Old Post Route (Sterkrade)
The street mail in Sterkrade is part of an old postal route from Bremen in the Rhineland .
history
As early as 1225, an old road from Bremen to the Rhineland was mentioned, which led via Sterkrade. The abbess Ringinvidis von Hillen took this route several times between 1240 and 1255 when she founded her monastery in Delfth and later moved to Sterkrade . The route served the armies of the Thirty Years 'War , the Seven Years' War and Napoleon's troops on the way to Moscow for deployment.
The first use of this old street as a postal exchange took place during the peace congress in Münster . In 1648 the apostolic nuncio Fabio Chigi, who later became Pope Alexander VII, traveled to Münster on this route and later complained that he had been refused accommodation in the Sterkrade monastery . This was probably because of the poverty of the monastery. In 1722 the Prussian postmaster of the Münster postal line confirmed the post office in Sterkrade, which had existed since 1701. The horse change took place at today's corner of Bahnhofstrasse-Holtener Strasse. The station was popularly called Am or Zum Brandenburger . The line ran from Münster via Dülmen , Haltern , Dorsten , Kirchhellen , to Sterkrade, with the stops Alter Postweg, Abtei Sterkrade and St.-Antony-Hütte . Then it went over the Emscher Bridge to Duisburg , Düsseldorf and Cologne to Bonn . In 1792 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is said to have used the road when he traveled from Düsseldorf to Münster to see Countess Amalie von Gallitzin .
The speed of travel of the stagecoaches was approx. 5.5 km per hour and the departure from Münster happened on Mondays and Thursdays at 6:00 a.m.
For the supply of the St.-Antony-Hütte with lawn iron ore and charcoal from the Grafenwald area, the postal route was of decisive importance. With the advent of the railroad and the expansion of the motorways, however, this was lost.
Post today
In the course of the 20th century, parts of the postal route were renamed Sterkrade. To the north the street is now called Kirchhellener Straße and the continuation to the south is today's Steinbrinkstraße . The main importance nowadays is to quickly reach the local recreation areas north of the city.
The road is today's L 621 and is called Alter Postweg again after crossing the A 2 in the north . The Oberhausen-Königshardt junction of the A 2 is only a few 100 m east of this crossing .
The name of the new Brandenburger Hof , built in 1909 on the foundations of the old "Brandenburger Hof" public restaurant, is reminiscent of the post office that used to be nearby.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lindemann Chronology p. 9
literature
- Alfred Lindemann: The old post route in Sterkrade - the local magazine 12-2011, p. 31 Verlag Werbeagentur Team2 GmbH and Co.KG
- Alfred Lindemann: Chronology Sterkrade self-publishing