Essen-Werden
Will District of Essen
Marktplatz and Town Hall in Will
Today is a district in the south of the city of Essen. As a former independent abbey City has become today a historic old town and many monuments. The district shape loose residential development with commercial and residential recreational areas in the Ruhr valley.
- 2.1 The former abbey church of St. Ludger
- 2.2 The St. Lucius Church
- 2.3 The Evangelical Church Essen-Werden
- 3.1 Urban Primary Schools
- 3.2 schools
- 3.3 Folkwang -Hochschule
History
If pin
The emergence of becoming goes back to the working of the Holy Liudger, the ( 799 ) Benedictine monastery founded If at the end of the 8th century. Since then, people settled around the monastery. In 1317, Will received its charter, its own walls and gates.
In the winery the pen Will is from the hallway under the Levendaell the issue in the lifting tab end of the 14th century. After this corridor designation finally received in 1934 the old station road its name in Löwental. Other spellings were Leyendall, Lyevendaell or Lewendaill. Also here is a Leven -cotta and the Leve family name or Leven is attested.
In 1498, almost burned down the entire city becoming.
The city's governors were the abbots of becoming. The monastery had originally belonged to a large number of possessions, to which the present-day districts of Essen Bredeney, Heisingen, Schuir, Kettwig, Fischlaken, Heidhausen, Kupferdreh and Byfang and Hetterscheid referred to in today's Holy House, also known as BECOMING country. In 1803, however, it was the rule of the abbots over, the abbey was like many other monasteries, this included the convent of Essen, secularized in the course of Reichsdeputationshauptschluss circuit.
Bürgermeisterei
In the years 1879 to 1880 which is now Old Town Hall of the then independent town was becoming. It was built according to plans by architect Wilhelm Kupferdreher Bovensiepen. Through Conversion and extension of the Essenes architects Grosskopf and Harry took the town hall in the years 1912 and 1913 to the present form. After the incorporation of the city of Essen Will the Old Town Hall is today the administrative center Essen-Werden. Accustomed the mayor in the so-called mayor's house in the rear road 105, a classical villa, built in 1833 by the industrialist F. Vogelsang and completely renovated in 2004. Since 1985 it also serves as a cultural center, for example, readings and chamber concerts.
BECOMING Mayor:
Will got the mid 19th century oil lamps, gas lamps in 1860 then as a gasworks was built. Also at this time appeared the first time a newspaper, becoming - Kettwiger weekly. In 1887 the city was channeled, as already Kettwig two years earlier.
Ruhr uprising and occupation of the Ruhr
As part of the Ruhr uprising workers disarmed on March 15, 1920 parts of the military population. The next day called by the defense to support Freikorps Schultz shot in front of the Town Hall in a peaceful demonstration. Four demonstrators were killed.
In 1923, French troops occupied becoming and the Krupp trial against Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was out here.
Since the merging to food
Will was incorporated into several other places around eating on August 1, 1929.
In the years 1931 to 1933 in Will was a Ruhr dam, and with this also the Baldeneysee, now a recreational area. Before the damming of the Baldeneysees, late 18th and early 19th century, served the old lock Neukirchen the Ruhr shipping.
In the 1960s, the historic old town of becoming the "rehabilitation" by the city of Essen has been detected. There were only a few historical buildings destroyed but before the inspection by sat, better to rehabilitate through renovation and not by demolition.
Coat of arms
Blazon: On a red background, a silver (white ) with four red balls occupied pallium.
On a correspondent seal of the 17th century, the coat of arms is occupied. Even before the figure of St. Ludger is a coat of arms can be seen with the pallium
Will 1581
If, in the 17th century
Will 1916
Altes Rathaus BECOMING
View from the Gustav- Heinemann- Bridge
Grafenstraße
Evangelical Church Will
Old houses in the fire Torstraße
Churches
The former abbey church of St. Ludger
The former abbey church of St. Ludger's was built around 799 together with the Werden Abbey. Finally, after a few larger fires could be re-consecrated in 1275. She is considered one of the most beautiful churches in the Rhineland and as a prime example of the Rhenish transitional style. It has a baroque high altar and paintings of the Werden painter Theodor Mintrop. The building served after the secularization as a parish church. On July 6, 1993, Pope John Paul II, the Church minor with the Apostolic Letter Merito quidem to the Basilica. In the crypt are the bones of St. Liudger, founder of the monastery becoming and the diocese of Münster, buried. In the connected treasury is the Helmstedter cross an important work of art of the transition from the Romanesque Ottonian plastic and with the Liudgerus Shrine one of the few baroque reliquaries.
The St. Lucius Church
The St. Lucius Church is the oldest parish church north of the Alps (begun from 995 ). After the secularization of 1803, the church was used 150 years as a stable, then it served as housing for refugees. In 1965 it was reconstructed and reconsecrated.
The Evangelical Church Essen-Werden
The Evangelical Church Essen-Werden was consecrated on 24 June 1900. It has valuable art nouveau paintings which were again exposed some time ago. It was donated, among others, by the Krupp family as well as by the resident family in Will Huffman.
Education
Urban Primary Schools
The Hecker school is named to honor of becoming theologian and founder of the practice-oriented Realschule Johann Julius Hecker.
After the Holy Liudger named offers the Ludgerus Elementary School in modern rooms at the all-day care for about 100 pupils.
High schools
The Gymnasium Essen-Werden is an urban high school, whose origins in the Latin school of the monastery Will be ( around 800). It is known for its music and dance departments. In 2006, the school celebrated the centenary of as an urban high school in a hard week.
The Mariengymnasium was up to school year 2009/2010 a pure girls' school of the Diocese of Essen. Founded in 1858 by the Daughters of the Holy Cross, it was intended for the daughters of the upper layer. Today, it is girls from all layers open, and since the school year 2010/2011 Boys are also admitted in separate classes. The building on the Dudenstraße 14 was built in 1912, based on the construction of the road bridge in February 2007.
Folkwang -Hochschule
The Folkwang University of music, theater and dance has its headquarters in the former abbey buildings becoming. Students and teachers from around the world make the art school an inspiring place where the Folkwang idea - the unity of the arts - is alive since 1927. In addition, part is housed in the White Mill at Lock Neukirchen.
Traffic
Federal highway 224 runs right through the center of the district.
At the S- Bahnhof Essen -Werden, west of the Ruhr, the line stops S 6
The bus lines 169, 180 and 190 of the EVAG connect Essen-Werden with food Bredeney, Essen- Kettwig, Essen- Altendorf castle (via food - Kupferdreh ), Velbert and Holy House. The express bus SB19 bus transport connects Rhineland Will (stops BECOMING market and At Black ) directly to Essen Hbf and Velbert (stop post office ). In the night traffic connects the NE8 food with Velbert about Will.
Personalities
- John Cincinnius ( * ca 1485 in Lippstadt, † March 9, 1555 in Essen-Werden ), secular clerics serving the abbey of Werden, humanist
- Johann Julius Hecker ( born November 2, 1707 Will, † June 24, 1768 in Berlin), founder of the practice-oriented secondary school
- Robert Feulgen ( born September 2, 1884 in Are, † October 24, 1955 in Gießen ), physician and university professor
- Gerhard Fittkau ( born May 11, 1912 in Tollnigk; † March 6, 2004 in Essen-Werden ), theologian, pastor at St. Ludger's Church ( Will )
- Konrad Gruter, ( early 15th century ), engineer
- Wilhelm Effmann ( born September 14, 1847 in Are, † May 23, 1917 in Bonn), architect and architectural historian
- Ludger Mintrop ( born July 18, 1880 in Will; † 1 January 1956 in Essen), geophysicist