Atsch

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Atsch
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 3 ″  N , 6 ° 12 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 194 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 4066  (2017)
Area code : 02402
Crossroads and Atsch Dreieck bus stop

Atsch or the Atsch is a district of Stolberg (Rhld.) In the Aachen city region with 4,066 inhabitants.

geography

The Atsch district is partly on a hill between the Brander Forest, Propsteier Forest and Würselener Forest . The Inde flows on the southern outskirts . Here the Inde is also called Münsterbach from the confluence of the Vicht upstream. In the Middle Ages, the imperial abbey Kornelimünster was the owner of extensive lands, the Münsterländchen . In old maps the brook is called Münsterbach. The Münsterbachtal, the Münsterbachstrasse and the Münsterbach nature reserve are named after them.

Surname

The origin of the place name is not clearly established. The female gender of the Atsch does not further contribute to the interpretation, as the name is usually associated with ash as the origin. Unproven and doubtful is the presumed origin from the Gallic place Atuatuca , where the legendary battlefield of antiquity is to be found.

history

The area of ​​the Atsch looks back on a long mining activity. Coal mining areas have been used since the Celtic and Roman times and the remains of settlements from this era are documented. At the exit towards Verlautenheide / Würselen , remains of the Roman road from Aachen to Jülich have been preserved, and a Roman burial ground between Igelweg and Würselener Strasse is known. Not far from there are a Celtic and a Roman burial mound .

The first mention of St. Sebastianus - Chapel ., Which until the 18th century backlog, dates back to 1474.

In the so-called Hövvelen (High German = the hills), between Mozartstrasse and Hammstrasse, Pingen can be found as a remnant of medieval or early modern mining activities. Because the Atsch lies in the area of hard coal deposits in the western part of the Inderevier . In 1845 the Atsch mine was set up here in the area of ​​the Atsch triangle , which reached its maximum depth of 220 m in 1860 and was abandoned in 1870 due to insufficient coal reserves. Today, the central component of it is preserved as a residential building.

During the French annexation of the Rhineland from 1794 to 1815, the Atsch belonged to the Mairie Forest in the canton of Borcette in the Département de la Roer .

Woodruff's hut in Rhenania

In addition to mining, various branches of industry settled in the area between the Atsch Dreieck traffic junction and Stolberg train station in the 19th century, thus ensuring the rapid development of this industrial location. So who entertained Kali Chemie AG here a great work ( Chemical Rhenania ) and the Atscher copper mill was located here, was closed in the second half of the 19th century. Two quarry-stone blast furnaces in the Berthold-Wolff- Park have been preserved from her as monuments.

Bf.Atsch. Former station of the Aachen industrial railway for the Stolberg-Kohlscheid rail line

From 1875 to 1888, was at the Steinbachstraße one at the railway Stolberg-Kohlscheid located station Stolberg-Atsch and 1955-1960 one at the railway Stolberg-Walheim located breakpoint on the railway line for the then trains running rail bus .

In 1897 the small railway line Bf Eschweiler - Eschweiler Rathaus - Atsch - Eilendorf was put into operation. On October 6, 1969, it was shut down and the line switched to bus operation.

As a detachment from the Eilendorf parish, the St. Sebastianuskirche was built from 1900 to 1901 after the old Atsch patron and soon formed a new center of the district, which now began to expand along Sebastianusstrasse.

In 1935, the Atsch came from Eilendorf to the city of Stolberg as part of a regional reform within the then Aachen district and has since formed the north-western tip of the city area.

In the 1930s, an extensive new building area with single-family houses was developed on Sebastianusstrasse, which was followed by further local expansions towards Eilendorf in the 1960s-1970s.

The Atsch pastor Fritz Keller was taken to the Dachau concentration camp as a resistance fighter against the National Socialists in 1941 and died in his cell in 1943 after further imprisonment in Aachen. Pastor-Keller-Strasse in Atsch is named after him. The park of the same name in Atsch is dedicated to the Jewish businessman Berthold Wolff from Stolberg.

Facilities

Catholic Church of St. Sebastianus

The Catholic parish church of St. Sebastianus is located on Sebastianusstraße , next to it is the Catholic kindergarten with an attached youth home. The municipal kindergarten is located on Mozartstrasse. There is also the Katholische Grundschule Würselener Straße , next to which the multi-purpose hall is located. There is an Islamic prayer house at the cutting mill. The Atscher cemetery is located on Friedhofstrasse, another is the municipal central cemetery at the Buschmühle.

freetime and sports

The Atscher multi-purpose hall is used for sports and cultural events. There is a sports field in Hammstrasse. To the south of the village there is the Muensterbusch nature reserve between Hamm and Haumuehle (ACK-015) , which has a diverse floodplain landscape , to the northwest is the Würselener Wald as an extensive walking area. The Steinbachstraße leads into the Saubach nature reserve near the Steinbachshochwald estate . Old reservoirs on Eisenbahnstrasse serve as fish ponds.

Attractions

The annealing furnaces of the Atscher copper mill in Berthold-Wolff-Park testify to the extensive and ancient industrial history. They were originally embedded in a spacious factory area that now forms the park. The Stolberg main station is a representative two-winged building from 1888. After its restoration in 2013, the remarkable architecture made of yellow brickwork is visible again.

economy

View of Atsch Dreieck from the direction of Stolberg (Rhld.) Hbf

As an old industrial location, Atsch still has various industrial locations with small and medium-sized industries. The Hamm-Mühle business park is located between Atsch and Kohlbusch , and numerous businesses are located on Rhenaniastrasse and Hasencleverstrasse. In the north of the Atsch, the city of Stolberg is developing another industrial area on the former site of the Belgian Camp Astrid barracks .

traffic

The next junctions are Eschweiler-West on the A 4 , Würselen / Verlautenheide on the A 544 and Aachen-Brand on the A 44 . The nearest train station is the Euregiobahn station Stolberg-Schneidmühle and the DB station Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf . The bus routes 1, 22, 25 and 42 connect Atsch with Stolberg-Mitte, Verlautenheide, Eilendorf, Brand and Aachen- Mitte.

The Stolberg-Atsch station was on the Stolberg – Kohlscheid railway line . The Stolberg-Atsch stop , on the other hand, was on the Stolberg – Walheim railway line .

societies

  • ATV - General Gymnastics Club Stolberg-Atsch 1896 eV
  • ASA Atsch 1919 e. V. - Football club, District League B Aachen Group 4 (as of August 29, 2010)

Sons and daughters of the place

Web links

Commons : Atsch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sonja Essers: More births, but fewer inhabitants in Stolberg. In: Stolberger Zeitung. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .