Viertel (Bremen)

As " The neighborhood " parts of the districts Arminius and stone gate are referred to colloquially in Bremen.

Geography

The border between the two districts is the streets "Am Dobben " ( the street name refers to a filled- in the 19th century Dobbengraben that the Kuhgraben - before the application of the Park Avenue - combined with the Weser) and " Sielwall " ( Siel = lockable dike passage ). The Ostertorviertel bordered to the west by the ramparts, the former mounting ring around the old town of Bremen.

The street name Ostertorsteinweg refers to the former eastern gate of the city of Bremen, in which this stretch of road began. Before the stone gate refers to the no longer existing stone gate, consisting of the watchtower stone tower and a drawbridge over the Dobbengraben at the present Sielwallkreuzung where the streets Am Dobben, Sielwall, and Ostertorsteinweg Before Stone Gate meet. The intersection is the geographic and cultural center of the district.

The stretch of road Ostertorsteinweg / Before the stone gate is dominated by buildings from the 19th century and is among other things known as pubs, restaurant and shopping mile, in which many stores, specialty shops and specialty acts are. The side streets have many small shops and catering to, for example, the bar district " on the courts " in the north of Ostertorviertels. The district is located to the Helen Street, a side street of Steintors, a small red light district.

History

Today's building of the district was mainly at the urban expansion from the mid-19th century. Characteristic of this period of construction are the many preserved mainly in the side streets Altbremer houses. Many plots were acquired by artisans which often entire streets built. The main shopping street with big-city trains, the the area by crossing road train Ostertorsteinweg / Before the stone gate made ​​out.

Mozart route

Until the 1950s, the Ostertorviertel of the devastation of the Second World War only slightly affected Bremer was a popular residential area. Many old, partly magnificent building facades are evidence of former prosperity. Then the city began to settle there in the context of an equality program poorer strata of the population, followed by better -off groups moved away.

In the 1960s, began in Bremen transport policy plans to build a " tangent quadrilateral ' whose eastern part should be an approximately 120-meter- wide swath along the Mozart Street with connections to Rembertikreisel on one side and a new bridge to the new town on the other side - the "Mozart route ". Through these plans, the Bremen city center should be kept largely free of traffic and the expected increase in traffic tribute be paid. Along the tangents a high building was provided up to 28 storeys.

These initial considerations were specified by the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in a redevelopment concept Ostertorviertel in November 1971. The local branch of the old town SPD could only prevent the immediate implementation because he was able to present an alternative concept at the same time.

The subsequent struggle for Mozart route lasted several years. For the route of the Social Democratic Bremen Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen fought with the support of the SPD and the new home builder as planned, against the route, especially the SPD local association Old City. To the territory of the local association at that time included both the old town and the Ostertorviertel. As early as 1969 had questioned in a large survey, the population on urgent problems of the district of the local association Old City. The results were rather surprising for the questioner. Of great importance were more regional issues such as the planned site remediation by the Senate of the district, which was rejected by the inhabitants of Ostertorviertels with over 95%. A large popular support against the Mozart line was secured.

As a result of this survey, the local association Old City changed its policy work. He focused more on issues of local politics, and founded the non-party working group Ostertorsanierung local association in old town of Bremen SPD.

About this Working Group and connected thereto via the integration of completely different citizens of the district, regular publications of the local association Old City and a fact-oriented cooperation of all parties in the middle of the Advisory protest was organized. After years of discussion took place on November 4, 1973 at a special meeting of the SPD parliamentary group, which lasted almost the entire day and was in which only the item " Mozart route " treated. At this meeting there was a majority of 26 votes to 24 for the Mozart line project. This closeness of the result led to further discussions within the SPD leadership; the decision was withdrawn the next day. Equipped with its own majority in Parliament of Bremen SPD Group voted unanimously with eleven abstentions against the Mozart route and thus rescued one of today 's most beautiful and most popular residential areas of Bremen.

On the part of the Bremen SPD leadership was after the end of the " Mozart route " to prevent in the future a massive resistance of the base and particularly the local association Old Town, the split until then uniform SPD Sub-district, the city of Bremen in two sub-districts ( West and East ). By separating the sub-district, there was also a division of the local association Old City, which consisted of the areas of the old town and Arminius. In the area of ​​Ostertors most active of the local association and this part lived therefore still bears the name of the old town. The area of ​​the actual Old Town has since become the newly established SPD local club downtown.

On 16 January 2009, was awarded "Bremer award for architectural culture" of the working group Ostertorsanierung in the Upper Town Hall hall, which consisted of the following individual people: Dieter Decker, Olaf Dinné, Hanna Ehmke, Hans -Jürgen Kahrs, Ursel and Thomas Kerstein, Wolfgang Linder, Uwe Martin, Karsten Schwerdtfeger, Gert W. Settje, Hans Martin Sixt, Ulrike Schell Peper and Herbert Wulfekuhl.

In the explanatory memorandum to the award said: " The honor goes to a group of Bremen citizens who 35 years ago won against the construction of the Mozart line to defend and thus the Arminius saved from the threat of city destruction. She has thus preparing the ground for a new planning culture in Bremen. "

Recent Developments

In the 1970s, the Ostertorviertel a redevelopment area and the Bremen company for urban renewal, urban development and housing was ( briefly: Bremen ) was redevelopment agency. By The Associated within the urban development public co-financing of rehabilitation work many homeowners could be motivated to extensive remedial measures at the dilapidated by years of neglect buildings. The streets and squares have been rehabilitated there. The area Arminius and stone gate was thus very attractive especially in student and alternative circles as a residential area.

The Sielwallkreuzung formed in the 1980s as an accumulation point of the Bremen drug scene to one of the foci of the district out. Nationwide attention she attracted by New Year's riots in the late 1980s, early 1990s.

For several years there has been in the " neighborhood " a strong tendency towards social betterment through settlement of designer boutiques, trendy bars and other appropriate infrastructure with simultaneous expulsion of alternative approaches. The majority of district residents accepted the colorful juxtaposition of designer boutiques, second - hand shops, kebab stalls, eco- weekly market, almost open drug trafficking, Council and Tat Centre, Red Light District, etc., as the gentrification significantly slower than for example in Hamburg- St. Georg or Berlin -Prenzlauer Berg progresses.

Today, the district has a high quality of living, as despite the near " amusements " and larger thoroughfares (Easter dike and Am Wall ) primarily tranquility reigns, which offers a special atmosphere in combination with the sometimes narrow roads, the nearby theaters, Easter dike and the ramparts.

Culture

Culturally situated in and on the edge of the neighborhood institutions Kunsthalle Bremen, Wilhelm - Wagenfeld - house play a role with the Design Zentrum Bremen, the Gerhard- Marcks-Haus and the Playhouse and the Theatre at the Goethe Square. Also here the gallery scene is located: here are the galleries Barbara Upper, Ohse and K ' Contemporary Art Center. The Cultural warehouse has space for many young initiatives. Near the Sielwallkreuzung houses the Cinema Arminius and the Lila Eule. As a cultural and political institutions, the Sielwallhaus, the paradox and the ZAKK be mentioned.

Once a year, always the end of August, is on the two main roads through the neighborhood, the Ostertorsteinweg and the street in front of the stone gate, the district festival held in which one tries in recent years again to reveal the specifics of the district and for that to " carnival atmosphere " to renounce.

On Easter dike on the river Weser, there is a wide strip of meadow on since 1990 - with the exception of 2007 - the Breminale, a now nationally renowned cultural festival takes place.