Sennestadt

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Coat of arms of Sennestadt
Bielefeld coat of arms
Sennestadt
District of Bielefeld
Location of Sennestadt in Bielefeld
Coordinates 51 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  E.
height 149  m above sea level NN
surface 24.7 km²
Residents 21,976 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 890 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Jan. 1, 1973
Post Code 33689 (previously (1973–1993) 4800 Bielefeld 11, previously (1961–1965) 4816 Senne II; from 1965 4816 Sennestadt)
prefix 05205

Administration address		 Lindemann-Platz 3
33689 Bielefeld
Website Sennestadt district
structure

Sennestadt, Dalbke , Eckardtsheim , Heideblümchen

politics
District Mayor Lars Nockemann ( SPD )
Allocation of seats (district representation)
SPD CDU Green BfB left
6th 6th 1 1 1
Transport links
Highway A2 A33
Federal road L756 (formerly B68)
railroad Senne train
bus 30, 37, 39, 46, 47, 81, 82, 135, 237, 238

The urban district of Sennestadt in the southeast of the independent city of Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia has around 22,000 inhabitants and is noticeable for its urban development.

The large housing estate Sennestadt was built from 1956 to around 1965 in the heather and meadow landscape of the former municipality of Senne II as a planned town based on the designs of city planner Hans Bernhard Reichow , primarily for displaced persons and refugees. At that time, conceived as a car-friendly city , the concept of an "organic urban architecture", which had been criticized in the meantime, became topical again. Nevertheless, the concept of the Sennestadt is considered obsolete in some points.

geography

Geographical location

Sennestadt is located on the northern edge of the Senne . The city district is bounded in the north by the main ridge of the Teutoburg Forest and in the west by Autobahn 2 . The Menkhauser Bach forms a natural border with the Lippe district in the east . The border between the County of Ravensberg and the Principality of Lippe ran here as early as the Middle Ages . Other streams such as the Dalke , the Strothbach , the Sprungbach and the Hasselbach drain the area following the natural gradient in a south-westerly direction towards the Ems . The landscape is partly characterized by sand dunes. Since the 19th century, the wooded forest areas of Sennestadt have increasingly been designated as protection zones for drinking water.

Expansion of the city district

The westernmost and easternmost points of the Sennestadt urban district are about nine kilometers apart as the crow flies. The largest extension at right angles to this line is about four kilometers. The highest point is on the hilltop Auf dem Polle at 320  m above sea level. NN .

Neighboring places

The A 2 forms the border with the Senne district and the main ridge of the Teutoburg Forest forms the border with the Lämershagen-Graefinghagen district of Stieghorst . In the south, the district of Gütersloh with the city of Verl and the district of Schloß Holte borders the town of Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock . On the other side of the border with the Lippe district in the east lies the Oerlinghausen district of Lipperzeile .

The place where Bielefeld and the districts of Gütersloh and Lippe meet today used to be a so-called four-country corner. Historical boundary stones still remind us today that the Grafschaft Ravensberg , the Grafschaft (later Principality) Lippe , the Hochstift Paderborn and the Grafschaft Rietberg bordered one another.

Structure of the city district

The core of the city district is the actual "Sennestadt" designed by Reichow. There are also the districts Dalbke , Heideblümchen and Eckardtsheim .

climate

Climate diagram: Average rainfall in Sennestadt (blue line) and the NRW average (white line) 1961–1990

The urban district of Sennestadt is located in the moderate climate zone of Central Europe. Due to the influence of the Atlantic maritime climate , the winters are usually mild and the summers moderately warm. All year round there is a humid climate with relatively evenly distributed rainfall. Overall, the long-term mean at the Sennestadt station is 901 mm of precipitation per year, significantly more than the German mean (700 mm).

→ See also: Climate in Ostwestfalen-Lippe

history

Heepen-Senne

The area of ​​today's city district was originally called Heepen-Senne (also Heepensenne or Heeper Senne ) and belonged to the County of Ravensberg , which fell to the County of Berg in 1346 (from 1423 Jülich-Berg ). With this the area came with the Jülich-Klevischen succession dispute in 1609 provisionally and as a result of the Thirty Years War in 1647 finally to Brandenburg . In 1719 the County of Ravensberg was merged with the Principality of Minden to form the Minden-Ravensberg administrative unit with its headquarters in Minden . In Minden-Ravensberg Heepen-Senne belonged to the Heepen office .

