Settlement (Kitzingen)

settlement Large district town of Kitzingen Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 49 ″ N , 10 ° 10 ′ 54 ″ E
Height :	196 m
Residents :	5724 (1987)
Incorporated into:	Kitzingen
Postal code :	97318
Area code :	09321
	Location of the settlement (bold) in the municipality of Kitzingen

Siedlung (mostly Kitzinger Siedlung ) is a district of the large district town of Kitzingen in the district of the same name in Lower Franconia. The settlement is the most populous district of Kitzingen.

Geographical location

The settlement is located directly in the southeast of Kitzingen's old town on the right side of the Main. To the northwest is Etwashausen , directly to the north is the Kitzingen airfield . The east is occupied by the Kitzingen district of Hoheim , while the area of the city of Mainbernheim begins in the southeast . Sickershausen , also a district of Kitzingen , lies to the south, and has already grown together with the settlement, and the district of Hagenmühle to the southwest . Hohenfeld extends further south-west along the Main .

Naturally, all Kitzinger districts are located along the Main in the dry and dry Kitzinger Main Valley , which is part of the Middle Main Valley within the Mainfränkische Platten .

history

Unlike the other districts of Kitzingen, the settlement does not have a long history. The development of the settlement is closely linked to the growth of the city of Kitzingen in the second half of the 19th century and especially in the first half of the 20th century. After the First World War , the city began to expand to the south and the areas around today's train station were developed for urban development.

After the city had continued to grow, people began to build little houses around the medieval old town. In 1921 the first residents settled southeast of the old town on the right side of the Main . Initially, the future district consisted of single houses in what is now Texasweg. Unlike in other parts of the city, semi-detached houses were built here by the new settlers, so that a uniform settlement pattern emerged by 1925.

In the early days, the settlement was dominated by single and two-family houses surrounded by gardens. Small animal husbandry was supposed to be carried out there for the self-sufficiency of the population, which was further promoted during the National Socialist dictatorship and the settlement continued to grow. The Kitzinger settlement remained a purely residential district until 1945 . At that time the southern areas in the direction of Sickershausen were not yet built on.

After the Second World War and the destruction in Kitzingen, the focus was on reconstruction. In addition, the city was a point of contact for displaced persons from the former German areas. The settlement therefore experienced its greatest expansion in area in the post-war period . It extended southwards along the main road and for the first time received high apartment buildings, separated by green spaces.

The so-called Settlement South received its first core local elements with the two churches that were supposed to relieve the inner-city communities in the post-war period . A small business center was built around the churches. In the 1960s and 1970s, a primary and secondary school as well as a special education center were built immediately to the west of this central part of the settlement . A sports center was also built.

Attractions

The Catholic St. Vincent Church

In the area of the settlement, only the Catholic parish church of St. Vinzenz was classified as a monument by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments , which was created between 1949 and 1950 due to the increasing number of refugees after the Second World War. The Würzburg cathedral master builder Hans Skull had been won as the architect . A special feature is the oval church interior vaulted by parabolic barrels.

The younger Friedenskirche also has its origins in the events after the Second World War. In particular, the expellees from the former province of Silesia brought their confession with them to their new homeland. The Lutheran Church of Peace was built in 1955 and 1957, although it was not upgraded to a parish church until 1965 . The building by the Würzburg architect Gerhard Saalfrank is more classic than its Catholic counterpart. The red brick is typical.

The street names in the settlement correspond to the contemporary taste of the 1920s. The new streets were named after areas that were ceded by the Versailles Treaty . This is how the street names Memellandstraße or Saarlandstraße can be explained. Battles from the First World War were also taken up ( Tannenbergstrasse, etc.). After the Second World War, the newer streets in the south were named after the areas from which the refugees came to Kitzingen.

Economy and Infrastructure

The district of Siedlung is divided into two halves by Bundesstraße 8 . It runs here as Mainbernheimer Straße and separates the older part of the settlement, which was created before the Second World War, from the younger part from the 1950s and 1960s. The settlement is also on State Road 2271 . On the edge of the populated area in the east is the Goldberg industrial park . Further commercial areas extend along the Main in the western part of the district.

literature

Hans Bauer: Blessed Land. Paths through the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Kitzingen am Main . Kitzingen 2012.
Dieter Böhn: Kitzingen am Main. Urban geography and central local relations (= Würzburg Geographical Works, booklet 28) . Wuerzburg 1969.

Web links

Commons : Siedlung (Kitzingen) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB 94240937X , p. 364 ( digitized version ).
^ Böhn, Dieter: Kitzingen am Main . P. 26 f.
^ Böhn, Dieter: Kitzingen am Main . P. 33.
^ Bauer, Hans: Gesegnetes Land . P. 21.
^ Böhn, Dieter: Kitzingen am Main . P. 27.

[OVB1987-1] Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB 94240937X , p. 364 ( digitized version ).

[2] Böhn, Dieter: Kitzingen am Main . P. 26 f.

[3] Böhn, Dieter: Kitzingen am Main . P. 33.

[4] Bauer, Hans: Gesegnetes Land . P. 21.

[5] Böhn, Dieter: Kitzingen am Main . P. 27.