Heidelberg-Südstadt

• South City -Ost ( 005 1 )
• South City West ( 005 2)

The south of Heidelberg is a relatively new district. It was created after the Second World War from the expansion of the city to the south and west of the district of Rohrbach to the north and today ( with no U.S. military personnel ) about 4,000 inhabitants. The southern part is so after the railway town and Schlierbach the third smallest district of Heidelberg.

Able development

The southern part is divided into three areas:

• East of the Rohrbacherstraße ( South City -East). Built with single-family homes and villas on the lower mountain slopes.
• West of the Rohrbacherstraße ( South City West). Built primarily with inputs and smaller multi-family homes, particularly in the north and along the west side of the Rohrbacherstraße even larger 3 - to 6 -storey apartment buildings.
• In the West, the headquarters of the Central European land forces of NATO in the Campbell Barracks and the surrounding residential areas, especially for members of the U.S. Armed Forces ( Mark Twain Village ).

The data used by the U.S. armed forces and NATO surfaces including the Mark Twain Village occupy about a third of South City and characterize this clearly. In the area of ​​South City is located southwest of the Campbell Barracks small commercial area Bosseldorn, in the rest area west of the military use are allotment facilities and sports facilities in the so-called " Kirchheimer hole" between several railway installations.

At the southern part also includes the mountain cemetery of 1842, are buried in the many famous personalities of Heidelberg. In the parklike find the grave times of Johann Heinrich Voss, Friedrich Ebert, Robert Bunsen and Wilhelm Furtwängler.

The southern part is bounded on the north and west by railroad tracks. In the east, the boundary is oriented to the old town (district king chair) along some trails on the southwestern foothills of the king chair. The border with Rohrbach in the South is since the incorporation of Rohrbach to Heidelberg in 1929 Sickingenstraße, before 1929 was the border between Heidelberg and Rohrbach about 200 meters north - along the Saar road and the myelin sheath, still today indicating their names on the old border location. The southern part is represented politically by the district council West Town / South City.

Infrastructure and schools

The southern part has no central squares or a center. The district development plan, to develop the area around St. Mark's house, the " Piazza San Marco " at a community center. The district is only accessible from the north and south, it is oriented along the main roads Rohrbacherstraße and Roman road, make both connections to West City and Rohrbach. To the west of the railway line Heidelberg Karlsruhe and to the east in the foothills of the royal chair, there are only a few walking and cycling routes.

The majority of the southern part is a residential area with only a few commercial enterprises. These are located southwest of the Campbell Barracks almost exclusively along the Rohrbacherstraße and in the industrial area Bosseldorn.

Two of the Heidelberg high schools are in this area: the state Helmholtz -Gymnasium and the state-accredited private high school English Institute. In addition, the only high school located in the Mark Twain Village Heidelberg High School for relatives of soldiers of the U.S. forces in Heidelberg.

To Southtown also the commercial vocational school Julius Springer school is one with buildings in the southern and western city. The Julius Springer school buildings in the southern also be used by the resident in the western city Willy Hellpach - commercial high school.

The south town does not have its own basic or secondary schools. Elementary school students go, according to the ancient boundary between Rohrbach and Heidelberg, the Saarstraße and Mine, on schools in these districts. In the south of the southern city, the private Free Montessori School Heidelberg is around 50 students.

In the southern city are a student residence of the student union Heidelberg as well as several privately funded student residences.

In the commercial area Bosseldorn the American University College Europe the University of Maryland, which primarily offers distance learning courses for U.S. soldiers from here is.

The southern part is the public transport through the VRN with the tram lines 23 and 24 (formerly line 3 and 4) by the Rohrbacherstraße, as well as the bus lines 29 and 757 well served by the Roman road. The southern part is connected to the bus line 94 ( Moon Liner 1) on the weekend night bus network of Heidelberg. On the border to the west of the city is S-Bahnhof West City / Southtown.

In the southern city is the geriatric specialty hospital Bethany.

History

Before the Second World War the area between the west city and Rohrbach was used for agricultural purposes mainly. There only a few buildings, the hospital Bethanien, some buildings of the Rohrbacherstraße and 1937, the Greater Germany Barracks ( the Campbell Barracks today ) incurred, in 1931 on the hillside east. After 1945, built on the territory of the Southtown both new residential areas, among others, as part of the alignment and Bautenplans of 1950 as well as the residential areas of the Mark Twain Village around the adopted by the U.S. armed forces and later extended Campbell Barracks. In the '50s and '60s, the Southtown developed as to its own district.

The currently existing streets of Southtown geared particularly in the district of South City West to the Won limits agricultural use prior to construction.

The Mark Twain Village was only in 2003 structurally separated clearly by fencing and other security measures of the southern city.