Fritz Heckert residential area

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Basic data
Area : 7.5 km²
Residents : approx. 90,000 (1990)
Population density : approx. 8,300 inhabitants / km²
(1990)
View over the "Fritz-Heckert-Area", approx. 1976 (in the foreground Südring and Paul-Bertz-Straße)
View over the "Fritz-Heckert-Area", 2004 (from Alfred-Neubert-Straße to the northwest)
Expansion, with scale

The residential area Fritz Heckert , colloquially also Fritz Heckert area or Heckert area for short , named after the Chemnitz KPD politician Fritz Heckert , was the name of a prefabricated housing estate in Karl-Marx-Stadt . It was the third largest, and at times the second largest, new development area in the GDR . Since 1974 apartments in large panel construction have been built in the districts of Helbersdorf , Markersdorf and Kappel , in which almost 90,000 citizens lived in 1990. The area was divided into eight building areas, seven of which were completed, the "building area 6" (between Südring , Stollberger- and Wladimir-Sagorski -Straße ), which was to form the social center, was only opened after the fall of the Wall when a shopping mall was built and leisure center realized. The original villages of Helbersdorf and Markersdorf have been preserved within the new development area . After the reunification, the name Fritz Heckert residential area was replaced by the original Chemnitz district names.

After the reunification, prefabricated building areas quickly lost their attractiveness everywhere in the former GDR and many residents moved out. The result was a high vacancy rate, so that in 1998 the demolition and renovation began. Whole rows of houses disappeared, e.g. B. in 2001 on the upper Volgograd avenue to make room for small single-family houses that were to be built from 2006. Of the original 31,000 apartments in the former Heckert area , around 11,000 residential units had been demolished by 2009. In addition, some of the higher building units have been shortened to fewer floors.

history

Transport of large panels in Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1975
Prefabricated buildings in the former "Fritz Heckert area"; here the Johannes-Dick-Straße in 2003. The houses standing straight to the right have since been demolished.
Many prefabricated buildings have been renovated since reunification.

On October 5, 1974, the foundation stone for the largest housing program in what was then Karl-Marx-Stadt was laid on Karl-Winter-Strasse (today again Scheffelstrasse ). By the mid-1980s, 24,900 apartments were to be built here in six, and later 37,000 apartments in eight construction areas. On both sides of Stollberger Strasse , the first houses were built using the panel construction , which was then considered modern and inexpensive . At the end of the construction work, 31,337 apartments had been completed. The "Fritz-Heckert area" ranged from the "Kappel-Kaufhalle" (opened in 1974 as the most modern of its kind in what was then the Karl-Marx-Stadt district ) to the corridors of Neukirchen - Neukirchen itself even became part of the in 1981 Stollberger Strasse still incorporated into Chemnitz. The apartments were popular with the people of Chemnitz, as they were equipped with district heating and a toilet within their own four walls.

The first steps had already been taken a few years earlier, as a “test run” so to speak. On the Kappler slope, on Irkutsker Straße , the first prefabricated apartment buildings were built in 1972/73 in the so-called “building area 0”. On January 1, 1973, the first 55 apartments were handed over there.

traffic

The "Fritz-Heckert area" was connected to the city center by tram line 5 of the "VEB Nahverkehr Karl-Marx-Stadt" (today CVAG ) via Annaberger Strasse and Südring . At first it only drove as far as the “old” turning loop near Vladimir-Sagorski-Straße. It was not until 1981 that the extension of the route to the new terminus on Volgograder Allee began. Line 7 took the tram to Gablenz and line 8 to Schönau . The tram line 4 planned in the 1980s, which was to run along Stollberger Straße to the city center, was only completed after the fall of the Wall and fully opened in 2004.

