West elevation

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West height
district of Flensburg

Engelsby Friesischer Berg Fruerlund Innenstadt Jürgensby Mürwik Neustadt Nordstadt Sandberg Südstadt Tarup Weiche Westliche HöheLocation of Westliche Höhe in Flensburg
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Residents 7886 (Nov. 1, 2011)
Coordinates 54 ° 47 '18 "  N , 9 ° 25' 41"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 47 '18 "  N , 9 ° 25' 41"  E.
Spatial assignment
Post Code 24939
District number 04
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The Westliche Höhe with the old grammar school and the small Diako church in the background, from the east bank of the fjord.

The Westliche Höhe with the old grammar school and the small Diako church in the background, from the east bank of the fjord .

Source: [1]

The Westliche Höhe ( Danish Vestlige Højde ) is a district of Flensburg . The district is located on the hill west of the Hafenspitze on the Flensburg Fjord .

The rare counter-term “eastern height” describes the district of Jürgensby or the district of Fruerlund .

geography

The Westliche Höhe is on the west side of the fjord, above the Flensburg city center . The district has three city districts, named after the Marienhölzung , the mill cemetery and the church of St. Gertrud . Other areas of the district are named Falkenberg , Marienhof and Magdalenenhof .

history

The west elevation in the past

The Westliche Höhe belonged to the undeveloped urban field of Flensburg in the Middle Ages. How the city came to its large undeveloped city field and the Westliche Höhe is reported in the story of the five evil lords of the castle . After the construction of the city ​​wall , the Westliche Höhe and the adjacent Frisian Mountain were unsurfaced above the city. To protect the city, some ramparts were built there a little later, above the city moat . The area of ​​the Westliche Höhe, to which the Marienhölzung also belongs, was initially used for agriculture and forestry. Parts of the Schwarzenbachtal which lies on the northern edge of the Westliche Höhe are also still quite natural .

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Christiansenpark was laid out on the Westliche Höhe by a Flensburg merchant . A few years later, the park formed a unit with the Old Cemetery , inaugurated in 1813 . After the German-Danish War (1864), Flensburg became part of the new Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein in 1867 . The city began to grow significantly. Construction activity also increased in the Westliche Höhe district. During the Prussian era, villa buildings in the style of historicism were built on the western height . The infrastructure also grew. From the second half of the 19th century, for example, the Burgplatz was built on the edge of the Westliche Höhe to the Duburg district . In 1872, a new cemetery, the mill cemetery, was created on the southern edge of the district . In 1880 the Plaetner-Stift was built on Mühlenstraße . 1881-1883 the deaconess hospital found its location on the Westliche Höhe. As a last resort park was created near the old cemetery in the years 1900 to 1903, the city park .

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the city developed more and more into a military town . In Mürwik was Torpedo Station , the nucleus of the support point Flensburg-Mürwik established. In 1900, a military court building was also erected on the western height , which was associated with the Prussian units , most of which were stationed in the Duburg barracks (in the Duburg district). The city kept growing. The new villa buildings on Westliche Höhe were realized in Art Nouveau style after 1900 , for example the Jens-Jessen-Haus in Selkstrasse . Between 1900 and 1903, the Heinrich Sauermann House (still the city's most important museum today) was built in the neighboring district of Friesischer Berg , not far from the Old Cemetery . In 1902 another important structure was built. The old water tower found its place in the height area between Christiansenpark and the mill cemetery. In 1912–1914, the old grammar school was built near the city park , which since then has clearly towered over the western slope.

In the period after the First World War , new villas continued to be built on the Westliche Höhe, but since 1918 increasingly in the expressionist style . Other monastery buildings were also erected in the area of ​​the Westliche Höhe. In 1921/22 Nerongsallee three monastery buildings were built for old people, the Heinrich and Minna Schuldt monastery (Nerongsallee 46-46a), the Anthon monastery (Nerongsallee 44) and the old people's home of the Flensburg merchants (Nerongsallee 42). At Burgplatz, the Flensburg tax office was finally established in 1923/24 . - The buildings mentioned and others are still there today. Many of them have since been registered as cultural monuments of the district .