Heepen-Senne was a typical, scattered Ravensberg settlement with no actual village center. Most of the churches in Heepen-Senne belonged to the evangelical parish of Oerlinghausen, although Oerlinghausen itself has always belonged to the Principality of Lippe .

When Prussia had to cede all areas on the left Elbe in 1807 , the Heepen office became the Heepen canton , which now belonged to the Bielefeld district in the Weser department of the Kingdom of Westphalia . To simplify administration, Heepen-Senne, which was separated from the rest of the canton of Heepen by the Teutoburg Forest, was reclassified to the canton of Brackwede by decree of the King of Westphalia in 1812 .

Senne II

After the end of the French era , Minden-Ravensberg fell back to Prussia in 1813. Heepen-Senne remained under the administration of Brackwede. Since a Senne farming community already existed in the old bailiwick of Brackwede, the Brackweder Senne was now called Senne I and Heepen-Senne Senne II . Within the province of Westphalia , Senne II now belonged to the administrative district of Minden and from 1816 to the newly formed district of Bielefeld .

The industrial age arrived in Senne II with a paper factory that Friedrich Ludwig Tenge had built in 1832 on Menkebach. In 1884, the Schilling ironworks was founded and the Tellenbröker sawmill was founded in 1903. In 1940 the Tweer foundry moved to Senne II. Since 1901, Senne II was also connected to the German railway network through the Kracks station on the Bielefeld – Paderborn line.

Senne II belonged to the parish of Oerlinghausen until 1855, then to the parish of Ubbedissen, and in 1882 it finally became an independent parish.

Test- tube town Sennestadt

Sennestadt in 1961
Sennestadt in 1961

On February 15, 1956, the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe , the district of Bielefeld and the municipality of Senne II founded Sennestadt GmbH in order to realize the award-winning plans of the architect and town planner Hans Bernhard Reichow . The aim was to build a new large housing estate “on the green field”, especially for refugees and displaced persons. Reichow's ideas and design were based on an “organic urban architecture” that he propagated. A form of urban development derived from the laws of nature, which strived for a relaxed, green and humane city. The urban landscape is developed from the geographic and topographical conditions of the landscape area - in the case of the Sennestadt from the landscape protection area of ​​the Bullerbach Valley and a gravel pit dug for the nearby motorway construction in the north of the planning area. Reichow used the Teutoburg Forest as the landscape background. Sennestadt GmbH took over the necessary acquisition of around 400 hectares of land, provided the financial means, developed the land and sold it to investors and those willing to build. The first apartments were occupied in 1958 and by the mid-1960s the new large housing estate was essentially complete. Reichow's urban planning concept included the rejection of road junctions in favor of oblique T-junctions, which should favor the main traffic directions. Without regulation by traffic signs, the respective continuous street (the bar of the T) should actually have Vohrfahrt. Instead, “right before left” was the rule throughout the city for a few years. Later, however, the main roads in Sennestadt were signposted as normal priority roads .

City of Sennestadt

With a certificate dated April 27, 1965, the municipality “Senne II” belonging to the Brackwede district became the town of Sennestadt. The renaming became official on May 14, 1965. With the law on the reorganization of the Wiedenbrück district and parts of the Bielefeld district , the communal conditions in the Sennestadt area were reorganized on January 1, 1970. Sennestadt became vacant and the legal successor to the dissolved office of Brackwede. At the same time, the area of ​​the Wilhelmsdorf colony directly bordering on Eckardtsheim was reassembled from the municipality of Sende, which belongs to the district of Wiedenbrück, to Sennestadt.

As part of the municipal reorganization of the Bielefeld area , Sennestadt was incorporated into Bielefeld on January 1, 1973. There was considerable resistance in Sennestadt to the incorporation. The legal objections up to the constitutional court against the territorial reform laid down in the Bielefeld law were unsuccessful.

Sennestadt district

In the enlarged city of Bielefeld, the Sennestadt district was established, consisting of

  • the area of ​​the city of Sennestadt without the areas west of Autobahn 2
  • the areas of Senne I that were east of Autobahn 2
  • the parts of Lämershagen-Graefinghagen , which lay south of the main ridge of the Teutoburg Forest.