You could also get to the "Heckert" by bus. Line 49 ran from the central stop (Moritzstraße bus stop) via Altchemnitz and Helbersdorf to Markersdorf to the upper Burkhardtsdorfer Straße. From Hp. “Markersdorf” (above the tram turning loop of lines 7 and 8) line 39 began via Siegmar to Schönau (final stop line 1 / Popowstraße) and then on to the central stop. Line 34, also starting at Hp. “Markersdorf”, drove along Stollberger Strasse to Friedrich-Hähnel-Strasse. From there you took the line 44 to Heinersdorf and the line 55 - both via the central stop - to Borna (cast steel combine). From Helbersdorf (city park) you could take the 38 to Rottluff (old turning point on tram line 3). The 48 drove in the ring traffic from the middle Volgograder Allee via Stelzendorf, Siegmar and Kappel back to the Wolgograder Allee. A terminal was also set up at Morgenleite, opposite the former “Heiterer Blick” inn, for line 43, which went via Bernsdorf, Gablenz, Schloßchemnitz and Glösa to Draisdorf, and for line 46, which, along Stollberger Strasse, headed for the main train station. Line 51 also began here, going from here over the Südring to Siegmar. (As of February 15, 1990)

The Südring runs through the area, which connects the former industrial sites in Altchemnitz and Schönau from east to west . Its junctions in the "Heckert" were Ústí nad Labem street, Stollberger street, Wladimir-Sagorski- / Helbersdorfer street and the confluence with Markersdorfer street (further on Wolgograder Allee). The B 169 (Stollberger Straße) cuts through the area in a north-south direction.

Building areas

Building area district Establishment Streets
0 Chapel 1972-1973 Irkutsk Street
I. Helbersdorf 1974-1979 At the Stadtpark, Carl-Bobach- , Friedrich-Hähnel- , Helbersdorfer Straße, Paul-Bertz- , Scheffelstraße and Wenzel-Verner-Straße
II Chapel 1974-1979 Dr. Salvador Allende Street and Ústí nad Labem Street
III Markersdorf 1975-1981 Kurt-Schneider-, Otto-Hofmann- and Robert-Siewert-Strasse
IV Markersdorf 1975-1981 Faleska-Meinig- and Wilhelm-Firl-Strasse
V Morning run 1977-1982 Albert-Köhler-, Bruno-Granz-, Johann-Richter- and Max-Türpe-Straße
VI Morning run 1982 Max-Schäller-Strasse
VII Markersdorf 1979-1984 Alfred-Neubert-Straße, Am Harthwald, Arno-Schreiter-, Ludwig-Kühn- and Max-Müller-Straße
VIII Hat wood 1983-1988 VIII / 1 : Ernst-Wabra- , Friedrich -Viertel- , Fritz-Fritsche-, Johannes-Dick-Straße and Wolgograder Allee ; VIII / 2: Marie-Tilch-, Max-Opitz- and Walter-Ranft-Straße

Airfield

The "Ikarus" is now used as a supermarket.

Chemnitz Airport was built in 1925/26 on today's Stollberger Straße . Before the Second World War he was z. B. Stopover on the Dresden - Nuremberg line . The cities of Leipzig and Prague , at times also the seaside resorts of Karlsbad and Marienbad , were served by flights. After the war, initially used as a landing pad for gliders, the runway was pulled in for the construction of the “Fritz Heckert area” - the reception hall of this airfield, called Ikarus , is still standing today.

present

Building area II (2018) with Sachsenhalle
Building area V (2018), in the background building areas VII and VIII

In 2004 a little more than 43,000 people from Chemnitz lived in the "Heckert". Many residential buildings have been demolished since 1998. The remaining substance was and is being repaired to improve the quality of living.

In the meantime, the name “Fritz-Heckert-area” has disappeared from the city maps, although many Chemnitz residents still use the name for this area, which is characterized by prefabricated buildings. Today the districts of Kappel, Helbersdorf, Morgenleite, Hutholz and Markersdorf are located here.

General

Postcodes

The "Fritz-Heckert area" was divided into the following postcode areas: 9043, 9044, 9047, 9050, 9051, 9052 and 9053 (Markersdorf village). Since the introduction of the five-digit postcodes in 1993, the following have been used: 09119, 09120, 09122 and 09123.

