Ungelsheim

Ungelsheim District of Duisburg
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Basic data
Coordinates :	51 ° 21 '35 "  N , 6 ° 43' 34"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '35 "  N , 6 ° 43' 34"  E
Area :	1.69  km²
Postal code :	47259
Area code :	0203
population
Residents :	3040 (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	1799 inhabitants / km²
Proportion of foreigners :	4.97% (151)
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District :	Duisburg-South
District number:	709
Incorporation :	August 1, 1929 (1959)

Ungelsheim is a district of Duisburg . It has 3,040 inhabitants ( as of December 31, 2017 ).

location

Ungelsheim is one of the southernmost districts of Duisburg. It is surrounded by the districts of Huckingen , Hüttenheim and Mündelheim . In the south, Ungelsheim borders on Düsseldorf's urban area. Ungelsheim is located in the middle of the recreation areas Mündelheimer Rheinbogen, Heidberg, Rahmer See and Schlosspark Heltorf in Düsseldorf-Angermund . The Karl-Harzig Park is also located in the middle of Ungelsheim .

Ungelsheim can only be reached by car via Am Neuen Angerbach . All other access routes are closed to motor vehicles. The northern boundary of the district by the green slope is also striking . Behind this is a relic from the time of the last world war. At that time, the "slag pit" was used to dump the hot blast furnace slag away from the hut at night so as not to reveal the true location of the steel works to enemy bombers. After the war, the cinder pit developed into a biotope in which one could find frogs, toads and crested newts, which have become rare.

Naming

The name goes back to the old field name Ungensham , which can be found in a certificate from Emperor Heinrich VI. of November 25, 1193 takes place.

For a long time it was interpreted that the field name was derived from -ham , fence or pen, and the genitive form of the name Ungo , Ungens , d. H. to be derived from the settlement of the Ungo , whereby that Ungo is unknown today. In the meantime, however, it is certain that the place name is derived from the Germanic form huigininga haim , for settlement of the people who belong to Hugin or Hugo. It is in fact at Ungensham in the 1193er certificate is a very old form of the name Huckingen (d. H. Ungensham = (H) = uginsheim Huchilheym = Huckinhem = Huckinghen = Huckingen). According to this, the district of Ungelsheim today has a name that is much more similar to the original name of Huckingen than the current place name of Huckingen itself.

The name Ungelsheimsiedlung appeared for the first time in a publication on May 21, 1953. In 1954, the names Mannesmannstadt and Siedlung Wohngesellschaft Ungelsheim were also used as names for the settlement . However, the name Ungelsheim only became official through a council resolution of September 14, 1959. At that time, this name was already popular and the post office and the Duisburg transport company also used this name.

history

Ungelsheim is the youngest district in Duisburg, as it was not officially formed until September 14, 1959 by a council resolution. For this purpose, the districts of Huckingen 108 hectares and Serm 62 hectares.

The history of the district began with a newspaper report on February 2, 1952, which reported that the Mannesmann-Werke (today: Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann ) in Huckingen, after purchasing the area from the city, was building 1,500 apartments for their Mannesmann-Werke employees Huckingen planned.

The idea of ​​creating a settlement there for the workers of the Mannesmann Hüttenwerke was born through the living and working conditions of the workers in the post-war period. Since there was already a workers' settlement in Hüttenheim, but this was not enough to accommodate all the workers, and there was also a lack of peace due to the development of courtyards, the Labor Director of the Hüttenwerke, Karl Harzig , developed the plan in 1952 to create a "green island" for the employees to create where they could live in comfortably located apartments and in their own homes close to their workplaces. Mannesmann then announced a competition for urban planning concepts in order to find a planner for the "Mannesmannstadt". The Düsseldorf architect Walter Euler received the first prize for a simple concept for a pleasant residential area. In 1953, after the establishment of the Mannesmann subsidiary housing company Ungelsheim mbH , construction began under the slogan “light, air, sun and green spaces” .

Even after the completion of the first apartments, the cityscape was characterized by improvised solutions such as: B. unpaved roads or a barrack that housed a supermarket. But gradually the place took shape. In January 1954, 320 apartments were completed, as many shortly before completion. With that came further business. Ultimately, the small workers' settlement in the 1950s u. a. a savings bank, banks, a cinema, a restaurant, a shoemaker, a butcher, a baker, several supermarkets, including a consumer branch.

The settlement now housed 5,000 people. A local school, the Nordhäuser Straße School or Ungelsheim Elementary School , moved in on July 28, 1956. In the auditorium there, 2 Catholic masses were held on Sundays under the direction of Pastor Braukemper. For the 3,000 Catholics among the population, the construction of a Catholic Church of St. Stephen began in 1957 in the center of Ungelsheim . The foundation stone was laid on March 31, 1957. The first pastor was Wilhelm Braukemper. The church consecration took place on May 11, 1958. Shortly after the foundation stone was laid, the foundation stone for the church's kindergarten and youth home was also laid.

The first Protestant service (on September 16, 1956) also took place in the elementary school. After the service was initially held by the pastor from Hüttenheim, Ungelsheim got Wilhelm Rheingans, his first own Protestant pastor, on October 13, 1957. On December 7, 1958, the foundation stone was laid for the Church of the Resurrection. The church was consecrated on October 8, 1959. A New Apostolic congregation was founded on January 1, 1959, with the church not being built until 1972.