The city of Bielefeld has been the sole shareholder of Sennestadt GmbH since 1973.

Population development

Population development of Sennestadt from 1812 to 2015 according to the table below
year Residents source
1812 858
1843 1,129
1864 1,026
1885 963
1910 1,597
1925 1,823
1939 2,521
1946 4.032
1961 14,413
1966 18,245
1970 20,187
1972 22,074
2010 20,929
2013 21,020
2015 21,237
2019 21,976

Urban planning, transport and architecture

Following his idea of ​​an "organic urban architecture" and an "organic urban landscape", the planner and architect Reichow used the specifications of the landscape - the Bullerbachtal, which is under nature protection, and a gravel pit created during the construction of the motorway - to divide the new city with a "Green Cross" To divide parts: the south city, the west city and the east city. Sports fields were created on the site of the gravel pit, and a city park in the Bullerbachtal. Reichow's claim to holistically encompass all areas of life in a city ​​model was based on social reform and life reform ideas of urban planning at the beginning of the 20th century. The buildings should be based on the rhythms and behavior of their residents. The planners also understood urban landscape to be a cityscape that neither closed off from the outside like the medieval city nor expanded into the surrounding landscape like modern cities.

According to Reichow's plans, the road network should remain largely free of intersections and correspond to the branches of a leaf. That is why the streets were laid out as arcs, each of which joins the higher-level street in a slight curve. For safety reasons, the footpath network should remain completely separate from the driveways. Reichow intended to regulate the right of way intuitively through the architecture of the streets and not through signs, traffic lights or right-to-left schemes. The locations of the town hall (or Sennestadthaus), schools, churches, sports fields and main shopping areas should create assignments and make orientation easier for residents. At the same time, the rank of these facilities was particularly emphasized by architecture and location.

When laying out the residential buildings, Reichow dispensed with a rigid line plan. Instead, he brought the houses into a "lively movement and loosening up". They also deliberately differ in height and shape in order to create a lively building area. The design of the living spaces should do justice to the then new rhythm of life, more free time and the comfort requirements of the residents. Most of the apartments in Sennestadt are designed so that the main living room, the balcony and at least one children's room have afternoon sun so that the residents can enjoy the sun in their free time. According to Reichow, the rooms are “fluctuating between pure south or pure west facing, i.e. 90 degrees.” In keeping with the human sense of distance and privacy, double balconies were avoided.

In order to make the city attractive, Reichow and the local politicians made sure that “art in architecture” was included in the construction of the Sennestadt. Originally planned as the town hall, the Sennestadthaus was built in 1971–1975 as a nine-storey high-rise on a peninsula in the dammed Sennstadtteich and, according to Reichow's plans, together with the central square in front of it (today Reichowplatz) and the surrounding supply buildings, should represent the representative »city crown«. The incorporation of Sennestadt into Bielefeld in 1973 meant that it never became the town hall, but only the seat of a district office and a cultural center with an event and concert hall.

When Hans Bernhard Reichow died in 1974, a journalist also paid tribute to the cultural and historical role of the Sennestadt:

This city, which brought him worldwide success and which was celebrated by thousands from all over the world as a model example of German urban planning, was particularly dear to his heart ... In Sennestadt, the urban planner was able ... to realize his ideas of a "car-friendly city". He also succeeded in combining living spaces and industrial locations. For Reichow, it was ... not about creating a dormitory city at the gates of Bielefeld. Sennestadt should become a lively city. He managed that too ...
Bullerbach green corridor with Jesus Christ Church

Environmental aspects

From the beginning, environmental aspects played an important role in the planning of the Sennestadt. The »green cross« from Bullerbachtal and west-east green corridor should not only preserve the landscape within the city, but also guarantee the exchange of air and create attractive footpaths to the churches, schools and sports facilities. The greening of the residential streets also serves to protect against noise. Since the shape and arrangement of the houses take up the shape of the terrain, they create, together with the views of the Teutoburg Forest, varied green courtyards between the streets.

For the settlement of businesses on the outskirts of the Sennestadt, Reichow developed a "distance table" which, depending on the type and size of the business, was intended to protect living areas from noise, dust and exhaust gases.

When planning the shopping areas, the aim was to enable both the approach by car and convenient shopping on foot.

