Westhagen
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Westhagen
City of Wolfsburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 16 ″ N , 10 ° 44 ′ 9 ″ E
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| Height : | 105 m |
| Residents : | 9450 (December 31, 2015) |
| Postal code : | 38444 |
| Area code : | 05361 |
 Location in Wolfsburg
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 Skyscraper on Halberstädter Strasse
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Westhagen is a district of Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony that was created in the early 1970s. It belongs to the so-called "core city".
General
The district is located southwest of the city center, directly on the A 39 . Due to its development within a few years and the associated functional architecture and infrastructure, Westhagen is often counted among the satellite towns . The design of forest and recreation areas, the greening of the residential complexes and extensive renovation measures shape the appearance of this district today. The streets were named after cities in what was then the GDR .
history
The area of today's Westhagen district was not built on before 1950. In 1954 the "Rasthof Wolfsburg" was built on Braunschweiger Strasse, today's Hotel Simonshof. In 1963, the Wolfsburg City Council decided to build a new district west of Detmerode due to the high demand for housing. Planning for the Westhagen district began in 1964, and in the same year a sub-area of today's district, which until then still belonged to Fallersleben or Mörse , was incorporated into Wolfsburg. This area was still uninhabited at the time. In 1966 the council of the city of Wolfsburg decided to start developing the future district and to draw up a development plan for the first quarter. In 1967, lessons began in the Westhagen school center, which is now Heinrich Nordhoff Comprehensive School.
Housing construction began in 1969, and in 1970/71 the first residential buildings were completed and occupied on Stralsunder Ring and Eisenacher Straße. In 1971, a neighborhood house was also opened on Eisenacher Strasse as the first event location in the new district. From March 1972, various stores opened in the first shopping center. In 1972 the first quarter, south of Dresdener Ring, was completed. From 1972 to 1980, the second and third quarters were built within the Dresdener Ring. In 1974 the leisure and education center was opened there, and in 1976 the shopping center. In 1976 the amusement park and the construction playground were opened and the allotment garden association was founded. From 1980 to around 1990, the residential development in Westhagen was completed with the fourth quarter north of Dresdener Ring.
From 2018 to 2020, a large residential complex on Dessauer Strasse, which offered 220 apartments in the center of Westhagen, was demolished.
coat of arms
Westhagen uses the coat of arms of the city of Wolfsburg as a district and locality , since the districts of the "core city" have not yet had their own coat of arms.
politics
Politically, the district is represented by the Westhagen local council. The local mayor is Ludmilla Neuwirth ( CDU ).
Attractions
Gardens of Nations
This is a park near Jenaer Straße. The park offers plenty of seating and opportunities to play chess. Two quarter pipes and a fun box were created for skateboarding and inline skating . There is also a football field. The park contains several gardens and decorative elements.
Art in the cityscape
- Mobile (1973) by Jochen Kramer (Wolfsburg) - Dresdener Ring / Halberstädter Straße. It is a construction with a vibrating concrete body and metal rotating blades that are set in motion by the wind.
Economy and Infrastructure
Companies
The new territory housing association is the oldest Wolfsburg housing companies; in 1979 it moved its headquarters to Westhagen.
The Lebenshilfe Wolfsburg is based in West Hagen; it employs 250 full-time employees. In their workshop in Westhagen, which has existed since 1971, as well as in a branch in the Heßlingen district, there are also 470 disabled employees who work mainly for Volkswagen AG (as of 2011).
The Hotel Simonshof was built in 1954 as a Rasthof Wolfsburg and has been expanded several times since then. In 1987/88 the hotel Strijewski was built , which has been managed by the Novum Hotel Group since 2016 .
Various retail stores and service providers ensure the district's basic supply.
education
schools
- Colorful elementary school
- Rainbow School (Elementary School)
- School center Westhagen, consisting of
- Wolfsburg High School
- Albert Schweitzer High School (ASG)
- Heinrich Nordhoff Comprehensive School (HNG)
- Fallersleben High School (temporary branch)
traffic
Westhagen is located directly on the federal motorway 39 , which was opened to traffic in this area in 1971/72, and can be reached via junction 24 (Wolfsburg-Fallersleben) and 25/26 (Wolfsburg-Mörse).
Religions
The Evangelical Lutheran Bonhoefferkirche (Jenaer Straße 39), named after Dietrich Bonhoeffer , was built in 1995. The architect was Wilhelm Wacker, the artistic interior design was carried out by Stephan Balkenhol . In January 1973 the parish was founded, before that Westhagen belonged to the Paulusgemeinde am Laagberg. 1974–76 the parish hall was built, in which the services took place until the church was built. The sub-center of the parish, the pavilion located between Dresdener Ring and Stralsunder Ring, was already occupied in autumn 1972 and opened in 1973. In 2000 it was sold to the city of Wolfsburg and demolished in 2003. The parish belongs to the Wolfsburg-Wittingen parish, and a day-care center opened in August 1976 (Plauener Straße 1).
The Evangelical Lutheran St. Michaelsgemeinde Wolfsburg belongs to the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church . It was built in the second half of the 1940s, and the official church was founded in 1964. In 1976 their community center was inaugurated (Dresdener Ring 105), before their services were held in different rooms.
The Immanuelgemeinde (Free Evangelical Baptist Congregation ) inaugurated its current community center in 2007 (Dresdener Ring 99), the architect was Carsten Holthuis. The congregation was founded in 1975 and the first members met in an apartment. In 1984 their first parish hall was built on Schweriner Strasse and is used today by the Evangelical Free Congregation.
The Evangelical Free Congregation ( Baptist ) was founded in 1993, the services initially took place in rented rooms in other parts of Wolfsburg. Today's parish hall was acquired around 2010 (Schweriner Strasse 27).
The Mennonite congregation has a parish hall (Neubrandenburger Straße 12). After Mennonite emigrants settled in Wolfsburg in the 1970s, the Mennonite community of Wolfsburg was founded in 1978. In 1984 the construction of their parish hall took place.
The Roman Catholic St. Elisabeth Church (Dessauer Straße 12) was built in 1977/78 and profaned in 2016 . As early as 1972, a Catholic emergency church was located in a barrack in Westhagen. The Catholic St. Elisabeth daycare center remained in Westhagen, and the St. Franziskus daycare center was opened in 2017. The closest Catholic churches today are St. Raphael and St. Marien in the neighboring districts of Detmerode and Fallersleben .
literature
- City of Wolfsburg (ed.): 10 years of the social city of Westhagen. Wolfsburg 2011.
- Parish council of the Bonhoeffergemeinde (ed.): 20 years Bonhoeffergemeinde Westhagen. Wolfsburg 1994.
- Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. 1st edition 2011. ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 120, 124, 126, 156, 162.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Hesse: Wolfsburg, yesterday and today. 2nd edition, Wolfsburg 1968, pp. 55, 56
- ^ Adolf Koehler: Wolfsburg. Building a city. 1948-1968. Wolfsburg, undated (around 1976), pp. 40, 68, 70
- ↑ Stephanie Giesecke: Westhagen concrete colossus is gone. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of June 5, 2020.
- ^ Local councilor Westhagen , accessed on December 21, 2016
- ↑ »Location - GYFA. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
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