Detmerode

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Detmerode
City of Wolfsburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 39 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 93 m
Residents : 7564  (March 31, 2017)
Postal code : 38444
Area code : 05361
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City map of Detmerode
City map of Detmerode

Detmerode is a district of Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony , which was created in the 1960s. It belongs to the so-called "core city" of Wolfsburg.

General

Detmerode photographed from the tallest building, the Neuland castle, which has now been demolished
Don Camillo (r.) And Peppone (l.) High-rise buildings, 2012

The Detmerode district , located southwest of the city center, is one of the newer districts of Wolfsburg, like the neighboring Westhagen and Teichbreite districts, whose image is particularly characterized by high-rise estates from the 1960s. Unlike in Westhagen, there are also cottage settlements here .

If you leave the A 39 motorway at the Wolfsburg-Mörse exit (No. 25) in the direction of the city center, there is a “clover-leaf junction” at the beginning of the subsequent Braunschweiger Straße, at which you exit south to the Detmerode district. The main road is John-F.-Kennedy- Allee (further north Konrad-Adenauer-Allee), which is crossed by a striking bridge. This is part of the central shopping center. Here stands - quite prominently on a hill - the Protestant St. Stephen's Church , inaugurated in 1968 , the work of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto . Landmarks of the district are the two high-rise buildings Don Camillo and Peppone (architect Dr. Rudolf Richard Gerdes, Wolfsburg) on ​​Theodor-Heuss-Straße not far from the Detmeroder pond. The former “ high-rise building ” on Kurt-Schumacher-Ring (built 1964–67 by Paul Baumgarten ) and the “Neuland-Burg” on John-F.-Kennedy-Allee, most of which had been demolished in February 2012, were striking .

Like most parts of Wolfsburg, Detmerode is surrounded by forest areas, with the local recreation area around the Detmeroder pond , which was created as a rainwater retention basin , enjoying particular popularity. To the east lies the "Detmeroder Forest", part of the Wolfsburg city forest that extends to the city center. In the Detmeroder forest is the "Detmeroder Schalenstein ", a stone with 173 bowl-like depressions, which was probably used for cult activities in the early Neolithic . In the immediate vicinity, at the Niemannsteich, there is a replica of the sacrificial stone with the name "Schälchenstein-Brunnen".

The place name "Detmerode" goes back to a medieval settlement which, however, fell in the 15th century. A memorial stone on Theodor-Heuss-Straße indicates this.

history

The replica of the sacrificial stone at the Niemannsteich

Already around 3,500 years ago people lived in the area around Detmerode, as could be proven by a shell stone found in 1983 in the forest near Detmerode . In the Middle Ages , after clearing the forest, a settlement with around five to nine farms arose, which was on the way from Rothehof Castle to Mörse and was probably laid out as a row village. The first known documentary mention of the settlement dates back to 1332, but it is described as abandoned as early as 1495. In the 15th century it fell into desolation , and later most of its land came to the Gut Mörse. According to a legend , this settlement is said to have burned down, but this could not be confirmed by archaeological excavations. The finds rather indicate that the settlement was abandoned as planned.

After flint tools were found in Detmerode in 1960, archaeological excavations were carried out in 2016 on the occasion of the construction of a refugee shelter west of Theodor-Heuss-Straße . Among other things, a rider's spur , a horse's skull, a fire iron and a spindle whorl were found, as well as parts of a horseshoe , a hand rotary mill , a ball pot , a pit , a knife and a loom weight , as well as the remains of a box well , a post house and traces of pit houses , which are assigned to the medieval Detmerode. These finds indicate horse keeping and textile production in medieval Detmerode.

A Dettmeroder Holtz is entered on a map from 1781 .

In 1938, the year the city was founded, the area of ​​today's Detmerode district was not built on. In 1942, a plan by the city planning office already provided for a development in the area of ​​today's Detmerode district, which was called the Mörser Viertel . However, due to the war, this project was not implemented.

High-rise building (demolished in 2018)

In the first years after the end of the Second World War , the city of Wolfsburg was planned for a smaller number of inhabitants, so that initially no development was planned in the area of ​​today's Detmerode. In 1959, a draft by the city planning office was based on a development on both sides of Braunschweiger Straße, which was only implemented later with the Westhagen district . In 1960 the Wolfsburg City Council decided to build the Detmerode district. In 1962 , the work of Paul Baumgarten emerged as the winner of a limited architectural competition in which three groups of architects took part. In September of the same year, construction of the new district began on previous arable land. Construction began near Braunschweiger Strasse with the Kurt-Schumacher-Ring. On November 23, 1963, the first apartments were already occupied in the Kurt-Schumacher-Ring 27/29/31 apartment block belonging to the VW settlement company. In 1964, 700 apartments were already occupied in the district, which was still under construction, and the first school was opened. In 1967 the shopping center was inaugurated and a branch of the city library opened. The construction activity continued to the south of Detmerode, where one of the last construction sections of Detmerode was built in 1969 in the area of ​​the Graf-Stauffenberg-Ring. On November 11, 1968, the city of Wolfsburg celebrated the completion of Detmerode, and in 1970 the district was officially completed.

After 1970 only a few new buildings were built to complete Detmerode's infrastructure or to condense the residential development . The St. Raphael Church was built from 1971 to 1973, the allotment gardeners' home in 1978, a home for the disabled in 1981, the country house in 1984, the social station in 1984, a senior citizens' home in 1997, the senior citizens' and nursing home in 2005 and a refugee home in 2016.

From 2012 to 2016, the Neue Burg residential complex , also known as Neuland-Burg , was partially demolished and rebuilt by the Neuland housing company . In 1967 the building complex with up to 10 floors and 534 apartments was completed. In 2012, the architecture firm KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten won the BDA Lower Saxony Prize for the renovation . As a result of the renovation, the number of residential units was reduced to just 332. In 2018, the stepped high- rise was demolished , which will be replaced by new buildings due to construction defects.

Residents

Detmerode had the highest population in 1972 with 15,301 inhabitants.

year 1966 1972 2004 2005 2010 2013 2015 2017
Residents 7,000 15,300 8,473 8,473 7,314 7,719 7,602 7,564

Detmerode was planned for about 15,000 residents. In the 1970s, the district was characterized by families and especially children. Two eight-class elementary schools (30 children per class each) were attended by 480 children in each year at that time, so a total of almost 2000 children in the two elementary schools alone. One of the two primary schools was closed a long time ago, and the district is now roughly the same as the Wolfsburg average.

politics

Local council

Politically, the district has been represented by the Detmerode local council since 1991 .

Current distribution of seats in the local council
       
A total of 13 seats
  Election 2016
Political party proportion of Seats
SPD 39.4% 5
CDU 24.7% 3
PUG 16.1% 1 2
Green 6.6% 1
FDP 3.6% 0
The left 4.8% 1
FAMILY 4.8% 2 1
voter turnout 51.1% -
1 One member left the party and is now a non-party member of the council.
2 One member left the party and joined the ÖDP.

Local mayor

Local mayor has been Ralf Mühlisch (SPD) since 2011, who succeeded Thorsten Werner (CDU). The first local mayor was Horst Weiß (SPD), who was replaced by Thorsten Werner (CDU) in 2001.

coat of arms

Detmerode uses the coat of arms of the city of Wolfsburg as a district and town .

Culture and sights

Buildings

In Detmerode, four buildings are listed as historical monuments : the Stephanuskirche, the St. Raphael-Kirche, the Stephanus-I-Kindergarten and the Schalenstein.

Churches

Stephanuskirche
St. Raphael Church

In Detmerode, the Evangelical Lutheran and the Roman Catholic Church are each represented with a church, as well as with kindergartens and other social institutions.

