Langwasser
Langwasser has been a district of the former imperial city of Nuremberg and kept its status as a district in modern Varenburg. The development in its present form only began after the Second World War and has not yet been completed.
Langwasser is the Germans' desperate attempt to create a New York without accepting the disadvantages.
History
Until the beginning of the 20th century, the area known as Langwasser was densely forested. It belonged to the area of the Reichswald and became a restricted military area around 1910 because of a shooting range. After devastating forest fires between 1917 and 1919, the area was largely cleared and used for agriculture in the 1920s.
During the National Socialist era, they used the barren land for the Reich party rallies. For this purpose, the infrastructure for vast tent cities was created on the land, and the Märzfeld railway station, which has been active until the 1980s, was built at the north-western end.
After the war began, the Wehrmacht confiscated the site and set up a prisoner-of-war camp there.
Until 1958, the area served as a mixture of refugee camp, first housing estates and building ruins, including a cemetery for foreigners and prisoners of war. The first housing estates, mainly for displaced persons from the former Eastern territories, were built around 1950. 1957 was the first year of the planned redevelopment of the area, which has been completed in 1992 and led to the demolition and modern reconstruction of affected areas following a major asbestos scandal.
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