Halle-Neustadt
Halle- Neustadt ( also popularly HaNeu ) was a town in the district hall of the German Democratic Republic. It was on 12 May 1967 on the separate and independent city ( county ) explains, after it was originally built as a new district of Halle. The population was 1972 51.600 and 1981 more than 93,000. On May 6, 1990 in Halle- Neustadt was incorporated back to Halle. The population has since about half and was on December 31, 2010 45 157.
History
1958-1990
The actual city's history began in 1958 with a conference of the Central Committee of the SED on the topic "Chemistry program of the GDR", on the settlement of labor in the vicinity of chemical sites in the Buna -Werke in Schkopau and Leuna Werke was decided in Leuna. After extensive site investigations and planning in the district of Halle, the Politburo of the SED decided on September 17, 1963 the construction of the " Chemical Worker City ", called by the inhabitants, mostly short Neustadt or "Ha- New", where the city was built at a greater distance from the chemical plants.
Chief architect of Halle- Neustadt was Richard Paulick; his deputy and head of design groups were Joachim Bach, Horst Siegel, Karl -Heinz Silesians, Sigbert Fliegel and Harald Zaglmaier.
Already at the turn of the century ( around 1900 ) there was a need to look due to the rapidly growing population of new land for housing. It was the north- south length of the city of Halle - Saale wedged between the west and railroad tracks and industrial areas in the east - one of the main problems. For this reason, fell considerations to areas ( in the range of the spatial location Passendorf ) west of the old town and the river Saale. Because of the extremely difficult geological and especially hydrological conditions (basic and flood ) the development of this area was discarded to another residential location for the town hall. In the 20s, the idea was taken up again yet again shelved.
The new city was placed on the edge of the river Saale between the small villages Zscherben, Passendorf and Nietleben, where Passendorf was largely demolished. Remains of the village character of those settlements have been preserved only along the ridge road. With the establishment of the residential area south park this road was eventually replaced by high-rise buildings marked a kind of rural oasis in the otherwise cityscape.
On February 1, 1964, the board factory was opened, which produced the precast concrete parts ( panel- way ) for the new city. On July 15, 1964 put Horst Sindermann, first secretary of the SED district leadership hall, the foundation stone for the construction of socialist living city west of Halle ( Saale) on the school grounds "First POS". In contrast to the following schools that have been beanannt by personalities and officials, the school retained the name "First POS". The architectural style of this school and the 2nd POS " Ernst Thalmann, " lifted from the rest of the 28 schools significantly. The other schools were " safe nuclear " bunkers equipped, in their central basements there was in each case a ventilation system and folding exterior of the windows concrete elements. An example of this is the connecting wing of the former 16 POS " Otto Grote good" and 15 POS " Hermann Matern " 51 ° 29 ' 9 " N, 11 ° 55' 18" O51.4857861111.92156667. A year later, on August 9, 1965 the first tenants moved to Halle -Neustadt.
Even before completion of the first residential complex in 1968, the new settlement from the district of Halle- West was declared a town in Halle-Neustadt and the area removed formally from the city of Halle ( Saale) on 12 May 1967. From 1970 to 1990, Liane Lang mayor of the city.
The new city received the official nickname of " Socialist city of chemical workers." Soviet soldiers of the 27th Guards Mot. Rifle Division, who were housed in the nearby barracks Heide-Süd were commanded with numerous work assignments for building. A variety of residential blocks in the north of the city were reserved for their families and were after withdrawal of the troops at the beginning of the 1990s empty.
Since material is centralized infrastructure were completed late or never - so there was the communist era, for example, never a hotel or a department store in the city - remained Halle- Neustadt little more than a bedroom community for those living in the layer rhythm of the chemical plants chemical workers and their families. The development of the city remained, in spite of the central "racetrack Cross " unsatisfactory as the central tram line was not built along the main road in East Germany, officially due to insufficient road traction power capacity. Buses and the train bore the brunt of public transport. About the located in the center tunnel and the station S-Bahnhof Zscherbener road there was a direct connection commuters Merseburg to the chemical combines Schkopau Buna and Leuna match their shift times. An existing tram from the city center of Halle ( Saale) from Heide tangierte only the VIII residential complex on the eastern edge, so opened up only a fraction of the city.
In 1983 the cinema was opened as the last prism cinema construction of the GDR ( 1999 demolished in favor of a shopping center with multiplex cinema ), which remained one of the few cultural institutions. For culture and sophisticated shopping the old city of Halle ( Saale) remained indispensable. Recreational opportunities are offered by the mixed forest adjacent Dölauer Heath with the Heidesee and the "channel" ( remnants of the unfinished Elster -Saale- channel).
See also: List of waters in Halle ( Saale)
In contrast to later settlements large plate of the GDR, Halle- Neustadt was planned generously provided with art in architecture and filled with plants, especially in the residential complex I. ( 1964-1968 ). Its architectural highlight is a 380 -meter-long, 11- storey block of flats, the "Block 10 ", the largest ever built in the GDR apartment building. To ensure that this did not constitute a safety catch, which should have been circulated awkward, he had been provided at three points with passages for pedestrians. In this block, lived up to 2500 people, more than his time in Wörlitz (then often used comparison). A portion of this block was used by a nursing home.
