Wohltberg

Wohltberg City of Wolfsburg Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 13 ″ N , 10 ° 45 ′ 38 ″ E
Residents :	3314 (Dec. 31, 2015)
Postal code :	38440
Area code :	05361
	Location in Wolfsburg

Wohltberg is a district of Wolfsburg , west of the city center. The central point of this district is the Brandenburger Platz . There is a weekly market there, and there are several shops for daily needs in the immediate vicinity.

history

The district is named after an old field name . In 1938, the year the city was founded, the area of today's district was not built on. In the 1940s there was a dump of rubble that had been moved there from the Rothenfelder potash shaft in 1938; the salt pond is still a reminder today.

The district was built from 1954 to 1960. In 1956 a post office, which no longer exists, was opened on Brandenburger Platz. In 1956 the Victoria Cinema was also built; A REWE supermarket is located in its building today . In 1957, lessons began in the Wohltberg School (elementary school VIII), and the St. Joseph Church was also consecrated. In 1959, lessons began in the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Realschule (Middle School II); today the school building is used by Volkswagen AG for further training purposes. In the 1950s, the church of the religious community Apostle Ministry of Jesus Christ was built, and Jehovah's Witnesses have been based in the district since the 1960s . In 1961 the Church of the Redeemer of the Evangelical Free Church of Wolfsburg ( Baptists ) was inaugurated, previously its church was in the Schillerteich district . The newly built girls' dormitory was opened in 1965, it was sponsored by the CJD and had 86 places. In 1977 the evangelical nursing home for the elderly Hanns-Lilje-Heim was opened. In 2012 the construction of residential houses began on the property of the previously demolished girls' dormitory.

politics

The Wohltberg forms, together with the neighboring districts Eichelkamp , Hageberg , Hohenstein , Klieversberg , Laagberg and Rabenberg the town center-west , by a Ortsrat is represented. The local mayor is Matthias Presia ( SPD ).

Attractions

St. Joseph Church

Apostle ministry of Jesus Christ

Art in the cityscape

Stagecoach on the outer facade of the Wolfsburg 4 post office, which was opened in 1956 by Horus Engels ( Wolfsburg-Neuhaus ) - Brandenburger Platz 22
Mother and Child (1958), fountain with plastic by Peter Szaif (Wolfsburg) - Brandenburger Platz
Siblings (1962) of Gerhard Schreiter (Bremen) - Wohltberg primary school
Reading child (2002) by Hermann Kracht (Wolfsburg) - Wohltberg primary school
Solar fountain (2007) by Peter Fiedler (Moritzburg) and school children - Wohltberg primary school

Churches

The St. Joseph Church , built in 1956/57 by Peter Koller on Oppelner Strasse, was closed as a Roman Catholic church in 2015 and reopened in 2016 by the Protestant "Christ Brothers Community".

Church of the Redeemer ( Baptist ) on Koenigsberger Strasse. Built in 1960 by Hans-Joachim Valentin and inaugurated on October 1st, 1961, extension in 1981 by Hans Hinze. Before that, the community, which was founded in 1950, had an emergency church in the Schillerteich district .

Church of the parish Apostle Ministry of Jesus Christ on Grauhorststrasse. The church was consecrated on October 8, 1961 as the "Johanneskapelle" of the Methodist Church (MK), on January 7, 1968 it was sold again by the Methodist Church.

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses , Wolfsburg-West Congregation , on Schneidemühler Strasse.

education

The Wolfsburg Kolleg , a high school for adults, is located in the district together with the Wohltberg elementary school in the building of the Wohltbergschule, built in 1957.

literature

Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. Building a city. 1948-1968. Wolfsburg, undated (around 1976). Pp. 33-35, 68, 70, 78, 82.
City of Wolfsburg (ed.): Wolfsburg 1938-1988. Wolfsburg 1988. p. 73.
Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. 1st edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 70, 71, 80, 81.

Web links

Commons : Wohltberg - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Eberhard Rohde: The modern city of Wolfsburg retains the old field names. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten of June 21, 2014, p. 12
↑ Verkehrsverein Wolfsburg eV: The most beautiful hiking trails around Wolfsburg. Wolfsburg, around 1949, p. 11
^ Haus & Grund Wolfsburg und Umgebung eV (Ed.): Haus & Grund. Special issue 60 years Haus & Grund Wolfsburg und Umgebung eV Wolfsburg 2014, p. 10.
↑ 60 YEARS OF CJD WOLFSBURG | 1957-2017. Anniversary newspaper of the CJD Wolfsburg, p. 6.
↑ Cathérine Fischer: A touch of magic in the city. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition 28 November 2017.
↑ municipalities. Methodist Church in Wolfsburg, accessed December 1, 2019.

[1] Eberhard Rohde: The modern city of Wolfsburg retains the old field names. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten of June 21, 2014, p. 12

[2] Verkehrsverein Wolfsburg eV: The most beautiful hiking trails around Wolfsburg. Wolfsburg, around 1949, p. 11

[3] Haus & Grund Wolfsburg und Umgebung eV (Ed.): Haus & Grund. Special issue 60 years Haus & Grund Wolfsburg und Umgebung eV Wolfsburg 2014, p. 10.

[4] 60 YEARS OF CJD WOLFSBURG | 1957-2017. Anniversary newspaper of the CJD Wolfsburg, p. 6.

[5] Cathérine Fischer: A touch of magic in the city. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition 28 November 2017.

[6] municipalities. Methodist Church in Wolfsburg, accessed December 1, 2019.