Forest spring (Hildesheim)

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Forest spring around 1903

Waldquelle is a district in Hildesheim 's Moritzberg district . It lies in a cut between Katzberg and Steinberg .

history

There is no longer any evidence of a spring directly at the site, but the Trillkebach flowing through it is fed by springs from the adjacent Steinberg and Marienrode . The forest spring belonged to the independent town of Moritzberg until 1911 . The adjacent forest and pasture areas were largely owned by the "Johannishofstiftung" established by Rainald von Dassel in 1161 and still in existence today, and the Moritzberg Monastery, which was secularized in 1805 . The Steinberg and the nearby urban Trillke-Gut , on the other hand, always belonged to Hildesheim territory.

As early as the 19th century, an excursion and garden bar of the same name was built on site, and film screenings were also held in its hall until the 1950s. From the winter of 1922/23 a first residential area was built behind the forest spring, the Birnbaumskamp . The Nonnenkamp settlement was built almost at the same time. In 1936 the "Gartenstadt" Waldquelle settlement was built immediately to the north and south-west of the restaurant. In the post-war years, further residential buildings and quarters were built “behind the forest spring”.

Towards the end of the Second World War there was at Steinbergstrasse 93, the premises of the restaurant, the “Waldquelle labor camp”, in which 88 Italian civilian workers were housed. These probably worked in the Moritzberg plastic factory in Wetzell. Today the former restaurant has been torn down and replaced by row houses .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Hildesheim City Archives: Hildesheim street names
  2. ↑ s. City of Hildesheim (ed.): Foundations in Hildesheim . Hildesheim 2005, p. 13; Herbert Reyer: Reich Chancellor Rainald von Dassel as the founder of the Johannishospital - the deed of foundation from 1161 (historical documents from the city archive, 67) . In: HAZ from August 3, 2002 (local supplement)
  3. ^ Markus Roloff: Forced Labor in Hildesheim. The labor input for the armaments industry of the Third Reich . In: Hildesheimer Jahrbuch für Stadt und Stift Hildesheim 70/71 (1998/99), p. 188
  4. ^ Andrew Stewart Bergerson: Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times: The Nazi Revolution in Hildesheim. Bloomington / Indianapolis 2004, p. 219

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 '25.2 "  N , 9 ° 55' 48.5"  E