Werder (Magdeburg)

Werder district of Magdeburg

Basic data
Surface:	3.5896 km²
Residents :	3059
Population density :	852 inhabitants per km²
(Information as of December 31, 2016)
Coordinates :	52 ° 8 ' N , 11 ° 39' E Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '55 " N , 11 ° 39' 8" E52.13183 11.65232
Districts / Districts:	Werder Rotehorn Great Werder
Postal code :	39114
Tram lines :	4 5 6
Bus routes :	59

Magdeburg-Werder is a district of Magdeburg located on an Elbe island . It has an area of 3.5896 km² and 3,059 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016).

description

Aerial view of the northern part of the island

The elliptical island that forms the district with a north-south extension of about 4.7 kilometers is located opposite the districts of Alte Neustadt , Altstadt and Buckau . The Stromelbe runs in between, while the Alte Elbe flows east of the island. In the north the island is divided again by an old Elbarm, the Zollelbe . Werder is connected to the rest of the city by three bridges, the North Bridge (consisting of the Jerusalem Bridges and the Bridges of Peace ), the Strombrückenzug ( Neue Strombrücke , Zollbrücke and Anna-Ebert-Brücke ) and the Sternbrücke , which only goes into the western part of the city leads. The district is structurally divided into two parts. Residential development predominates to the north of the current bridge, while the Rotehornpark forms the southern part . With three tram lines and bus transport, the district is easily accessible by local public transport .

historical development

Up until the 17th century there was an island north of today's river bridge, the size of which changed frequently. When the city began to regulate the course of the Elbe in the 18th century, thereby reducing the flow speed of the river, extensive sand deposits occurred in the area of the island, so that two more islands were formed. The largest original island was called Sandwerder, and it reached as far as the northern border of the old town. Another island to the southeast was named Kommandantenwerder. In the middle of the 19th century, all of the islands were merged. Since the Werder was in the run-up to the fortifications of Magdeburg , it was initially not allowed to be built on. Basket makers used the island to cultivate willows , and around 1720 wood storage and transshipment points were set up.

At the beginning of the 19th century the first houses were built and a recreation park was created in the north of the island. During the Napoleonic occupation of Magdeburg in 1812 a large ski jump was built on the northern tip of the Werder as part of the city fortifications . In 1842 a winter shelter was built on the Zollelbe . The Magdeburg - Potsdam railway line, opened in 1846, initially ran over the Werder river. The bridge leading from the western bank of the city was rebuilt several times, in 1895 to a lift bridge , which was extended to the longest lift bridge in Europe in 1934.

When the building restrictions for the fortress site were partially lifted in 1866, increased development began on the Werder, and the first streets with residential buildings emerged. A concert hall was built in the park, which played an important role in Magdeburg's cultural life. Fort XII was built on the southern tip of the Werder in the course of the expansion of the fortifications with an outer ring that was carried out at the same time . In 1870, the city of Magdeburg privately bought six hectares of meadow land in the south of the island in order to create a new city park. The area has been named after the Magdeburg patrician family Rode since time immemorial. Over the years, the original Rodenhagen became the current name Rotehorn, which was also transferred to the new park. Since the western bank of the Elbe was no longer able to cope with the growing volume of shipments, the previous winter shelter in the Zollelbe was expanded in 1880 to become the new Magdeburg transshipment port. However, it soon lost its importance again when the trading port in the north of the city was completed in 1893 . On the other hand, the attractiveness as a residential area increased, and so at the end of the 19th century numerous villas were built by Magdeburg entrepreneurs.

By bomb attacks in January 1945 of Werder considerable damage both the residential and met the Rotehornpark suffered. It was not until 1960 that the building damage began to be repaired. A number of prefabricated buildings for residential purposes were built on the Zollelbe and the town hall was rebuilt in Rotehornpark. In the 1970s, two sixteen-story skyscrapers were added near the bridge. After 1990, numerous new apartments were built with the Elbe center and the Großer Werder settlement. Since 1998, the Central German Broadcasting Corporation has had its state broadcasting center in Saxony-Anhalt on the island.

Buildings

Albinmüller tower in Rotehornpark

The cultural monuments on the Werder are listed in the local register of monuments.

building
- Magdeburg City Hall and Albinmüller Tower in Rotehornpark

bridges

Kozlowskid Monument

Magdeburg winter harbor

Former plants

people

Hubert Materlik (1895–1944), resistance fighter against National Socialism, lived around 1938/1939 while he belonged to a resistance group at Oststraße 4 on Werder.

swell

Magdeburg and its surroundings (= values of our homeland . Volume 19). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1973.
Magdeburg - architecture and urban development, Janos Stekovics publishing house, 2001, ISBN 3-929330-33-4
Georg Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt I, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7
CD Saxony-Anhalt - Official Topographic Maps, State Office for Land Surveying and Geoinformation, 2003

Web links

Commons : Werder - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ District catalog of the Office for Statistics

[1] District catalog of the Office for Statistics