Baden, St. Louis
| Baden | |
|---|---|
| St. Louis neighborhood | |
 Location of Baden within St. Louis |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| City | St. Louis |
| Wards | 2, 27 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.06 sq mi (2.7 km2) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 7,268 |
| • Density | 6,900/sq mi (2,600/km2) |
| ZIP code(s) | Parts of 63147 and 63137 |
| Area code(s) | 314 |
| Website | stlouis-mo.gov |
Baden is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri.
In 2010 Baden's racial makeup was 91.8% black, 6.3% white, 0.1% Native American, 1.3% two or more races, and 0.3% some other race. 0.5% of Baden's population was of Hispanic or Latino origin.
Baden became a part of the City of St. Louis in 1876 by the state legislature. Baden is still considered a county of Saint Louis City. Baden's population was about 400 people. The neighborhood was located on the Kansas City and Northwestern Railroad, popularly known as the "Wabash". In this neighborhood there were 11 stores, three wagon shops, four churches, four schools (one public, two Catholic, and one Lutheran), as well as a post office, known to locals as "the Baden Station".
The Lutheran Altenheim or Nursing Home at 8721 Halls Ferry Road was constructed in 1929, with additions in 1963 and 1972. The home features ramps instead of stairways for the safe and comfortable movement of residents within the fireproof building. (It was sold recently to a non-sectarian nursing home enterprise.) A number of historic churches, most of them originally Germanic background, anchor the Baden neighborhood and still operate. Noteworthy among these are Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church (now called Our Lady of the Holy Cross) and Ebenezer Lutheran Church (Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod), both of which date from the mid-19th Century. The other remaining churches are largely African-American Protestant churches, frequently those buying formerly white churches from the original Baden congregations (e.g., the former St. Stephens Evangelical and Reformed Church). The former largely Irish background, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, was merged into Holy Cross Parish and now meets at the Holy Cross church site. Mount Carmel is now House of Light Church, an African-American Protestant congregation.
The Friedens U.C.C. Cemetery, an historic non-sectarian burial ground dating from 1859 (originally owned by the Friedens German Evangelical and Reformed Church at 19th and Newhouse in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood) and frequently patronized by German-American and African-American Protestant funerals, is located at North Broadway and Jennings Station Road. The original Old Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, on Church Road behind the Holy Cross Catholic Parish, was closed in 1949 and relocated to the New Bethlehem Cemetery, four miles north on Bellefontaine Road in the North St. Louis County suburb of Bellefontaine Neighbors, which still operates today, offering interment space to patrons of all faiths, but primarily the German-American Lutheran and African-American Protestant communities. Many of the original landowners of the "Halls Ferry Circle" area of Baden are buried in this historic cemetery, along with John and Casper Beiderwieden, first Lutheran funeral home operators in the City of St. Louis, and Emil Heintzenroeder, who operated a funeral home in Baden on Halls Ferry Road that served all residents until the 1970s. Many notable Lutheran pastors who were instrumental in the development of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod in the 19th and early 20th centuries are buried in the New Bethlehem Cemetery. A number of German Evangelical pastors (among them Rev. Dr. Kopf, founder of Friedens Cemetery) who developed the Evangelical and Reformed Church in the U.S. (merging with the Puritan-background Congregationalists in 1957, forming today's United Church of Christ) are buried at Friedens.
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