Vahrenheide

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Vahrenheide is a district in the north of Hanover and belongs to the Bothfeld-Vahrenheide district .

Location and population

View of the Mittelland Canal

Vahrenheide is bordered in the north by Autobahn 2 and the Kugelfangtrift, in the east by the Holzwiesen road, in the south by the Mittelland Canal and in the west by Vahrenwalder Strasse . In the north Vahrenheide borders on Langenhagen, in the south on Hanover's districts Vahrenwald and List. Vahrenheide has 9,961 inhabitants (2019), of which around 60% have a migration background. Parts of Vahrenheide are considered a social hotspot .

history

View from the street “Alter Flughafen” to the water tower in Hanover

The district takes its name from the Vahrenwalder Heide . Here on August 18, 1903, Karl Jatho is said to have made one of the world's first powered flights . A few years later, the Reichswehr created an airfield here, which became the Hanover-Vahrenwald Airport after the First World War . In 1913 an airship hangar was built here. Since it was viewed as an armaments facility, it had to be demolished in 1918 in accordance with the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . The airport was badly damaged in World War II and was not opened again afterwards. As a replacement, Hannover-Langenhagen Airport was opened in 1952 . The station building, built in 1935, is still standing and was used by the Bundeswehr for years as a district military replacement office.

Vahrenheide today

Franziskuskirche in Vahrenheide

The Evangelical Lutheran Titus Church and the Catholic St. Franziskus Church are located in Vahrenheide , both churches were completed and consecrated in 1964. In 1965 a tram line was opened from Vahrenwalder Straße to Vahrenheide. This route was extended to the new end point Alte Heide in the Sahlkamp district in 1979 on the occasion of the opening of the Stadtbahn service . Today the tram line 2 runs here. There are also many allotment garden colonies .

Vahrenheide-West

The district was planned in the 1950s. The residential areas are characterized by row houses and row developments from the 1950s and 1960s with a lot of greenery. There are sports and tennis courts, an equestrian stadium, an outdoor swimming pool and the Herschelschule high school . There is also a lot of industry there (e.g. Forbo Siegling ) and some furniture stores, e.g. B. Mömax or Küchen Aktuell . The Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein-Kaserne takes up a large area . There is also a model airfield of the Hanoverian Aero Club.

Vahrenheide-Ost

Panel building on Plauener Strasse

In Vahrenheide-Ost, many high-rise buildings were built as large housing estates in the 1970s . Due to the high proportion of social housing, the quarter became a social hotspot . In 2004 a large high-rise complex, the up to 20-storey large residential complex Klingenthal 5–6b, known throughout the city, was demolished. For € 1.2 million, 226 apartments with a total area of ​​17,400 square meters were demolished. The area was rebuilt with row houses, the streets named after Petra Kelly and Lotte Lemke were rebuilt. In Vahrenheide-Ost, two thirds of the residents have a migration background and the unemployment rate is above average.

literature

Web links

Commons : Vahrenheide (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Structural data of the city districts and city districts | Statistics office of the state capital Hanover | City and region statistics | Elections & Statistics | Politics | Living in the Hanover Region | Hannover.de | Home - hannover.de. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ General plan "Allotment gardens in Hanover" | Allotments | Enjoy gardens | Local recreation | Culture & Leisure | Hannover.de | Home - hannover.de. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Website of the Hannoversche Aero-Club eV Accessed on November 23, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 49.3 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 28.4"  E