Stephanuskirche

After the Protestant residents of Detmerode were initially cared for by the Heilig-Geist-Kirchengemeinde (Heilig-Geist-Kirchengemeinde) , the establishment of a separate Evangelical-Lutheran church for Detmerode, today's St. Stephen's Congregation, followed in 1964, and the building of a church was commissioned. According to plans by the architect Alvar Aalto , the church and the associated community center were built from 1966 to 1968. The church, the (2018) belong to some 2,800 church members today heard today for the church district Wolfsburg-Wittingen of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover

St. Raphael Church

In 1964 an independent Catholic pastoral care district was founded in Detmerode, and church services began in a room in elementary school XIII. From 1971 to 1973 the construction of the church, which was named after the Archangel Raphael , took place according to plans by the architect Toni Hermanns . In 2013 around 1,560 Catholics lived in Detmerode. Today the church belongs as a branch church to the parish of St. Christophorus in the diocese of Hildesheim .

Green spaces and recreation

The centrally located Bürgerpark, an orchard meadow , the Detmeroder pond, and a spacious forest area that borders directly on Detmerode invite you to relax. In the forest south of Detmerode there are also the Hattorfer ponds , to which the Kehlensteich, the Niemannsteich and the Steffensteich belong.

Sports

Detmerode is the seat of the sports club "SC Rot-Weiß Wolfsburg-Detmerode", founded in 1970. A fitness trail has been laid out in the forest east of John F. Kennedy Allee . A fitness studio for women, the women's sports studio LadyLife , is located at the end of John-F.-Kennedy-Allee in the premises of a former grocery store.

societies

The Detmerode eV allotment gardener association founded in 1967 operates an allotment garden with 102 plots and has had a club house since 1978. Another Detmerode club is the Detmeroder Skatklub from 1990 in the German Skat Association . The Social Association Germany , the SPD and the CDU , the latter together with the neighboring district of Westhagen, maintain local groups in Detmerode. The local association of the German Red Cross , the cultural association that existed until 2017 and the citizens' association that existed from 2009 to 2015 were dissolved. The Free Waldorf School in Wolfsburg and the St. Raphael parish are supported by development associations. The Wolfsburg gospel choir holds its rehearsals in the parish room of the Stephanuskirche, the Makrometrik music group has existed in the St. Raphael parish since 1980. A new citizens' association was founded in 2020.

Art in the cityscape

  • Fountain by Peter Szaif (Wolfsburg) in John-F.-Kennedy-Allee
  • Fountain (1969) by Peter Szaif (Wolfsburg) in the shopping center
  • Playground (1977) by Rolf Hartmann (Wolfsburg) in the amusement park (demolished in 2004)
  • Memorial stone to the former village of Detmerode (1986)
  • Figure tower (1999) by Klaus Richter (Hof / Saale) in the park range Neuland-Burg
  • Sculpture Tier-Tam-Tam by Rainer Scheer (installed in the shopping center in 2003)

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Various retail stores, doctors' surgeries, restaurants, service providers and a petrol station ensure basic supplies for the residents. Most of them are located in the shopping center, which was designed by Georg Wellhausen and his son Michael in 1962 and inaugurated in 1967. The post office (Wolfsburg 3) was closed and replaced by a post office in a stationery store. The Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg and the Volksbank Braunschweig Wolfsburg operate branches in Detmerode, the Commerzbank branch was closed. On Saturdays there is a weekly market on the Detmerod market square .

The Boutique Hotel Wolfsburg was created through a redesign of the Detmerode country house , which was built in the mid-1980s as a meeting place for the citizens and associations of Detmerode. The gastronomy in the Detmerode country house was operated for a number of years in the 1990s by Labora gGmbH for work and vocational training from Peine , which integrated the unemployed there into professional life.

The Autohaus Wolfsburg Classic , a branch of Autohaus Wolfsburg Hotz and Heitmann GmbH & Co. KG , is specialized in the sale and repair of vintage cars and classic cars specializes various makes. In 1965 it was opened as Autohaus Detmerode by Autohaus Hotz GmbH und Co. KG .

