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Iron
City of Siegen
Coat of arms of iron
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 2 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 274  (270-350)  m above sea level NN
Area : 5.82 km²
Residents : 2319  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 398 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1966
Incorporated into: Eiserfeld
Postal code : 57080
Area code : 0271
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Location of Eisern in Siegen

Eisern is a district of the North Rhine-Westphalian university town of Siegen .

geography

location

The Eisernhardt

Eisern is located in the Eisernbachtal at an altitude of 270 to 350  m . In the village, the Obersdorf flows from the northeast into the Eisernbach and several other small streams. Mountains around the place are the 391.6  m high Burgberg and the Michelsberg ( 385.5  m height) in the south, the 408  m high Eichholz and the Eisernhardt ( 482.3  m height) in the north.

The district is located in the south of the city and borders the Siegen district in the north, Obersdorf and Rinsdorf ( Wilnsdorf ) in the east, Salchendorf ( Neunkirchen ) in the south and the Eiserfeld district in the west .

Townscape

The townscape is characterized by contradicting impressions. The largely built-up valleys and lower slopes are surrounded by mostly wooded ridges. In the old town center, the “Peeke”, traditional Siegerland half-timbered houses can be seen alongside the chapel school from the 17th century and the “Backes” (Backhaus), which was renovated a few years ago - both buildings are now looked after by the local history association and used as a local museum. Eisern is overlooked on the one hand by the war memorial on the Burgberg, on the other hand by the telecommunications tower on the Eisernhardt, which is visible from afar. Since 1969, the Bundesautobahn 45 has cut through the entire width of the Eisern district and has significantly changed and impaired the appearance of the town with two bridge structures, deep cuts and embankments.

history

Eiserner Hütte (left) and Eisernhardter Tiefbau (right) around 1900

The settlement in the local area took place in the "Franconian Landquisition" between 720 and 800 AD. Eisern was first mentioned on January 1, 1289 in a document in which a certain "Hermannus de Yseren" is mentioned. For many centuries, iron was shaped by iron ore extraction and smelting. The Michel and Ramberg pits were first mentioned in 1623 . A pit ant was mentioned as early as 1562 . It became one of the largest mines in Eisern with a total extraction of almost 1.36 million tons of iron ore. The mining chapter ended in 1957 with the closure of the last mine, Eisernhardter Tiefbau . The Eiserner Hütte was in operation from 1417 to 1926. In the years 1444 and 1463 three huts were named "off the Ysern".

On July 20, 1881, a storm caused severe damage to the village after weeks of persistent heat.

In 1890 the Eisern-Siegener Railway was opened, which connects the towns of Eisern and Eiserfeld and the mining operations there to the state railway that ran through Siegen. On the railway line, which was mainly used for freight but also for people, traffic to the Eisern terminus was shut down on April 1, 1969.

In 1939 a water fountain was built in the Giesenbach and put into operation due to a water shortage.

The independent municipality of Eisern belonged to the Wilnsdorf office until the law on the reorganization of the district of Siegen, which included a municipal area reform , came into force on July 1, 1966 . Through this it was added to the newly founded town of Eiserfeld, which was formed from the previous communities of the Eiserfeld office, the Eisern municipality and the Oberschelden municipality , which had previously belonged to the Freudenberg office . With the renewed municipal reorganization through the Sauerland / Paderborn law , which came into force on January 1, 1975, the newly founded cities of Eiserfeld and Hüttental were incorporated into the city of Siegen .

In 2009 and 2010 the connecting road to Rinsdorf was renovated. The trees on the roadside towards the valley were felled, the road was widened and the slope side was supported with concrete walls. A bike path was built.

coat of arms

former coat of arms of the municipality (1949–1966)

The coat of arms was awarded on May 19, 1949 by the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. For many centuries, iron was shaped by iron ore extraction and smelting. The racing furnace and the miner's toughness are symbols for this.

