Rostock-Lichtenhagen

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Location of light Hagen in Rostock

Located in the northwestern district of Rostock light Hagen was built from 1972 to 1976 and was in the 1970s and 1980s in the GDR as a prime example of a successful urban development.

History

The development area was named after a small, located near the village, a medieval settlement in the " Hägerort ". These names suggest that before about 900 years, these areas were covered with extensive forests. 1319, the village was first mentioned as " Parrochia Lychtenhagen " documentary, but already in 1264 called a church Lord the place in his notes light Hagen. It is located southwest of the district and belongs to the municipality Elmenhorst / light Hagen in the district of Rostock. The name means something like " bright spot in the woods ." The ending- hagen has an earlier grubbing fence, presumably by hedges, towards. To the west of the district is the home area small light Hagen. On the territory of the present-day city was part of a 1942 settlement consisted of simple wooden one-and two -family houses, which became their times called Holzhaussiedlung and served to house technicians Arado Flugzeugwerke.

The large housing estate in the United slab construction was 1971-1976. Was Built many five- storey building, as well as at the beginning of the 1980s as a gap building three high-rise buildings ( including the sunflower house). It originated 6,925 housing for around 18,000 inhabitants. The streets mostly form rectangular squares and were named after important Rostock post-war politicians. With the political changes in 1990, all the streets were renamed and given name of North German towns.

The pedestrian light Haeger Brink is the center of this district. Unlike other, typical of the plate architecture of the former GDR newly built quarters, was awarded the " Brink " but a rather unusual gem created - instead of the usual straight, wide streets or shopping malls (so-called highways ), this is of many gardens, fountains and winding corners determined.

In light Hagen the main building with a library of the Faculty of Law, University of Rostock is located.

Worldwide attracted the attention of the district with the riots of Rostock light Hagen in August 1992, where it came to the most massive anti-immigrant riots of the German post-war history.

Population Development

The end of 1988, the population in light Hagen peaked with 20 276. As in almost all districts of Rostock, this went back to 2002 continuously, but was then able to, inter alia, through the construction of new housing in predominantly one-and two -family homes to the west of Schleswig and Sternberger road are kept. At the end of 2009 13.506 inhabitants were registered with primary residence. A renewed increase in population by 2013 was achieved through the development area on the Kalveradd with about 200 plots of land west of the Mecklenburg Avenue in 2011.

Traffic

Connected to the local S-Bahn and bus - and tram network of the Hanseatic city can be reached by light Hagen in a few minutes the districts of Warnemünde and Diedrich Hagen on the Baltic Sea as well as the center of the city of Rostock.