Wetzlar-Niedergirmes

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Wetzlar-Niedergirmes is the 12th district of the city of Wetzlar . With over 6,000 inhabitants, it is also the most populous.

geography

The Dill grazes the area at the western end, the Lahn forms the southern border . Niedergirmes borders in the north on the Wetzlar district of Hermannstein , in the east on Naunheim and Garbenheim , to the south on the districts of Hauserberg and Neustadt, to the west on the district of Dillfeld .

Niedergirmes lies in the valley of Lahn and Dill on mostly relatively flat terrain (153 m above sea level). The Simberg rises only in the northern part (256 meters above sea level), the slope of which is partially built on.

history

Niedergirmes was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex in 771 and is therefore one of the oldest villages in the local area. The Solms farming village had already taken up the Wetzlarer Siechenhof in the 13th century and has always maintained close relationships with the neighboring imperial city . In 1862 the Wetzlar train station was built on Niedergirmeser district, which reached to the gates of the old town and Langgasse. Heavy industry with blast furnaces and iron processing mainly settled near the train station . Gradually, Wetzlar and the station district grew together through the development of Bahnhofsstraße, and on April 1, 1903, the village of Niedergirmes with the station and industry was incorporated into the city of Wetzlar.

Wetzlar railway station (2007)

The Wetzlar side had longed for this because the Wetzlar train station was in the Niedergirmes municipality; likewise there was a lot of industry in Niedergirmes, u. a. Buderus settled. In the following years, Wetzlar and Niedergirmes grew together.

The proximity of the train station and heavy industry brought Niedergirmes to the heaviest bombings from 1944 onwards , which not only fell victim to numerous houses but also to the originally neo-Gothic Protestant Christ Church (built in 1906, redesigned in 1950, later extensive redesign).

After the Second World War , Niedergirmes developed into a working-class district, and many workers from the Buderus factories settled here. As a result, Niedergirmes also became the home of many guest workers , especially from Turkey , who are still living here in the second and third generation.

At the end of 2004 Niedergirmes was included in the federal and state funding program " Socially Integrative City - Districts with Special Development Needs".

In terms of its social composition and structure, the Niedergirmes district has been shaped by heavy industry and the upheaval in industrial jobs over the past 20 years. In addition to its partly village-like structures, Niedergirmes has urban building structures of apartment buildings of the 20th century with a high need for modernization. 103 different nationalities live in Wetzlar, the Niedergirmes district with over 50% migrants has a special task here. The social structure atlas of the city of Wetzlar assigns the Niedergirmes district to the districts with the highest proportion of disadvantaged living situations and abnormalities.

Infrastructure and traffic

Public transport

Numerous bus lines run through Niedergirmes, lines 007, 12 and 13 of the Wetzlarer Verkehrsbetriebe (WVB) ensure a connection to the city bus service. Other lines from Wetzlar to the Wetzlar area are lines 24, 200, 240, 415 and 471.

The WVB city buses run every 20 minutes Monday to Friday, lines 24 and 240 together form a 30-minute cycle. Lines 200, 415 and 471 run every hour, sometimes with shorter intervals. All lines except line 240 are served on Saturdays, and the city buses and lines 24, 415 and 471 run on Sundays and public holidays.

Public facilities

The Wetzlar-Niedergirmes volunteer fire brigade is located in Niedergirmes. The Buderus Edelstahl fire brigade is also located in Niedergirmes. There are also several kindergartens, the Geschwister-Scholl-Grundschule, the August-Bebel-Gesamtschule and the Werner-von-Siemens-Schule as a vocational school and vocational high school in Niedergirmes; the latter is attended by students from all over the Hessian area due to some so-called state subject classes . There is a large cemetery in the east of the district.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Niedergirmes. Retrieved January 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Location and traffic. Retrieved January 27, 2018 .
  3. ^ Minst, Karl Josef (transl.): Lorscher Codex: German; Document book of the former prince abbey of Lorsch (Volume 5): Donation documents no. 2911–3836 (Lorsch, 1971). Retrieved January 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Information about the Wetzlar core city and the city districts. Retrieved January 27, 2018 .
  5. ^ Frank Rudolph: Church district Braunfels. Retrieved January 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ About 6049 people live in the entire project area. Retrieved January 27, 2018 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '  N , 8 ° 30'  E