Weststadt (Schwerin)

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West town
City of Schwerin
Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 2 "  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 39"  E
Area : 3.3 km²
Residents : 11.203  (June 1, 2019)
Population density : 3,395 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 19059
Area code : 0385
Weststadt (Schwerin)
West town

Location of the western city in Schwerin

The Weststadt is a district of the Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania state capital Schwerin , which lies on the Lankower , Medeweger and Osttorfer See .

The Weststadt lies between the districts Medewege , Lewenberg , Paulsstadt , Feldstadt , Görries , Neumühle and Lankow ( starting in the north in a clockwise direction ).

history

In the 17th century the area belonged to the Ratsacker. In 1719 the first inhabitants settled in the suburb . In 1857 Georg Adolf Demmler presented plans to expand the city to include a new part of the city west of the Obotritenring , but these were rejected by the citizens nine years later in 1866. In 1929, 20 apartments were built on Lambrechtsgrund. In front of the two large cultivations were in the area of West Town Nurseries and garden plots .

The Weststadt was Schwerin's first major new development. The district was built from 1955 to the 1970s in four construction phases as a new residential area . In 1955 there was the first more complex city expansion with 430 apartments between Obotritenring and Wittenburger Straße. In 1958, 2000 apartments were built as part of the second construction phase and the sports and congress hall on Lambrechtsgrund from 1959 to 1962 . By 1962 new apartments were built for around 10,200 residents. In 1971 four two-tier schools with sports halls were built. By 1975, a total of 15,000 residents had been built.

The chronological sequence of Schwerin's architectural history can be seen in the buildings in the Weststadt. The first buildings were built as traditional brick houses, then the industrial large block construction was used, which in turn was replaced by the clock line method. In the 1970s, the skyscrapers on Lessingstrasse and Brechtstrasse were built using the so-called tunnel formwork process.

Worth seeing

Panorama restaurant
Sports and congress hall

traffic

In the eastern part of the western part of the city is bounded by the Obotritenring and the federal road 104 .

In addition, Lübecker Straße runs through the district, which, as the name suggests, leads towards Lübeck . Wittenburger Straße also runs through the district, which leads to the neighboring district of Neumühle as well as to the L72 bypass road and also connects the city with the surrounding area, such as the communities of Wittenförden and Klein Rogahn .

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Wüsthoff: 60 years of Weststadt. A district of Schwerin. Production office TINUS, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814380-7-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.weststadt-schwerin.de/
  2. a b c Council of Stat wanted high up. (PDF) In: in-house mail. Schwerin Info, January 1, 2002, accessed on January 18, 2020 .
  3. mara: history on 130 pages: Weststadt for reference | svz.de. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  4. City Chronicle & City History Collections - State Capital Schwerin. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .