Augsburg-Oberhausen

  • 6 Right of Wertach
  • 19 Links of Wertach -South
  • 20 Links of Wertach North
  • 21 Oberhausen -South
  • 22 Oberhausen North

Augsburg -Oberhausen is a neighborhood in the north-west of Augsburg with 23,944 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2008). He is the II planning area of the city of Augsburg and divided into five boroughs. The second largest river in Augsburg, the Wertach, flows through Oberhausen. West of Wertach the four districts are 19 links Wertach -South, 20 Links of Wertach North, 21 Oberhausen -south and 22 Oberhausen- Nord. East of the district located 6 right of Wertach. It is situated between Wertach and Lech, which flow together at its northernmost point. West of Oberhausen are the neighborhoods Kriegshaber and Bärenkeller. The southern border form the city center and the railway line. The northern boundary is also the city limits.

  • 5.1 Industrial and commercial companies
  • 5.2 Former industrial and commercial companies
  • 5.3 Public bodies

Characterization

For Augsburg Oberhausen urban formative are workers' quarters that have emerged with the industrial revolution. The area was completely built and developed 1850-1900. From this period also the largest part of the building stock. The buildings are structurally majority of single-family and two-family houses. The main focus along the main roads Ulmer Straße and Donauwörther road there are multi-family homes with four, six or more apartments. There is also a larger scale retail, crafts and services.

Overall Oberhausen conveys very different impressions. Going north or south walk (around the Brander Street or the Hettenbach ) Ulmer Straße, you feel transported back to a bygone tranquil middle-class time. This part of Oberhausen is also called Hettenbach quarter after the eponymous creek. To the west of the district, a large disused gas boiler is visible from afar. There, now houses a museum addition there cultural events, including once a year the Grenzelos Festival. In the north there are abrupt changes. To the north and west of the Eschenhof is a commercial area with Wohnungseinsprengseln. On the other hand, is less than 100 meters away, on the Schönbachstraße a garden and housing estate. Along the Wertach there are some old trees and many small gardens.

As part of the Social City program Augsburg Oberhausen several improvements for the district have been achieved since 2008. Thus, inter alia, a support program for building facades placed, founded a neighborhood garden and renovated a long locked Wertach riverside path and reopened.

In comparison to the other districts of Augsburg Oberhausen has the largest proportion of citizens with immigrant background. Based on the smaller-scale municipalities proportion is the second highest. The composition is multicultural. Most people come out of the territory of the former Soviet Union, followed by Turkey and the former Yugoslavia.

After the composer Werner Egk, who grew up in Augsburg -Oberhausen, an elementary school is named.

In Oberhausen, there are many food stalls with home service and simple pubs. When Oberhausen train station there is a traditional inn, at the Diesel bridge is a fine Italian restaurant.

History

Although Oberhausen was founded by the Alemanni in the 8th or 9th century, was located on the same spot around 15 BC a Roman military camp. The first mention took place in 1150. Due to its proximity to the city center of Augsburg, the village of Oberhausen was often raided in the Middle Ages by enemies. In this context especially the Thirty Years War is mentioned.

With the beginnings of industrialization in the 19th century, Oberhausen transformed into an industrial working class suburb. The population increase related made ​​the construction of various social institutions necessary. In addition to building schools and houses of worship, the Josefinum was inaugurated in 1902. This hospital still exists today and is one of the major German maternity hospitals and children's hospitals.

Due to the high construction and maintenance costs of the new public buildings and sewers, the market Oberhausen was forced to give up its independence. On January 1, 1911 Oberhausen was incorporated into the city of Augsburg.

Attractions

Oberhauser Museum Parlor

The museum parlor in Oberhausen is dedicated to the history of many centuries separate part of the city, which was incorporated in 1911 to Augsburg.

Museum in the gas Augsburg plant

The association gasworks friends Augsburg eV has an exhibition on the history of the gas supply located in a former headquarters of the electric - gas plant in Oberhausen, which also hosts various diesel engines and gas appliances.

Building of the German pension insurance Swabia

Near the bridge diesel 2001 involved the German pension insurance Swabia a new house. It is an architecturally striking glass building, which is over 200 meters long.

Clubs

  • BC Augsburg -Oberhausen eV
  • Boxing club Bayern 02 e.V.
  • DJK Augsburg-West e.V.
  • FC Augsburg ( Oberhausen is the seat of FC Augsburg. Here were, until recently, the office and the training ground of the association )
  • Volunteer Fire Oberhausen - Augsburg e.V.
  • Protect Society " eagle " Augsburg -Oberhausen eV
  • TSV 1871 Augsburg e.V.

In Oberhausen, many of expellees clubs have established (for example )

  • Aramaic culture club
  • Chin community
  • German - Macedonian Cultural Association
  • German -Thai Society
  • Italian Family Association e.V.
  • Mesopotamia Club Augsburg e.V.

Similarly, there are sports clubs of different cultures

  • Hellas Augsburg e.V.
  • Mesopotamia
  • SOV Aramean
  • TJK Nizam -i Alem e.V.

Historical associations of Oberhausen

  • Gasworks friends Augsburg e.V.
  • Trägerverein Oberhauser Museumsstüble

Since Oberhausen is also a neighborhood with many families and a very low average age at the same time due to the high proportion of foreigners, also a youth house exists (H2O youth house).

This district is also one of seven volunteer fire departments of the city.

Economy

Besides a large number of small and family farms several large businesses and companies are based in Oberhausen. Especially the high number of workers in the field of mechatronics gives Oberhausen great importance in industrial production in Augsburg.

Among the industrial enterprises include, for example, manroland and MAN Diesel & Turbo and WashTec and Göppel vehicle. In the area of retail company Media Markt and DIY chains such as Max Bahr are available.

Industrial and commercial companies

  • August Wessel shoe factory (now the laboratory of Dr. Schott village, Syscomp )
  • Container station
  • Deuter AG
  • Baywa
  • Kunz scrap trade
  • Sailer Oil Trading GmbH

Former industrial and commercial companies

  • August Wessel'sche shoe factory
  • Augsburg balloon factory
  • Blue gas factory
  • Cema - Central Dairy Augsburg (later Allgäuland )
  • Coca Cola GmbH
  • Gasworks Augsburg -Oberhausen
  • Weaving Landauer
  • Elbeo plants

Public institutions

  • German pension insurance Swabia

Traffic

The main roads are the Donauwörther road in north-south direction and the Ulmer Road in East-West direction.

Oberhausen has the Augsburg -Oberhausen railway station is an important junction between regional and urban transport - most regional trains leave the Augsburg to the north or west, keep in Augsburg -Oberhausen. With AVG tram lines 2 and 4 as well as numerous GCU regional buses Oberhausen is very accessible.

Wertach (river) Lech (river) Augsburg-Oberhausen station Augsburg-Firnhaberau Augsburg-Hammerschmiede Pfersee Augsburg-Hochzoll Augsburg-Inningen
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