Eiserfeld
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Eiserfeld
City of Siegen
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| Height : | 224 (220-370) m |
| Area : | 12.41 km² |
| Residents : | 8131 (December 31, 2016) |
| Population density : | 655 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1975 |
| Postal code : | 57080 |
| Area code : | 0271 |
 Location of Eiserfeld in Siegen
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Eiserfeld is a district of the city of Siegen in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located in the extreme south of the urban area and has the second largest municipal area of the city after Siegen-Mitte and the fourth largest population after the core city, Weidenau and Geisweid .
From 1966 to 1974 Eiserfeld was the seat of the independent town of the same name, Eiserfeld, which was created on July 1, 1966 as part of the communal territorial reforms. In 1967, 22,573 residents lived in the city. It was dissolved in 1975 and incorporated into the city of Siegen.
geography
location
Eiserfeld is located in the south of Siegen, the town center about 5 km from the Siegener Oberstadt am Siegberg . In the west, the Siegen district forms the border with the Altenkirchen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . An outstanding landmark is the 106 m high Siegtal bridge on the A 45 (Sauerland line).
The village of Eiserfeld is distributed in several valleys at an altitude of between 220 and 370 m and is therefore, next to Niederschelden, the lowest-lying place in the district. The largest part is at the mouth of the Eisernbach valley , which flows into the Sieg in the village at a height of around 220 m . In the northwest, coming from the north, it makes a loop again to the north in the direction of Niederschelden. Coming from Eisern, the Eisernbach flows slightly north and joins the Siegschlaufe. In the northern part of the district, the Hengsbach flows down a narrow, steeply rising valley and already flows into the Sieg at around 225 m above sea level in the Niederschelden district. To the south of it, the Talsbach runs slightly parallel to the Eisernbach, into which it flows in the center of the village. The Helsbach rises in the most south-westerly part of the district, first flowing in an easterly direction and turning to the north after about 1.5 km. Also in the center of the village it flows into the Eisernbach. To the north, the approximately one kilometer long Tretenbach flows into the Sieg.
The southern boundary of the district is at the same time the mountain height that stretches from the Große Rausche between Salchendorf, Wilden and Eisern to the Eichert on the border with Rhineland-Palatinate. The Pfannenberg at 499.2 m above sea level, which forms the highest mountain in the city of Siegen, and the 470 m high Römelskopf are also on this line . The cabinet is at the southeastern end of the corner between the districts Eiserfeld, Eisern and Salchendorf. Michelsberg ( 385.5 m ) is located between it and the Eisernbach . To the north of the Römelskopf, between the Helsbach or Kesselborntal and the Sieg valley, lies the Eichert Mountains, comprising several peaks . Between the Eiserfeld town center and the formerly independent courtyards of the Hengsbach in the north of the district lies the 425.9 m high Gilberg and its southern, 402.4 m high foothills Hengsberg. They are separated by a small valley. The ridge continues east towards Eisernhardt and north to Ählskopf ( 356.8 m ) and Rosterberg .
Neighboring places
Eiserfeld borders in the north-west on the district of Niederschelden and in the north on the Siegen core town, in the east on Eisern and in the south on the Neunkirchen district Salchendorf and Neunkirchen itself. In the west it borders the local community Mudersbach in the district of Altenkirchen in Rhineland-Palatinate.
climate
Due to the low location of Eiserfeld, it is drier and milder in the village than in the rest of Siegerland. The annual average temperature is 7.8 ° C, the warmest month is July with an average of 15.9 ° C. January is the coldest month with an average of −0.1 ° C. The annual precipitation value is 963 mm in the long-term average. Most rain falls in December with 103 mm, least in May with 65 mm. The main wind direction is southwest to west.
history
Finds that were excavated in the 1930s and 1980s point to the time around 600 and 300 BC respectively. The Eiserfeld-Niederschelden-Hengsbach area was probably not finally settled until the Franconian conquest between 720 and 800. The name Eiserfeld is derived from Ysernvelde and was first mentioned in a document on October 1, 1292. In this document, an Ekehardus von Helfenberg assigns his goods and tithes located in Eiserfeld to a man from Siegen called "Vrayz" and his son Helwig (Helwicus) and his other heirs. The later district of Hengsbach was first mentioned in a document on August 23, 1288.
The history of Eiserfeld is characterized by mining and metallurgy, of which some traces can still be found today, such as the sand dump in the Hubach , a dump with slag from the Eiserfelder Hütte, which was first mentioned in 1463 . The second hut, the Marienhütte , was between Eiserfeld and Siegen and was in operation between 1876 and 1925. It was one of the first huts to be built after the construction of the rail link between the Ruhr area and Siegerland and had to be closed again in the wake of the economic crisis. There was also a copper smelter in Eiserfeld, which was closed in 1818/20. References to the smelting go back to the La Tène period , as evidenced by traces of old smelting furnaces near the streams. Mining can be proven in writing from around 1400. Mines were the Eisenzeche , mentioned in 1465 , the Brüderbund mine , mentioned as early as 1400 , the formerly important Gilberg , Flußberg and Talsbach am Gilberg mines and many more. After the railway connection to the Ruhr area was established in 1861, mining at Eiserfeld grew noticeably, until in 1894 several mining companies merged to form the Eisenzecher Zug union . In 1960 the mining period in Eiserfeld came to an end with the closure of the mine. In the ore mines in the district, 20.6 million tons of iron ore were mined.
Eiserfeld has been an independent parish since 1874, and the Eiserfeld registry office existed since January 1, 1876, and was renamed the Niederschelden registry office on July 4, 1939. In 1878 Eiserfeld became part of the new Eiserfeld office , whose seat was in Niederschelden. In 1859 the old chapel was replaced by a new church. In 1925, 4233 of the 5922 inhabitants were Protestant, 978 Catholic, 16 Jewish and 695 of other or no denomination.
On July 20, 1881, a storm caused severe damage to the village after weeks of persistent heat.
The Eisern-Siegen Railway was opened in 1883 to connect the towns of Eisern and Eiserfeld and the mining operations there to the state railway that ran through Siegen. In 1890 the transport of goods was followed by passenger transport.
In the First World War , 166 Eiserfelder did not return home. On August 17, 1924, the memorial, a polished boulder from the village and a church bell, was inaugurated at the Gilberg cemetery.
Between April 1, 1943 and September 30, 1944, the air raid alarm sounded 137 times. The community was spared attacks until the summer of 1944. The first bombs falling over Eiserfeld did not cause any major damage; it was not until March 1945 that more and more bombs fell over the place. Most, however, fell in the outskirts such as the iron mine , the train station or in the Kohlenbach, the town center was largely spared. There four houses were totally destroyed and 15 damaged. On March 30 and 31, ten bridges, including five railway and five road bridges, were blown up. American troops entered the town on April 1, 1945. A total of 18 residents died in the events. The monument of the Second World War is also there and forms an implied hall of fame. A total of 504 Eiserfelder die in the war.
The town of Eiserfeld was formed on July 1, 1966 by the law to reorganize the district of Siegen from the districts Eiserfeld, Gosenbach and Niederschelden from the dissolved Eiserfeld office, Eisern from the Wilnsdorf office and Oberschelden from the Freudenberg office . On January 1, 1975 it was merged with the cities of Siegen and Hüttental to form the city of Siegen as part of the Sauerland / Paderborn law . There, the places mentioned today form the city district VI (south).
Population numbers
City of Eiserfeld within the boundaries of 1974
The number from June 6, 1961 comes from the summarized census results of the precursor communities of the city of Eiserfeld. The May 27, 1970 number is also from a census. On June 30, 1974, the population was determined with a view to the upcoming amalgamation of municipalities.
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| 1961 | 21,643 |
| 1966 | 22,675 |
| 1970 | 22,346 |
| 1974 | 22,450 |
Eiserfeld within the boundaries of that time and as today's district
Population of the place:
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coat of arms
The city of Eiserfeld was given a coat of arms on June 5, 1939 by the President of the Prussian Province of Westphalia. It shows the chemical symbol for iron and schematically the entrance to the Reinhold-Forster-Erbstollen in Eiserfeld as well as the Bergmannsgezäh. The city, which was expanded in 1966 to include the former municipalities of Eisern, Gosenbach, Ober- and Niederschelden, continued the former official coat of arms (awarded on August 18, 1937) of the Eiserfeld office from 1967. It shows the diminished Nassau lion and almost true to life the entrance of the Reinhold-Forster-Erbstollen as well as mallets and irons.
