency church for the evangelical free church community was built. In 1952 the city mission built its building, and a flower pavilion was erected on the corner of Friedrich-Ebert-Straße and Rothenfelder Straße. In 1955, the construction of the secondary school was initially completed with the opening of the auditorium . On September 3, 1955, was between the Great Schillerteich and Stresemannstrasse Porsche -Denkmal built whose by Knud Knudsen created bust was acquired in 1952 by the city of Wolfsburg. In the 1950s, further ecclesiastical institutions emerged in the vicinity of the two large churches. On the banks of the Großer Schillerteich there was a boat station for renting row boats. In 1970 the Schillermühle was sold to a construction company and its buildings were demolished in 1971; the Schillerteich Center was built in its place until 1975. In the 1970s, Lindengasse was also renamed Kettlerstraße and the City-Ring, which opened in 1976, was built. For its construction, Pestalozziallee was extended in a westerly direction to Porschestrasse and the flower pavilion was demolished. The Porsche memorial was moved to its current location at the town hall .

In 1987 the local branch of the DLRG opened its club house on the Schleusenpfad.

politics

Schillerteich, together with the neighboring districts of Hellwinkel , Stadtmitte , Heßlingen , Rothenfelde , Steimker Berg and Köhlerberg, form the town center. Detlef Conradt ( SPD ) is the local mayor .

Schillermühle / Schillerteich Center

Schillerteich Center

St. Christophorus Church and residential buildings on Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse

Christ Church

On the north side of the Großer Schillerteich was the Schillermühle, a water mill that has existed since around 1600. In 1863, its owner Günther von der Schulenburg added a sawmill to it . Also in the 19th century, houses were built for their workers, of which the semi-detached house Am Mühlengraben 5/7 is the oldest building in the Schillerteich district. The mill and sawmill belonged to the Counts von der Schulenburg , they were sold in 1970 for the construction of the Schillerteich Center and demolished in 1971. Of the three planned buildings for the Schillerteich Center, which was designed by the architects Kurt Haarstick and Axel M. Toussaint, only the first northern block, 57 meters high, was built in the 1970s.

Attractions

• Large Schillerteich with park
• Model of the Schillermühle in the restaurant of the Centro Italiano in neighboring Heßlingen . It shows the condition of the Schillermühle in 1899.
• Senior playground , built in 2012 between the Schillerteich Center and the Großer Schillerteich.

Churches

• The St. Christophorus Church ( Roman Catholic ), built in 1950/51 by Peter Koller (Antonius-Holling-Weg 21), is today the oldest and largest Catholic church in Wolfsburg. It belongs to the dean's office Wolfsburg-Helmstedt in the diocese of Hildesheim . Before that, there was an emergency church in the hall of a restaurant in the neighboring district of Heßlingen .
• The Christ Church ( Evangelical Lutheran ), built in 1950/51 by Gerhard Langmaack (An der Christuskirche 4), is the first massive church building of the Evangelical Church that was built after Wolfsburg was founded. Its inauguration took place on September 30, 1951, and today it belongs to the Wolfsburg parish in the Hanover regional church . Before that there was a barrack church built in the winter of 1946/47 south of today's Pestalozziallee, today the Ratsgymnasium is located there.
• The Wolfsburg City Mission was founded in 1947 and is an independent community in the Evangelical Lutheran church district of Wolfsburg-Wittingen. The building of the city mission (Mühlenpfad 2) was built in 1952 and was inaugurated on December 7, 1952. In 1975 it was extended for the first time, this extension has since been demolished again. In 2004/05 the building was given its present form by Gustav Kannwischer .
• The Evangelical Free Church of Wolfsburg ( Baptists ) built an emergency church in 1951 on Bebelstrasse (roughly on the east side of today's art museum). Before that, the church services of the community founded in 1950 took place in a school barracks on Heinrich-Heine-Straße. In 1961, today's church, the Erlöserkirche , was inaugurated in the Wohltberg district . The emergency church also temporarily served the Wolfsburg Seventh-day Adventist Community for their worship meetings. The emergency church has since been torn down.

Art in the cityscape

• Werden und Vergehen (1991) by Wolf Bröll (Göttingen), on the Rathenauplan
• Play sculpture (1979) by Jochen Kramer (Wolfsburg), at the Großer Schillerteich

literature

• Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. A chronicle. 1938-1948 . Wolfsburg 1974.
• City of Wolfsburg (ed.): Wolfsburg 1938-1988 . Wolfsburg 1988.
• Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. Building a city. 1948-1968. Wolfsburg, undated (around 1976).
• Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. 1st edition 2011. ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 . Pp. 46, 47, 48, 57, 60, 125.
• City of Wolfsburg, Institute for Museums and City History (Ed.): Wolfsburg Castle, History and Culture. Wolfsburg 2002. (pp. 150–158 on Schillermühle)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Wolfsburg (ed.): Wolfsburg 1938–1988. Wolfsburg 1988, p. 63.
2. ↑ Alex Koschel: Porsche City Wolfsburg. In: Seniors Journal Wolfsburg. Issue 2/2020, p. 8.
3. ↑ http://www.wolfsburger-nachrichten.de/lokales/Wolfsburg/dlrg-neue-lösungen-schwimmen-id295873.html
4. ↑ Main statute of the city of Wolfsburg of November 2, 2016 (PDF) (for localities and local councils see § 9 of the main statute)
5. ^ Historical and regional excursion map of Lower Saxony, sheet Wolfsburg. Erhard Kühlhorn, Hildesheim 1977, ISBN 3-7848-3626-7 , explanatory booklet p. 156.
6. ↑ Stephanie Giesecke: Old walls with ghost and high-rise view. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of May 12, 2016, p. 10.
7. ^ Debate about an idea for a generation playground. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of February 1, 2018.