Speyer southwest

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Audimax of the University of Speyer, designed in 1959 by Sep Ruf
Double building Palatinate State Library Speyer and State Archive Speyer
on the left in the high-rise is the headquarters of the State Education Institute of Rhineland-Palatinate , on the right the building of the State Palatinate College and High School in Speyer

Speyer-Südwest is a special area west of the core city of Speyer with the functions of monastery , education , university , research , health care , sport and recreation , which is like a wedge pointed to the east between the Speyer-West district and the western part of Speyer-Süd ( Chamberlain) lies. The border to Speyer-West in the north is Dudenhofener Straße, in the northeast the Schützenstraße. This then meets the border with Speyer-Süd, the Speyerbach located south of Holzstrasse , which, however, continues underground shortly before the intersection towards Mühlturmstrasse. The section of the Speyerbach between Speyer-Südwest and Oberkämmerer is called Gießhübelbach . The eastern end of the area is the highway 9 , which is built like a motorway and runs in a north-south direction .

Located in Speyer-Südwest is a Dominican convent , the Institut St. Dominikus Speyer , with their Nikolaus-von-Weis-Gymnasium and the Nikolaus-von-Weis-Schule (formerly Hauptschule now Realschule plus ), the Sankt Vincentius Hospital supported by a foundation of Niederbronn sisters , two urban high schools: the Hans Purrmann-gymnasium and the Friedrich-Magnus fword High school, each with more than 1,000 students, the German University of administrative sciences Speyer , the German research Institute of administrative sciences , the Palatine state library Speyer , the Staatliche Pfalz-Kolleg and -Abendgymnasium Speyer (usually called Speyer-Kolleg), the Landesarchiv Speyer , the sports hall Judomaxx, the Pedagogical State Institute Rhineland-Palatinate and the Institute for Food Chemistry Speyer, a branch of the State Investigation Office Rhineland-Palatinate . The university's Freiherr vom Stein guest house also houses the center for science management .

In addition to caretaker apartments, there is only one row of houses along the eastern part of Holzstrasse zum Speyerbach and two houses on Otto-Mayer-Strasse.

Geologically, Speyer-Südwest lies in relation to the three terrain levels existing in Speyer, the Rhine valley, the low terrace and the high terrace with the exception of the Schützengarten on the high terrace. Geographically, the area belongs to the northern part of the Schwegenheimer Lössplatte (221.4 area according to list of physiographic units in Rhineland-Palatinate ).

In 2009, a deep borehole was carried out on a vacant site owned by Stadtwerke Speyer in Nikolaus-von-Weis-Strasse between the Landesarchiv and Institut für Lebensmittelchemie Speyer with the intention of extracting hot water ( geothermal energy ). The intention was to use this water to generate electricity and hot water, whereby the hot water was to be used to replace the municipal utility's thermal power station to the west of the area. The model was the Landau geothermal power plant . Since hot oil was found instead of hot water , the intention to build a geothermal power plant could not be realized.

The rifle garden, park and sports area

In the eastern area at the tip of the triangle there is a park with a playground, the Schützengarten. The Speyer riflemen, whose job it was to defend the Speyer city fortifications , had been practicing in the low ground since the Middle Ages . In the southwest of today's park area, a tennis club has been given club grounds.

University monument zone

The building complex of the university planned by Sep Ruf in the Bauhaus style in 1959/1960 was included as a monument zone in the list of cultural monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Previously existing facilities in the area: indoor swimming pool, thermal power station, Pestalozzi school, preparatory college

The Speyer indoor swimming pool used to be located in the south-east of the special area in Butenschönstrasse. The indoor pool was relocated to the outdoor pool in the Rhine lowlands. In place of the demolished indoor pool, a sports hall for judo, the Judomaxx, was built with funds from the economic stimulus program.

Also in Butenschönstrasse opposite the indoor swimming pool, the city of Speyer had built the Speyer thermal power station through its municipal utility . The cogeneration plant, which was initially operated with heavy fuel oil , generated electricity and district heating for the district heating network of Speyer. The thermal power station was later converted to natural gas and finally shut down. Today, the Speyer district heating network is supplied with hot water from the Mannheim power station through a pipeline .

For many years the area was also home to the Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi School and the state seminar for school trainees. Both facilities were relocated.

Street names

The function as a special area is also reflected in the fact that suitable street names were selected for important facilities located there:

To the west of the Sankt Vincentius hospital runs the so-called Vincentiusstraße in 1914 , meaning Saint Vincent de Paul , who is considered the founder of modern Caritas. On the west side of Vincentiusstraße is the monastery Institut St. Dominikus with the two Nikolaus-von-Weis schools. The western end of this monastery and school complex, which encompasses almost an entire street square, is Nikolaus-von-Weis-Straße , named after the Speyer Bishop Nikolaus von Weis , who founded the Institute of Poor School Sisters , now called the St. Dominic Institute , in 1852 .

The road east of Vincentiuskrankenhauses, the scourge of road was by John of scourge named (1796-1864), 1836 Bishop of Speyer , 1845 Archbishop of Cologne , Cardinal in 1850 and member of Cologne in the Prussian National Assembly .

The German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer has also been given two street names. The east side of the campus with the main building (lecture halls, rectorate and study administration) and Freiherr vom Stein guest house (student room, center for science management , third-party funding, infrastructure management of the university) is accessed from Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße , named after the Prussian administrative reformer Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom and zum Stein . Since the sports fields of the double grammar school are on the west side of the street, the University of Speyer is the only one on the street despite house number 2. The south side of the campus is accessed from Otto-Mayer-Straße , named after the lawyer and important founder of administrative science Otto Mayer , who was also the father of the Administrative Procedure Act .

The Rhineland-Palatinate Pedagogical Institute (formerly SIL, then IFB) and the Speyer-Kolleg are located west of Butenschönstrasse , named after the journalist, supporter of the French Revolution, professor and government and district school councilor Johann Friedrich Butenschön .

The name Holzstraße for the street along the Gießhübelbach is reminiscent of the former timber rafting company ( Trift ).

literature

  • Kauer, Wolfgang: “Schitzegaade” has been a recreational facility for centuries: green space with tradition: informal meeting place for politicians; Subject of “speculations” .... - (wk). - In: The Rheinpfalz <Ludwigshafen> / Speyerer Rundschau. - 61 (2005), No. 36 from February 12th - 2005. - 2005. - Ill .. - Topic on Saturday: 500 years of the Schützengarten in Speyer.

Web links

Commons : Speyer-Südwest  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Websites of the institutions in the special area Speyer-Südwest

Sources and individual references

  • Speyer land use plan.
  1. ↑ http://www.institut-st-dominikus.de/Gemeinschaft/Ursprung.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.vincentius-speyer.de/der-traeger.html
  3. ↑ http://speyer-kolleg.de/?q=node/1
  4. ^ Herbert Dellwing : Kulturdenkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz, Volume 1, 1985, p. 90, entry: Freiherr-vom-Stein-Str. 2, picture and floor plan p. 91
  5. ^ A b Wolfgang Eger : Speyer street names. A Lexicon , 1985, Hermann G. Klein Verlag
  6. ↑ http://www.rlb.de/rpbgooi/sn580000/sn586000/sn586000_A.htm