Switch (Flensburg)

Soft district of Flensburg
Basic data
Residents	6632 (Nov. 1, 2011)
Coordinates	54 ° 45 '20 "  N , 9 ° 24' 9"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 45 '20 "  N , 9 ° 24' 9"  E.
Spatial assignment
Post Code	24941
District number	06
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The ox path that leads through Weiche
Source: http://www.flensburg.de/politik-verwaltung/daten-zahlen-fotos/index.php

Weiche ( Danish : Sporskifte ) is a district of the independent city of Flensburg . It is located in the extreme southwest of the old town field on the border with Handewitt and the Weding , which has now been incorporated into the town and which has grown together with Weiche on Ochsenweg . Weiche is known nationwide primarily for the handball team of SG Weiche-Handewitt , the predecessor of SG Flensburg-Handewitt until 1990 and the soccer team of SC Weiche Flensburg 08 (until June 30, 2017: ETSV Weiche Flensburg).

location

Weiche is located in the extreme southwest of the city of Flensburg on the low Geest , a good three and a half kilometers from the city center. The Geest floor of the area is, as can already be seen from its location, significantly more sterile than that of the area on the east side of the city (see fishing (peninsula) ). In the west, the Weiche area borders on the village of Langberg in the municipality of Handewitt , in the south on Holzkrug and in the south-east on Weding, both of which are directly connected to Weiche in terms of urban development. In Weiche, the railway loop branches off to the main station . In the east of the district, the old Flensburg-Husumer Chaussee crosses the Ochsenweg , which is still an important connection to the north (to the Padborg border crossing ) today. Part of the Gottrupel village in the direction of Handewitt belongs to Flensburg, but not to the nearby Weiche district, but to the Friesischer Berg district .

Despite the steady growth in the city's development, Weiche remained spatially isolated from it. The railway line towards Denmark separates the switch from the city to a large extent. The Nikolaiallee, which leads from the Exe to Weiche, has even been heavily traffic-calmed. Expensive bridges and tunnel connections, which would reduce the insulation, have been avoided. Today, its residents also perceive Soft as a neglected part of the city, for which there are other reasons. Weiche does not have any relevant old buildings, and its location in the Wiesharde also has no tourist relevance. At the same time, on the edge of Weiche, there are industrial areas with hardly any high-quality building architecture in terms of urban planning. The decline of the railway location did the rest, because part of the identity of the district was previously based on its location near the railway.

history

The area before the district was created

The area previously belonged to the Wiesharde . According to an old legend, a robber baron is said to have lived in the area near the so-called vineyard , as is suspected before the year 1200. He is said to have been attacked and killed by the Flensburgers at the same time as the famous robber baron of Eddeboe . In 1284, the soft area already belonged to the Flensburg city field, but remained undeveloped.

The Alte Husumer Weg has been documented since 1722 . There is another legend of this old country road to Husum , in which robbers are also mentioned (see there ). In 1722, the shepherd's house was set up in the middle of the heather landscape north of today's Weichi . In the 19th century, the St. Nikolai windmill near the intersection of Ochsenweg and Husumer Chaussee (see Mühlental ) and the small Jägerslust estate on the western edge near Langberg were the first places to live. Jägerslust, far to the west of the district, experienced a very independent story in the period that followed. Another single farm, to the north-east of what is now the Weiche district, was the Sophienhof , founded in 1840 , which later functioned as an experimental farm.

The nucleus and development of the district

Approximate location of the vineyard where the Hoenborg is said to have been

Compared to other parts of Flensburg, Weiche is a young district, because its development is not based on a centuries-old settlement tradition. The nucleus and namesake was the junction of the first railway in the area, which resulted in a railway settlement there. After the Flensburg-Tönninger Bahn was opened in 1854, it was to be extended to the north in 1864. Since an extension of the main line ending at the harbor was not possible for urban planning reasons, it was decided to branch off on the southwestern Stadtfeld, the flat terrain of which also made the system more cost-effective. This North Schleswig switch became the basis of a new town. It was only between 1914 and 1919 that Nordschleswigsche Weiche became the name Flensburg-Weiche.