On January 15, 1965, an expansion of the school for 15 classes, 4 special classes, 1 gym, administration and ancillary rooms was put into operation.

In memory of the "father" of the idea of ​​creating a district for the workers of the Mannesmannwerke, the park in the center of the district was named after him. It has been called Karl-Harzig-Park since the 1990s .

Population development

After the founding of the new district of Ungelsheim, its population developed as follows:

Ungelsheim today

The average age of the residents of Ungelsheim in 2008 was 51.8 years. Ungelsheim was not only the Duisburg district with the oldest population, but also the "oldest district" in North Rhine-Westphalia. This demographic change was due to the lack of young families moving in, while the first generation of residents, who have largely lived in Ungelsheim since the 1950s and 60s, stayed there. Due to the lack of local food supplies and the closure of the primary school in 2010, which now houses the private St. George's School, it was feared that the development would continue.

To counteract this, u. a. Apartment buildings on the street Am Grünen Hang replaced by private homes. In December 2009 a citizens' association in Ungelsheim was founded with the aim of mediating between the conflicting parties and advocating for the interests of the citizens. In addition, the “Open Culture Group Duisburg-Ungelsheim e. V. ”for an expansion of the cultural activities in Ungelsheim.

Today there are two Christian churches in Ungelsheim: The Catholic St. Stephen parish today belongs to the parish of St. Judas Thaddäus. The pastor of the church is Rolf Schragmann. He also looks after the Sermer and Mündelheim parishes. The evangelical resurrection community with its pastor Rainer Kaspers is responsible for Ungelsheim, Serm, Mündelheim and Ehingen today. Both communities have a problem with young people, which is related to the increasing obsolescence of Ungelsheim. The church of the New Apostolic congregation had to close in 2011 due to this problem. It was demolished in 2016.

Clausthaler Strasse in Ungelsheim

Ungelsheim is still today one of the greenest places in Duisburg and defines itself as such. When the district was founded and designed in 1953, particular care was taken to use only native plant species for greening the area. In the meantime, however, due to the independent planting of the gardens by the owners, strange species have also appeared. On the outskirts of Ungelsheim, near the “Am Heidberg” area, there is a small forest, which, however, was reduced in size by the construction of the CO pipeline in 2008.

After the last supermarket closed in July 2010, the drugstore also had to close. Thus the local food supply is not guaranteed. In today's town center, whose image was shaped by retail in the past decades, there are only a pharmacy, a bakery, a hairdresser, a fashion store and a post office. Most of these shops are only open until lunchtime. On Mondays and Thursdays, Ungelsheim is approached by the Sparkasse bus, which includes an ATM and bank statement printer. In the wider area of ​​the district there are craftsmen and electricians who work across the Ungelsheim city area. On Thursdays there is a weekly market on the Ungelsheim market square near Karl-Harzig-Park, which supplies the population with fresh goods such as fruit, vegetables and meat products. There are also mobile grocery stores, such as B. farmers from the region and the Münsterland as well as bakers who supply the citizens with food several times a week.

Ungelsheim is connected to the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft (DVG) public transport network by two bus routes . Line 940, direction Duisburg-Huckingen St.-Anna-Krankenhaus and direction Duisburg-Rahm Bahnhof, and line 946, direction Duisburg-Huckingen St.-Anna-Krankenhaus and Duisburg-Großenbaum Buscher Straße / Duisburg-Ehingen Ehinger Berg the citizens with the rest of the city.

Web links

• Ungelsheim website of the Open Culture Group Duisburg Ungelsheim eV
• Streets in the district (onlinestreet.de)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population development in the city of Duisburg as of December 31, 2017 (PDF; 21 kB)
2. ^ Günter von Roden : History of the city of Duisburg - The districts from the beginning, the entire city since 1905. Duisburg 1974, p. 340.
3. ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet : Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine. 1. Volume, Düsseldorf 1840, p. 377 (Certificate 540) ( Google books ).
4. ^ Interpretation of the Duisburg place and district names, Hans Pettelkau after a lecture by Prof. Derks to the WGfF district group.
5. ↑ Stefan Ossenberg: The home of a nobleman? . In: Rheinische Post from February 1, 2011, p. C4.
6. ↑ Roden (1974), p. 546.
7. ↑ Roden (1974), p. 546.
8. ↑ Roden (1974), p. 546.
9. ↑ Roden (1974), p. 546.
10. ↑ Roden (1974), p. 574.
11. ↑ Roden (1974), p. 580.
12. ↑ Roden (1974), p. 598.
13. ↑ Roden (1974), p. 547 and population statistics for the city of Duisburg.
14. ↑ Miriam M. Beul: My neighbors, the pensioners , in: FAZ Net from June 13, 2009.
15. ↑ Primary school before the end  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , in: RP Online from June 9, 2010.
16. ↑ GS: Primary school dying in the south of Duisburg , in: Nord-Bote, No. 14, vol. 23 of August 13, 2010, page 2.
17. ↑ Martin Kleinwächter: Only together are we strong . In: The West of December 16, 2009.
18. ^ New Apostolic Church has been torn down , in: WAZ, August 26, 2016, accessed on August 26, 2016.
19. ^ Willi Mohrs: Old? Young? In any case, Ungelsheim is green! , in: Der Westen from May 15, 2011.
20. ^ Sparkasse Duisburg - Mobile Sparkasse stop Ungelsheim, Goslarer Strasse 84.Retrieved on February 26, 2018 .