Skyscraper in the upper Elbeallee
Row of shops in the lower Elbeallee
Pavilion on the Sennestadtring
City model of the Sennestadt in the basement of the district library

Sennestadt as the »historical city center«

The Sennestadt was classified by the Association of State Monument Preservators in 2010 as a "historic town center with special monument significance":

In the context of the project, the term »historical town center«, following the terminology of UNTERMANN (2004), means historical founding cities. This includes ... also early modern and modern founding cities such as Bad Karlshafen, which was built in 1710, through to Eisenhüttenstadt (Brandenburg), which was laid out in 1953–57 , the first city to be founded in the former GDR. In the meantime, the historic city center can have opened up as a district in a large city, as is the case, for example, in Berlin-Spandau or the Sennestadt.
An important city center of the 1950s is Bielefeld-Sennestadt as a prime example of organic urban development according to HB Reichow's ideas.

Both the overall planning and a number of the buildings created by Reichow and others, such as the Jesus Christ Church, the Thomas More Church, the House of Health, the Ostallee storefront (= lower Elbeallee), the GAGFAH apartment building, the The auditorium of the Oststadtschule (= Adolf-Reichwein-Schule), the Kreissparkasse (= Sparkasse), a high-rise in Ostallee (= Elbeallee) and several factory buildings are listed with historical photos in the archINFORM international architecture database . In 2007, the regional associations of Rhineland and Westphalia-Lippe presented a list of »significant and state-relevant cultural landscape areas«. In the cultural landscape area 7.01 "Senne with adjacent Teutoburg Forest", the Sennestadt is highlighted among a few other examples - as "one of the few new urban establishments in Westphalia-Lippe with a complete infrastructure after the Second World War". It gives "a good example of typical ideas about architecture and urban development that was discussed not only in Germany at the time."

A similar settlement designed by Reichow, the West Park Residential Complex in Nuremberg-Sündersbühl , built between 1962 and 1966 , was placed under monument protection in 2005 by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ensemble protection).

At the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, a model of the Sennestadt was on display - as a prime example of the accommodation for refugees and displaced persons in the years 1946–1956.

Religions

The Evangelical parish Sennestadt belongs with two preaching sites to the Gütersloh parish of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . The largest of these is the architecturally interesting Jesus Christ Church, located in the geographic center of the Sennestadt, which was inaugurated in 1966. The architect of the church was Dieter Oesterlen . Close to the former B 68 is the remarkable Kreuzkirche, built in 1894.

The two Catholic parishes Sankt Thomas More and Sankt Kunigunde belong to the Dean's Office Bielefeld-Lippe of the Archdiocese of Paderborn . Together with the parishes from the Brackwede and Senne districts, they have formed the Catholic parish of St. Elisabeth Bielefeld since January 1, 2014 , after they were previously organized as a pastoral association.

There is also an Evangelical Free Church ( Baptists ) and a New Apostolic Church in Sennestadt . A Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall , which was built there in 1986, is located on Dunlop Street . Previously, a rented hall on the B 68 was used, which over time could no longer accommodate the growing community. The Beyazit Mosque is also located on Elbeallee.

Evangelical community in the Eckardtsheim district

The community does not belong to the evangelical parish of Sennestadt, but is part of the Zion community belonging to the von Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel. She is also not a member of the Gütersloh parish, but of the Bielefeld parish.

The Russian Orthodox community in Sennestadt

The first Russian Orthodox church services were held in Sennestadt as early as 1958 . The congregation, which belonged to the Russian exile church , was very small and consisted primarily of former prisoners of war from the Second World War who settled in the newly built Beckhofsiedlung (named after the Neusiedlerhof Alter Beckhof ). The services mostly took place in the dining room of the old people's home.

Beckhof Church

In 1962 the construction of a church began, which was carried out by a Swedish company. The building, subsidized by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Culture and the Catholic and Protestant Church, was inaugurated on September 14, 1962 for the Orthodox Exaltation of the Cross. The guests included local politicians, representatives of the Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox , Protestant and Catholic Churches. The church called Beckhofkirche in the area bears the official name Russian Orthodox Transfiguration Church Bielefeld-Sennestadt . It was occasionally used by the Serbian Orthodox parish. The services were celebrated every first Sunday of the month and on Orthodox holidays.