The branch station was built near Ochsenweg, in the course of which in the direction of Husumer Chaussee the first buildings in the village were built. Further residential buildings, mainly with company apartments, were built in the south near the city limits at the marshalling yard, which was to become the largest of its kind in Schleswig during the imperial era . Until well after the Second World War , turnouts were shaped by the railway. Since 1889, the line to Niebüll has branched off from Weiche station . In 1926 a new direct connection to Husum was added, at the same time a new loop was built to the new main station, while the old branch line into the city ​​center was degraded to a freight railway.

In 1910 the village, which had grown rather unevenly, had grown so large that it received its own chapel - the Heilandskapelle - which from then on was run as a subsidiary church of the Evangelical Lutheran main church St. Nikolai , to whose community the southwestern Stadtfeld belonged.

At the time of the Second World War

During the air raids on Flensburg , the train station in Weiche and the Schäferhaus airfield not far to the north were targets of attack several times. On May 6, 1945, a British advance command, possibly with the participation of American soldiers, occupied the area of ​​the airport. Only then, from May 8th to 13th, was the actual city of Flensburg occupied by British troops, with the exception of the Mürwiker special area with the seat of the last imperial government in the east of the city, which was finally occupied on May 23rd.

Switch after the Second World War

Bilingual warning signs still remind of the presence of the Americans in Weiche.

After the Second World War, Weiche, like other parts of the city field, was heavily built on. While small settlement houses were built on Holzkrugweg as early as the 1920s, now mostly three-story apartment blocks were built on both sides of Ochsenweg, especially in the area of ​​Alter Husumer Weg. East of the railway, mainly single-family houses were built, namely in the quarter north of the Ochsenweg around the Heilandskapelle, later also in the south up to the city limits.

During the occupation, around 1946, a Wehrmacht fire extinguisher was converted into an open-air swimming pool for the occupation soldiers. After the occupation troops withdrew around 1950, the city took over the open-air swimming pool for public bathing. From 1955 to 1997 the von Briesen barracks of the Bundeswehr , whose area stretched parallel to Ochsenweg from Alten Husumer Weg to the city limits and also included the now abandoned Jägerslust farm, was characteristic of the district. The Catholic Church of St. Michael was built on Ochsenweg in 1963/1964 , which primarily served the military pastoral care. Furthermore, there was a US garrison in Weiche in the von Briesen barracks, for whose relatives and families a new apartment block was built directly opposite the train station. An English warning sign on the underground car park of the apartment block reminds of this to this day.

In 1959 the last passenger train went to Husum , this line was dismantled in 1972. Passenger traffic to Niebüll was discontinued in 1981 and the Weiche station served almost exclusively as a stop for troop transports, the shunting and freight yard was significantly reduced. In 1960 the Nikolaimühle was demolished. In 1968 the Friedenskirche Weiche, built by the architect Gerhard Langmaack , was inaugurated on the outskirts of the district and the Heilandskapelle was replaced. The Friedenskirche , which is also affectionately known as "Frieda", is still predominantly alone in the field, as the residential development planned there was only carried out to a small extent.

Weiche became known in the 1970s through the handball department of ETSV Weiche . This merged in 1977 with the Handewitter SV to form SG Weiche-Handewitt , which established itself in the second-highest German league and was promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time in 1984. However, when it merged with the handball department of TSB Flensburg, which was also established in the second Bundesliga, to form SG Flensburg-Handewitt in 1990, ETSV Weiche was left out.

Soft since the end of the Cold War

With the end of the Cold War , conversion followed . From the mid-1990s, the image of the district changed significantly. In contrast to the barracks in Mürwik, the barracks were completely abandoned. The disused train station was initially used as a Flensburg-Weiche stop . This offered connection to the main railway lines Neumünster – Flensburg and Flensburg – Fredericia .

With the abandonment of the barracks, a huge area was released for development, the garden city of Weiche was created as a new settlement, in which the barracks that had been converted into terraced houses were also included. The district developed into a growing residential area that takes up a considerable part of the population, which has been rising again since the mid-1990s. Since 1998 the foundation land Schäferhaus (the former military training area Jägerslust) is again free for walking. The sponsorship and sponsoring association Jugendtreff Weiche saved the outdoor pool from being closed in 1998 and has been the leaseholder and operator of the pool ever since. In 2005 the Catholic garrison church of St. Michael was given up.

After the withdrawal of the military, the railway stop at Weiche was of little importance and was finally closed in 2014. The 150th anniversary of the district was also celebrated in 2014.

