Wiesbaden-Westend

Westend, Bleichstraße is a local district of the Hessian capital Wiesbaden.

The covering an area of ​​0.67 square kilometers smallest Wiesbaden local district is densely built and architecturally influenced primarily by founder temporal building. With approximately 17,500 residents ( foreigners: 30 percent), the calculated population density of nearly 26,000 inhabitants per square kilometer. Thus the West is probably the most densely populated district in Germany.

The Westend is a multicultural city district. A business center with more than 60 specialty shops and ten different nationalities have Wiesbadenern and people from many countries a home. The urban and architectural charms of the lively win in recent times in importance again. This is reflected in the many carefully restored buildings and a busy social life. The district has a relatively large and well-kept old buildings with moderate rents now. In addition to the highest percentage of foreigners of the city also lives the majority of students from Wiesbaden.

Geographical location

The boundaries of the local district Westend / Bleichstraße are described in the main statute of the city of Wiesbaden as follows:

Schwalbacher Road ( even numbers 16-52 ), Dotzheimer Street (odd numbers 1-65 ), Klarenthaler Street (odd numbers 7-23 ), Lorraine Street (odd numbers), Kruse Road ( even numbers ), Westerwaldstraße ( even numbers ), Lahnstraße ( even numbers 2-14 ), Emser Straße ( even numbers ).

In the east-west direction of the local district of two through traffic routes is being developed: the northern part of the axis Wellritzstraße / Westend Road and the southern part of the axis Bleichstraße / Blücherstraße.

Historically, the West is called with the northern extension Weißenburgstraße in the interior and the exterior of the Westend, including the commander of the district extending therethrough in a north-south direction Bismarck ring separately. Another continuous north-south axis is formed in the commander of the district Zieten ring and Gneisenaustraße and inside the Westend Hellmund road performs this function.

With the exception of Sedan square, the Bismarck ring Wellritzstraße and Westend road that connects and Blücher square are other places located on the borders of the local district: the place of German unity in the east, the Alsatian in the west and the busy Dürerplatz in the north.

The only church building in the local district is the Catholic St. Elizabeth's Church on Zieten ring.

Town council election results Wiesbaden-Westend/Bleichstraße

Since 1972 is at the same time, but regardless of chosen with the elections to the Wiesbaden city council town council of Wiesbaden- Westend ( indicated in the table in percent).

Culture

In the West there are hundreds of protected cultural monuments, mostly from the period of the neighborhood at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century.