Mengede district

This article explains the Mengede district of Dortmund; for the district of the same name see Mengede .

Mengede district City of Dortmund Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 29 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	69 m above sea level NN
Area :	28.77 km²
Residents :	38,909  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	1,353 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1928
Postcodes :	44339, 44357, 44359, 44369
Area code :	0231
Location of the Mengede district within Dortmund.

Mengede is a district in the north-west of Dortmund .

Districts

The districts of Schwieringhausen , Groppenbruch , Ellinghausen , Nette , Westerfilde , Oestrich , Brüninghausen , Mengede and Bodelschwingh belong to the Mengede district .

statistics

As of December 31, 2018, 38,909 residents lived in the Mengede district.

Structure of the population:

• Minor quota: 21.6% [Dortmund average: 19.4% (2016)]
• Old age quota: 29.1% [Dortmund average: 30.0% (2016)]
• Proportion of foreigners: 17.0% [Dortmund average: 18.2% (2018)]
• Unemployment rate: 12.3% [Dortmund average: 11.0% (2017)]

history

Former Adolf von Hansemann colliery

The first settlements in the Mengede area could be up to the Celtic period from 500 to 200 BC. Archaeologically proven. This makes the place one of the oldest populated regions in the Emscher area . In the lifting registers of Werden Abbey Mengede for the first time. Documented in the year 890 n. Chr. The ancestral seat of the Knights of Mengede, originally today's Gut Altmengede in Schwieringhausen , became the Mengede House on the Emscher in the 13th century. The best known representative of the noble family was Johann von Mengede , who was Grand Master of the Teutonic Order in Livonia from 1450 to 1465 . The foundations of the Mengede House can be viewed again today as a ground monument. The name Mengede means "great heather" and is derived from the old Saxon "Mengithi".

Half-timbered houses in the old town center

Bodelschwingh House , view from the south

The industrial age began in Mengede in 1848 with the construction of the Cöln-Mindener railway and the sinking of the Adolf von Hansemann colliery from 1873. In the west the place grew together with the farmers of Oestrich and in the south with Nette . Today's center of Mengedes was created after a resolution by the municipal council in 1913, according to which the market square, the fire station and the hall building were rebuilt southwest of the old town center.

In 1867 a separate Jewish religious community was founded in Mengede under the name "Israelisitischer Charity Association Mengede". The community leader was the merchant Levi Baum.

Mengede in the Weimar Republic

After the First World War, many miners from the collieries in Mengede and returning war veterans organized themselves into anarcho-syndicalist structures. In spring 1919, at the same time as the great miners 'strike in the Ruhr area, which also affected the mines in Mengede, the "Free Workers Union Mengede", a local branch of the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD), was founded. In 1920 one of the first battalions of the Red Ruhr Army was recruited from members of the local association, which had over 1000 members .

In 1922 there were divisions within the Free Workers Union-Mengede, some members split off and founded the “Economic Unified Organization of the Adolf von Hansemann Colliery”. This organization, initially only active as an operating group, soon changed political camps and founded a local association of the NSDAP together with the miner Wilhelm Moog, a member of the German-Völkischer Schutz- und Trutzbundes . The establishment of the local association is dated June 9, 1922.

On January 17, 1923, Belgian and French troops marched into Mengede as part of the occupation of the Ruhr . Much of the crowd of miners offered passive resistance and refused to drive in.

In 1923 the Dortmund tram reached Mengede. Line 5 was extended via Huckarde junction and should become part of an unrealized express tram route through the northern Ruhr area to Duisburg.

In October there was a potato riot in the district of Nette , which was part of the Mengede department at that time , in which a total of 41 people were arrested and charged with looting and breach of the peace.

With the dissolution of the Dortmund district in 1928, the place was incorporated into the city of Dortmund as a separate district . A greeting from the Lord Mayor of Dortmund “Welcome to Dortmund” appears in the Mengeder Zeitung.

Shortly thereafter, the Mengeder newspaper was renamed and then appeared under the new name "Dortmund Mengeder Lokal-Anzeiger".