In the 1980s and 1990s - due to the influx of ethnic repatriates - the Russian Orthodox community grew strongly. They were mostly of the Protestant denomination, but a considerable minority belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church. In September 2000 a church Sunday school for children and a library was opened, and a little later a cemetery. In December 2008 the community bought the property with the old supply center on Beckhofstrasse, which they converted into a church. Services have been held there every Saturday evening, Sunday morning and on Orthodox holidays since April 2009. Not only will church services take place in the supply center, but the Sunday school, the library, the common room, the dining room with kitchen (previously in the Protestant parish hall) and the priest's private apartment will also be housed there. The parish belongs to the Russian Orthodox Diocese of the Orthodox Bishop of Berlin and Germany . The diocese belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad , whose head is Metropolitan Ilareon, based in New York (USA).

At the beginning of February 2020, the Russian Orthodox Church received gold-plated domes.

  • The Beckhof Church

  • Icon painting at the entrance to the Beckhof Church

  • Memorial plaque in the garden of the Beckhof Church

  • The new Russian Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration in the Beckhofsiedlung (March 2020)

politics

The coat of arms of Sennestadt

The Sennestadt district council has 15 seats, which have been made up as follows since the local elections on May 25, 2014:

Parties / voter communities be right Seats
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 39.1% 6th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 35.1% 6th
Green Alliance 90 / The Greens 9.16% 1
BfB Citizens' community for Bielefeld 8.06% 1
FDP Free Democratic Party 2.27% 0
The left The left 6.40% 1
total 100% 15th

District Mayor is Lars Nockemann ( SPD ) and Deputy District Mayor is Holger Nolte ( CDU ).

The mayors, district heads and district mayors of Sennestadt since the city charter was granted in 1965:

  • 1965–1979: Hans Vogt (SPD)
  • 1979–1991: Horst Thermann (SPD)
  • 1991–1999: Elke Klemens (SPD)
  • 1999-2004: Peter van Hekeren (CDU)
  • 2004–2007: Karl Wolff (CDU)
  • 2007-2014: Elke Klemens (SPD)
  • since 2014: Lars Nockemann (SPD)

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under the red Ravensberger rafters on a red three-mountain, which is covered with two silver roses (for Senne II) with golden clusters and green sepals, three natural-colored trees."

In the coat of arms, the heathland of the Senne and the Teutoburg Forest are shown.

Culture and sights

archeology

In 2017, the remains of a Roman camp presumably 2000 years old were discovered in a forest area near Sennestadt . In 2019 the find was announced to the public .

Buildings

Kreuzkirche, built in 1894
Sennestadthaus
Jesus Christ Church
St. Thomas More Church

Main article: List of architectural monuments in the Bielefeld-Sennestadt urban district

Kreuzkirche

The landmark from the old days is the Kreuzkirche from 1894, which stands in particular contrast to the Sennestadthaus , which is only about 200 m away , the modern landmark of the city district.

Sennestadthaus

The Sennestadthaus was planned in 1969 as the town hall and "city crown" of the then independent city of Sennestadt and inaugurated in 1975. Instead of the mayor and city administration, the district administration office, the adult education center, the youth art and music school, a technical college and the Sennestadt GmbH moved in . The house, which was initially controversial, became primarily the civic center of the Sennestadt. Particularly noticeable is the porch with the concert hall, which is supported by columns standing in the water and the sculpture "Cosmic Room Element" by the sculptor Bernhard Heiliger on the outer facade. In January and February 2007, the Sennestadt GmbH had the facade of the Sennestadthaus, which was previously characterized by long balconies with concrete parapets, redesigned as a climate-friendly glass facade.

Jesus Christ Church

The Protestant Jesus Christ Church was designed by Dieter Oesterlen in 1961 and inaugurated in 1966. Its roof is reminiscent of a tent, the floor of a clay floor. The windows open directly into nature. This design symbolizes the nomadism of the wandering people of Israel .

Thomas More Church

The Catholic Thomas Morus Church was built in 1960/61. The 380 window panes, altar cross, tabernacle and stations of the cross were designed by Sister Erentrud Trost . In 2018, the church was placed under a preservation order and renovated in accordance with the preservation order.

