Speyer-West
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Speyer-West is a district of Speyer , which lies northwest of the historic city area. Its southern border is Dudenhofener Straße, its eastern border is first the main train station , then the Speyer-Schifferstadt railway line and finally Iggelheimer Straße, which runs to the northwest. In the west, the district is closed off by Bundesstraße 9 , behind which there are fields in the south and the Speyer Forest in the north . The next place in the west is Dudenhofen .
The area lies completely on the highest of the three terrain levels into which Speyer is divided, the elevated terrace . The historical settlement by Celtic farmsteads, the Roman fort with the settlement of the Nemeter, the medieval city of Speyer and the village of Alt-Speyer can all be found on the lower terrace, safe from the floods in the Rhine lowlands, but close to the groundwater, which was developed with a well. The high terrace, so largely today's Speyer-West district, was used as fields and gardens by the citizens of Speyer. Therefore, most of the area was fenced in by the Speyer Landwehr .
The district is divided into a western and an eastern half by the central access road, Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse, which runs from north to south. The Woogbach , which cuts through the district from west to east in a valley, also divides the area into two parts. The northern part is often simply referred to as Erlich , the southern part as Burgfeld , although both are further subdivided in terms of settlement. In the Woogbachtal there are green areas and allotments, but also a playground with a football and volleyball field. Berliner Platz is a popular place for the residents of Speyer-West and attracts visitors with a café, seating, an ice cream parlor and a playground.
The boundaries of the Speyer-West district correspond to the area of the Evangelical Johanneskirchen community. In the decades after the war, the area south of the Woogbach belonged to the Catholic parish of St. Hedwig, the area north of the Woogbach to the Catholic parish of St. Otto.
The area is almost entirely a residential area and is also shown as such in the zoning plan. A special area is only shown in the south. There, the district with the 53 meter high office building, the skyscraper of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rhineland-Palatinate , has an operating facility with over 1,300 employees at the Speyer location alone. The LSV Rhineland-Palatinate, the Agricultural Investigation and Research Institute Speyer and the Rhineland-Palatinate Court of Audit are also located in the vicinity on Dudenhofener Strasse . The Burgfeld School, the Edith Stein Gymnasium and the Speyer vocational school, the Johann Joachim Becher School, are also located in this area .
Burgfeld
The south-eastern part of the residential area is characterized by a large area that has been built on by the non-profit building cooperative founded at the time, beginning in 1919 with the street “Im Burgfeld” (today Blaulstrasse) and Peter-Drach-Strasse, and continues to be developed and used today. Some buildings were later also built by the Catholic non-profit Siedlungswerk Speyer GmbH. Both settlement works also maintain their administrations in Speyer-West.
The southwestern part of the residential area is dominated by GEWO apartments. After the Second World War , this urban society built houses there for the many expellees and refugees assigned to Speyer. The area is also known as the GEWO district.
Erlich
The development of residential houses in the area north of the Woogbach began when the non-profit building cooperative began to build single-family row houses for workers behind the cotton mill in the southwest corner of the area. Most of the area was not built on until after the Second World War. In addition to apartment buildings around Berliner Platz, there are also areas with single-family houses in the west and north. The largest in the west of Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse, which is accessed from the street “Im Erlich”, is also called the musicians' quarter because of the street names that were named after famous composers .
Surroundings: Speyer-Nord and industrial area north-west; Speyer southwest
The forest area in the northeast of Speyer-West, northeast of Iggelheimer Straße, which separated the district from the Speyer-Nord district , east of Schifferstadter Straße, has now given way to a large commercial and industrial area north-west. The gaps in this area were also partially filled with residential buildings. The Speyer-Schifferstadt railway line and the Iggelheimer Strasse are the boundaries between the districts. In the sharp section of the terrain between these two traffic routes, there used to be a French barracks with a large vehicle depot, the Lyautey area , now the Lyautey industrial park . Speyer-West is connected to Speyer-Nord by Landwehrstrasse, which runs north of the new Speyer cemetery along the historic Speyer Landwehr to the watch tower , formerly the Wormser Warte.
South of Speyer-West, the border is formed by Dudenhofener Straße, and also to the west of the city center is Speyer-Südwest , a special area with the functions of monastery , education , university , research , health care , sport and recreation , like a wedge tapering to the east between the district of Speyer-West and the western part of Speyer-Süd (Oberkämmerer).
Burgfeld School
Burgfeldschule Speyer, school sign at the main entrance
Burgfeldschule Speyer, main entrance
Burgfeldschule Speyer from the southeast
gym
Sources and references
- Speyer land use plan.
- Karl Rudolf Müller: The walls of the Free Imperial City of Speyer as a framework for the city's history. District group Speyer of the Historical Association of the Palatinate, Speyer 1994. (Contributions to Speyer town history 8)
- Non-profit building cooperative Speyer EG (ed.): Committed to proven goals in the future too. 90 years of GBS 1919-2009. GBS, Speyer 2009, ISBN 978-3-87637-096-5 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Click on the "Church Tower" section.
- ↑ easy to see on Rudolf Müller's map of the course of the Landwehr: Karl Rudolf Müller: The walls of the Free Imperial City of Speyer. Speyer 1994, pp. 254, 267.
- ↑ Non-profit building cooperative Speyer eG: History. ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Non-profit settlement works Speyer GmbH.
- ^ Non-profit housing and settlement GmbH. ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
Churches and day care centers
- Protestant Johanneskirchen congregation
- ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Catholic institutions in Speyer-West )
schools
Authorities
- The largest operating facility: DRV Rhineland-Palatinate
- Agricultural Investigation and Research Institute (LUFA) Speyer
- Court of Auditors
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 30 ″ N , 8 ° 25 ′ 4 ″ E