In the other eight complexes was later built much closer, so that was much less space for green areas. This was largely the housing program of the GDR due. However, the demand for housing could not be covered mainly in Halle and Halle- Neustadt until 1990.
The design of the center was difficult because after the original building concept, each of the five building complexes its own center (with purchase hall, clinic, restaurant complex) should have came to schools, kindergartens and sports facilities. At the central square was to be built a 100 meter high distinctive " house of Chemistry", which was never implemented due to cost reasons. So gaped over the years a large pit between the main post and the cinema prism, in which the collected groundwater and rainwater.
A special feature was the absence of street names, all apartment blocks and inputs were instead for one for outsiders to by looking barely, but still existing principle numbered ( after 1990 in favor of street names abolished ). The starting point was the cross "Magistrale / S -Bahn ". Each residential complex had one or two digits for the hundreds place (exception: the houses along the main road, all of which had a leading " 0" when the entrance to the highway showed ). The tens digit depended on which number of road was considered by the central cross of view. The units digit was the appropriate building - for example, had the First residential complex 6 as the first digit.
State and party leader Erich Honecker had little interest in the pet project of his predecessor Walter Ulbricht and his chemistry campaign. He focused instead on the capital Berlin and the republic -wide housing program. Only in 1989 the town hall was built, which, however, never served its original purpose due to incorporation of Halle ( Saale). The center of the city was the New Town Passage on two levels with several department stores, specialty shops, Central Polyclinic, Central Post Office and the House of services along the "slices". In this area, the town hall of the city of Halle- Neustadt should arise, the construction was controversial at the then -makers, was interrupted several times and completed only in 1990. The "slices" are five 18 -storey towers with center aisle structure, which were used both as a student halls of residence at the Martin- Luther University, as well as worker dormitories of chemistry combines Buna and Leuna. They were built in 1970-1975 and are now empty except for a slice. With the demolition of the city administration is struggling to this day, as the discs form a backbone of New Town architecture. In one of the disks has ARGE Hall, managing the numerous long-term unemployed, are located here The New Town passage being extensively renovated since 2005. On the edge of Halle- Neustadt and the powerful complex of the district administration hall of the Stasi was housed, in which, after the turn of the Tax Office has its seat.
After 1990
Following a vote at the municipal election held on May 6, 1990 in Halle- Neustadt was combined with the city hall. Since then, the former urban area covers the City West District of the City Hall, with the districts of Northern New Town, South Town, Western New Town and New Town industrial area.
The population has declined significantly since 1990 (44.515 inhabitants, as of 31 December 2012). The generation of the first tenants, now mostly in retiree status, still quite happy to live in this district, which has long since evolved into a social focal point. The increasing vacancy rate meant that now the first apartment buildings to be demolished as part of the program Urban Redevelopment East. At the same time, the housing stock is also rehabilitated, which in the meantime is not very popular block of flats get a better quality of living. These were also the extension of the tram network on the main road between the present district of West and other districts of the city of Halle (Saale ) and the construction of several supermarkets and shopping centers, one of which was opened in 2000 Town Center is the most important.
2006 so-called shrinking cities took place in Halle- Neustadt an exhibition of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, under the title " Shrinking Cities " instead.
After a pedestrian bridge had been extensively renovated, a few years later she was the construction of the tram line to the victim. Some pedestrian tunnel were replaced by above-ground crossings with traffic lights, which are intended to calm the vehicle traffic.
As part of the IBA Urban Redevelopment 2010 Old and New Town Hall form the theme of balancing double city. Projects in the field of Neustadt are the construction of a skate park in the southeast of the district center as well as the redesign of the central square in a residential area on Tulpenbrunnen and the so-called Green Gallery.
In June 2013, the eastern and southeastern parts of Halle- Neustadt were threatened when Saale flood of flooding. The dike at Gimritzer dam threatened to break. The residents were strongly advised to leave the danger areas.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was adopted on 15 July 1984 by the City Council Halle- Neustadt on a festive meeting on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the groundbreaking ceremony. This coat of arms had until May 6, 1990, the date of incorporation of the city of Halle, its validity.
Blazon: " In red three erupting from a gold - green bud flying up silver doves; about a reclining golden key, its closing leaf shaped like a hexagonal benzene ring and whose beard is occupied by a six-pointed red star. "
Center of the coat of arms image is a stylized doves group as a symbol of peace. The pigeons are inspired by Picasso's Peace Dove. The city could and can only flourish in peace. The pigeons group rises from a fracturing bud, symbolizing joy, optimism and future. The pigeons group has its own symbolic tradition by the well-known pigeon fountain. The value held in gold keys in coat of arms image embodies the ten thousand-fold key handover in the new city, which released the way for a better quality of life and the pioneering concept. To clarify the function of Halle- Neustadt as a chemical working-class town, the closure of the key sheet was implemented graphically in the form of a benzene ring. The coat of arms symbolizes the close relationship between Halle and Halle- Neustadt by the use of a six-pointed star and the involvement of the arms of the city hall. The rottingierte shield is to represent the reference to the labor movement.