Yorktown Village

This article deals with Yorktown Village in a narrow sense. For the former US sports and leisure park immediately to the south, see Kessler Field .

Yorktown Village District of Schweinfurt Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 34 ″  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 3 ″  E
Height :	255 m
Area :	80 ha
Postal code :	97424
Area code :	09721

Yorktown Village is a district of the independent city of Schweinfurt in the north-western part of the city . The small residential area (Family Housing) was built for officers of the US Army Garrison Schweinfurt from 1986 to 1992. After the US location Schweinfurt was closed in 2014, Yorktown Village has remained unchanged and has been used as a civil residential area since 2016, keeping the name.

Surname

Yorktown, Virginia, namesake for Yorktown Village		2009. Celebration of the American Independence Day in Schweinfurt

The neighborhood was named after the Battle of Yorktown , or the place Yorktown in Virginia . The French-American troops under Comte de Rochambeau and George Washington were victorious here in the War of Independence against Great Britain in 1781. Yorktown Village has about 200 inhabitants and the same number of inhabitants as the small town in Virginia.

Until the US Army withdrew from Schweinfurt, the American Independence Day was held on July 4th at Kessler Field, adjoining Yorktown Village to the south . a with fireworks, celebrated.

location

Yorktown Village is located in the northwestern edge of the Schweinfurt urban area. The quarter is 1 km north of Niederwerrner Straße, an arterial road to Bad Kissingen , Bad Neustadt / Erfurt ( Autobahn 71 ) and Fulda / Kassel ( Autobahn 7 ).

Niederwerrn	B 286 Heeresstrasse	Donkey height
Hainig		Garden city
Bellevue	Kessler Field Willy Sachs Stadium	Carus Park

history

In its original size (as of 2014), the small quarter consists of 68 semi-detached houses (building 401 - 434) in American timber construction . Here, as elsewhere around the world, typical American single-family houses for officers have been recreated in order to shorten the time it takes to get used to more frequent transfers. When the Americans withdrew, the plan for Yorktown Village was not fully implemented. On northern Yorktown-Drive (since 2016: Alaskastraße ) there was still undeveloped land for semi-detached houses and a planned church and library between Bunker-Hill-Road (Coloradostraße) and Brandywine-Road ( Texasstraße ) had not yet been realized.

After the withdrawal of the US armed forces, the quarter became the property of the Federal Real Estate Agency (BImA) at the end of 2014 , which sold it to the city of Schweinfurt on February 29, 2016 as part of the US conversion . There is a development plan (according to § 30 BauGB). The 68 semi-detached houses were raffled among 800 applicants in May 2016, which attracted nationwide media coverage and the first residents moved in in June.

On September 14, 2016, the five American street names Brandywine-Road , Bunker-Hill-Road , Kings-Mountain-Road , Lexington-Way and Yorktown Drive were renamed into six German names. Since then, the streets have been named after the American states of Alaska, Colorado, Florida, California, Montana and Texas.

The International School Mainfranken (ISM) began teaching in the former high school in Yorktown Village in autumn 2016 .

Expansion of the district

In the previously undeveloped Alaskastraße (2020) 16 new building plots were identified. On the area between Coloradostraße and Texasstraße, which was also still undeveloped when the US withdrew, there is currently only one kindergarten.

criticism

The new residents of Yorktown Village criticized the lack of a city bus connection.

See also

• List of US conversion Schweinfurt

Web links

• Ron Mihalko: Plan of Yorktown Village
• Federal Real Estate Agency (BImA): Yorktown Village

Videos

• City of Schweinfurt: The American Way of Schweinfurt. Trailer 5: Yorktown Village - A US Suburb in Germany (1:45)
• Radio Primaton: Walking Tour of a House in Yorktown Village (1:43)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Measured using the BayernAtlas
2. ↑ Information from the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA). Retrieved July 2, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Original development plan of the city of Schweinfurt for the American use of Yorktown Village. Retrieved June 15, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Information from the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA)
5. ^ TV Touring Schweinfurt: Impulse. The business magazine , October 19, 2016
6. ↑ TV Touring Schweinfurt: Yorktown Village in Schweinfurt - street names as homage to Americans , September 15, 2016
7. ↑ BayernAtlas / Cadastre plan: Yorktown Village area. Retrieved August 29, 2018 .