Zoo width

Zoo width City of Wolfsburg Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 11 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	70 m
Area :	2 km²
Residents :	4176  (December 31, 2015)
Population density :	2,088 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	38448
Area code :	05361
Location in Wolfsburg

New pond with the southeast edge of the zoo width

Memorial stone for the deserted area of ​​Klein Kästorf on the New Pond

Tiergartenbreite is a district in the northern part of Wolfsburg . It is located north of the city center and was built around 1960.

description

The district consists mainly of residential developments, in the form of apartment buildings and homes. Most of the retail outlets are on Hansaplatz, where there is also a multi-generation house (leisure center), a post office, bank branches and restaurants. The district also has a day-care center, a social station and a nursing home for the elderly. There are two cemeteries on the northern edge of the district.

history

Former windmill

Wooden barrack in the forest cemetery

There is a presumption that the name zoo width goes back to a fenced wooded area in which deer and roe deer were kept for consumption at Wolfsburg Castle. There were also two windmills belonging to the Wolfsburg estate in the area of ​​today's district; a mill thereof, north was on the wooded hill today today Hubertusstraße is on the Merian - stitch imaged by Wolfsburg. As early as 1803, the area west of the New Pond was referred to as Thiergarten Breite on a site plan . The Klein Kästorf settlement , which fell desolate around 1350 , used to be located on the Neuer Teich . A memorial stone reminds of this.

In 1938, the year the city was founded, the area of ​​today's Tiergartenbreite was not built on. In 1940 burials began in the area around today's forest cemetery. In 1943/44 the forest cemetery was created as the first newly built cemetery in the city ​​of the KdF-Wagen , it was expanded several times until 1970. The wooden barracks built in 1943 on the forest cemetery, which also served as a chapel until 1959, is now the oldest building in the Tiergartenbreite district and at the same time one of the last remaining wooden barracks from the early years of the city. The present chapel was built in 1957, and in 1965 the main entrance was given its current design. After the end of the war, the so-called foreigner cemetery was set up for the deceased of Eastern European origin who had previously been unworthily buried, and in 1985 it was renamed the memorial for the victims of the Nazi tyranny . In 1947 the memorial for the deceased Soviet prisoners was erected there, and in 1970/71 this cemetery was given its present form. In 1976 the north cemetery was put into operation because the capacity of the forest cemetery was exhausted.

Residential development began in 1958, initially the streets south of Hubertusstraße (Am Lerchengarten, An der Tiergartenbreite and Hasenwinkel) were built. The main street of the district was to the former owners of the castle Wolfsburg, Count von der Schulenburg , Schulenburg avenue called another road to their previous owners, the lords of Bartensleben , Bartensleben ring . In the 1960s, in addition to other residential buildings, a dormitory of the Volkswagen factory and the community center of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Marien Congregation were built on Werderstrasse (corner of Schulenburgallee) . Both facilities no longer exist today, their buildings are used for other purposes. Around 1962 the retail stores were opened on Hansaplatz, and in 1962 the Volksbank opened a branch there. In 1963 the development of the district was largely completed. The post office on Hansaplatz was opened in 1964, the St. Marien daycare center in 1965 , and the North Leisure Center in 1974 . Since 1995 a memorial with a cross to the east of the forest path to Hoitlingen has commemorated 27 Soviet prisoners of war who were buried there in November and December 1941. On 22 January 1995, the escaped CDU - politicians Volkmar Koehler a bomb attack on his house, as perpetrators members "were the left-wing group Anti-Imperialist Cell " condemned. In February 2003 the high-rise Schulenburgallee 47 was blown up, and terraced houses were built on the property in 2010 by Neuland Wohnungsgesellschaft . In February 2008 the Evangelical-Lutheran senior center St. Marien was opened, in August 2008 a multi-generation house in the leisure center north . In 2016, a studio opened in the former Hoffmann grocery store, and in 2018 the St. Marien daycare center was rebuilt and expanded according to plans by the Braunschweig architect Thomas Möhlendick.

politics

The zoo width together with the districts of Alt-Wolfsburg , Kreuzheide and Teichbreite forms the town of Nordstadt , which is represented by a local council. The local mayor is Immacolata Glosemeyer ( SPD ).

Culture and sights

• Forest cemetery: Park-like cemetery from around 1943, including graves of Heinrich Nordhoff , Krzysztof Nowak and Folker Weißgerber .
• Memorial for the victims of the National Socialist tyranny with a memorial for deceased Soviet prisoners of war from 1947.
• Memorial cross from 1995 to 27 Soviet prisoners of war in the forest north of the district who were buried there at the end of 1941.
• Memorial stone for the desert of Klein Kästorf.

literature

• Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. Building a city. 1948-1968. Wolfsburg, undated (around 1976). P. 37.
• Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. 1st edition 2011. ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 49, 82.

Web links

Commons : Tiergartenbreite  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the Hansaplatz interest group

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfsburg - our city. Wolfsburg 1963, p. 88
2. ^ Wolfsburg Castle - History and Culture. City of Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 2002, ISBN 3-930292-62-9 , pp. 139–141, 149–150
3. ^ Fritz Hesse: Wolfsburg, yesterday and today. 2nd edition, Wolfsburg 1968, p. 15
4. ↑ Krzywdzinski: clean the cross. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Friday Packet for April 20, 2017.
5. ↑ Attack on the Wolfenbütteler Zeitung website , accessed on January 20, 2017.
6. ^ Conviction on the Tagesspiegel website , accessed on January 20, 2017.
7. ↑ Internet presence of Fuchsweg 1 ( memento of the original from September 19, 2017 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. , accessed September 19, 2017. 
8. ↑ Ute Maasberg: Openness and a lot of space. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of May 26, 2018.
9. ↑ http://wolfsburg-erinnerung-zukunft.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-03-09_Gedenkst%C3%A4tten-WOB-Brosch%C3%BCre.pdf