1945 – 1954
A new district is emerging
1945 the Second World War came to an end. Hanover lay in ruins. The people touched, clean upcleared away the rubble. Especially the women, the "rubble women", managed this hard workten, because the men were still in the prisoner of war camps at that time and were missing or lost their lives in the war. The people were in great need. In this time verthe Eichenkamp grove also disappeared. Due to lack of fuel, it was sold by the local residentsheats. the Mittelfeldhe set about rebuilding. The destroyed "asparagus barracks" was rebuilt with the support of the city. School, kindergarten and communitycommunity spaces are created.
One consequence of the division after the Second World War was the expulsion of the Germans from the Eastcommand. Streams of refugees headed west to all parts of what was then the Federal Republic of Germany. Above all but to Lower Saxony. Housing was needed for those who had been bombed out, refugees and displaced persons created to give them a new home. So the idea came up, at the southern edge of the city of Hanover to merge the three settlement areas mentioned into one with new buildings to connect district. His name was found quickly. A path led through the middle of the field Connected Döhren and Wülfel with Bemerode and Wülferode. Before the first houses were built
became the new part of the cityMittelfeld" called.
1947 the first export fair was dismantled on the premises of one of the former occupiersten light metal works in nearby Laatzen.
1949 was the year of our birth district.
As part of the reconstruction of Hanover, a städteStructural concept for the area between Garkenburgstraße and Eichenkampstraße developed. The new district should Accommodate 10.000 people in 3.000 housing units. the The main access was via Garkenburgstraße and the street "Am Mittelfelde".
This construction project was financed with funds from Marshall plan, with about 2,8 million marks. 11.000 DM cost a home at the time. The 70 single-family homes in the Berich Am Mittelfelde, Eichelkampstrasse and Sarstedter Strasse destroyed by bombs in one night in September 1943 were restored to their solid basement walls
built up.
In memory of helping the Marshall Plan, got a fourtel the name "America Quarter" (ECA settlement=Eeconomic
Coperation Aadministration). It is about the apartmentgenes on Washingtonweg and the one- and two-storey ones Houses in Steubenweg, Lincolnweg and Karl-Schurz-Weg.
The majority of the residents of the new district came from Silesia. That's why the streets got Silesian ones City names like Beuthener Straße, Gleiwitzer Straße, Glatzer Street. There the central meeting place, the market, becameplace, after the Silesian symbol figure, the "Rübezahl", named.
1950 On May 2nd, the "fair line" went into operation.
1954 was started with the construction of a primary school on Spittastraß started to give the children the Mittelfeldhe and the siedlung Seelhorst the long way to the elementary school in the Matthaikirche, today Loccumer Straße.
Sources
• district chronicle Mittelfeld, ed. by Society for Construction and Housing Hanover (GBH)
• Brochure Entrepreneurs' Round Table Mittelfeld
• Mittelfeld – a district comes alive, ed. by teachers and students of the secondary school Beuthenerstraße Hanover/with the collaboration of the local researcher Walter Lohmann, 1992
• Brochure Stadtfriedhof Seelhorst, Parks Office in cooperation with the Press and Information office