Wanheimerort

Wanheimerort is located south of Duisburg city center. In the north is the district of Hochfeld . In the east is the southern part of the Neudorf district with the "Sportpark Wedau". In the south are the districts of Wanheim-Angerhausen , Buchholz and Wedau . In the west the Rhine forms a natural border, the district lies on the right bank of the Rhine . Opposite on the other side of the Rhine is the Rheinhausen district .

history

The district of Wanheimerort in Duisburg takes its name from a Rhine island that existed until the 18th century. Until the Napoleonic period it formed the southernmost tip of the old Duchy of Kleve ( apart from the Wanheim-Angerhausen exclave ).

At the beginning of the 19th century, the entire area was covered by the Duisburg city forest. The clearing and development of the area began in 1841. Since 1846 the main line of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft has crossed the east of Wanheimerort, the former federal road 8 , which runs parallel to it, divides the district in two halves. Larger industrial companies mainly settled along the Rhine, and the population grew rapidly to around 30,000 in the first half of the 20th century. In the 1970s, many industries migrated and jobs were lost.

In 1984, seven people died in an arson attack .

Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd train station and tram stop on Wanheimer Strasse (before 1927)
Duisburg Südhafen in Wanheimerort around 1905

Today's townscape

Weekly market on Michaelplatz

The western part of Wanheimerort is characterized by multi-family houses, here you can also find small and medium-sized industrial companies. These are interrupted by six allotment gardens that form green oases: KGV Am Rheintörchen, KGV Feldmark, KGV Fuchspfad, KGV Hardtmühle, KGV Heimaterde, KGV Grüner Winkel, KGV Kulturstrasse. In the eastern part of the city, the image is determined by smaller houses, lots of green and the access to the city forest.

Michaelplatz is right next to the shopping mile on Fischerstrasse. It is the center of Wanheimerorts. The weekly market takes place on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Several times a year there are actions of clubs or organizations in Wanheimerort, such as the annual "Club Day" in the first half of May, as well as events of the shooting club etc.

Worth seeing

Sandy beach in the Rheinpark

The Rheinpark with its high recreational value is partly (up to the railway bridge, which is worth seeing ) in Wanheimerort and forms a modern urban bridge to the neighboring district of Hochfeld.
Right next to it is the Wanheimerorter Kultushafen , into which part of the Dickelsbach flows.
The Dickelsbach flows in Wanheimerort partially renatured through part of the city forest and the roe deer meadows and the adjacent settlements Tannenhof, Schützenhaus and the Dickelsbach settlement .
Dickelsbach settlement

In 1926/1927 the Dickelsbach settlement with its narrow type houses was built, which is a listed building and part of the route of industrial culture. The settlement has also been used as a film set: a film team led by director Florian Schönherr shot scenes from the film “ Bonanza ” here. In previous years, filming of the Duisburg crime scene with Commissioner Schimanski ( Götz George ) took place here.
In the Dickelsbachsiedlung there is also the fire station of the volunteer fire brigade Löschgruppe 102 Altstadt, founded in 1859, the oldest volunteer fire brigade in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Also in the Dickelsbachsiedlung, in the building of the old police station on Düsseldorfer Straße, is the district association of the SJD "Die Falken".
The Michael-Rodenstock-Haus is located on Posadowskyplatz, in which the Duisburg branch of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union and the Wanheimerort SPD council district office are based. The first two Freifunk nodes / hotspots in Wanheimerort can also be found here.
Jewish grave field in the forest cemetery

The forest cemetery in the south of the district is the largest cemetery in Duisburg. It was designed as a municipal cemetery in the early 1920s as a burial place for various nations and beliefs. In addition to the common row and elective graves, the cemetery also has grave fields for the Jewish , Greek Orthodox and Muslim communities. Some buildings and sections of the complex are under monument protection, including graves and mausoleum of prominent Duisburgers. Many memorials and special grave fields commemorate the victims of the Nazi era . The forest cemetery is connected to the public transport network with a subway station of the same name.
In September 2006, a memorial by the sculptor Arnd Sondermann was inaugurated on Fischerstrasse . It is a gift from the Wanheimerorter Bürgererverein from 1874 e. V. and shows the division of the district into two parts by Düsseldorfer Straße. The stainless steel cable connecting the two pillars symbolizes solidarity and refers to the two cable factories that used to be important commercial enterprises in the district.

