Welwyn Garden City
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ N , 0 ° 13 ′ W
Welwyn Garden City is a town in Hertfordshire , England , United Kingdom with a population of 43,252 ( 2001 census ).
Surname
The name Welwyn Garden City (pronunciation: [ 'wɛlɪn ]; German translation: Welwyn Garden City ) is often abbreviated to WGC or Welwyn GC . This is not to be confused with the eponymous neighboring community Welwyn (also Welwyn Village or Old Welwyn ), an independent community 3 to 4 kilometers north of WGC that has existed since the High Middle Ages.
history
Welwyn Garden City is a garden city in the spirit of the Ebenezer Howard movement . Howard himself founded WGC in the 1920s (the second British garden city after Letchworth Garden City ); it was designed by Louis de Soissons.
The city is the birthplace of the idea of "Meals on Wheels" (Eng. " Food on Wheels "). In December 1943, meals were first delivered to needy citizens here by vehicle.
Location and traffic
WGC is located about 35 kilometers north of central London and forms since 1974 with the former rural districts ( "rural disctricts" ) Hatfield and Welwyn the District (since 2006 Borough ) Welwyn Hatfield . Like Hatfield , WGC is increasingly acting as a dormitory for commuters working in London. In 2003 the entire district had around 97,000 inhabitants.
From London in the south, Welwyn Garden City can be reached via the motorway-like A1 (M) , which runs past the city to the west; the A414 branches off from it to the east and passes WGC to the south. The station is of WGC on the route of the East Coast Main Line , a major axis of British Rail , the London over Yorkshire to Scotland leads. At Welwyn it leads over a viaduct from Victorian times over the river valley of the Mimram.
economy
The city's main economic drivers are the food industry , pharmaceuticals industry and computer companies . One of the largest companies is a breakfast cereal manufacturer that is now part of the Nestlé Group. The factory is to be closed, however, because the premises in WGC are too small for the company; production is to be relocated to Devon . The supermarket chain Tesco has a larger branch in the north of the city .
One of the garden city architects' ideas was that all residents should shop in the same department store . Therefore, they set the Welwyn Store as the central point of contact in the city center. Now part of the John Lewis PLC chain of department stores, it is no longer the only one in town.
In 1990 the Howard Center shopping mall, named after the city's founder, opened. According to the organizers, the first “German Easter Festival” in the United Kingdom ( “German Easter Festival” , in the style of a Christmas market ) took place in front of the Howard Center from March 31 to April 17, 2006 .
sons and daughters of the town
The former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor (* 1949), the former band member and lyricist of Procol Harum Keith Reid (* 1946), the musician Chris Barber (* 1930), the actress Briony McRoberts (1957-2013), the soccer player and Goalkeeper of the English national team David James (* 1970), the actor Edmund Purdom (1924–2009), the professional golfer Nick Faldo (* 1957), the long-distance runner Liz Yelling (* 1974), the model Lisa Snowdon (* 1972), the diver Ben Swain (* 1986) and the members of the British indie rock band The Subways were born in Welwyn Garden City.
Ebenezer Howard himself (until his death in 1928), the artist Damien Hirst and Sandra Marshall , a co-founder of the women's movement “Feminenza” , live or lived in the city. Just like Russ Bray , probably the most famous caller (referee, German "announcer") of darts , with his wife and four children.
Web links
- Website about Welwyn Garden City and Welwyn
- District website
- Home. In: whtimes.co.uk. November 30, 2018, accessed December 4, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ^ The origins of WVS Meals on Wheels. (PDF; 24 KB) Royal Voluntary Service, June 17, 2013, accessed on November 8, 2014 .
- ↑ Eating on wheels: Problems with fat and salt. In: test.de . Stiftung Warentest , May 21, 2004, accessed on November 8, 2014 .
- ↑ according to press release s. here ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )