Rottbitze

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Rottbitze (mostly the Rottbitze ) is a district of Aegidienberg , a district of Bad Honnef in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district .

geography

Rottbitze is located on the southwestern edge of the Aegidienberg district and extends southeast of the Himberg over a length of 1.5 kilometers in a west-east direction on the watershed between Sieg and Wied . As the highest district of Aegidienberg and the city of Bad Honnef, the village comprises altitudes between 305 and 325  m above sea level. NHN , dropping to the north, south and south-west. To the east, Rottbitze is closed off by an industrial area and bounded by the Federal Motorway 3 with the Bad Honnef / Linz junction , which is crossed by the Rottbitzetunnel of the high-speed Cologne – Rhine / Main line . In terms of natural space, the western part of Rottbitze below the Himberg can be assigned to the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge, the eastern part as far as the federal highway of the Asbach plateau .

In the northeast there is a smooth transition to the Höhe district, while the Himberg district below begins at a distance of around 150 m to the northwest of the town exit . By Rottbitze extending national road 247 (Rottbitze-A 3-border direction Stockhausen ), according Aegidienberg down the on the border direction leads Kretzhaus incipient national road 143. South adjoins the forest area Vogelsbitze to, on the Rheinland-Palatine page 500 meters away Rederscheid ( Municipality of Windhagen ). A tributary of the Quirrenbach rises in a sieve north of Rottbitze with the Kochbach stream .

history

Rottbitze appeared in 1727 in a baptismal certificate in which an Els from the rodbitzen is mentioned. It can be considered the youngest of the 13 districts of Aegidienberg in terms of development. Both the place or field name component Rott and the ending -bitze are clearing names , i.e. they describe arable land created by clearing . In the area of ​​this parcel there was a small hill with the Rothpütz named after him , which consisted of columnar basalt . It had already been largely removed in 1789 by a quarry, the so-called Mirgelskaul ( Mirgel = loam , limestone , clay ; kaul = pit, quarry).

Rottbitze was one of eight honors that made up the parish of Aegidienberg from the middle of the 18th century until the dissolution of the Duchy of Berg in 1806. In the topographical survey of the Rhineland carried out at the beginning of the 19th century , the place was named Rothpitze , the largely eroded mountain top Rothpitzer Kopf . In 1803 there were three houses on the Rotbitzen , one of them on the shot . In the 1843 census , the residential area under the name Rottbitz comprised three residential buildings with twelve residents, Schuß was shown separately with one residential building and four residents. From 1871 at the latest, according to censuses, the Rottbitze district with 15 buildings now belonged to an area previously considered to be an altitude, which led to a significant increase in the reported number of residents of Rottbitze.

The development of the Rottbitze to a locality in the second half of the 19th century is largely due to its location at the intersection of the Prussian provincial roads between Honnef and Asbach and Linz and Asbach, which went into operation one after the other in 1859 and 1862. On these routes, the compounds one was post-travel included, for in Rottbitze at the inn Limbach one stop was. On July 1, 1862, the Linz – Rottbitze postal route went into operation, which was extended to Asbach on February 1, 1863 (and discontinued in 1875). The previously recorded personal mail between Asbach and Königswinter , from 1870 Asbach – Honnef, also stopped in Rottbitze at this time.

In 1879 a narrow-gauge railway was completed from the basalt quarries on the Dachsberg and Himberg to Rottbitze, where there was a loading station for onward transport via the Schmelztalstraße to Honnef. In 1895 the 3.25 km long railway line was extended to the Servatiushof and from there through the Schmelztal as a horse-drawn railway to shortly before Honnef. In 1905, this line was replaced by a connecting line newly built by the Honnef union from the Bröltalbahn station in Rostingen via Gratzfeld , Wülscheid , Orscheid to Rottbitze. This was taken over in 1914 by Basalt AG in Linz am Rhein , and in June 1921 by Bröltaler Eisenbahn AG (renamed Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn in the same month ).

At the beginning of the 20th century, the development of the Rottbitze was still concentrated on the intersection of today's state roads 143 and 247. On the Rottbitzer south side of the Himberg, a training camp ("Peter Staffel Camp") was built for the National Socialist Reich Labor Service in the 1930s . which consisted of barracks with an attached sports field and also included a monumental monument . During the Second World War it served as a military training camp for the Hitler Youth. Towards the end of the war, Rottbitze was one of the most fiercely contested places in March / April 1945 and is said to have changed hands three times. After the end of the war, the barracks of the military training camp were demolished, the sports field was preserved as a venue for Aegidienberg football clubs and was later converted and expanded.