After wage cuts, strikes broke out at the Hansemann colliery in January 1931. The strikes were mostly initiated by communist workers' groups. The extreme right, Stahlhelm and NSDAP, acted as strike breakers. On January 3rd, there were clashes between the groups in front of the colliery, during which the 22-year-old worker Josef Schramowski was fatally shot in the chest and thus became the first victim of right-wing extremist violence in Mengede. Three other people were seriously injured by gunfire during the confrontation.

National Socialism and World War II

In the elections to the Prussian state parliament on April 24, 1932, the NSDAP became the strongest political force. 3,699 out of 12,930 votes were cast on their list. The candidate Franz Land, who was actually called Krajewski, became a member of the state parliament. Franz Land was also the local group leader of the NSDAP in Mengede. Note: Kraj is the Polish word for country.

In the Reichstag election in November 1932 , the NSDAP suffered a loss in Mengede, and the KPD briefly became the strongest political party.

After Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor, National Socialist organizations held a torchlight procession in Mengede on February 6, 1933. Despite the takeover of political power by the NSDAP at the Reich level, there continued to be clashes between left and right groups in Mengede. On February 28, 1933, the rushing police were shot during fighting between the National Socialists and Communists.

On April 1, there was a rally to boycott Jewish shops in Mengeder Markt. In September the workers gymnastics and sports club Vorwärts Mengede 07 was dissolved.

On July 15, a severe explosion at the Hansemann colliery resulted in 10 dead and 26 injured miners.

The first blackout exercise took place in Mengede on October 23. Citizens and merchants of the place had to reduce neon signs and shop window lighting to a minimum.

During the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938, the house of Mengeder businessman Salomon Heimberg in Williburgstrasse was desecrated. It later became the Judenhaus , in which the multitudes of Jews were rounded up before the deportation. In 1943 there were no more Jews in Mengede.

On March 5, 1943, the bells of St. Remigius Church were dismantled and transported away for war purposes.

At the beginning of April 1945 Mengede became the front. An artillery duel between German and American troops kept the population in the cellars for a week. The St. Remigius Church was damaged by two shell hits.

After the Second World War

The preserved buildings of the Adolf von Hansemann colliery, which was closed in 1967 , are now part of the Route of Industrial Culture, as is the Volksgarten .

politics

In the 2014 local elections, the SPD received 8 seats, the CDU 5, Bündnis90 / Die Grünen 3 and the Pirates, the Left, the Right one seat each in the district council. Wilhelm Tölch (SPD) was elected district mayor.

The districts of Westerfilde / Bodelschwingh and Nette are the two action areas in the Mengede district as part of the Dortmund Social City Action Plan. In the program, citizens and local politicians should take the initiative to improve the special need for action in the action areas due to their poor social structure.

Culture and sights

Buildings

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in the Mengede district

The list of monuments of the city of Dortmund includes 79 monuments in the Mengede district, including 21 residential houses, villas or housing estates, 21 agricultural buildings, 16 residential and commercial buildings, five public buildings and five small monuments, three sacred buildings and industrial plants, two aristocratic residences and one cemetery each, a commercial building and a transport system.

Carnival in Mengede

There has been a carnival society in Mengede since 1979. The carnival society Blau-Rot Dortmund-Mengede was founded in the former restaurant "Alte Wache" (already demolished, today access to Heimbrügge).

The Mengeder carnivalists have an independent youth department, the Tanzsportgarde Dortmund-Mengede.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Mengede train station

Mengede now has a connection to the S-Bahn network with the stations Mengede, Nette / Oestrich and Westerfilde and to the regional express and regional train network with its Dortmund-Mengede train station . The following Vestische, DSW21 and HCR bus routes also operate in Mengede, all of which stop at Dortmund-Mengede train station or Dortmund-Mengede bus station. Furthermore, the U47 line of the Dortmund Stadtbahn runs from Westerfilde via Dortmund city center to Dortmund-Aplerbeck. With direct connections to the A 2 , A 45 and A 42 motorways , Mengede is also at the intersection of national traffic connections.