Cultural monuments

Killing stones

One of the oldest cultural monuments in the Senne are the two so-called Mordsteine , which have stood in the area of ​​today's Senne city since 1660. You can find it today in a small wooded area off the road between the Frieda-Nadig-Haus nursing home and the sports field.

Art in public space

As part of the exhibition series “Sculpture currently I, II, III, IV” from 1983 to 2004, Sennestadt GmbH and Sennestadtverein eV acquired numerous sculptures that still shape the cityscape today. With “On site. Kunstprojekt Sennestadt ”from May to October 2014 under the artistic direction of Thomas Thiel, director of the Bielefelder Kunstverein, this series will be continued. On behalf of the Sennestadt district, the Sennestadtverein eV invited the artists David Adamo, Awst & Walther, Michael Beutler, Andreas Bunte, Christian Falsnaes, Manfred Pernice, Arne Schmitt and Kateřina Šedá. In works, sculptures and interventions in public space specially developed for this project, the artists deal with the history and the current situation of the site, its urban development process, which has been going on for decades, as well as social change. As part of a Sennestadt urban redevelopment project that has been running since 2008, the further development of Reichow's original concept plays an important role. “On site” marks a preliminary status quo of this redesign.

Regular events

WISA (1967-2007)

From 1967 to 2007, mostly from the end of April to the beginning of May, the so-called WISA ( acronym for “Wirtschaftsschau”) was organized by “Messe Bielefeld GmbH” . The event location in the Dalbke district, the WISA site, is named after this fair. The first WISA took place in 1967, back then in the city center. In the 1970s, the event aroused considerable interest with almost half a million visitors. In the last few years of WISA, only a fraction of the number of visitors at that time was achieved, so WISA was discontinued in 2007.

Fun run (1967-1993)

The Sennestädter Volkslauf took place once a year from 1967 to 1993 ; The organizer was the Bielefeld Police Sports Club. In the 1970s, the Sennestädter Volkslauf was one of the largest funfair events in Westphalia. Among other things, due to the growing popularity of the Hermannslauf , which still runs across the Sennestädter area, the field of participants has been reduced considerably; therefore the run was stopped in 1993. Since then there have been several attempts to revive the running event, but have so far been unsuccessful.

Throughout Sennestadt to find sculptures of different artists, like here on the Reichowplatz the sculpture "In the clearing" by Tony Cragg in 1997

sculpture current

Sculpture "Großer Minotauros " by Richard Hess from 1982 on Sennestadtring

So far four times - in the years 1982, 1985, 1989 and at the turn of the year 2001/2002 - the exhibition "skulptur aktuell" has been carried out, in which sculptures , statues and sculptures by important sculptors were mainly presented in the public space of Sennestadt . The last exhibition took place in cooperation with the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy . Due to municipal funds and sponsors , some of the exhibits could remain in Sennestadt, so that there is now a relatively large number of sculptures in the cityscape.

Infrastructure and economy

traffic

air traffic

Less than four kilometers from the Sennestadthaus, in the Senne district , the former municipality of Senne I, is the Bielefeld airfield . A large motor and glider airfield is located in Oerlinghausen.

Rail and bus transport

The Bielefeld-Sennestadt train station is on the Senne-Bahn ( KBS 403 ) Bielefeld - Schloß Holte - Paderborn . Until 1966 it was named "Bahnhof Kracks" after the farm owner Johann Kracks, on whose grounds the station was built, and is still often called "Krackser Bahnhof" today. The ailing station building has only housed a bicycle parking garage in recent years and was demolished in December 2016 for economic reasons. The route is served by regional train 74 . The operator of local rail passenger transport is the NordWestBahn . Diesel railcars of the Bombardier Talent type are used .

In local road transport , the city ​​bus line 135 connects to the Bielefeld city railway at the Senne terminus (every 10 minutes, every 15 minutes in the evening). Every 30 or 60 minutes, bus line 30 runs from Schloss Holte via the Sennestadt district of Heideblümchen via the central Sennestadthaus stop to Hillegossen , Heepen , Baumheide to Brake , and bus line 39 from Sennestadt station to Dalbke , Lipperzeile , Oerlinghausen . The ring line 37 serves the Eckardtsheim district and a short walk to the Sennestadt train station. The western industrial area is served Monday to Friday with 2 journeys in each direction by line 235. The regional bus route 82 runs to Stukenbrock . There is no longer a continuous bus connection to Paderborn.

