Altenwald

This article deals with the Altenwald district of Sulzbach / Saar. For the district of Cuxhaven see Altenwalde .

Altenwald City of Sulzbach / Saar Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 43 "  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 50"  E
Height :	240–270 m above sea level NN
Area :	3.79 km²
Residents :	3320  (Jul. 2011)
Population density :	877 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	66280
Area code :	06897
Location of Altenwald in Saarland
View from the Hoferkopf tower in Friedrichsthal-wayside shrine to Altenwald. In the foreground the Sulzbachtal viaduct .

The catholic parish church Herz Jesu

Altenwald is a district of Sulzbach / Saar in the Saarbrücken regional association , Saarland .

location

The district is located northeast of Sulzbach in the upper Sulzbachtal and borders directly on the city of Friedrichsthal . To the southeast is the Sulzbach district of Schnappach , the development of which merges with that of Altenwald. To the west of Altenwald is Hühnerfeld , another district of Sulzbach.

history

1765 was near the Sulzbacher melt the first coking plant in Germany established, which was closed 1,963th

In 1841 a mine was founded in the Altenwald , which at that time already belonged to Sulzbach , which was closed in 1932.

In 1843 there were eleven houses with 76 inhabitants at the gatehouse of the princely wild gate. This is where today's location grew in the past decades. By 1914 the individual houses had already grown together to form a village.

Buildings

One of the buildings worth seeing in Altenwald is the Protestant church , which was built from 1891 to 1893 in the neo-Romanesque style as a prayer room in brick construction and expanded in 1894 by the choir and in 1896/1897 by the church tower. The extreme inclination of the tower caused by the subsidence of the pits led to the name "Leaning Tower of Altenwald". Also worth seeing is the Catholic parish church Herz-Jesu , which was built in 1910/11 as a three-aisled basilica with a three-sided polygonal choir based on the design by Saarbrücken architect Moritz Gombert . Both structures are listed as individual monuments in the Saarland monuments list.

The colliery house , a compressor house and the porter's house have been preserved from the former Altenwald mine . The latter was renovated in 2000 by the city of Sulzbach. The colliery and gatekeeper's house was built in 1890 as a brick building with color-contrasting structural elements.

See also: List of architectural monuments in Sulzbach / Saar

traffic

The Sulzbachtalviadukt is located in the district of Altenwald , via which the federal motorway 8 runs past the place in the northeast. The state road L 125, which connects Saarbrücken with Neunkirchen , runs through Altenwald . There is a connection to St. Ingbert via the L 244 state road .

Old Forest has a breakpoint of Deutsche Bahn on section Türkismühle-Saarbrücken of the Nahe Valley Railway .

literature

• Ernst Klein: History of the Saarland coal mine Sulzbach-Altenwald (1841-1932) (publications of the Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research 16), Saarbrücken 1987.

Web links

Commons : Altenwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The place on www.sulzbach-saar.de
• Altenwald webpage
• Literature on Altenwald in the Saarland Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Social Demographic data base www.sulzbach-saar.de
2. ↑ The Saarland coal mines , appendix on: www.saar-nostalgie.de. Retrieved August 15, 2013
3. ↑ formerly Altenwald mine at: www.saarlandbilder.net. Retrieved August 15, 2013
4. ↑ Ev. Church - Sulzbachtalstraße 203, Altenwald district On: www.sulzbach-saar.de. Retrieved August 15, 2013
5. ↑ Catholic parish church Herz-Jesu-Kirche - Grubenstrasse, district Altenwald On: www.sulzbach-saar.de. Retrieved August 15, 2013
6. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments Regional Association Saarbrücken (PDF; 10.2 MB). Retrieved August 15, 2013
7. ↑ Railway shaft system + gatehouse - Altenwald district On: www.sulzbach-saar.de. Retrieved August 15, 2013