Dahlbruch

Dahlbruch City of Hilchenbach Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 30 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 33 ″  E
Height :	319  (303-322)  m
Area :	4.51 km²
Residents :	3640  (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density :	807 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	57271
Primaries :	02733, 02732
Dahlbruch train station

Dahlbruch is a district of Hilchenbach in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district , North Rhine-Westphalia . It consists of the former villages of Hillnhütten , Schweisfurt and Winterbach.

location

The place is in the Ferndorftal and is crossed by the federal road 508 . The Hilchenbach neighborhoods Dahlbruch and Müsen as well as the city Kreuztal belonging Kredenbach merge into each other.

history

In 1467 Dahlbruch was first mentioned as Dailbroche in a pension bill . For the year 1504, a blowhouse can be identified in which iron stone was processed. In 1563, 36 people lived in three houses. On May 25, 1769, a Reckhammer was built in Dahlbruch . In 1815 the population had risen to 167. In 1846 the first cemetery was established in Dahlbruch. On March 1, 1884, the Kreuztal-Hilchenbach railway line was opened. On August 27, 1901 Hillnhütten was incorporated. Until the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1969, the place belonged to the Keppel office .

schools

In 1784 a school building was built in Dahlbruch, on today's Ernst-August-Platz. It was replaced by a new school building in 1873. From 1957 to 1966 was built on the high street, a new building for the Evangelical elementary school Dahlbruch resulting from the 1968 Adolf Reichwein - secondary school emerged.

In addition, from 1912 to 1930 and from 1947 to 1969 there was a Catholic school next to the Catholic Church on Talsperrenstrasse. From 1970 to 1981 the building was used by a special school for people with learning disabilities, the Pestalozzi School of the City of Hilchenbach.

Churches

St. Augustine Church

In Dahlbruch there is a Protestant church that belongs to the parish of Müsen, as well as the Evangelical Community Dahlbruch, which was founded in 1891 “in the course of the 'Siegerland Awakening Movement ”, which is now a member of the Evangelical Community Association Siegerland-Wittgenstein . From 1899 to 1900 the “Keppeler Dom” called Catholic St. Augustine Church was built. It received a new building and an extension in 1960.

Population numbers

economy

SMS Group GmbH

SMS Group GmbH: Factory premises in Dahlbruch

Dahlbruch is dominated by the production facility of SMS Group GmbH, which runs along the Ferndorf brook and the B508 through the town. SMS Group GmbH is the global market leader in rolling mill construction and one of the largest employers in the region. Siegener Maschinenbau-AG (Siemag) was founded in 1918/19 and has been producing in Dahlbruch since the takeover of Gebrüder Klein-AG in 1927. SMS Group GmbH has around 8,000 employees worldwide and in 2007 generated annual sales of almost three billion euros. The family business is run in the fourth generation by Heinrich Weiss , the former president of the Federal Association of German Industry BDI .

Eisenbau Krämer

The Eisenbau Krämer factories are located next to the Siemag site. The medium-sized family company was founded in 1921 by Karl Krämer and is a world-renowned specialist for longitudinally welded large steel pipes. Krämer pipes were installed in the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund and in the luxury hotel Burj Al Arab in Dubai . Eisenbau Krämer has production facilities in Dahlbruch, Littfeld and Recklinghausen , and the company's headquarters are in Dahlbruch.

Personalities

Sons and Daughters of the Church:

• Karl Klein (1912–2009), Roman Catholic clergyman and theologian
• Hannes Meinhard (1937–2016), sculptor and draftsman
• Dieter Reuter (1940–2016), legal scholar
• Elvira Hoffmann (* 1941), writer, journalist and non-fiction author

Other personalities:

• Bernhard Weiss (1904–1973), entrepreneur
• Heinrich Weiss (* 1942), entrepreneur
• Sascha Bäcker (* 1979), soccer player and coach; lives in Dahlbruch

Others

• Busch Brothers Theater
• Viktoria-Kino ( Gilde-Filmtheater )
• Indoor swimming pool
• Winterbach-Arena (sports field)
• Station on the Kreuztal – Cölbe railway line

Web links

• Homepage of the city of Hilchenbach
• Dahlbruch in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.hilchenbach.de/Presse-Stadtportrait/Zahlen-Daten-Fakten/Einwohner
2. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 225 .
3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 70 .
4. ^ Heinz Bensberg: Collection of reports on topics from Dahlbruch . Heinz Bensberg's website, accessed March 23, 2016.
5. ↑ Homepage of the parish of Müsen on the website of the church district of Siegen.
6. ^ Homepage of the Evangelical Community of Dahlbruch.
7. ↑ Erwin Isenberg: History: How everything began ... On the history of the Catholic parish of St. Augustinus Keppel . Website of the Pastoral Association Nördliches Siegerland, accessed on March 23, 2016.
8. ^ City of Hilchenbach »The Mayor: Population figures. Retrieved December 16, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Heinz Bensberg: Weiss family: From the Weiss craft business to the global market leader of the SMS group . Heinz Bensberg's website, accessed March 23, 2016.
10. ↑ Homepage of Eisenbau Krämer GmbH, accessed on March 23, 2016.