Former schools (selection)

  • Albert-Schweitzer -Oberschule ( POS ), Alfred-Neubert-Straße (converted as an age-appropriate building with barrier-free apartments, move to the building of the Nikolaus-Kopernikus-Mittelschule)
  • Charles-Darwin -Oberschule (POS), Alfred-Neubert-Straße (today Charles-Darwin-Elementary School)
  • Dr. Salvador Allende High School (POS), Ústí nad Labem Street
  • Georgi Dimitroff High School (POS), Ústí nad Labem Street, today the "Am Flughafen" high school
  • Klement Gottwald High School (POS), Ústí nad Labem Street (demolished)
  • Wenzel-Verner -Oberschule (POS), Friedrich-Hähnel-Straße (later Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium, house 1, demolished in 2005)
  • Friedrich-Hähnel -Oberschule (POS), Friedrich-Hähnel-Straße (later Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium, house 2, demolished in 2005)
  • Carl-Bobach -Oberschule (POS), Friedrich-Hähnel-Straße (now "Primary School at the City Park" and special educational support center)
  • Hans-Sager-Grundschule, Ernst-Wabra-Straße was closed for the 2013/14 school year. The gym is still used by various clubs. The school with the special focus on language "Ernst Busch" Chemnitz is currently located in the building
  • Kurt-Schneider-Oberschule (POS), Dittersdorfer Straße (demolished)
  • Max-Opitz- Oberschule (POS), Ernst-Wabra-Straße (canceled)
  • Nikolaus-Kopernikus -Oberschule (POS, with school planetarium), Albert-Köhler-Straße , then Nikolaus-Kopernikus-Mittelschule (with school planetarium and observatory), after renovation of the outer shell at the end of the 2003/04 school year, it was closed at the end of the 2007/08 school year, reopened at the School year 2008/09 as Albert Schweitzer Oberschule (school planetarium and observatory remained in the building)
  • Otto Hofmann Oberschule (POS) Dittersdorfer Straße (demolished)
  • Robert Koch High School (POS), Alfred-Neubert-Straße (demolished)
  • Rudolf-Keller-Oberschule (POS), Johannes-Dick-Straße (demolished)
  • Albert-Einstein-Oberschule (POS), Max-Türpe-Straße (today's Albert-Einstein-Elementary School)
  • Michael-Iwanowitsch-Kalinin-Oberschule (POS), then Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium (closed)
  • Johannes Dieckmann High School (POS)
  • Wilhelm-Firl-Oberschule (POS), Dittersdorfer Straße 146c , then Blaise-Pascal-Mittelschule (closed) , reopened as a creative elementary school after renovation of the building
  • Max-Uhlig-Oberschule (POS), Marie-Tilch-Straße (demolished)
  • Nikolai-Ostrowski-Oberschule (POS) (Irkutsker Straße) (demolished 2011), Kappel
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky High School (POS), (Irkutsker Straße) (later Leibniz Gymnasium) (demolished in 2011), Kappel

Supply centers

  • VZ Max-Türpe-Straße with restaurant "Südblick" and post office 43 (closed in 1993)
  • VZ Robert-Siewert-Straße with "Meeting Point Kulturhaus Markersdorf" and Post Office 47 (closed)
  • VZ Paul-Bertz-Straße with "Kulturzentrum Fritz-Heckert" and restaurant "Südring" (canceled in 2012)
  • VZ Alfred-Neubert-Straße with the "Baikal" restaurant and post office 51 (today the post office)
  • VZ Kappel, Stollberger Str. And Post Office 44 (closed)

Web links

Commons : Wohngebiet Fritz Heckert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://cms.sachsen.schule/gsdarwin/
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news-chemnitz.de
  3. ↑ contact. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 12.5 "  N , 12 ° 52 ′ 58.2"  E