Citadel District

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Main gate building of the citadel from the south (2016)
Main gate building from the north with access via Stettiner Straße (2016)
Sculpture "Pedestrian Parking Lot" and residential development on Stettiner Straße (2014)

The Citadel Quarter is a district of Wesel on the Lower Rhine . It is located in the south of the city center and is named after the Wesel citadel located there.

location

The citadel district is located in the south of Wesel city center. It is bounded in the north by the streets Esplanade and Norbertstrasse, in the west and southwest by Bundesstrasse 8 (Südring), in the southeast by Bundesstrasse 58 (Schillstrasse) and in the east by the southern part of Kreuzstrasse . The B 8 and B 58 are part of the ring road around Wesel city center, while the Esplanade is part of an "inner ring" that surrounds the core of the city center. The citadel district can therefore be counted as part of the outer area of ​​the inner city. The eponymous citadel is located in the extreme south of the district, but some of its sub-buildings are on the other side of the B 58 and thus in the Schillviertel. From the citadel, the quarter extends around 500 meters to the north. From the northern edge of the Citadel Quarter, the distance to the city center with the pedestrian zone and the Great Market as its end point is only around 300 meters.

In the northern part of the district there are mainly residential streets laid out in a north-south direction. On the southern edge are mainly public buildings with the citadel, the Prussian Museum Wesel and the school on the ring.

history

In 1681, the expansion of the city into the fortress Wesel began, and as part of this, the citadel was built south of the city from 1688. The building was connected to the city wall by means of blunt bastions . In between, in the area of ​​what is now the Citadel Quarter, there was an area previously outside of the city fortifications, which became the citadel's esplanade . The esplanade was a military parade and parade ground between the citadel and the city, which was easy to monitor as an open area. The esplanade at that time lay in an east-west direction along today's road, but was also extended in a north-south direction and encompassed large parts of today's citadel district. Between the citadel and the esplanade there was, among other things, a wide moat and some works , so that the citadel was also protected on the city side.

In 1886 a contract was signed for the demolition of Wesel, and as a result, major urban changes began in 1890. The ring roads that border today's citadel district were created. Part of the citadel was demolished at that time in order to be able to build the Schillstraße (today's B 58) as a connection between the city and the Rhine bridge. The area of ​​today's citadel district remained largely undeveloped until the end of the Second World War and was partially criss-crossed by moats. In 1931 the clubs BSV Viktoria Wesel and DJK Wesel built two sports fields there, a building of a Catholic youth club named as a “youth castle ” had already been set up there.

In the first post-war years, unauthorized buildings were built in the area of ​​the former esplanade due to the great housing shortage in the heavily destroyed city, and even the main gate of the citadel, which was actually partially destroyed, was used for emergency housing. The city wanted to use the former military site for living space, but first had to negotiate with government agencies, as it was largely state-owned due to its earlier military use. From February 1949 onwards, large terraced houses were built on today's Weimarer Strasse and Stettiner Strasse through the emergency aid organization "Wesel helps itself". It was the first construction project started by the aid organization. In 1951 a so-called federal experimental settlement was built on Dresdner Straße. In the late 1950s, living space for GDR refugees was created on Gerhart-Hauptmann-Strasse. Part of the site, however, remained in state hands and was used for public authorities. In addition to the tax office and employment office, the district became the location of the local district army replacement office , which was located on Kreuzstrasse and was closed in 2012. Until 1995, the North Rhine-Westphalia civil protection school was located on Gerhart-Hauptmann-Strasse. In 1959, a no longer existing elementary school was opened on Rheinbabenstrasse. The Schule am Ring has been located on the same street since 2003. It is a special needs school that previously had its building in Bergerfurth .

The construction projects of the post-war years focused on fast and inexpensive completion, so that the construction method was generally inferior. Because large parts of the property are owned by the municipal building association, extensive renovations were carried out from 2007 onwards. Between 2008 and 2013, 300 apartments were refurbished and around 12 million euros were invested. At about the same time, the dissolution of the district military replacement office created an opportunity to expand the living space. In 2017, the construction of 58 apartments and a building for the radiological practice of the Marien Hospital Wesel began on its site .

Culture

The citadel has developed into a cultural center. On the side in the citadel quarter are the Prussian Museum Wesel and the Wesel City Archives . Every year in September, the citadel is a central venue for the Wesel Culture Night . Stettiner Straße, which can be reached directly from the main gate of the citadel via a footpath, is part of the cultural night program. A candlelit path leads from the citadel to the city center.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Residential parking in the citadel district (ratsinfo.wesel.de)
  2. ↑ Citadel (wesel.de)
  3. ↑ Streets in Wesel - Letter E (wesel.de)
  4. ↑ Wesel as a fortress town (wesel-tourismus.de)
  5. ↑ The film (zeitreise-wesel.de)
  6. ↑ All around instead of in the middle (derwesten.de)
  7. ↑ Wesel: Enthusiastic hoteliers for Wesel history (rp-online.de)
  8. ↑ Wesel and the Lower Lower Rhine - Contributions to Rhenish History (historical-vereinigung-wesel.de). Pp. 171-176
  9. ↑ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (Ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 42, p. 48
  10. ^ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 50, p. 195
  11. ↑ Wesel: District Army Replacement Office dissolved today (rp-online.de)
  12. ↑ A sign as a reminder (derwesten.de)
  13. ↑ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 272
  14. ↑ [School on the ring: failure, heat, stench, Wesel district: School on the ring: failure, heat, stench] (rp-online.de)
  15. ↑ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 195
  16. ↑ a b Wesel: Conversion of Stettiner Straße 100,000 euros cheaper (rp-online.de)
  17. ↑ District military replacement office gives way to 58 apartments and radiology (rp-online.de)

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 15 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 53 ″  E