The residential area near the Friedenskirche, which has been planned for decades, the settlement area on Lecker Chaussee, towards Handewitt, the Gleisdreieck, the Burgweg, and the area at the Scherrebektal have remained largely undeveloped. In the course of the refugee crisis in 2015 , a refugee village was initially built on the Scherrebektal.

With Culturgut in Alten Husumer Weg , the district has its own private cultural meeting place, which opened on July 13, 2016 in the rooms of the former Weiche soldiers' home , later known as Weiche-Hus .

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  Friedenskirche "Frieda" (built in 1967)

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  The station building is now used as a Chinese restaurant

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  Sign for the former Flensburg-Weiche stop

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  Briesen barracks (1958 to 1998)

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  Hunter's Pleasure Monument

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  UNESCO School Weiche

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  The Danish Culture House in Weiche ( Det Danske Hus Sporskifte )

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  Former level crossing at Nikolaiallee / Pellwormer Weg

Culture and sights

The list of cultural monuments in Flensburg-Weiche includes the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of Schleswig-Holstein.

The district Weiche offers only a few sights. The mosquito forest with the outdoor swimming pool on the edge is used for local recreation for the local population. The nearby Schäferhaus airfield has a certain show value .

1970 murder case

On the night of January 7, 1970 , a 20-year-old woman was murdered on the train tracks. A year and a half of investigations yielded no evidence, even the wanted poster was clearly displayed in a scene in the television film Tatort - Strandgut . For decades there were rumors in the village until the Flensburg homicide squad opened the unresolved case again in 2012 . By DNA traces after 43 years it was possible the perpetrator, a then same age Bundeswehrsoldat to convict. However, he could no longer be held responsible because he had already passed away in the summer of 2012.

literature

• Kurt Boljahn u. a .: 125 years of the railway in Flensburg . Freiburg 1979.
• Winfried Brandes & Peter Polath: From the St. Nikolai city field to the Flensburg-Weiche district. A documentation of local history . Flensburg 1997.
• Holger Kaufhold, Eckhard Klein & Detlef Schikorr: 150 years of the railroad in Flensburg: From the Südschleswigschen Eisenbahn to the Deutsche Bahn AG . Flensburg 2004.
• Dieter Pust: Flensburg street names . 2nd revised edition. Flensburg 2005.
• Gerret Liebing Schlaber: Fra opland til bydele. Flensborgs bymark and de indlemmede landsbyer i photo and text approx. 1860–1930 . From the country to the district. Flensburg's Stadtfeld and the incorporated villages in pictures and words approx. 1860–1930. Flensburg 2009.
• Dietrich Weldt: Flensburg in aerial photographs . Leer 1985.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 72
2. ↑ See TBZ, Freizeit in der Marienhölzung ; accessed on December 30, 2015 as well as Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Mühle
3. ^ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 74
4. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 72
5. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 72
6. ↑ Gerhard Paul u. Broder Schwensen (Ed.): May '45. End of the war in Flensburg , Flensburg 2015, p. 211.
7. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 409
8. ↑ Gerhard Paul u. Broder Schwensen (Ed.): May '45. End of the war in Flensburg , Flensburg 2015, p. 211.
9. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, p. 410
10. ^ Parish of the Friedenskirche Weiche . kirchenkreis-schleswig-flensburg.de. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
11. ↑ Pro Bahn criticizes the closure of Flensburg-Weiche , from June 18, 2012 as well as Drehscheibe Online. Homage to the Flensburg-Weiche train station , dated: December 12, 2014; Accessed on: December 31, 2015
12. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : 150 Years of the Flensburg-Weiche: Treasures from a shoe box , dated: October 10, 2013, changed on: April 8, 2015
13. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Graf-Zeppelin-Straße in Flensburg: Resistance against the refugee village , from: November 20, 2015; accessed on: December 31, 2015
14. ↑ Gerhard Nowc: New project: a new cultural center for the city. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . July 4, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : 50 Years of Flensburg-Weiche: Treasures from the Shoe Box , dated: October 10, 2013 and Flensburg Journal : Flensburg Journal number 121  ( 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. , P. 28, from: October 2012 as well as city ​​ordinance on the landscape protection area in the city of Flensburg , p. 7, from March 14, 2001; Accessed on: June 25, 2017  
16. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung : 43-year-old murder case solved , from January 4, 2013; Accessed on: July 12, 2018

Web links

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

Web presence of the ETSV (railway gymnastics and sports club) in Weiche