Steimker Berg

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Steimker Berg
City of Wolfsburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 55 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 24 ″  E
Residents : 1369  (December 31, 2015)
Postal code : 38446
Area code : 05361
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Location in Wolfsburg

The Steimker Mountain is the first after the foundation of the present city Wolfsburg built district . It is located southeast of the city center.

history

Before 1938, the area of ​​today's district was not built on. As early as the spring of 1938, before the city was officially founded, the first barracks with office and living space for architects , surveyors and civil engineers were built on Bullenberg , who were needed for the construction of the Volkswagen factory and the other parts of the city. On the street Auf dem Bullenberg (today Walter-Flex-Weg) was the city planning office of the German Labor Front (DAF), the Prussian New Measurement Office ( Cadastre Office ) and the NSKK had their branches there in the town of the KdF car near Fallersleben . Parts of the city administration also had their offices there.

Construction of the Steimker Berg settlement began in October 1938. On November 2, 1938, the Neuland housing and settlement company was founded and took over the construction of the district. The first tenants moved into their apartments in 1939, and construction work was initially completed in March 1940. From September 3, 1940, there was a post office on the market square. In 1940, a single dormitory for men was built (Unter den Eichen 48/50), and in the post-war period it became a guest house for the Volkswagen factory. The Hotel Steimkerberg was opened in May 1942 and is now run as the Parkhotel Wolfsburg . The district survived the Second World War unscathed.

Special postmark depicting Koller and the central building on Steimker Berg

In 1948 the primary school III. (Friedrich von Schiller School), it was initially housed in barracks. In the fall of 1950 the barracks of primary school III served. temporarily as a makeshift hospital, as the capacity of the city ​​hospital was no longer sufficient due to the large number of people suffering from scarlet fever .

Around 1950 the district was extended to the east by the Kiefernweg. In 1950, five multi-family houses were built there for executives of the Volkswagen factory, followed in 1952 by the villa of VW General Director Heinrich Nordhoff . In 1952, classes began in the new Friedrich von Schiller School. In April 1957, the Christian Youth Village Association in Germany took over the youth hostel on Bullenberg. The home, which has existed since at least 1954, was previously owned by the city and offered 80 places for young men. Also in 1957 the evangelical old people's home Emmaus-Heim was opened, it was later expanded several times. Before that, until the offices moved to the newly built town hall on Porschestrasse , the main administrative building of the city administration was located there. The council meeting room of the city administration was retained and was integrated into the Emmaus home as the Wichernsaal . The Diakonie high-rise with senior citizens' apartments was built from 1966 to 1968, and the Café Schau-ins-Land on the 16th floor offers a good view of Wolfsburg's city center. In 1976 the Red Cross moved into its current location. In 1978 the VW guest house was closed and the building was converted into condominiums. In 1978 the Jugendhaus Ost, a self-administered youth center , was opened in the stone barrack of the former Prussian New Measurement Office. Before that, the Gifhorn tax office had its Wolfsburg office there for many years. From 1979 the administration of Neuland moved to Westhagen , so that in 1985/86 its administration building (Unter den Eichen 51/53) could be converted into senior citizen apartments. In 1994 the House of Youth was opened. In 1996 the Hasselbachtal senior citizens' housing complex was built. In 2006 the Islamic Cultural Center with the Al Salam Mosque was opened on the western edge of the district .

Since 2017, the large new development area Steimker Gärten has been under construction in the northeast of the district , which is to offer around 1,800 residential units on 220,000 m² and was initially assigned to the Steimker Berg district. In 2018 the city administration announced that it wanted to designate the new development area Steimker Gärten as an independent district. In September 2019, the first tenants moved into their apartment in the Steimker Gärten development area.

description

Since this district was built into a wooded area according to the specifications of the garden and landscape designer Wilhelm Heintz , the Steimker Berg is still characterized today by an old tree population. The streets of the district were named after tree species and when the vacant lots were created, the trees after which the respective street was named were left. In the “Unter den Eichen” street, for example, there are still predominantly oak trees today - and birch trees in the Birkenweg. At the end of the Kiefernweg street is the Villa Nordhoff, where the former VW general director Heinrich Nordhoff lived.

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Panoramic shot from the Steimker Berg market square

The social structure of the Steimker Berg changed over time, so that in the 1980s it was mostly elderly people who lived there.

The houses were built according to plans by the architects Peter Koller and Titus Taeschner in the homeland security style. Its simple, straightforward design has largely been preserved to this day due to the designation of the district as a monument ensemble . For changes to the buildings there has been a binding, albeit controversial, building regulation that has been in place since 2005, which restricts the freedom of design for extensions and conversions.

The Steimker Berg is close to the city center. The VW-Bad and the Hasselbachtal conservation area are nearby .

politics

Together with the neighboring districts of Schillerteich , Stadtmitte , Heßlingen , Rothenfelde , Hellwinkel and Köhlerberg, the Steimker Berg forms the town center. Detlef Conradt ( SPD ) is the local mayor .

Culture and sights

Art in the cityscape

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Most of the retail stores required for local supplies for the residents were located on the market square. In 1939/40 a baker, hairdresser, merchant, butcher, tailor and shoemaker opened their businesses. Today there are only a few shops for daily needs in the district.

education

The day care center of the Diakonie was opened in 1968. With the day care center of the CJD Wolfsburg Die Wilden Wölfe , which opened in January 2018 , the district got a second day care center.

The only school in the district is the Friedrich-von-Schiller-Schule, it goes to the elementary school III founded in 1948 in Barracks. back. In the Steimker Berg district, the primary school exists as a special needs school for pupils with special educational needs in the area of ​​physical and motor development; in the Vorsfelde district , the Friedrich von Schiller School maintains a special needs school for grades 5 to 9.

literature

  • Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. 1st edition. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 57, 61, 146, 151.
  • City of Wolfsburg (ed.): Wolfsburg 1938–1988. Wolfsburg 1988, p. 42, 44/45.

Web links

Commons : Steimker Berg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The post office of the "City of the KdF-Wagens". City of Wolfsburg, August 16, 2018, accessed on July 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b My street: The forest for the trees. In: The time . No. 19/2006, accessed on February 26, 2015.
  3. ↑ Hans Karweik: 1950: schools because Scarlet closed. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten . Edition of April 2, 2020 ( braunschweiger-Zeitung [accessed April 6, 2020]).
  4. ↑ 60 YEARS OF CJD WOLFSBURG | 1957-2017. Anniversary newspaper of the CJD Wolfsburg, p. 6 and 8.
  5. ↑ Andreas Stolz: 40 years - still preferably unadjusted. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of May 22, 2018.
  6. ↑ Bettina Jaeschke: Quality of life into old age. The senior citizens' residence Hasselbachtal has existed for 20 years. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of December 10, 2016, p. 14.
  7. ↑ Steimker Gardens. City of Wolfsburg, accessed on July 21, 2020.
  8. ↑ Steimker Gardens as a new district. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition September 7, 2018.
  9. ↑ Seven decades of living in Wolfsburg. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of November 30, 2019.
  10. ↑ Main statute of the city of Wolfsburg dated November 2, 2016 (PDF; 1.4 MB) (for localities and local councils, see § 9 of the main statute).
  11. ↑ Guntram Jordan: The father of the German phoenix. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Friday Packet for January 27, 2018.
  12. ↑ Summer party with a few raindrops. In: Wolfsburg Courier. Edition of July 1, 2018, p. 14.
  13. ↑ CJD day care center Wilde Wölfe starts operations. waz-online.de, January 15, 2018, accessed June 17, 2020.