Coat of arms from 1939–1967
Coat of arms from 1967–1974
Blazon (coat of arms from 1939): "Raised divided by gold (yellow) and blue, above the black alchemical symbol for iron, below a golden (yellow) tunnel mouth hole, in it diagonally crossed golden (yellow) mallets and iron."
(Coat of arms from 1937): “Raised divided by blue and gold (yellow), above a growing red armored golden (yellow) double-tailed lion surrounded by seven golden (yellow) shingles, below a portal-like blue tunnel mouth hole, a black mallet and crossed at an angle a black iron. "
politics
Former mayor
- 1973–1975: Richard Kirchner (SPD) († 1998)
Attractions
The Reinhold Forster Erbstollen , the former Erbstollen of the Eisenzecher Zug mine , was excavated in 1805 and completed in 1902. It was expanded into a visitor mine by 1983 and is now accessible over a length of 470 m.
On the 499.2 m high Pfannenberg stands the Pfannenberg Tower , built in 1934 , which was built from the construction of a former winding tower from the Pfannenberger Einigkeit mine near Salchendorf and is now used as a viewing platform . A second observation tower has stood on the Gilberg between the center of Eiserfeld and the Hengsbach since 1888. From here you can see the south of Siegen and Siegen itself.
There is also the Eiserfeld Bell Museum and the home of the Eiserfelder Heimatverein in the center of the village, where history and life in Eiserfeld are exhibited. Photos and exhibits on the history of agriculture, the iron industry and mining are exhibited on two floors in the building, which is more than 300 years old. There is an extensive collection of minerals in the basement.
Infrastructure
Industry
There are several industrial areas in Eiserfeld. The largest is on Eiserntalstrasse (L 907) on the way to Eisern. A second is the former site of the Eisenzecher Zug mine in the Kesselborntal. Other industry is mostly located on Siegtalstrasse in the direction of Niederschelden and Eiserfelder Strasse in the direction of Siegen.
In 1992 the IHW Park opened on the former Philips factory site. Today there are almost 60 companies on 20,000 m² of office space and 40,000 m² of storage and production space.
Transport links
Motorized individual traffic (MIT)
Eiserfeld is connected by several roads. Most of the village is on and around the highways 907 and 531, which both meet the federal highway 62 in the village . The L 907 continues in the valley to Eisern, the L 531 over the height of the Spießgebirge and the Schränke towards Salchendorf. The B 62 runs through the Siegtal. The roundabout at the intersection in the center of the village has been completed since 2014, which, together with the HTS, should relieve the south of Siegen in terms of traffic and connect it better.
The Bundesautobahn 45 , which runs north of the village, can be reached via the Siegen-Süd (Eisern) exit and the Siegen exit. In 2010, the plans to continue building Hüttentalstrasse , which ended before Eiserfeld, were taken up again. On December 2, 2016, the continuous connection to Rhineland-Palatinate with the Bühl tunnel was opened to traffic. The branch in the direction of Eiserfeld was completed in May 2017. This completes the Hüttentalstrasse (HTS) and is permanently available to traffic as a so-called city motorway.
Local rail passenger transport (SPNV)
At the train station of the place called Eiserfeld (Sieg) the regional train lines RB90, Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn ( Limburg an der Lahn - Diez Ost - Westerburg - Nistertal / Bad Marienberg - Hachenburg - Altenkirchen - Au (Sieg) - Wissen - Betzdorf - Siegen ) as well as the RB93, Rothaarbahn (Betzdorf - Siegen - Bad Berleburg ). Both lines are operated every hour by the Hessische Landesbahn , operating area Dreiländerbahn .
