City center (Wolfsburg)
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City center
City of Wolfsburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 23 ″ N , 10 ° 47 ′ 17 ″ E
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| Residents : | 5341 (December 31, 2015) |
| Postal code : | 38440 |
| Area code : | 05361 |
 Location in Wolfsburg
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Stadtmitte is the central district of Wolfsburg . The main shopping street Porschestrasse , the town hall and other central facilities of the city are located here. The former Wellekamp district is also included in the current district . This is the residential area around the so-called “courtyards”, which was built around 1940.
In Wolfsburg, the term Stadtmitte also stands for the town of Stadtmitte, which includes the neighboring districts of Schillerteich , Steimker Berg , Hellwinkel , Heßlingen , Rothenfelde and Köhlerberg . Political representation is the local council city center. Detlef Conradt ( SPD ) is the local mayor .
In the north of the city center is the main train station with an ICE connection. Directly opposite was the headquarters of the Deutsche BKK until the end of 2016 .
history
Before the city was founded
The deserted village of Wellekamp is believed to be in the vicinity of the Hohensteine , otherwise the area of today's city center was not built up until the beginning of the 20th century. In 1873 the Berlin-Lehrter Railway was opened, which runs east-west through today's district.
In 1911 the construction of the Rothenfelde union mine began . In 1913 mining began in it, it comprised table salt and potash salt. A railway line branched off from the Vorsfelde – Fallersleben line and led directly to the mine, the soles reaching down to a depth of around 750 meters. In 1925/26 the mine was shut down for economic reasons, and from 1927 the winding tower and the buildings above ground were demolished. The shaft was backfilled in 1939, and the backfilling was added several times later. Today the site of a Protestant day-care center is located above the shaft, the street name Schachtweg is reminiscent of the shaft. Today there is an allotment garden above the main mining area, massive development was avoided due to the risk of subsidence.
The Rothenfelde-Wolfsburg station was built in 1928 , it was located north of the Schachtweg and remained in operation until the provisional commissioning of today's station in 1956. The Mittelland Canal , which runs parallel to the railway line , was opened in 1938 .
City foundation and expansion
In 1938 the city of the KdF-Wagen - today's Wolfsburg - was founded. At this time, construction of the Wellekamp district, which was named after a deserted village, began in the area of what is now the Stadtmitte district . The streets Arndtstrasse (today Lessingstrasse), Clausewitzstrasse (Kleiststrasse), Ludendorffstrasse (Heinrich-Heine-Strasse), Richthofenstrasse and Moltkestrasse (Schillerstrasse), Schlieffenstrasse (Goethestrasse) and their side streets were built. Fallersleber Strasse (Heinrich-Nordhoff-Strasse) existed as a country road before 1938. Barracks were built north of Clausewitzstrasse, and public facilities such as the mayor's office, the post office and a branch of the Gifhorn district savings bank were also housed there. In autumn 1938 the Tullio-Cianetti-Halle was opened, and in summer 1939 the single home on Schlieffenstrasse (today a residential and nursing home). In 1941, the Hotel Hohenstein on Arndtstrasse was the first hotel to be built in the new town, and in 1942 school barracks were built south of Ludendorffstrasse. Around the beginning of 1942, construction work was stopped due to the war. Construction of the Goethe School began in March 1943, but initially it did not get beyond the basement.
In 1945, shortly after the end of the war in the town of the KdF car, the Cianetti hall burned down. In 1945 almost all of the existing streets in the district were renamed. In 1947 the first town hall was set up in what was then the Stadtwerke building on today's Kleiststrasse. In November 1948, a sinkhole in the former Rothenfelde mine caused an earthquake -like tremor.
After the currency reform in 1948, a large number of public buildings were built in addition to other residential and commercial buildings (the year of inauguration or commissioning is named): In 1949 the Kaufhof was built , replacing Schachtweg as the main shopping street. After the establishment of the Porschestrasse it lost this importance, today many of its shops are used for gastronomy.
