Wolfen-Nord
Wolfen-Nord is a district of Wolfen , which in turn has been a district of Bitterfeld-Wolfen since 2007 . The satellite town emerged from 1960 as the residential town of the Bitterfeld chemical workers. In 1989 Wolfen-Nord had 35,000 inhabitants, at the end of 2008 only 11,117 and at the end of 2018 there were 6,600 left.
geography
Wolfen-Nord lies west of the Mulde between Dessau in the north and Leipzig in the south. The district was built between the villages of Siebenhausen in the north-west, Bobbau in the north, the town of Raguhn-Jeßnitz in the east, Wolfen-Steinfurth in the south and Reuden in the south-west. The old town of Wolfen is about three kilometers south.
structure
Wolfen-Nord was divided into seven residential complexes:
| Residential complex | location | Apartments 2002 | Apartments demolition (by 2010) |
Remaining apartments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Between the street of the chemical workers, Dessauer Allee and Leipziger Straße in the east of the city | 1,935 | 0 | 1,935 |
| 2 | Between Bobbauer Straße, Paracelsusstraße and Dessauer Allee | 1,520 | 184 | 1,336 |
| 3 | Between the construction workers 'ring, the chemical workers' road and the connecting road | 3,430 | 512 | 2,918 |
| 4-1 | Between Bobbauer Strasse, Siebenhausener Strasse, Paul-Taube-Ring and Am Nordpark | 1,286 | 1,286 | 0 |
| 4-2 | Between Bitterfelder Strasse, Fuhnestrasse, Willy-Sachse-Strasse and Am Nordpark | 1,212 | 1,212 | 0 |
| 4-3 | Between Wittener Straße, Fuhnestraße, Paul-Taube-Ring and Siebenhausener Straße | 1,396 | 1,396 | 0 |
| 4-4 | Between Wittener Strasse, Fuhnestrasse and Bitterfelder Strasse | 2,857 | 764 | 2,093 |
| total | 13,636 | 5,354 | 8,282 |
Residential complex 1 is a four-story old new building from the 1960s, which at that time was still built using the stone-on-stone construction method. Complexes 2 and 3 were built in the 1970s as five-storey prefabricated buildings , although in complex 2 these were still built in rows , while in complex 3 they were already connected to form rectangles.
The four parts of the residential complex 4 were built in the 1980s. Round prefabricated buildings were also erected and all buildings were connected to neighboring buildings, so that ring-shaped and spiral-shaped systems were created.
The main street in the area is Chemical Workers' Street. Complexes 4-3 and 4-4 were built west of Complexes 2 and 3; In between, a wide area was kept free for a S-Bahn line, which, however, was never realized. To the east of it were complexes 4-1 and 4-2. The construction of the north park started in this area.
history
Wolfen was founded in 1909 as a workers' town for the employees of the Agfa film works. Together with the neighboring cities and communities, it experienced an upswing from the First World War, as the chemical industry located here began to develop. It was favored by rich lignite deposits and good infrastructure (fertile soil, fast rail connections to Berlin and the ports, etc.). The result was an industrial conurbation that, with Bitterfeld as its center, became part of the Central German Chemical Triangle . After the chemical industry picked up again in the 1930s as a result of technical progress and the self-sufficiency programs during the National Socialist regime , after the Second World War it became the most important branch of industry in the young GDR alongside mechanical engineering in the Chemnitz area. As the many workers needed could not be accommodated according to their needs, the SED decided to build a large new town in the Bitterfeld area. The area north of Wolfen was ideal because of its good connections to the train and motorway, so that around 1960 the first of almost 15,000 apartments were built. By 1990, around 35,000 people moved to the new city with its comfortable prefabricated apartment buildings with bathrooms and heating, while shared toilets and coal stoves were the order of the day in old buildings. The population of neighboring communities such as Greppin or Jeßnitz then decreased noticeably. In 1990 Wolfen had around 45,000 inhabitants, 35,000 of whom lived in the newly built town of Wolfen-Nord.
The German reunification in 1990 brought in a row by the Trust possessed settlements of combines for the new city drastic changes. Residents who in the large factories in the city, including the chemical combine Bitterfeld , the electrochemical Bitterfeld , the brown coal mining , the industrial and Kraftwerksrohrleitungsbau Bitterfeld and Wolfen film factory (ORWO), worked, often lost their jobs. The state- owned companies were closed. Some new plants, for example those of Bayer or Linde , were relocated, but thanks to new technology they managed with far fewer workers. A second consequence of the reunification was the declining popularity of prefabricated apartment blocks, which were perceived as too anonymous and were favored by tenants in the meanwhile renovated old buildings. A third consequence is the decline in the birth rate and migration to the old federal states. This ensured that many working people moved to the redeveloped old towns or their own homes, and young families in particular went to West Germany. Older people and socially disadvantaged people stayed behind. Many elderly people live in complexes 1 and partly 2 and 3, which were completed early, while in the 1980s mainly young people lived in complex 4, many of whom left Wolfen-Nord after the reunification.
From 2000 onwards, the enormous vacancy rate was countered with demolition and area upgrading. The Wolfen city administration reacted much more quickly to the changed situation than is the case in other East German cities. The city founded the Erneuerungsgesellschaft Wolfen-Nord mbH together with the municipal utilities and the housing cooperatives , which in 2002 created a dismantling concept that was implemented by 2010. Until 2017, u. a. 900 more apartments in Auenstrasse and Grünstrasse were demolished. The complete dismantling of complex 4, which has now largely been empty, is planned for 2020.
traffic
Wolfen-Nord is on federal highway 184 , which connects it with Dessau in the north and Leipzig in the south. In the east of the residential area, Jeßnitz station is on the Leipzig – Dessau railway line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual Statistical Report 2018 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of July 1, 2016: Demolition in Wolfen-Nord: Which houses should disappear
- ↑ Urban development concept of the city of Bitterfeld-Wolfen 2015-2025 ( digitized version )
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Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ N , 12 ° 15 ′ E