Rosenthal (Wassenberg)

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Rosenthal is a hamlet in the Birgelen district , part of Wassenberg , in North Rhine-Westphalia . The small settlement called Schaufenberg belongs to Rosenthal.

geography

Rosenthal borders in the north-west on the former Mercury settlement near Rothenbach (Wassenberg) , in the north on the train station belonging to Rosenthal, in the east on Schaufenberg and the former shaft of the Sophia-Jacoba colliery , Hückelhoven, where the building yard of the city of Wassenberg is today is set up. In the south lies the larger district of Birgelen.

history

The Rosenthal farm was mentioned as early as the 14th century. The settlement only got its importance in the 19th century with the sand mining north of Rosenthal in the border forest.

Rosenthal train station

Rosenthal station in 1983

In 1911 the Jülich – Dalheim railway was opened. In the course of this, the town north of the town center got a train station for both freight and passenger traffic. In the first place, however, the freight traffic counted for the construction of the station because sand was mined and processed in the nearby forest. In 1983 the line was closed and the tracks from Ratheim to Dalheim dismantled. Numerous buildings belonging to Wegberger Sandwerke, such as the loading building and the storage building to the north of the listed reception building, are still preserved today and are used as residential buildings.

literature

  • Marco Kieser: Architectural monuments in the urban area of ​​Wassenberg . In: Local calendar of the Heinsberg district 2004
  • Gillessen, Leo .: The villages of the Heinsberg district: their names, topography and history . District of Heinsberg, Heinsberg 1993, ISBN 3-925620-13-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monuments in the city of Wassenberg. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ http://www.puyn-dalheim.de/4654/5502.html

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Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 33.9 ″  N , 6 ° 8 ′ 52.7 ″  E