In Walter-Flex-way , had shortly after the Second World War, the volatile Nazi Werner Heyde a terraced house.

In the last days of the Second World War , a large number of the remaining Nazi greats fled via the so-called Rattenlinie Nord in the direction of Flensburg; because there in the district Mürwik the special area Mürwik was created with the last imperial government under Karl Dönitz . Among other things, it was possible for the great refugees in Flensburg to receive false papers. Several of the Nazi greats ultimately went into hiding on the Westliche Höhe, including the euthanasia doctor Werner Heyde , who owned a row house in Walter-Flex-Weg 16 and was given a false name as Dr. Fritz Sawade "until his exposure in 1959 again created psychiatric reports for offices and courts". - In 2008 the Pilkentafel theater workshop staged the play “Westliche Höhe”, which dealt with the hiding of the Nazi greats in the district.

In the years 1951-1954 the St. Gertrud Church was built.

The west elevation nowadays

The district, directly west of the Flensburg city center, is a popular residential area and is well connected to the transport network thanks to the western bypass . Marienhölzung , where the legendary Eddeboe is located, takes up about 50% of the area of ​​the district . The Westliche Höhe no longer has any new building area. The suburb of Harrislee is located right next to Westliche Höhe , where the development continues. But there is a trend that old villas are being torn down in favor of new, larger residential complexes. In addition, the extremely large area of ​​the police sports club on Westerallee was also apparently under discussion as a building site, which is also used by the Falkenberg School, but which actually also has its own sports field, which is already very large compared to other primary school sports fields in the city. Construction activity in the Western amount is therefore due to densification likely to increase in the coming years.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Active pensioners, torsdagsholdet (Ed.): Flensborgs gadenavne . Flensburg 1995, p. 6 .
  2. ↑ Cf. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 408
  3. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Techno-Party annoys eastern height , from: July 31, 2012; Retrieved on: April 28, 2015
  4. ^ City districts, published by the City of Flensburg ( Memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Cf. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 413
  6. ↑ 150 years of the Flensburger Tageblatt. Flensburg under the Pickelhaube. In: Flensburger Tageblatt of January 29, 2015; accessed on: October 10, 2019
  7. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Flensburger Architektur: The houses of the well-heeled , from: August 12, 2015; accessed on: October 10, 2019
  8. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Flensburger Architektur: The houses of the well-heeled , from: August 12, 2015; accessed on: October 10, 2019
  9. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Flensburger Architektur: The houses of the well-heeled , from: August 12, 2015; accessed on: October 10, 2019
  10. ^ Gerhard Paul : Zeitleile: Flensburger Kameraden , from September 8, 2013, accessed on January 23, 2016
  11. ↑ See Stephan Link: "Rattenlinie Nord". War criminals in Flensburg and the surrounding area in May 1945. In: Gerhard Paul, Broder Schwensen (Hrsg.): Mai '45. End of the war in Flensburg. Flensburg 2015.
  12. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! Flensburg 2009, article: Reich capital.
  13. ↑ Bernd Philippsen: Nazi euthanasia criminal in Flensburg: Werner Heyde: The doctor without a conscience. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . September 1, 2015, accessed September 10, 2015 .
  14. ↑ See documentation Der Führer went - the Nazis stayed - post-war careers in Northern Germany (minute 19:32) as well as Der Spiegel : NS crimes. Euthanasia. Handful of Asche , dated: August 1964, p. 37; accessed on: February 10, 2019
  15. ↑ Bernd Philippsen: Nazi euthanasia criminal in Flensburg: Werner Heyde: The doctor without a conscience. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . September 1, 2015, accessed September 10, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Culture Prize for the Pilkentafel , from: July 17, 2009; accessed on: May 4, 2018
  17. ^ District - Westliche Höhe; Retrieved on: June 29, 2014
  18. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : District forums in Flensburg: A coveted residential area , from: January 6, 2016; Retrieved on: January 9, 2016
  19. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Ailing sports facilities in Flensburg: The sport falls by the wayside , from: September 19, 2015; Retrieved on: January 9, 2016

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