Blazon : "In blue a golden racing furnace (iron furnace), which is covered with a crossed black hammer and mallet."

Population numbers

Population of the place:

year Residents
1773 286
1818 379
1885 1078
1895 1152
1905 1439
1910 1521
1925 1602
year Residents
1933 1710
1939 1757
1950 2329
1961 2489
1965 2625
1994 2611
2001 2550
year Residents
2004 2469
2006 2428
2008 2388
2009 2385
2010 2370
2011 2360
2012 2355
year Residents
2013 2349
2014 2324
2015 2320
2016 2319

politics

Former mayor

  • 1927 to 1943: Hugo Roth
  • until 1966: Alfred Eckhardt (1915 - 1997), last mayor of Eisern

Attractions

The Iron Chapel School was built in 1774/75. In 1980 it was rebuilt and expanded by the Home and Beautification Association. Since 1987, exhibits from the history of miners, agriculture, Hauberg, handicrafts and church history can be viewed in the Heimatstube, which was set up in the chapel school.

Infrastructure

DAB + transmission tower on the Eisernhardt
DAB + transmission tower on the Eisernhardt

Industry

There are individual, mostly metalworking companies in the village. Most of them are located on Eiserntalstrasse in the direction of Eiserfeld.

Transport links

Eisern is located on Landstrasse 907, which runs from Wilnsdorf to Eiserfeld and meets the B 62 there. In the village itself, the L 909 branches off to Obersdorf and the L 562 in the direction of Siegen. The entrance to Autobahn 45 is also on this road , which leads past the village to the north. The next train station is in Eiserfeld.

School and free time

The Eisernhardt airfield has been located on the back of the Eisernhardt since the 1930s. In the southeastern part of the village there is a primary school, a kindergarten, a community center and the fire station . South of the village, at the height between Burgberg and Michelsberg, is a sports and tennis court. Another tennis court is on the "Schränke", not far east of the others. Eisern has a Catholic and a Protestant church, whose parish consists of Eisern and the neighboring Rinsdorf.

Personalities

literature

  • Adolf Müller: Iron - On ore and iron. Edited by Heimatverein Eisern, Vorländer-Verlag, 1966.
  • Adolf Müller: 700 years of Eisern, publisher. Heimatverein Eisern. Vorländer-Verlag, 1988.
  • Festschrift 700 years of iron - on ore and iron -. Published by ARGE Eiserner Vereine, 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Pfau: Traces of Time in Siegerland and Wittgenstein - Early and High Middle Ages 750-1250. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2009.
  2. ↑ Siegen document book. Volume I. Siegen 1887, p. 35, no. 56.
  3. ↑ Turned the page back ... In: Siegener Zeitung. July 30, 2011, p. 43.
  4. ↑ 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 .
  5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory 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 .
  6. ↑ Chronik de Heimatverein ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eisern24.de
  7. ↑ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen. Wins 1968.
  8. ↑ siegen.de: main resident population by district (updated regularly)
  9. ^ Franz Dango: Wilnsdorf - history and landscape , Vorländer publishing house, Siegen 1955
  10. ^ Westphalian community dictionary . 1887, pp. 108/109.
  11. ^ Westphalian community dictionary . 1897, pp. 110/111.
  12. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
  13. ↑ genealogy.net: Office Eiserfeld
  14. ↑ a b 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).
  15. ↑ 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. 180 .
  16. ^ Volkhard Wrage: Success of Territorial Reform. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1975, p. 16. (Series of publications by the University of Speyer, Volume 56)
  17. ↑ Hartmut Eichenauer: Siegen ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lwl.org 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; 12.2 MB) , approx. 1995
  18. ↑ Siegen-Info: Eisern ( Memento of the original from February 1, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.siegen-info.de
  19. ↑ An honorable memory of the dead. In: Siegerland home calendar. 1999, p. 37, 74th edition, published by Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV, publisher for local literature

Web links

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