Business Forum Detmerode

The new territory housing association and Volkswagen properties are the major landlords in Detmerode what Volkswagen properties in Detmerode a district office maintains. There are also a large number of owner-occupied apartments and homes, the latter often built in rows, in Detmerode. The Lebenshilfe Wolfsburg offers for adults with disabilities with the 1981-built house at the forest a dormitory with 48 seats, also since 1985 with the residential community house at the pond a group home for five people in a 1965 built semi-detached bungalow. In 2016, a newly built refugee home was opened. The Business Forum Detmerode , located on John-F.-Kennedy-Allee, was created in 2002 by converting an 8-storey apartment block in which Volkswagen Immobilien converted rental apartments into office space.

By the Caritas -supported social station Wolfsburg-South has existed since 1988. The retirement village at the Theodor-Heuss-Straße was opened in 1997, followed in 2005 by the original Catholic retirement and nursing home John Paul II. Since March 1, 2013, is this in sponsorship of the Evangelical Diaconal Work Wolfsburg. In the meantime, a private day care facility complements the care offers for seniors in Detmerode.

traffic

Detmerode is located directly on the federal motorway 39 , which was opened to traffic in this area in 1971/72, and can be reached via junction 5 (Wolfsburg-Mörse). Since Detmerode can only be reached by car via Braunschweiger Straße, the district is free of through traffic. The Detmerod Cross, which connects Detmerode with Braunschweiger Straße as a trefoil intersection, was completed on December 17, 1964. The main access roads are named after deceased politicians in the recent past, including Konrad Adenauer , Theodor Heuss , John F. Kennedy , Friedrich Naumann and Kurt Schumacher . The two cities, Luton and Marignane , with which Wolfsburg was already connected through town twinning in the 1960s , can also be found in Detmeroder street names. Regular buses run by Wolfsburger Verkehrs GmbH run from Detmerode to the city ​​center and many other parts of Wolfsburg. The transport company Gifhorn mbH travels with a bus line from Detmerode up to Gifhorn .

Public facilities

The city of Wolfsburg has had a district telephone station in Detmerode since 1987, and the Südstadt police station is located in the district's shopping center. Other facilities are the Bürgerpark, a leisure center, the citizens' meeting place opened in 2001, a public bookcase since 2015 and a district library since 1967.

education

Stephanus I Kindergarten
Colorful elementary school

In 1969 the Stephanus I kindergarten , designed by Hans Scharoun and now a listed building , was opened. In addition, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Detmerode offers the Stephanus II speech therapy day care center, which was opened in 1970 as a standard day care center. The St. Raphael daycare center has existed since 1972, and another daycare center is operated by the workers' welfare organization. Since 2017, the newly built city daycare center An den Teichen , which was built on the site of the former Lebenshilfe daycare center, has been supplementing the childcare offer in Detmerode.

The colorful elementary school was built in 2014 in the building of the former Erich-Kästner-Schule, a primary and secondary school with an orientation level , which was renamed Elementary School XV in 1967. opened. The Anne-Marie Tausch vocational schools are also located there.

The Free Waldorf School Wolfsburg dates back to 1988, in which the school association was founded. In 1997/98 the Waldorf School took over the building of the closed Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Schule, a former elementary school with an orientation level, which on August 17, 1964 as elementary school XIII. opened. Today the Free Waldorf School in Wolfsburg has a primary and a comprehensive school . From 1982 to 1997 there was also a branch of the Catholic Eichendorff primary school in the Johann Gottfried Herder School. Previously it was in Westhagen, in 1996/97 it moved to its current location in the Rabenberg district .

Trivia

In a document from archdeacon and cathedral provost Berthold in 1207, today's town of Detfurth is mentioned as the Dethmerode settlement , which, however, has no connection with the Detmerode district.

