Weimar-North

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Weimar-North
City of Weimar
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 47 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 7 ″  E
Area : 1.83 km²
Residents : 5808  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 3,174 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 99427
Area code : 03643

Weimar-Nord has been an independent district of Weimar in the federal state of Thuringia since 2001 , whose origins as a residential area were created in the early 1960s. It is located on the north-western periphery at the foot of the Ettersberg and was built as a prefabricated housing estate. In the south it borders on Weimar-West , the Weimar – Erfurt railway line is the border between the two districts.

history

For a long time, Weimar-Nord was only a transit area to Weimar from the direction of Ettersburg . In 1885 the area became the seat of the carpenter company Hetzer (later a stock corporation ) of the Grand Ducal court carpenter Otto Hetzer , which existed until 1926 and with patented wooden trusses developed by Otto Hetzern, with which large-scale, pillarless factory and storage halls could be built inexpensively , wrote a piece of industrial history. The Hetzer halls are under monument protection.

In the 19th century, several commercial areas developed north of the freight station and along Ettersburger Strasse. The Wehrmacht settled here and in the 1930s created the Lützendorfer barracks , used by the Red Army as a victorious power from 1945 to 1994 .

With the laying of the foundation stone of the so-called experimental building in 1962 in today's Heldrunger Straße, the pace of development into a residential area increased. Most of the residential buildings were built between 1972 and 1978. The comfort of a new apartment - district heating, hot water, balcony -, the communal open spaces and the good social and age-related mix of residents made Weimar-Nord a popular residential area in Weimar. Many employees of the Weimar factory and the Weimar clock factory were at home there with their families. Between 1965 and 1986, 2,734 apartments of various sizes were built in Weimar-Nord.

Extensive renovation measures began in 1994. The western bypass eased the traffic situation from 1998 onwards. In 1999, the foundation stone was laid for a model project that offers living options for several generations with appropriate supply facilities. For the Expo 2000 in Hanover, Weimar-Nord was the decentralized location of the world exhibition as a model for the revitalization of residential areas of the block and panel construction. Deficits in the design of the open space and the connection to the surrounding area could be minimized.

present

The 1.83 km² district of Weimar-Nord is mainly characterized by now completely refurbished prefabricated multi-family houses from the GDR era as well as multi-family houses built after 1990 with a total of around 2600 apartments.

From 1990 there was a decrease in the population. Meanwhile, the number of inhabitants has remained constant, there is almost no vacancy. A large number of the apartments are managed by the municipal Weimarer Wohnstätte GmbH and the non-profit housing cooperative Weimar eG.

The district now has a very good infrastructure. Its center, with numerous shopping malls, is located west of the Marcel-Paul- Strasse and Allstedter Strasse intersection at the WohnenPlus -Haus, where three ten-story high-rise buildings of the Erfurt 1 type, built between 1966 and 1967, characterize the townscape.

Population development

Population development
year population
December 31, 1989 5,979
December 31, 1993 4,932
December 31, 2005 5,477
December 31, 2008 5,326
December 31, 2010 5,448
December 31, 2011 5,422
December 31, 2018 5,808

traffic

The connection to local public transport is good: A city bus provides a direct connection to the main train station and the city center.

literature

  • Manfred Dieck and Peter Zeh: Weimar-Nord - Chronicle of a district of the city of Weimar 1900–2008 . Ed .: Local council Weimar-Nord. Weimar 2009 (57 pages).
  • Gitta Günther u. a. (Ed.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Böhlau, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 .
  • Gerhard Jung: Assisted living in Weimar-Nord - Documentation of the results of the accompanying research. Wüstenrot Foundation (ed.). IfS, Institute for Urban Research and Structural Policy. Ludwigsburg 2000, volume 206 pages, ISBN 978-3-933249-47-0
  • New living in Weimar-Nord - urban planning ideas competition with structural consolidation. Edited by Wüstenrot-Stiftung Deutscher Eigenheimverein eV Stuttgart and Zurich 1997, 63 pages, ISBN 978-3-7828-0213-0
  • Katrin Zapf: Tenant Study Weimar-Nord 1994 . Edited by the Institute for Urban Research and Structural Policy, Client: Wüstenrot Stiftung Deutscher Eigenheimverein eV Ludwigsburg. Stuttgart 1995, volume 222 pages, ISBN 978-3-8167-4099-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Dieck and Peter Zeh: Weimar-Nord - Chronicle of a district of the city of Weimar 1900-2008 . Ed .: Local council Weimar-Nord. Weimar 2009, p. 35 .
  2. ↑ http://otto-hetzer.de/biografie.html , accessed on October 14, 2019
  3. ↑ Manfred Hartung: The settlement of the military in Weimar-Nord , pdf (8 pages) from March 2017, accessed on October 12, 2019
  4. ↑ Manfred Dieck and Peter Zeh: Weimar-Nord - Chronicle of a district of the city of Weimar 1900-2008 . Ed .: Local council Weimar-Nord. Weimar 2009, p. 10 .
  5. ↑ https://www.stiftung-wohnen-plus.de/Wohnen/WE-Nord/ , accessed on October 13, 2019
  6. ↑ Each of the three high-rise buildings originally had ten one-room and two 2-room apartments per floor, making a total of 120 apartments. The three houses were rebuilt and renovated between 1996 and 1998: While the original structure of the co-operative house Allstedter Straße 3 was retained, the houses Allstedter Straße 1 (private community of owners) and 5 (Weimarer Wohnstätten GmbH) were fundamentally changed, in which several 1- Room apartments were converted into 2 and 3 room apartments. Ten 1-room, ten 1.5-room, 40 2-room and ten 3-room apartments have now been built at Allstedter Straße 5. - Source: Information boards on the history of the district of Weimar-Nord on the meadow west of the intersection of Marcel-Paul-Strasse and Bonhoefferstrasse
  7. ↑ https://www.weimar-nord.de/zweitindex.php?ue_1=ortteile&ue_2=wohnen , accessed on October 12, 2019
  8. ↑ Weimar-Nord on Weimar.de
  9. ↑ Manfred Dieck and Peter Zeh: Weimar-Nord - Chronicle of a district of the city of Weimar 1900-2008 . Ed .: Local council Weimar-Nord. Weimar 2009, p. 10 .
  10. ↑ Manfred Dieck and Peter Zeh: Weimar-Nord - Chronicle of a district of the city of Weimar 1900-2008 . Ed .: Local council Weimar-Nord. Weimar 2009, p. 24 .