Local rail transport lines that stop in Mengede

line	Line course	Tact
RE 3	Rhein-Emscher-Express : Düsseldorf Hbf  - Düsseldorf Airport  - Duisburg Hbf  - Oberhausen Hbf  - Essen-Altenessen  - Gelsenkirchen Hbf  - Wanne-Eickel Hbf  - Herne  - Castrop-Rauxel Hbf  - Dortmund-Mengede  - Dortmund Hbf  - Dortmund-Scharnhorst  - Dortmund- Kurl  - Kamen - Methler  - Kamen  - Bönen-Nordbögge  - Hamm (Westf) Hbf Status: timetable change December 2019	60 min
RB 32	Rhein-Emscher-Bahn : Duisburg Hbf  - Oberhausen Hbf  - Essen-Dellwig  - Essen-Bergeborbeck  - Essen-Altenessen  - Essen Zollverein Nord  - Gelsenkirchen Hbf  - Wanne-Eickel Hbf  - Herne  - Castrop-Rauxel Hbf  - Dortmund-Mengede  - Dortmund Hbf Stand : Timetable change December 2019	60 min
S 2	Dortmund Hbf 1 - DO-Dorstfeld - DO-Wischlingen - DO-Huckarde - DO-Westerfilde - DO- Nette / Oestrich - DO-Mengede 2 - Castrop-Rauxel Hbf - Herne - line branch 1: Wanne-Eickel Hbf - Gelsenkirchen Hbf - GE -Rotthausen - E-Kray Nord - Essen Hbf Line branch 2: RE-Süd - Recklinghausen Hbf Status: timetable change December 2019	30 min 15 min HVZ (1–2) 60 min (per branch)

Line of the Dortmund light rail, which stops in Westerfilde

line	Current route	Tact Mon-Fri / Sat. / Sun.
	Dortmund-Westerfilde  - Huckarde - Harbor - Central Station  - Kampstrasse  - Stadtgarten  - Townhouse   - Märkische Str.  - Aplerbeck	10/10/15

Bus lines that stop in Mengede

line	Line route	Tact Mon-Fri / Sat. / Sun.	Traffic Companies
SB24	Dortmund-Mengede Bf  - Waltrop, Am Moselbach - Datteln BusBf - Oer-Erkenschwick, Oer-Mitte - Recklinghausen Hbf	30/30/60	Vestical
289	Dortmund-Mengede Bf  - Waltrop, Goethestr. - Klöcknersiedlung - Am Moselbach	60/60/60	Vestical
361	Dortmund-Mengede Markt - Castrop-Rauxel Things Talstr. - Deininghausen - Münsterplatz	30-60 / 30-60 / 30-60	HCR
470	Dortmund-Mengede train station  - Westerfilde  - Kirchlinde center - Lütgendortmund  - Kley  - Kley, Echeloh settlement - Oespel	20/30/30	DSW21
471	Dortmund-Oestrich, Auf dem Brauck - Castroper Str./Mengede Bf - Nice indoor swimming pool - Westerfilde  - Bodelschwingh, Göllenkamp	20/30/30	DSW21
472	Dortmund-Mengede market - Nette / Oestrich  - Oestrich, Auf dem Brauck	60/60 / -	DSW21
473	Dortmund-Mengede Bf  - Schwieringhausen - Holthausen - Lindenhorst - Eving, Miner Stein mine → Nordfriedhof (← Eving Markt) - Bayrische Str. (Minibus service)	60/60/60	DSW21
474	Lünen-Brambauer Verkehrshof  - Dortmund-Groppenbruch, Im Siesack - Mengede Bf	20-40-60 / 20-40-60 / 60 (Sun from Im Siesack)	DSW21
475	Dortmund-Mengede Bf  - Ellinghausen GVZ / IKEA - IKEA logistics center - Deusen - harbor  - main station	30/30/60 (Sun to Deusen)	DSW21
477	Dortmund-Mengede Markt - Nette / Oestrich  - Westerfilde  - Obernette, Mergelkuhle - Bodelschwingh, Göllenkamp (minibus service)	60/60 / -	DSW21
482	Dortmund-Mengede train station  - Castrop-Rauxel Ickern market - Habinghorst school center - main station  - Europaplatz - Castrop depot - Castrop Münsterplatz - Schwerin retirement home	20/30/60	DSW21
NE13	Dortmund Reinoldikirche  - Hbf  - Huckarde - Jungferntal Primary School - Kirchlinde Center - Westerfilde, Rohdesdiek - Nette, To the indoor swimming pool - Mengede Markt - Mengede Bf  - Mengede Markt - Nette, To the indoor swimming pool - Westerfilde  - Kirchlinde center - Rahm, Bannenberg - Huckarde, Roßbachstr. - Hbf  - Reinoldikirche (ring line)	60	DSW21
NE14	Dortmund-Mengede train station  - Waltrop, Town Hall - Datteln Bus train station - Oer-Erkenschwick, Berliner Platz - Recklinghausen Hbf	60	Vestical