School and free time
Eiserfeld has several schools:
- Primary schools: "Gilbergschule" (The "Eichertschule" was closed in 2011)
- High school on the Mörgenröthe
- Realschule on the Mörgenröthe
- Eiserfeld comprehensive school
- Eiserfeld secondary school (already in the district of Niederscheld)
Eiserfeld has its own natural swimming pool, called Eiserfelder Weiher, which was created from a former mill pond. The DLRG local group in Eiserfeld has been responsible for running the pool since 1988. In 2002 an association for the preservation of the bath was founded. In addition, once a year at the opening there is a festival with a children's festival and live music in the parking lot of the pond. Behind the pond there is a riding hall and a riding arena, in front of the pool there is a sports field with a sports center. There is a glider airfield between Eisernhardt and Gilberg , north of the motorway.
Eiserfeld has a Protestant and a Catholic parish as well as a Free Evangelical Congregation , which has existed since 1886, and a Calvary Chapel , which was the first in Europe and is the largest in Germany.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Eduard Schneider-Davids (1869-1970); Building councilor and author
- Otto Krasa (1890–1972); Teacher and prehistorian, honorary citizen of the city of Eiserfeld
Sons and daughters
- Friedrich Stolz (1829–1897), trades at the Reinhold Forster Erbstollen
- Karl Hartmann (1857–1910), creator of the Eiserfeld Heimatlied "Where victory in a wide arc ..."
- Wilhelm Stolz (1860–1954), owner of the " Alter Hammer " rolling mill
- Eduard Schneider-Davids (1869–1970), building officer and author
- Luise Beccard-Blensdorf (1881–1956), local poet
- Hermann Kuhmichel (1898–1965), artist
- Friedrich Steinseifer (1935–2004), major general in the Bundeswehr
- Wolfgang Lück (1938–2020), economist and auditor
Individual evidence
- ^ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen , Siegen 1968
- ↑ a b Dieter Pfau: Traces of Time in Siegerland and Wittgenstein - Early and High Middle Ages 750-1250 , Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld 2009
- ^ Lothar Irle: Siegerländer Ortverzeichnis , 1973 ( Memento of March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ genealogy.net: Office Eiserfeld
- Jumped back ... , Siegener Zeitung of July 30, 2011, p. 43
- ↑ a b denkmalprojekt.org: Wilnsdorf Memorial
- ^ Adolf Müller: War and misery in the Siegerland - The inferno on the home front in the 1940s , Vorländer Verlag, Siegen 1981
- ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 230 .
- ↑ a b c d Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 336 .
- ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 142 .
- ^ Volkhard Wrage: Success of Territorial Reform. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1975, p. 48. (Series of publications by the University of Speyer, Volume 56).
- ↑ Horst G. Koch (ed.): Eiserfeld in the green wreath of the mountains. Koch, Siegen 1992, p. 162.
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ^ Volkhard Wrage: Success of Territorial Reform. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1975, p. 16. (Series of publications by the University of Speyer, Volume 56)
- ↑ Hartmut Eichenauer: Siegen ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF file; 11.7 MB) , approx. 1995
- ↑ Siegen-Info: Eiserfeld ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Website of the city of Siegen
- ↑ Main resident population on December 31, 2014 to 2015 by district on the website of the city of Siegen (PDF; 92 kB)
- ↑ Stadler, Klemens: Deutsche Wappen, Volume 7 . Angelsachsen Verlag, Bremen 1972, p. 36 .
- ^ "An honoring commemoration for the dead", Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1999, p. 42, 74th edition, published by Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV, Verlag für Heimatliteratur
- ↑ siwikultur.de: Eiserfelder Heimathaus
- ↑ SauerlandKurier: "Bunter branch mix" ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ http://www.strassen.nrw.de/de/projekte/b62-huettentalstrasse.html
- ↑ Eiserfeld outdoor pool. Retrieved September 2, 2014 .
- ^ History of the Free Evangelical Community of Eiserfeld from 1886 to the present day. (No longer available online.) Siegen-eiserfeld.feg.de, archived from the original on January 8, 2016 ; accessed on September 2, 2014 . 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.
literature
- Horst G. Koch (Hrsg.): Eiserfeld in the green wreath of the mountains. Koch, Siegen 1992, ISBN 3-928343-02-5 .
Web links
- Eiserfeld in the Westphalian Cultural Atlas
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