In addition to some older houses from historicism and art nouveau, there are also two air raid bunkers in the district. One is on the corner of Eschenstrasse / Nikolaistrasse, the other on Eberstrasse. Both bunkers are now used by amateur musicians as rehearsal rooms. A deep bunker is located under Michaelplatz, it was prepared for disaster control after the Second World War . The bunker is accessible today and can be entered by citizens or passers-by at any time.

Transport links

In Duisburg-Wanheimerort, the tram line 903 of the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft (DVG) runs from Hüttenheim to Dinslaken as well as the Stadtbahn line U 79 of the Rheinbahn and DVG from Düsseldorf to Duisburg- Meiderich .

At the S-Bahn -Haltepunkt Duisburg Schlenk , who at the Cologne-Duisburg railway is located, runs the S 1 of Dortmund Hauptbahnhof via Duisburg Central and Dusseldorf central station to Solingen Hauptbahnhof .

Duisburg-Wanheimerort can also be accessed via exit no.13 on federal motorway 59 .

schools

Karl-Lehr-Realschule

The Wanheimerort district in Duisburg has two community primary schools (Habichtstrasse and Eschenstrasse) and a Catholic primary school (Eschenstrasse). Secondary schools are the secondary school on Hitzestrasse (heat school, running since February 2013 on Gutenbergstrasse / Altstadt) and the Karl-Lehr-Realschule on Wacholderstrasse. There is also a special school on Eschenstraße and the school for hearing and speech-impaired children on Kranichstraße.

Health care social facilities and local supplies

In Wanheimerort, in addition to the Duisburg an den Rehwiesen (Kalkweg) clinic operated by Sana GmbH, almost all specialist medical areas are represented, currently with the exception of a pediatrician practice. Numerous integrative, social and psychosocial institutions are based in the district, such as Rainbow Duisburg, Lebenshilfe, Caritas and, last but not least, the AWO, which, in addition to its model geriatric specialist facility in Schlenk, at the Kranichhof, provides modern, age-appropriate living space and the offers of the family education center. Consultations and integration courses take place right in the center of the district. The carrier is the leader in Duisburg. In the immediate vicinity are on the one hand Fischerstraße and Michaelplatz with a wide range of local amenities and on the other hand Schlenk and Düsseldorfer Straße. Discounters have set up shop on the Kulturstrasse, which is in some cases easily accessible by public transport . In addition, in the area of Eschenstrasse, Rheintörchenstrasse and Forststrasse there are other grocery stores, DIY stores, garden stores and furniture stores.

The handicrafts that characterize Wanheimerort can be found all over the district, with good and varied transport connections.

Parishes and religious communities

Catholic Church of St. Petrus Canisius

The Roman Catholic parish is part of the large parish of Liebfrauen and historically consists of the districts around St. Michael and St. Petrus Canisius. The Protestant community of Wanheimerort consists of the 1st district with the Gnadenkirche and the 4th district with the parish hall Vogelsangplatz and currently has more than 4,000 parish members. There are also several free church congregations: the Duisburg Adventist congregation on Kalkweg, the Free Evangelical congregation on Eschenstraße, and the Christian congregation Ecclesia on Fischerstraße.

The Islamic DITIB community has a mosque on the corner of Fischerstrasse and Wanheimer Strasse. On October 5, 2006, Federal President Horst Köhler and his wife Eva Luise Köhler visited the DITIB community in Wanheimerort.

literature

Schneider: Duisburg-Wanheimerort , Sutton-Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-912-3
Schneider: Duisburg-Wanheimerort: New Pictures from Old Times , Sutton-Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-120-0

Web links

Commons : Wanheimerort - collection of images, videos and audio files

private website about Wanheimerort
Streets in the district on onlinestreet.de

Individual evidence

↑ Population statistics for the city of Duisburg
↑ Sinan Sat: https://www.waz.de/staedte/duisburg/war-es-auslaenderhass-tuerken-starben-bei-brand-in-duisburg-id215868525.html - WAZ, December 11, 2018

[EinwohnerStatistik-1] Population statistics for the city of Duisburg

[2] Sinan Sat: https://www.waz.de/staedte/duisburg/war-es-auslaenderhass-tuerken-starben-bei-brand-in-duisburg-id215868525.html - WAZ, December 11, 2018