media

From 1920 to 1990 the "Mengeder Zeitung" appeared in Mengede. It was founded by Ernst Arnold, the owner of the Mengeder printing and publishing house of the same name. The Mengeder newspaper was a typical local newspaper. The local section was produced in Mengede, the cover pages were supplied by cooperating newspaper publishers. In 1941 it fell victim to the first of three waves of war-related closings. Together with the Lütgendortmunder Amts-Zeitung it appeared again in 1949 under the name “Dortmunder Nord-West-Zeitung”. In 1990 the Mengeder newspaper went into the Dortmunder Ruhr Nachrichten .

The forerunner of the Mengeder Zeitung was a side edition of the same name of the Castroper Zeitung, which was sold in Mengede from 1911 to 1914, but was not connected to the later Mengeder Zeitung.

freetime and sports

The Sauerland Mountain Association (SGV) Dept. Mengede maintains three official circular hiking trails in Mengede. They are marked with the signs  A1  (11 km),  A2  (6 km) and  A3  (8 km). They all start and end in Mengeder Volksgarten.

The circular hiking trail marked  A1  leads around the Mengede district. It starts in the valley of the Emscher in Mengeder Volksgarten (16 ha) and runs straight through the forest park into the small nature reserve Mengeder Heide . The motorway triangle Dortmund-Northwest of the A 2 and A 45 motorways is circled by the Siegenstraße at a distance. At the corner of Siegenstrasse and Groppenbrucher Strasse, he meets the old Jewish cemetery Mengede (monument number A 0999). It then passes the A 2 again and leads through Rittershoferstraße and Kleine Riedbruchstraße back to Mengeder Volksgarten.

Visits from celebrities

On May 29, 2005, the then Federal President Horst Köhler visited the city district as part of the 1st Mengeder Music Festival.

The then Chinese President Hu Jintao also visited Mengeder Heide on November 12, 2005 to speak to a family of mining engineers. This visit took place during his four-day stay from November 10th to 13th, 2005 in Germany. Hu Jintao visited the Twardy family on Kleine Riedbruchstrasse.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures in the statistical districts on December 31, 2018 (PDF)
2. ↑ Population structures annual report 2016 (PDF file)
3. ↑ Population structures annual report 2016 (PDF file)
4. ↑ Nationalities in the statistical districts as of December 31, 2018 (PDF file)
5. ↑ Unemployment rates by statistical district on June 30, 2017 (PDF file)
6. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF; 180 kB) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 21, 2014 . 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.  

literature

• Walter Gronemann: Brief history of the Mengede office. Lensingdruck, Dortmund 1978.
• Heimatverein Mengede eV: Mengede. Historical from the city district. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2005.
• A. Müller: Departure into new times. Anarchosyndicalists and National Socialists in Mengede in the early phase of the Weimar Republic. Syndikat-A Verlag, Moers 2006.
• Association for the promotion of homeland care, customs and the 1100 year celebrations in Dortmund-Mengede (publisher): 1100 years Mengede. A contribution to the amount of local history from the early days to the present. Ernst Arnold Verlag, Dortmund-Mengede 1982.
• Volkshochschule Dortmund (ed.): Mengede with white / brown spots. A contribution to the city's history. Dortmund 1994.

Web links

Commons : Dortmund-Mengede district  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City district portal
• Heimatverein Mengede