Siebethsburg

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Siebethsburg
City of Wilhelmshaven
Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 16 ″  E
Residents : 4312  (Dec 31, 2007)
Postal code : 26386
Area code : 04421
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Location of Siebethsburg in the city of Wilhelmshaven
Siebethsburg at the top left in an old city map of Wilhelmshaven

Siebethsburg is a district of Wilhelmshaven . The name comes from the medieval Sibetsburg , which was located in the district and of which only the former castle grounds with castle hill and moat have been preserved.

location

The district borders in the north on tom-Brok-Strasse on the district of Rüstringer Stadtpark , in the east on Berliner Strasse on Heppens , in the south on Bismarckstrasse on city center and Bant , in the west on Friedrich-Paffrath-Strasse on Neuende .

history

The Siebethsburg district emerged from the area around the medieval Sibetsburg. This castle of chief Edo Wiemken the Elder and von Sibet was built in 1383, besieged in 1433 by the Hanseatic city of Hamburg and destroyed in 1435 by the Hanseatic city of Bremen . The castle hill, which is around five meters high and surrounded by double walls and moats, has remained to this day.

Starting in 1904, a settlement of uniformly designed residential buildings for the shipyard workers of the Imperial Shipyard was built around the Sibetsburg . Today they are under monument protection, the hallmarks are whitewashed walls and green window frames. This settlement initially belonged to the town of Rüstringen , which was not incorporated into Wilhelmshaven until 1937. The settlement became the Siebethsburg district. Due to the large proportion of garden areas, the district is also known as the "Garden City of Siebethsburg".

Residents

At the end of 2017 there were 4244 inhabitants in Siebethsburg, slightly fewer than the 4411 in 2000.

Share of foreigners and migrants

At 3.2%, the proportion of foreigners is below the urban average of 9.6%. The proportion of migrants is 15.5%, with an urban average of 21.8%.

colonization

Siebethsburg is the second smallest district of Wilhelmshaven with an area of ​​89.4 hectares, but with 48 inhabitants per hectare it is one of the most densely populated districts. In terms of population density, it ranks third behind the city ​​center and Bant .

Movement of residents

In accordance with the predominantly older population of the district, the number of deaths exceeds the number of births, there were 29 births and 62 deaths in 2017.

Regular events

  • September: Siebethsburger Volkslauf - running event over various distances through the listed district of Siebethsburg (since 2003)
  • October: Siebethsburg in the Middle Ages (medieval market). Since 2012, a medieval market has been held on the Siebethsburg castle grounds every October.

literature

  • Ingo Sommer : Siebethsburger practice good neighborliness. In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. 23rd August 1983.
  • Ingo Sommer: The city of 500,000, NS urban planning and architecture in Wilhelmshaven , p. 115 ff. Publisher: Vieweg Braunschweig / Wiesbaden , Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1993 ISBN 3-528-08851-6 .

Views

  • Small bunker

  • Typical: white facade, green windows, red roof

  • Settlement houses

  • Row of houses

  • Figure in Tom Brok Street

Web links

Commons : Siebethsburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Wilhelmshaven: District Wilhelmshaven. December 31, 2007, accessed November 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b City of Wilhelmshaven: Small-scale population statistics 2018. December 31, 2017, accessed on December 7, 2018 .