Innenstadt (Braunschweig)

Brunswick- Downtown is one of 19 municipalities of Braunschweig.

It has the official number 131 until November 2006, No. 221 The district has about 13,500 inhabitants in an area of ​​237.4 ha and thus accounted for 1.2% of the total area of Braunschweig.

History

The municipality is bounded by the Okerumflut, roughly the area of the historic city of Braunschweig, the Old Town ( historical city center). Until the expansion of the city by razing of the fortifications and settlements outside the Umflutgrabens during industrialization, the story is the same as the City.

Policy

The district council of the city is made up since 2006 as follows:

  • CDU 6
  • SPD 4
  • Green 3
  • FDP 1
  • The left one

From 2001 to 2006, the district council was composed as follows: CDU: 6 SPD: 4, Green: 1 and FDP: first from 2006 to 2011, the district council was composed as follows: CDU: 6 SPD: 4, Green: 2 and FDP: 1

  • Ines Werner (SPD ) ( since 2006 )

By 2006: Axel Fricke (CDU )

The municipality is composed of the following statistical districts:

  • Center (No. 01) with the old town and the castle district bag
  • Hagen (No. 02)
  • Altewiek (No. 03)
  • Hohetor (No. 04)
  • Neustadt (No. 05)

The Braunschweig city district downtown leads the Brunswick coat of arms.

Attractions

The tradition Islands are five small ( reconstructed ) areas in the Brunswick Old Town, some of which have survived the Second World War or were historical models largely rebuilt and restored after 1945. The islands are part of the tradition tradition Magniviertel island, the island of tradition Burg Square, the island of tradition Michaelis, the tradition of island old town market and the island of tradition Aegidien.

In the city center there are the important historic churches of the city of Brunswick, as the Brunswick Cathedral.

An important transport axis formed by the City ring. This includes, among other roads as Bohlweg that Güldenstraße, the long road and the Konrad-Adenauer-Straße/Kalenwall.

Population Development

The city area was in 1400 about 114 acres and was populated by about 17,500 residents.

Since the incorporations of March 1974, the territory comprised within the Okerumflut around 1.2 percent of the city area of Brunswick, a 237.5 hectare area, which is about 332 soccer fields ( each 105 times 68 meters ). It includes the areas of all five historic precincts of Brunswick, the Altewiek, the old town, Hagen, the New Town and the bag - and the two former districts of the castle and the St. Ilienhofs. For comparison: While the concise in the precincts Hagen Hagen market around 4 metric morning or 3 units of the historic area measure of a Brunswick Forest in the morning, so about 1 ha, is large, the area encompassed within the Okerumflut 950 metric morning and 712 forest morning. It corresponds to the formed end of 1981, the municipality downtown today.

Between the end of 2008 Okerumflutgräben lived almost 13,000 people - about 5.4 percent of the total resident population. This corresponds roughly around the entire Population of Brunswick around 1400.

Other meanings

The term inner city is ambiguous and has several definitions. He stands for the township, the Brunswick Old Town or the area within the Brunswick Umflutgräben ( with the Municipality identical), also the area within the Wilhelmine ring is counted to Braunschweig city.

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