The Westphalian tariff and the NRW tariff apply to local public transport .

Street

Sennestadt is connected to the trunk road network via the Bielefeld-Süd junction of the A 2 Dortmund - Hanover . The junction is on the former B 68 Paderborn - Osnabrück , which has been downgraded to a state road in the area of ​​the city district . The Bielefeld motorway junction , which connects the A 2 and the A 33 leading from Paderborn to the Ostwestfalendamm in Brackwede, is also partly located in Sennestadt . The Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock junction of the A 33 is only a little more than a kilometer from the southern outskirts.

Established businesses

Public facilities

Sennestadt volunteer fire department

Eckardtsheim and Wilhelmsdorf belong to Sennestadt , where numerous institutions of the von Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel are located. On the south-eastern outskirts of the city in the middle of the Teutoburg Forest is Haus Neuland , a conference center of national importance. Not far from there, also in the Teutoburg Forest, there is an educational and conference center of the United Services Union , the Bunte Haus .

There are five old people's and nursing homes in the city district: The Frieda Nadig House of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt , the ev. Old people's center Ernst-Barlach-House, the House Elim and the Boysen House.

There are three branches of Sparkasse Bielefeld in the city ​​district . Commerzbank and Bielefelder Volksbank eG are also represented, each with a branch.

The Sennestadt police district service reports to the Brackwede police station with the main station in Brackwede . The Sennestadt police station is located on the lower Elbeallee on the former market square.

The Sennestadt district has its own district office in the Sennestadthaus on Lindemann-Platz. There is also a branch of the citizens' office with the areas of citizen advice and the registry office .

education

Hans Ehrenberg School

Sennestadt has a high school with the Hans-Ehrenberg-Schule . It is privately owned by the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . There is also the Theodor-Heuss-Realschule, which was founded in 1963, and a secondary school, the Johannes-Rau-Schule, which was created in the 2008/2009 school year by merging the Adolf-Reichwein-Schule and the Vennhofschule. The primary sector is covered by three primary schools, the Astrid Lindgren School, the Brothers Grimm School and the Hans Christian Andersen School. There is also a special school, the school for educational assistance on Schlepperweg. The Comenius School has been given up.

Urban redevelopment and redevelopment

Against the background of the demographic development, Bielefeld-Sennestadt has been included in the state funding program Urban Redevelopment West , which was also decided in 2008 by the Bielefeld city council. A pavilion designed by Reichow was set up for this purpose as a "Sennestadt Pavilion" contact point. In several workshops, together with many residents, numerous goals and measures were defined for five fields of action: urban landscape, community and neighborhood, housing, infrastructure and trade / workplaces / training. An obvious measure in this context was the beautification of the green areas and the Sennestadtteich.

In the middle of the city district, Sennestadt GmbH acquired an industrial wasteland, the so-called Schilling site, had the old factory demolished in 2005 and disposed of contaminated sites. The plan is to revitalize the area with a climate protection settlement. The planners are also trying to dismantle state road 756 in order to bring the two districts, which are spatially and partly also socially separated by the traffic axis, closer together again.

In 2013, the partners City of Bielefeld, Stadtwerke Bielefeld and Sennestadt GmbH developed a concept “Vitamins for the economic miracle” . It is about a sustainably successful building renovation at the district level, in which u. a. the energy supply is to be restructured, the real estate re-evaluated, urban development characteristics secured and a district-related procedural culture to be established. In 2014–2018, a renovation manager took care of the energy-efficient urban renovation. It went u. a. planning a climate protection settlement and the scheduled renovation of high-rise buildings and terraced houses in close coordination with homeowners, apartment owners and tenants.

Sennestadt climate district

The energetic urban renewal has been running since 2014 under the motto Sennestadt Climate Quarter . In May 2015, NRW building minister Michael Groschek recognized the “Sennestadt Climate Quarter” as a prime example of climate protection . The renovation project took second place in the “Developing Quarters” theme at KlimaExpo.NRW. According to Groschek, the Sennestadt climate quarter stands for the renaissance of urban areas through energy-efficient renovation while maintaining the historical cityscape. Citizen participation is the key to success in the Sennestadt.

