Schuir

Schuir district of Essen
Basic data
surface	6.72  km²
Residents	1488 (March 31, 2020)
Coordinates	51 ° 23 '17 "  N , 6 ° 57' 49"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '17 "  N , 6 ° 57' 49"  E
height	106  m
Incorporation	Apr 1, 1915
Spatial assignment
Post Code	45133, 45239
District number	27
district	District IX Werden / Kettwig / Bredeney
image
The view over Schuir towards Werden
Source: City of Essen statistics

The Essen district of Schuir [ ʃyːɐ ] in the district of IX Werden / Kettwig / Bredeney is predominantly agricultural and the most populous district of Essen. Most of the residents live right on the border with Essen-Bredeney in the only housing estate in Schuir. Schuir is located north of the Ruhr between the districts of Haarzopf in the north-west, Bredeney in the north-east, Werden in the south-east and Kettwig in the south-west.

character

Former monastery (mother house) of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Elisabeth

In Schuir agriculture and loose housing predominate. However, some companies are also based. The Karstadt headquarters, inaugurated in 1969, is located in Schuir, which until then was located on Limbecker Platz in the western extension of the Karstadt department store (formerly Althoff). The first construction phase of the Karstadt headquarters on Theodor-Althoff-Strasse was placed under monument protection on February 2, 2017. In addition, an office of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection NRW (LANUV) and the Essen Weather Office are located in Schuir.

In addition, the former mother house (monastery) of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Elizabeth is located in Schuir . The order, founded in 1843, opened the first Essen hospital in the Capuchin monastery in Essen . The Elisabeth Hospital as the direct successor has been in Essen-Huttrop since 1912 . In 2016 the order moved to the Emmaus Monastery in Schönebeck . As a result, the monastery in Shuir was converted into accommodation for around 500 refugees.

Some minor planets have already been discovered by the Walter Hohmann Observatory , which was founded in 1969 and partly located in the building of the former Catholic Schuirer School. An ostrich farm is operated on the Dreiseitenhof built in 1800, today's Rutherhof. Almost a dozen riding stables have been set up in the rural areas. In the north of Schuir (Wallneyer Straße 10), the new radar tower of the German Weather Service has been standing since 2010 , one of 17 radar towers of the Weather Service in Germany.

In terms of traffic, Schuir is mainly developed through the A 52 on the north-western border of Schuir, which offers direct access to the Essen-Kettwig junction in Schuir . The Meisenburgstrasse runs parallel to the A 52, which connects Bredeney with Kettwig via Schuir; the second important road for the district is the Schuirweg, which leads from Meisenburgstrasse to the Ruhr valley to Werden. Local public transport connections are provided by lines 142 (during the day) and NE13 (at night) of the Ruhrbahn , which run over Meisenburgstrasse.

population

As of March 31, 2020, 1,488 residents lived in Shuir.

Structural data of the population in Schuir (as of March 31, 2020):

• Share of the population under 18-year-olds: 17.2% (Essen average: 16.2%)
• Population of at least 65-year-olds: 23.6% (Essen average: 21.5%)
• Proportion of foreigners: 11.7% (Essen average: 16.9%)

history

prehistory

Finds show that people have settled here since the Stone Age. Schuir was first mentioned as Wallney around 800 AD . The origin of the name Wallney, also Walleney, probably referred to a round, wavy meadow. The name Schuir probably originated from the Scheuer, the protective roof. The term ten Schuiren occurs to the chafers , Schuren. In addition, a knight Evert von Schuren was mentioned in 1296. Opposite the listed Schuir house on today's Schuirweg, there were still ruins of the old castle up until the beginning of the 19th century, which the abbot of Werden, Heinrich VI. Dücker (1646–1667), half acquired. Schuir belonged to Werden Abbey and served the monks as a summer residence. The last execution took place in 1768 on the gallows hill, near the meteorological office.

