Crengeldanz
Crengeldanz is a district of Witten-Mitte , Witten , North Rhine-Westphalia . The Crengeldanz, as the colloquial term is, is considered to be one of the most historically important places in Witten. On December 31, 2015, it had a total of 3,018 inhabitants. In addition to the place in Witten, there is a residential area called Neu-Crengeldanz in the Dortmund district of Lütgendortmund .
history
The exact age of the crengel dance is unclear. Possibly there was a festival or meeting place on site in the Middle Ages . But this is only a theory that is derived from the name Crengeldanz (= round dance, ring dance ). Until the 14th century, the Haus Crengeldanz property on Crengeldanz belonged to a von Dücker family , into which Hermann von Witten-Steinhausen married. Hermann von Witten-Steinhausen, who lived from 1374 to 1435, founded the Witten-Crengeldanz house with his marriage. Just like Haus Witten and Haus Witten-Steinhausen , Haus Witten-Crengeldanz received permission to act as a court over parts of the village of Witten. In the course of the decades there were repeated quarrels between the houses of Witten, Steinhausen and Crengeldanz regarding the spheres of influence, in at least one case a Mr. von Witten-Crengeldanz even had a member of another house in Witten murdered.
In 1607 a new mansion was built . This building is one of the oldest buildings in Witten. In 1825 it became the property of the Müllensiefen brothers, who built an important glassworks there . In the same year, the first postmaster's office was opened at Crengeldanz in Witten, but it was closed again in 1850.
Nationwide, the Crengeldanz gained importance as a traffic junction at the end of the 18th century , as several nationally important routes came together here. Even today, the Crengeldanz is a neuralgic traffic junction in the main streets of the city. This is why the Bogestra bus depot in Witten is also located in this district, and a tram depot was also located here until 1973.
In the second half of the 19th century, parts of Crengeldanz no longer belonged to Witten, but to Langendreer , and in 1856 the community had a school built for Crengeldanz and Krone . Since the municipal reform of 1929, the entire Crengeldanz has belonged to Witten again.
The Müllensiefen brothers
Gustav Müllensiefen (* 1799 in Altena ; † April 26, 1874) and Theodor Müllensiefen (* September 9, 1802 in Iserlohn ; † May 26, 1879 in Theodorshof, Switzerland ) founded a glassworks at Crengeldanz in 1825, which was opened in the second half of the Developed into the most important manufacturer of sheet glass in Germany in the 19th century . The Neu-Crengeldanz residential complex in Lütgendortmund also goes back to a branch of this glass factory .
The glass factory belonged to Detag from 1932 , to Flachglas AG from 1970, to the British Pilkington Group from 1980 and to Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG) since 2006 .
The Müllensiefen brothers laid out the private cemetery in Müllensiefen .
Garden city of Crengeldanz
In 1913/1914 the garden city of Crengeldanz was built next to the glass factory. The former company town of Westphalia tram is now one of the most important settlements with ver wrong Erten facades in the Ruhr area and in Westphalia .
literature
- Paul Brandenburg, Karl-Heinz Hildebrand: Witten. Streets, paths, squares. With a contribution to the history of Witten settlement by Heinrich Schoppmeyer (= contributions to the history of the city of Witten. Volume 1). VOHM, Witten 1989, ISBN 3-920611-13-6 ( street directory ( Memento from May 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive )).
- Michael Schenk (Ed.): Witten. New pictures from the old days (= The archive pictures series ). Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-409-8 .
- Wolfgang Zemter: Witten. From the old days. Meinerzhagener printing and publishing house, Meinerzhagen 1981.
Web links
- Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the glassworks Müllensiefen 1925 with numerous historical information ( Memento of 27 September 2007 at the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population by statistical districts. (PDF; 29.8 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Witten.de. December 31, 2015, archived from the original on February 18, 2016 ; Retrieved February 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 8.7 ″ N , 7 ° 19 ′ 30.5 ″ E