In the post-war period , the district recorded rapid growth, with new development areas emerging in the south ("Waldviertel") and northeast. As a result of the Federal Motorway 3 , which opened in the 1930s, with the junction directly adjacent to Rottbitze , numerous industrial and commercial enterprises, as well as a campsite , settled there. The sports field on the Himberg, now serving as the main square of Aegidienberg, was rebuilt in the early 1980s. From 1998 (start of marketing) to 2002, the existing Heideweg industrial estate was added to the south by the new Vogelsbitze / Zilzkreuz industrial estate from funds from the Bonn-Berlin Compensation . By 2005, a new supply center was created in Rottbitze, which includes a hardware store , several discounters and petrol stations as well as a bank branch. From December 2015 to May 2016, refugee accommodation in the form of 36 mobile homes for 288 people was set up on the grounds of a weekend house area ("holiday center") in Rottbitze . In addition, the establishment of a “meeting house” for the public in the vicinity of the refugee accommodation is planned, which is supported by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The weekend house area was auctioned in October 2016 by the city, which plans to close it by the end of 2017 and convert it as building land into a regular residential area.

Population development
year Residents
1843 12
1871 82
1885 97
1905 114
1963 340

coat of arms

Chalkboard as the town's coat of arms

In 2009 the artist Richard Lenzgen created a slate as the local coat of arms of Rottbitze. In the three-part coat of arms, two crossed lifting hooks are shown in silver on a red background as an indication of the origin of the place. The soccer field, which was leveled for the training camp of the National Socialist Reich Labor Service and then re-used as the Aegidienberger sports facility, is shown in the vicinity of mallets and iron as miner's tools for the Prompt mine field that begins below Rottbitze . The lower end of the coat of arms is a representation of the narrow-gauge railway that used to run between the basalt quarries on the Himberg and the Dachsberg and was later connected to the network of the Bröltalbahn .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ West German Society for Family Studies (ed.); Johannes Jansen: Aegidienberger Familienbuch 1666–1875 , Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-933364-57-4 , p. XIV.
  2. ↑ Helmut Arntz (with the assistance of Adolf Nekum ): Urkataster und Gewannen: using the example of the community of Honnef 1824/1826 . (= Heimat- und Geschichtsverein “Herrschaft Löwenburg” eV : Studies on the local history of the city of Bad Honnef am Rhein , Issue 13, Bad Honnef 2000; Society for the History of Wine eV : Writings on Wine History , ISSN  0302-0967 , No. 133, Wiesbaden 2000), pp. 43, 72, 92, 94.
  3. ^ Karl Wilhelm Nose : Orographic letters over the Siebengebirge and the neighboring partly volcanic areas on the banks of the Lower Rhine. First part, eastern side of the Rhine. Gebhard and Körber, Frankfurt am Mayn 1789, pp. 160/161
  4. ^ Otmar Falkner: The Quirrenbacher Mühle. In: Heimatblätter des Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , 75th year 2007, p. 140.
  5. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 315.
  6. ↑ a b The communities and manor districts of the Rhine Province and their population. Based on the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Verlag des Königlichen Statistischen Bureau, Berlin 1874, pp. 108/109.
  7. ^ Theo Scheidt: From the history of the post and telecommunications in the Asbacher Land. In: Asbach / Westerwald. Pictures and reports from the last 200 years , Asbach 1990, pp. 81–84.
  8. ↑ Carsten Gussmann, Wolfgang Clössner: The Heisterbacher Valley Railway and industrial railways in the Siebengebirge area. Freiburg im Breisgau 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-456-4 , p. 40 ff.
  9. ↑ Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages . Aegidienberg 1964, p. 237.
  10. ^ Karl-Heinz Piel: Aegidienberger sports facilities - then and now. In: 25 Jahre Sportfreunde Aegidienberg 58 eV , 1983, pp. 97-105.
  11. ^ Rottbitze I: a Honnef success story , General-Anzeiger , April 19, 2001
  12. ↑ There is a silver lining on the Honnef horizon , General-Anzeiger, July 7, 2004
  13. ↑ The holiday center becomes accommodation for up to 240 people , General-Anzeiger , November 20, 2015
  14. ↑ There will soon be space for 296 refugees in Rottbitze , General-Anzeiger , January 13, 2016
  15. ↑ Land supports the construction of a meeting center , General-Anzeiger , March 20, 2016
  16. ↑ Family life on 40 square meters , General-Anzeiger , April 2, 2016
  17. ↑ Accommodation can be viewed , General-Anzeiger , April 6, 2016
  18. ↑ Regular updated information: Refugees in Bad Honnef , press release of the city of Bad Honnef, July 21, 2016
  19. ^ City of Bad Honnef has given notice to the tenants on Hüttenplatz , General-Anzeiger , April 9, 2017
  20. ↑ Royal Government of Cologne: overview of the components u. Directory of all localities in the government district of Cologne. Cöln 1845, p. 86.
  21. ↑ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, pages 114 u. 115 (PDF; 1.5 MB)
  22. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Booklet XII Rhine Province. Berlin 1909, p. 148
  23. ↑ Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages . Aegidienberg 1964, p. 93.

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 44 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 42 ″  E