Territories

Until the secularization of 1803 due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the Schuir farmsteads belonged to the Reichsabbey of Werden . In 1830, according to a Prussian description of the country, Schuir had 360 inhabitants. The community of Schuir, which had existed since April 3, 1875, was separated from the rural mayor's office of Kettwig on September 1, 1902, together with Bredeney, and declared its own mayor's office. Until the incorporation, these monies were administered by the town hall in Bredeney. On April 1, 1915, Schuir was incorporated into the city of Essen.

Second World War

Shortly before the end of the Second World War , on April 9, 1945, the Allies mistakenly mistaken a group of around 3,000 forced laborers on Schuirweg for a unit of the Wehrmacht. As a result, they bombed the group, killing more than 40 people and injuring others. The sisters of the nearby monastery were involved in the rescue. Up to now only one person could be named of the dead. He was identified by him after more than 60 years of searching for his son. The victims were buried in the southwest cemetery in Fulerum . In 2007 a memorial stone was erected at the site of the event.

Schuirer schools

In 1676 the Protestant school at An der Pierburg was mentioned for the first time as a rear and angle school. Before that, the children had to take the long journey to Kettwig. In 1968 the school was closed.

The founding of the old Catholic Schuirer School on Est on Wallneyer Strasse dates back to 1750. Parts of the school building that still exists today date back to 1830. The farmers from the area turned to the abbot of Werden, who should help them to build a school for their children. They used to have a long way to school to Werden. The abbot provided the building materials and the farmers provided the labor for building the school. Up to about 180 children attended this two-class school, which was closed in 1939, then served as a residential building and today houses the rooms of the Walter Hohmann Observatory.

coat of arms

Schuir coat of arms

Blazon : "Split and divided twice into black and silver (white)."

The coat of arms was designed by Kurt Schweder and never had an official character. At the end of the 1980s, the heraldist created coats of arms for all of Essen's districts. They have meanwhile been well received by the Essen population. The coat of arms of Schuir is that of the Lords of Schuir.

politics

From 1946 to 1975 the wholesale merchant Hans Toussaint (CDU) represented the municipal electoral district 40, which Bredeney forms together with Fischlaken and Schuir, in the city council of Essen. Toussaint served as Lord Mayor of Essen from 1949 to 1956. From 1975 to 1999 the lawyer and notary Wolfgang Reiniger (CDU) won this electoral district. Reiniger was elected Lord Mayor of Essen in 1999 and was re-elected in 2004. In the local elections in 2004 and 2009, the lawyer Matthias Hauer (CDU) in local electoral district 40 was elected to the city council of Essen; the highest CDU result in the city was achieved in each case.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Shuir
• List of streets in Essen-Schuir

Web links

Commons : Essen-Schuir  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Brief portrait of the district on essen.de  ( page no longer available )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Derwesten.de from June 27, 2016: Karstadt headquarters remains: Essen cheers with employees ; accessed on June 28, 2016
2. ↑ WDR: Local Time Ruhr from August 8, 2016
3. ↑ Fabian Pasalk: 111 places in Essen that you have to see . Emons Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-95451-924-8 , pp. 158–159.
4. ^ Deutscher Wetterdienst: Measuring instruments in meteorology: Weather radar in Germany , accessed on November 6, 2018.
5. ^ Ruhrbahn
6. ↑ Population figures of the districts
7. ↑ Proportion of the population under 18 years of age
8. ↑ Proportion of the population aged 65 and over
9. ↑ Proportion of foreigners in the city districts
10. ^ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces . Nicolai, Berlin 1830, p. 453.
11. ↑ Wulf Mämel: The "Schuirschen" hang on their green clod . In: WAZ, issue of July 13, 2005, Essen local section.
12. ↑ Memorial plaque on site
13. ↑ See Johann Rainer Busch: Kurt Schweders Wappen der Essener Stadtteile , Essen 2009, p. 110.