1950 took Betriebskrankenkasse the Volkswagen plant their building at the Robert Koch Platz in operation, it is used by a college today. In 1950, the Großkopf bookstore opened as the first store on Porschestrasse, and the Haerder textile store was also one of the first stores on Neue Strasse. In 1951 the Goetheschule, which had begun in 1943, was completed after several years of interruption in construction; its originally planned east wing was no longer built. Instead, the Goethepark was laid out east of the school in the 1950s. The local history museum was set up in the school's attic as early as 1951; it stayed there until the move to Wolfsburg Castle . Also in 1951, a newly built dormitory for single employees of the Volkswagen factory was opened on Kleiststrasse, and a roller skating rink was built on the site of today's town hall. In 1952 the newly built vocational school started teaching and was later expanded several times. In 1953 the Delphin Cinema and the Hotel Noack opened, in 1954 the Wolfsburg Schwerdtfeger (WKS) department store as the first department store, in 1955 the Friedenskirche and the Hermann Löns School, in 1956 the new main post office, the Pestalozzi School, the Imperial Cinema and, initially in Kleiststrasse, the Woolworth department store . Also in 1956, the district court on Pestalozziallee started operations, and in 1987 it moved to the Heßlingen district . The station was officially opened in 1957, and the Europa high-rise was built around 1957. In 1958 the town hall , town hall and the first trade union building followed. In 1959 Peter Koller sen. designed employment office completed, which has since been torn down.
The Hertie department store was opened in 1960 and existed until 2003. The cultural center (today Alvar-Aalto-Kulturhaus ) was inaugurated in 1962, the indoor swimming pool opened in 1963 and the town hall was expanded to include the hall of mirrors. In 1964 the Centro Italiano opened in the former restaurant Zum Hanseaten , and in 2003 it moved to the Heßlingen district . In 1966, two pedestrian tunnels leading to the Volkswagen factory were put into operation, before access was via pedestrian bridges. In 1968, the year of the death of VW CEO Heinrich Nordhoff , Fallersleber Strasse was renamed Heinrich-Nordhoff-Strasse.
In 1971 the city youth hostel was opened on Lessingstrasse, in 1988 the German Youth Hostel Association took over the sponsorship. The ark was completed in 1972, and until 2008 it served the industrial diaconate and the Martin Luther parish. Today the youth hostel is located in their building, the youth hostel was demolished. In 1972 the Hotel Holiday Inn (since 2014 Leonardo ) started operations. In 1973 the theater and the Haerder City Center were opened. In 1975 a youth center was opened in the former Hotel Noack and was demolished at the end of the 1980s for the construction of the Südkopf Center. The City-Ring was opened in 1976, after which a pedestrian zone was built from 1977 to 1980 in the middle of Porschestrasse.
The planetarium was opened in 1983, and in 1986 the town hall was converted into today's CongressPark . In the 1980s, the southern part of Porschestrasse was also redesigned into a pedestrian zone.
The Südkopf Center was opened in 1990, followed by the Art Museum in 1994 . In 1995 a road tunnel in east-west direction was built at the north head. The Hotel Global Inn has been located in the former VW single home on Kleiststrasse since 1996 .
The Autostadt was opened in 2000, the City-Galerie shopping center in 2001, phæno followed in 2005 , and today's trade union building in 2007. In 2008 the social department store Lichtblick was opened on the premises of Werner Alsdorff's former furniture store . In 2009 the market hall opened in the former Hertie grocery department (the rest of the store was demolished) and the new school .
In 2010 a glass roof was erected in the middle of Porschestrasse. In 2014, with the removal of the vegetation in Goethepark, the construction of residential houses began, which were completed by 2017.
Attractions
- Autostadt
- phæno
- Art museum
- Scharoun Theater
- planetarium
- Alvar-Aalto-Kulturhaus (with city library)
- Piazza Italia
- Museum apartment. In 2001, a rented apartment at Schillerstraße 30, built in 1942, was restored to its original state and furnished in the style of the original period.
Churches
- Friedenskirche. The Evangelical Methodist Church of Peace, located on Heinrich-Heine-Straße, was built by the then Evangelical Community based on designs by the architects Guhl and Winter and inaugurated on July 10, 1955. The community was formed after workers of the Methodist faith from the Ore Mountains , Saxony and Posen had moved to the city of the KdF-Wagons in 1940 . In 1981 the church was expanded to include the porch.
