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Bush huts
City of Kreuztal
Coats of arms of bush huts
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 23 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : approx. 270 m
Area : 5.98 km²
Residents : 4701  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 786 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1969
Postal code : 57223
Area code : 02732
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Location of Kreuztal in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district
Evangelical Church Bushhuts
Evangelical Church Bushhuts

Buschhütten [ bʊʃˈhʏ.tən , bʊʃˈhʏ.tn̩ ], also consisting of the districts of Langenau (with Mühlbergsiedlung), Kölsbachgrund and Bottenbach, is the southernmost district of Kreuztal in Siegerland .

history

Langenau, Bottenbach and Buschhütten were independent villages until the 18th century. Until the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1969, the place belonged to the Ferndorf office . As early as April 1, 1930, parts of the area had been reclassified to Kreuztal.

Langenau

Langenau is the oldest of the three districts of Buschhütten. In the course of history different spellings for Langenau have emerged, for example Langenowe, Langenauw, Langenauwe or Langenouv . The first mention was made on October 17, 1340 in a document in which Eberhard von Seelbach from the branch Surdus [ie Daub (e)] with the consent of his brothers Friedrich and Alfes his Sophie among other possessions also his shares in the court of Lohe and the court transferred to Langenau as Wittum .

In 1340 Langenau only consisted of a single courtyard building. In the next few centuries this became a castle house, which with two meter thick walls on the ground floor and niches in the masonry had a high level of defense. Apart from minor damage in the Thirty Years' War , the castle house was only damaged to a large extent in the heavy bombing raids on March 18, 1945 during the Second World War . Other possessions of the Hofgut in Buschhütten were the Hubergut, the Bußeler Gut, the Langenauer Mühle and the Hofgut zu Sohlbach . Some of them existed until the 19th century.

Bottenbach

The first written mention of Bottenbach (other spellings: Buttenbach, Buttebach or Boittenbach ) can be found in a directory of the income of Rentei Siegen from the years 1417 to 1419. In 1441 the first inhabitant of the village is mentioned in a document: Henne (von Bottenbach) . Around 1447 one comes across another resident of Bottenbach with the name Heinrich Karrenstoiß .

At that time, Bottenbach was liable to pay a tenth to the Count of Nassau-Siegen . The autumn estimate register of 1461 counts eleven compulsory persons. A century later, in 1566, the place had twelve farms, including a fiefdom and an estate belonging to the church in Netphen .

The beginning of the history of Buschhütten was given by the Count's permission from 1452 for Messrs Ewert von Wischel and Damian von Lohe to build an ironworks on the Hubenwiesen in Langenau . This cabin was William of Wischel 1486 the brothers Gothard and Sibel ( "The Silent") Bush and the brothers hen and Gothard Schelhart to Erbleihe . Initially the hut was called the "Stummenhütte" after Sibel Busch, until in 1853 the name "Buschhütte" appears for the first time.

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In the course of the 17th century the number of trades increased considerably. In 1690 Bottenbach and Buschhütten had a total of 30 houses. The iron hammer and the estate both belonged to the Junkers of Langenau . After the von Wischels' extinction, the Eisenhammer and Guts were sold to the Prince of Nassau-Orange in 1746 . He sold the hammer in 1782 "hereditary and peculiar" to 14 "private", whereby it was converted into a union enterprise.

In 1804, the Buschhütten plant is reported as "iron and fresh hammer", which produces bar iron .

In 1846 the hammer fell to the four sons of Eberhard Achenbach, Schulze of the Marienborn ironworks union . The factory or today's company Achenbach Buschhütten , which is one of the world market leaders in the manufacture of rolling mills for extremely thin rolls (foils), takes their name from them. The iron hammer was demolished after its acquisition and an iron foundry was built in its place.

In 1818 Buschhütten had 40 houses and 220 inhabitants and had thus surpassed Bottenbach with 19 houses and 124 inhabitants. The two villages grew together into one community. Langenau, which with its jurisdiction always belonged to the court and parish of Ferndorf, became part of the political community of Buschhütten.

The historical development of Buschhütten to an important industrial community was also reflected in the coat of arms of the district. The shield is divided across the middle. The upper half shows a massive hammer on a golden background , floating above the anvil; in the lower part of the shield rests the golden horn on a blue background .

The last evidence that can be found for Bottenbach's independence are the community accounts for 1768 and 1769, which were drawn up by the mayor Johannes Schäfer.

Between 1601 and 1783 there were a total of 13 mayors, the last of whom was named Johannes Knipp . Most likely, Bottenbach ceased to exist as an independent municipality sometime after 1783 and joined the now much larger and more significant Buschhütten, which means that the name Bottenbach has not been forgotten.

In Bottenbach there were never more than 22 houses and 120 to 130 inhabitants in the almost 400 years of its independent existence.

On July 4, 1893, nine residential buildings fell victim to a major fire in Bottenbach.

Buschhütten was also not spared the effects of the Second World War . For example, on March 18, 1945, an air raid by an Allied bomber unit in which a total of 76 people were killed, destroyed 60 houses in Buschhütten, Ferndorf and Kreuztal.

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Panoramic view of bush huts

View over Buschhütten to the district of Bottenbach with the Kölsbach settlement

literature

  • Erich Klein: Local history of Buschhütten, Bottenbach and Langenau. Ortschronik Buschhütten working group, Kreuztal-Buschhütten 2002
  • City of Kreuztal: Portrait of the Buschhütten district, data-fact planning. December 1996

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970.
  2. ^ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817 - 1967 . Aschendorff, Münster (Westphalia) 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , pp. 71 .
  3. ^ Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1977, p. 18, Verlag für Heimatliteratur
  4. ^ "Scrolled back ...", Siegener Zeitung of April 2, 2011

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