literature

  • Detmerode yesterday and today. Wolfsburg 2008.
  • Wolfsburg 1938–1988. Wolfsburg 1988, pp. 100, 110-112. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Bürgerhalle of Wolfsburg Town Hall on the occasion of the 50th birthday of the city)
  • Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 106-113, 120-121, 163, 190-191.
  • Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. Building a city. 1948-1968. Wolfsburg, undated (around 1976), OCLC 839831668 , p. 39.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition Unearthed History. Results of the work of the archaeological preservation of monuments. From March 14th to April 24th 2018 in the community hall of Wolfsburg town hall.
  2. ↑ Wolfsburg 1938–1988. Wolfsburg 1988, p. 110 (catalog for the exhibition in the community hall of Wolfsburg town hall on the occasion of the city's 50th birthday)
  3. ↑ Neue Burg residential complex bda-bund.de, accessed on April 11, 2018.
  4. ^ "Neue Burg" celebrates its topping-out ceremony - moving in in June. waz-online.de from December 2, 2015, accessed on April 11, 2018.
  5. ↑ Eberhard Rohde: Detmeroder bought a wooden house. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of April 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ Results of the local elections in Wolfsburg (PDF)
  7. ^ The SPD parliamentary group 2011 compact: Council members. spd-wolfsburg.de, accessed on April 26, 2018.
  8. ^ Detmerode local council , accessed on December 21, 2016.
  9. ^ Eva Nick: A foray through Detmerode's history. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of May 26, 2020.
  10. ↑ Detmerode: More and more clubs are giving up. waz-online.de, July 16, 2015, accessed on April 22, 2018.
  11. ^ Choir & Band Makrometrik. makrometrik.de, accessed on April 26, 2018.
  12. ↑ Foundation with obstacles - new citizens' association founded in Detmerode. wolfsburgerblatt.de, July 6, 2020, accessed on July 17, 2020.
  13. ↑ Memorial stone on detmerode.de ( Memento from April 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ^ Rainer Scheer with his sculpture "TierTamTam" in the Wolfsburg district of Detmerode. , accessed January 3, 2019.
  15. ^ Ingrid Eichstädt: Wolfsburg. Eventful times - the 1960s. 1st edition. Wartberg Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-86134-840-3 , p. 70.
  16. ^ City of Wolfsburg, Citizen Services Division (Ed.): Weekly markets in Wolfsburg. Leaflet, 2018 or earlier, p. 4.
  17. ^ City of Wolfsburg, Urban Planning and Building Consultancy Division (Ed.): Integrated energetic district concept Wolfsburg-Detmerode. Detmerode with a vision. Final report October 2015, p. 26.
  18. ↑ Andreas Stolz: Long confessing Wolfsburg. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. Internet presence of August 5, 2007, accessed on April 16, 2018.
  19. ↑ Internet presence of the Wolfsburg Klassik car dealership , accessed on November 24, 2016.
  20. ^ History of the Wolfsburg car dealership , accessed on November 24, 2016.
  21. ^ Residential house Ollenhauer Strasse. Internet presence of the Lebenshilfe Wolfsburg non-profit company, accessed on April 2, 2018.
  22. ↑ Friedrich-Naumann-Strasse shared apartment. Internet presence of the Lebenshilfe Wolfsburg non-profit company, accessed on April 2, 2018.
  23. ↑ Press archive fluechtlingshilfe-wolfsburg.de, accessed on April 15, 2018.
  24. ^ Business Forum Detmerode on the Volkswagen Immobilien website, accessed on April 4, 2018.
  25. ↑ Stephanus II, Protestant Lutheran language nursery & crèche of the Wolfsburg-Wittingen church district. stephanus-kita2.de, accessed on April 2, 2018.
  26. ↑ AWO day care center Detmerode. awo-bs.de, accessed on April 2, 2018.
  27. ↑ "At the Ponds": Close to nature daycare celebrated its opening. waz-online.de of October 26, 2017, accessed on April 2, 2018.
  28. ^ City of Wolfsburg, Urban Planning and Building Consultancy Division (Ed.): Integrated energetic district concept Wolfsburg-Detmerode. Detmerode with a vision. Final report October 2015, p. 28.
  29. ↑ 1948-1998, 50 years Eichendorffschule Wolfsburg. Wolfsburg 1998, pp. 10 and 14.
  30. ^ Bishop's General Vicariate Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim. Part 1: Hildesheim region. Self-published, Hildesheim 1992, p. 139.
  31. ↑ Stephanie Knostmann: From the mud to the sky. braunschweiger-zeitung.de from November 25, 2008, accessed on April 10, 2018.