Former church:
- Ark . In 1972 the ark was completed as a community center for the Evangelical Lutheran Martin Luther Congregation and as the center of the “industrial diaconia”. From 2006 it belonged to the city parish, in January 2008 it was desecrated. The building has been used as a youth hostel since 2011.
Art in the cityscape
- The Tsar manifesters - Alvar Aalto House of Culture, Upper Foyer
- Noah by Waldemar Otto (Berlin) - Arche
- Ferdinand Porsche by Knud Knudsen (Bad Nauheim) - Rathausplatz. The bust ,acquired by the city of Wolfsburg in 1952, was previously on the Great Schillerteich .
- Father, mother, child (1956) by Helmut Gressieker (Hanover) - Goetheschule
- Girl with Braids (1957) by Peter Szaif (Wolfsburg) - Goethepark
- Pfauenbrunnen (1960) by Paul-Kurt Bartzsch (Wolfsburg) - Porschestrasse North. The fountain originally stood in the Bahnhofspassage and was put back in its current location after a restoration in 2008.
- Exterior wall design (1962) by Assof and Geitel (Bochum) - Vocational Schools I
- Loads and Carries (1963) by Joseph Henry Lonas (Berlin) - Theater (parking lot)
- Plasdtik (1966) by Maximilian Stark (Gifhorn) - Indoor swimming pool cultural center
- Seraph 2000 - vegetative sculpture (1977) by Bernhard Heiliger (Berlin) - theater (foyer)
- Fountain (1977) by Rolf Hartmann (Wolfsburg) - Rathausplatz
- Röhrenbrunnen (1977) by Rolf Hartmann (Wolfsburg) - Rathausplatz
- Wolfsgruppe (1981) by Peter Lehmann (Großenkneten) - pedestrian zone
- Sundial (1985) by Jochen Kramer (Wolfsburg) - Planetarium
- Review (1988) by Wolfgang Itter (Königslutter) - Robert-Koch-Platz
- Hermes (1995) by Giancarlo Lepore (Italy) - Theater (Hang)
- Turning and turning (1998) by Helmut Machhammer (Vienna) - Schillerstraße (inner courtyard)
- Early Forms (1997) by Tony Cragg (Wuppertal) - Südkopf Porschestrasse
- Billboards (2000) by Julian Opie (London) - Mittelland Canal (view of Autostadt)
- Giraffe by Sina Heffner (Braunschweig) - since October 26, 2009 on Braunschweiger Strasse
See also
literature
- Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. A chronicle. 1938-1948. Wolfsburg 1974.
- Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. Building a city. 1948-1968. Wolfsburg, undated (around 1976).
- City of Wolfsburg (ed.): Wolfsburg 1938–1988. Wolfsburg 1988.
- Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Main statute of the city of Wolfsburg of November 2, 2016 (PDF) (for localities and local councils see § 9 of the main statute)
- ↑ Local council city center , accessed on December 21, 2016
- ↑ Wolfsburg - our city. Wolfsburg 1963. pp. 86/87
- ↑ Volkswagenwerk GmbH (ed.): Management report for the years 1951 to 1953. Wolfsburg 1955, p. 9.
- ^ Siegfried Kayser: The first escalator. In: Seniors Journal Wolfsburg. Issue 2/2020, p. 17.
- ↑ Hans Karweik: Where the employment office was once. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition July 17, 2018
- ^ Photo from June 23, 1968 by Robert Lebeck with the Heinrich-Nordhoff-Straße sign , seen in July 2018 in the Wolfsburg Art Museum
- ↑ Thomas Kruse: In the social department store, young people should also be trained in the future. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of August 21, 2015, p. 12.
- ↑ Hans Karweik: Trumpets sound the St. Matthew Passion. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of April 15, 2019.
- ↑ municipalities. Methodist Church in Wolfsburg, accessed December 1, 2019.
- ↑ Alex Koschel: Porsche City Wolfsburg. In: Seniors Journal Wolfsburg. Issue 2/2020, p. 8.
- ^ Kerstin Loehr: Fountains - so attractive. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition July 9, 2020.
- ↑ Giraffe sculpture on the Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung website , accessed on February 1, 2017.
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