Altenkessel

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Altenkessel
City of Saarbrücken
Former coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 40 ″  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  E
Area : 5.37 km²
Residents : 6007  (2013)
Population density : 1,119 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 66126
Area code : 06898
Altenkessel (Saarland)
Altenkessel

Location of Altenkessel in Saarland

Altenkessel ( listen ? / I ) is a western part of the city and district of Saarbrücken in Saarland in the city ​​district West . It bears the district number 23. Audio file / audio sample

geography

location

Starting from the northern Saar valley, Altenkessel extends to the heights of the Pfaffenkopf . The place is on the Barockstrasse SaarPfalz .

Districts

Altenkessel consists of the Colonie Altenkessel, Großwald, Luisenthaler Glashütte, Neudorf and Rockershausen.

history

The place was created in the 19th century as a miners' residence because of the hard coal deposits . On February 7, 1962, a major mining accident occurred under Altenkessel in the neighboring Luisenthal mine, with 299 dead miners.

In 1929 the Church of St. Elisabeth was built.

On January 1, 1974, the Altenkessel community was incorporated into the state capital of Saarbrücken.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on July 15, 1952.

Blazon : "Under a silver shield head, in it a black iron and a black mallet crossed diagonally, covered with a black miner's lamp, diagonally divided by red and silver, a silver anchor cross above, a blue anchor below."

The community emerged as a miners 'settlement after 1852, as indicated by the miners' emblems. The ship anchor stands for the Rockershausen district on the Saar, while the anchor cross is taken from the coat of arms of Püttlingen, with which the municipality was combined in one office until 1947 and to which the municipality belonged until the municipality of Altenkessel was founded.

The coat of arms was designed by A. Dochermann.

The Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Baptista in Altenkessel

Culture and sights

Buildings

In Altenkessel there are several buildings that as individual monuments in the monument list are listed in the Saarland. These include u. a. the Catholic parish church of St. Elisabeth in Beethovenstraße designed by Ludwig Becker and Anton Falkowski in 1928–29 , the former Catholic prayer room in Gerhardstraße for the staff of the Gerhard Pit from 1870, which was later converted for residential purposes, the Protestant Luther Church in Hasenstraße, built 1886–87 based on plans by Carl Friedrich Müller and the Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Baptista on Kirchstrasse , built in 1902–03 based on a design by Wilhelm Hector .

Green spaces and recreation

Altenkessel borders directly on the extensive forest area of the Saarkohlenwald .

Public facilities

The Alsbachbad swimming pool is located in Altenkessel .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Trivia

The Neudorf district is popularly known as Cameroon .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City District West on: www.saarbruecken.de, accessed on May 20, 2013
  2. ↑ http://www.lexolino.de/c,gesellschaft_kommunikation_postbeispielen-telefonvorwahlen_sortierung-nach-vorwahl_06,068
  3. ↑ The Luisenthal mine disaster in 1962 , seen on November 16, 2011
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 803 .
  5. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list state capital Saarbrücken (PDF; 638 kB), accessed on July 21, 2013
  6. ^ Stadtwerke Saarbrücken Bäder GmbH: Altenkessel swimming pool. Retrieved July 12, 2020 .
  7. ^ Entry Cameroon in the Rhenish Dictionary
  8. ↑ Schön, Friedrich: Dialect of the Saarbrücker Land along with a grammar of the dialect. In: Announcements of the historical association of the Saar region, issue 15, self-published by the association, Saarbrücken 1922

Web links

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