Oaks (Kreuztal)

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Oaks (Bockenbach, Stendenbach)
City of Kreuztal
Coat of arms of oaks (Bockenbach, Stendenbach)
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 45 ″  N , 7 ° 58 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 350 m above sea level NN
Area : 2.59 km²
Residents : 3157  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 1,219 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1969
Postal code : 57223
Area code : 02732
map
Location of Kreuztal in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district
Part of oak trees from above
Part of oak trees from above
Old bridge over the Littfe in oaks

Eichen is a district of Kreuztal in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Siegen-Wittgenstein . It lies between the districts of Krombach in the north and Kreuztal in the south. The Bockenbach district adjoins it to the west and the Stendenbach district to the east .

history

In the oldest diocesan register Buckenbach and Stentenbach are recorded as belonging to the “Sedes Siegen” around the year 1300 , and in the oldest Siegen pension register from 1414/1419 a “Gut zu Stendenbach” is subject to tax. Bockenbach is located on the Uerdinger and Benrath lines , which together form the language border to the Low German- speaking Sauerland .

In 1461, Bockenbach counted nine and Stendenbach three people who were subject to an assessment. Around 1690, both communities paid taxes to the sovereign. Bockenbach was free from field tithes , Stendenbach paid to the Holdinghausen castle. Both communities have always had the basic rural trait in common.

The development of the much younger oak was different. The appraisal register of 1461 shows "zon Eichen" six people who are required to be appraised. The mayor of Ferndorf was from 1467 to 1482 a "Hannes zon Eichen". Around 1690 the village paid taxes and service fees to the Nassau rulers, but was free of tithing and was already the largest of the three villages at that time.

In 1855, the Eichener Eisenhammer was the most important steel hammer in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district with an annual production of 2,218 quintals of crude steel. He fed 12 workers with 42 family members. From 1884 the "Eichener Walzwerk Stähler & Co." was formed, to which a galvanizing and sheet metal processing facility was attached. After several changes in the operational form, the plant was transferred to “Charlottenhütte AG” in 1916/1917, the forerunner of “ Hüttenwerke Siegerland AG ”. Today the company operates under the name “ thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG ” and is still one of the largest industrial companies in the Siegerland region .

Coat of arms 1960 to 1968 Due to a state law of November 8, 1960, the previously independent municipalities of Bockenbach and Stendenbach were incorporated into the municipality of Eichen on December 1, 1960 . The purpose of this development was "to come to a simplification of the administration and to organize the public concerns more meaningfully."

Until the municipal reorganization and founding of the city of Kreuztal on January 1, 1969, the municipality of Eichen belonged to the Ferndorf district . Since then, both Eichen and Bockenbach and Stendenbach have been districts of Kreuztal.

Eichen is connected to the federal highway 517 and the Hüttentalstraße (junctions Krombach and Kreuztal) as well as the Ruhr-Sieg line of the DB, which has a stop in Eichen .

The appearance of the three villages is particularly characterized by the thin sheet rolling mill of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG in the west of the Littfetal and the former Eichener brewery southeast of the center of Eichen.

Many of the residents of Eichens and neighboring towns play sports in the town's largest club, TV Eichen .

literature

  • Werner Wied: Kreuztal, young town on Kindelsberg. Zimmermann, Kreuztal 1969.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ thyssenkrupp: Your way to the Kreuztal site
  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. 229 .
  3. ↑ Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1998, p. 127
  4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 71 .
  5. ↑ City of Kreuztal image brochure, September 2008 edition.