Vennhausen

Vennhausen district of the state capital Düsseldorf
Basic data
Geographic location :	51 ° 13 ′  N , 6 ° 52 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′  N , 6 ° 52 ′  E
Height:	38  m above sea  level
Surface:	3.53 km²
Residents:	10,514 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	2,978 inhabitants per km²
District:	District 8
District number:	083
Transport links
S-Bahn :	S 1
Bus route:	721 722 724 730 735 736 M 1
Night traffic:	NE 6

The district of Dusseldorf-Vennhausen is located in the east of the city Dusseldorf near the Lower Bergisch Land and the southern arm of the Düssel . It is part of borough 8 . The district is predominantly characterized by loose single-family house development from the pre-war period, particularly by the “Tannenhof”, “Freiheit” and “Kolping” settlements. With the “Am Schmiedekotten” settlement, the newest settlement in the district was built in 2013.

location

Vennhausen is located around four kilometers southeast of downtown Düsseldorf on the edge of the Eller Forest , an extensive forest and local recreation area on the eastern edge of the city. In the north Vennhausen borders on Gerresheim , in the east on Unterbach , in the south on Unterbach and Eller and in the west on Eller and Lierenfeld . The southern Düssel flows through the district in a north-south direction.

history

Until a few hundred years ago, Vennhausen consisted only of a swampy area, from which the name of the district ( Venn is a North German word for bog or swamp) comes and was settled accordingly late and then only gradually. In 1809 Vennhausen, under the guidance of Napoleonic rule, was incorporated into the mayor's office of Gerresheim , to which Ludenberg , Erkrath , Bruchhausen, Unterbach , Dorp and Morp also belonged and 42 years later, in 1851, it was combined in the "Samtgemeinde Gerresheim". In 1909 Gerresheim and with it Vennhausen were incorporated into Düsseldorf. In 1872 Vennhausen got a train station, which was located on the border with Eller in the west of the district and was intended to bring the workers to the nearby factories, such as the Gerresheimer Glashütte. The station building was abandoned in the 1970s and now serves as an artist's studio under the name " Kulturbahnhof Eller ". Until the 20th century, Vennhausen was characterized exclusively by agriculture. Settlement did not take place on a larger scale until 1919. The two settlements “Freiheit” and “Tannenhof”, which still shape the cityscape today , were built during the Weimar Republic . The "Kolping settlement" was added at the end of the 1950s. From 2009, another settlement was built on the site of a former paint factory, the “Veenpark”.

Freedom settlement

"Freedom" settlement

When the soldiers returned from the First World War in 1919, the housing shortage in Düsseldorf was great. In the same year, 152 workers from the Schöndorff AG large carpenter's workshop, which had moved from Derendorf to Lierenfeld , founded the “Freedom Community for Workers Building Association”. Under the workers 'and soldiers' councils, the grounds of the forester's yard on Vennhauser Allee were expropriated for the purpose of settlement. The owner of Schöndorff AG, the Jewish industrialist Albert Schöndorff , played a key role in financing the cooperative. So the first 300 apartments were built at this point. From 1927, other housing associations also took part in the project. Parts of the buildings erected at that time are now under monument protection.

Albert Schöndorff was expelled from the cooperative by the National Socialists in 1938. In 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam and deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. In 2005, the city of Düsseldorf named a square in the neighboring Lierenfeld district after Albert Schöndorff.

The Freedom settlement was the core of today's housing association Düsseldorf-Ost , which today rents over 4,512 apartments and has 8,836 members.

Tannenhof settlement

Typical street in the Tannenhofsiedlung

At the time of the Great Depression in Germany 1929–1933, many people in Düsseldorf lost their apartments because they could no longer pay the rent. Black buildings were built on the eastern edge of the city, which was still largely undeveloped. In order to allow this development to run smoothly, the city wrote out several settlement areas on which the unemployed could build their own houses on their own and with the support of public loans. One of these areas was the "Gut Tannenhof" between the freight train route Rath-Eller-Hilden and the course of the southern Düssel. The name of the estate was derived from the fir trees that were planted to achieve better climatic conditions. Even today there are large firs and other conifers in numerous gardens of the settlement .

In 1932 the "Siedlergemeinschaft Tannenhof" was established and building work on the site began quickly. In 1937 , Arnold Emundts , the architect and artistic director of the architecture office of the Reich exhibition "Schaffendes Volk" , built the Tannenhof elementary school. Today around 1200 members are organized in the “Tannenhof Association of Interest”.

leisure

Southern Düssel

Vennhausen lies on the edge of the Eller Forest, which forms part of the eastern Düsseldorf urban forest belt and is a popular leisure area. In the north-eastern part of the district on Rothenbergstrasse is a hill under which there is a former household waste dump that is now overgrown by mixed forest. Further to the east, in the neighboring district of Unterbach, there is the recreation area Unterbacher See , which offers a multitude of leisure activities for bathers of two public baths as well as for surfers, sailors and anglers. This protected area is home to 41 different bird species and around 150 plant species. Right on the border between Vennhausen and Gerresheim, the Düssel divides into a northern and southern arm. The latter flows through Vennhausen and offers a popular promenade. There are also a few riding stables and two sports fields in the district or immediately adjacent.

traffic

The Gerresheim S-Bahn station is located near the city limits . S-Bahn trains of the DB run there: S8 and S68 as well as the regional train S28. Alternatively, you can find the Eller S-Bahn station on the border with Eller , on which the S1 runs. The Rheinbahn bus lines 721, 722, 724, 730, 735, 736, 737, 781 and 891 run in the district area.

Web links

Commons : Düsseldorf-Vennhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Office for statistics and elections of the state capital Düsseldorf: Statistics for the district 083 - Vennhausen
2. ↑ Stop history (s), Freedom settlement, a joint project of the Rheinbahn and the Geschichts-Werkstatt Düsseldorf eV  ( 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.  
3. ^ WOGEDO - Dusseldorf-East housing cooperative
4. ^ Daniel Wiberny: Westdeutsche Zeitung of April 18, 2007, "I don't want to leave here"