"The Sennestadt Climate Quarter shows the engine of progress, climate protection, in a special way: Here, historical values ​​are preserved and energy costs are significantly reduced - this is good news for both citizens and the climate and is a concept to be copied." Wolfgang Jung, Managing Director of KlimoExpo.NRW

In the summer of 2015, Hanne Fink, designer at the paint manufacturer Brillux , developed a color fan for facade renovation, which was published under the name Farben der Sennestadt . At the suggestion of the renovation manager Thorsten Försterling (alberts architekten) and the architect Peter Holst , who was still involved in the original planning of the Sennestadt, Fink reconstructed the original colors of the facades from the 1950s and 1960s and adapted them to today's needs. The color fan is mainly used for orientation when owner associations want to renovate apartment buildings together. The concept was implemented for the first time in October 2015 at houses Luheweg 1–11.

At the end of 2015, the research focus “Interdisciplinary research for decentralized, sustainable and safe energy concepts (IFE)” at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences decided to find its practical relevance in the Sennestadt. The first research results were presented on site in September 2016: during a specialist conference week under the motto “Good climate in the quarter”, organized by Sennestadt GmbH and KlimaExpo.NRW. Over the course of five days, scientists presented their research results and hundreds of practitioners from North Rhine-Westphalia exchanged their experiences - on the topics of “Rethinking energy”, “Being mobile”, “New building”, “Energy renovation” and “Creating identity”. Pit Clausen , Claudia Kemfert , Sven Plöger and Johannes Remmel took part in a panel discussion on the subject of the energy transition and mobility .

In 2017, the Sennestadt district council and three committees of the Bielefeld City Council decided: "As a climate district, Sennestadt is a special laboratory space to develop, test and convey model projects, collaborations, processes, technologies and financing models for a sustainable Bielefeld."

Personalities

Trivia

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In 1956, on the occasion of the International Congress for Housing and Urban Development (September 22-28, 1956), a postage stamp was issued in Austria showing the city plans of five newly built post-war cities or suburbs. These include Sennestadt next to the Prins Alexanderpolder near Rotterdam , Harlow New Town near London and Vällingby near Stockholm .

In July 1966, the guested TV show " Games without frontiers " with Camillo rims as moderator in Sennestadt. The Sennestädter team lost to the team from the Belgian city of Huy .

In 2005 the Sennestadt district of Eckardtsheim received a special prize in the competition “ Our village has a future ”; the award honored the way from an institution to a village with community and private commitment .

literature

  • Sennestadt - history of a landscape . Ed. Vd Stadt Sennestadt based on a suggestion by Franz Stratmann and thoughts from Karl Gerlach, Max Kluge and Otto Wiehage. E. Gundlach, Bielefeld 1968. New edition. ed. vd Sennestadt GmbH, Bielefeld 1980
  • Sennestadt - history in dates and pictures 1969–1980 . Published by vd Sennestadt GmbH , Bielefeld 1980.
  • Sennestadt: Evaluation of an urban planning concept. Practice focus "Regional and Spatial Planning" at Bielefeld University (project leader: Reinhard Landwehr), Bielefeld 1984.
  • Dorothee Prins: Art you can touch. In Sennestadt, art is brought to the people . In: The Minden-Ravensberger . 59th volume, 1987, p. 94.
  • The urban development of the Sennestadt. A documentation. Ed. V. Sennestadtverein, Ortbildpflege work group, 1988. Online
  • Heinrich Koch, Gunter Stratmann: The triangle in the Senne: from the wasteland to the Sennenstadt . Thomas P. Kiper, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-9803990-3-6
  • Thomas Steinfeld: German Landscapes (13): Sennestadt. Pepita hat with the right to tanning. A reminder of a social utopia . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 12, 2003.
  • Sennestadt risk . Ed. V. Sennestadtverein. Thomas P. Kiper, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-936359-08-3 .
  • Volker Eikelmann: The settlement history of the Heepensenne. A regional historical contribution for the area of ​​today's Sennestadt until 1685. In: 97th Annual Report of the Historical Association for the County of Ravensberg, Bielefeld 2012, p. 7ff., ISSN  0342-0159 .
  • Good climate in the neighborhood . Ed. V. Sennestadt GmbH and KlimaExpo.NRW. Fraunhofer IRB Verlag 2017. ISBN 978-3-8167-9866-8 (Compendium for the conference week of the same name in September 2016)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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