Rosbach (Windeck)

Rosbach community Windeck Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 47 " N , 7 ° 36 ′ 40" E
Height :	approx. 180 m above sea level NHN
Area :	33.83 km²
Residents :	4052 (Sep 30, 2017)
Population density :	120 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st August 1969
Postal code :	51570
Area code :	02292
	View from Roth over the Siegtal to Rosbach

Rosbach is a district and administrative seat of the municipality of Windeck in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district .

location

The town center is north of the Sieg and is crossed by the federal highway 256 in the south . The place has an open-air swimming pool that is now supported by the association and was the location of the Cologne Forest Hospital of the Auguste Viktoria Foundation .

The districts of Hundenborn, Kleehahn, Lindenpütz, Obernau, Poche, Roth, Rüddel, Sieg and Wardenbach now belong to Rosbach.

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Panorama Rosbach

history

Rosbach was mentioned in 1191 as de Rosbach and in 1300 as Rospe . In 1250, Countess Mechthild von Sayn gave the Archbishop of Cologne Konrad von Hochstaden the castrum novum in Windeke and the villa Rospe .

The area around the village of Rosbach used to belong to the mayor's office Dattenfeld , was independent for a while and now belongs to the municipality of Windeck .

In 1885 the community had 3375 hectares , of which 1244 were arable land, 242 were meadows and 1595 were forest.

The community had 47 residential places with exactly 700 residential buildings (including uninhabited) and 706 households including institutions.

The associated districts were Altenhof , Au , Bach , Bachmühle , Bellingen , Distelshausen , Eich , Eulenbruch , Gansau , Geilhausen , Geilhausen-Wiedenhof , Gierzhagen , Halscheid , Hau , Hausen , Helpenstell , backyard , Hof , Hundenborn , Hundhausen , Hurst , Imhausen , Clover Hahn , Kohlberg , Langenberg , Lindenpütz , hole , Löhe , Mauel , Mauelermühle , means , Niedernhausen , Obernau , Öttershagen , Opperzau , Perseifen , Poche , president bridge , Rommen , Roth , Rüddel , soaps , victory , Silberhardt , stone and Wardenbach .

The community of Rosbach had 3723 inhabitants in 1885, of which 1861 men and 1862 women. The congregation was an independent Protestant with 3125 believers, the 543 Catholics were looked after by the surrounding parishes of Waldbröl , Dattenfeld and Leuscheid . There were also seven Christians from another religious community and 48 Jews.

In 1925 it had 4,564, in 1933 4709 and in 1939 4,661 inhabitants.

Shortly before the end of the Second World War , Rosbach was bombed on February 2, 1945 at 11:45 a.m. The town center was completely destroyed by the aerial bombs, including 95 houses, two schools and the town hall. 42 civilians died and 20 German soldiers.

Rosbach formed together with the communities Dattenfeld and Herchen on August 1, 1969 the new community Windeck.

schools

In Rosbach there is a primary school in the Obernau district and a secondary school . A comprehensive school for grades 5–7 has been under construction since 2012 and is gradually replacing the secondary school. There are also three kindergartens in the village, two of which are in the center and one in the Roth district.

Churches

Catholic Church Rosbach

Protestant Church Rosbach

The Catholic parish church of St. Joseph was consecrated in 1898.
The Protestant Salvator Church was built as a baroque hall church from 1763 to 1767 (tower from the 12th or 13th century).

Church history

A chapel in Rosbach mentioned in the Liber valoris in 1274 probably belonged to the parish of Hamm (Sieg) or Leuscheid .

In 1486 Rosbach became its own parish, before the old church, of which the tower still stands today, must have been built. In 1572 the Reformation was carried out by Pastor Mittler in Rosbach . From 1607 to 1609 a Catholic pastor was again noted on site. In 1612 the community converted to the Protestant faith.

Since 1725 the mission office in Leuscheid has offered Catholic services in Rosbach again. In 1744/45, at the request of the Cologne councilor Rütten, a Catholic chapel ( old chapel ) was built, which was used as a local mission.

From 1763 to 1767 the old three-aisled nave of the Salvatorkirche was replaced by a hall building, which was also furnished in rococo style . The architectural concept for this building can be traced back to the master builder Johann Georg Leydel . The implementation planning and implementation was in the hands of the master mason Wirths from Altenkirchen. Heinrich Fischer and Peter Brett can be proven to be master carpenters.

The Catholic parish church of St. Joseph in neo-Gothic style was consecrated in 1898. The design comes from the Cologne architect Theodor Kremer ; construction began in 1896.

In 1805 Rosbach became an independent Catholic parish again.

The church registers of Rosbach with baptism, marriage and death dates are among the oldest surviving church registers in Germany. The entries go back to the time before the Thirty Years War .

Memorial "Landjuden an der Sieg"

On September 17th, 2011, Gunter Demnig laid the first 22 stumbling blocks in memory of murdered Jewish citizens in Rosbach.

Events

Every first Sunday in November, the two-kilometer-long Martinsmarkt takes place on the then closed main street, which offers sales and food stalls and a few small children's carousels .

S-Bahn station Rosbach

Transport links

The Rosbach (Sieg) station is on the winning track . The station can be reached with the S 12 and S 19 of the Cologne S-Bahn , as well as occasionally during rush hour with the Rhein-Sieg-Express (RE 9).

The federal road 256 and the state road 333 run through Rosbach .

Personalities

Karl Wienand (1926–2011), politician (SPD) and agent of the GDR State Security

Web links

Commons : Rosbach - Collection of Images

Catholic parish of St. Joseph with historical pictures of the church and place

literature

Hildegard Simon-Kisky: The old churches in the community Windeck (Sieg) (= Rheinische Kunststätten . Issue 417). Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-88094-801-1 , p. 28-34 .

Individual evidence

↑ List of localities. Community of Windeck, accessed on April 21, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Community dictionary for the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume XII. Rhineland Province. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888, p. 112–113 ( digitized version [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on April 21, 2019]).

^ Rhein-Sieg-Rundschau v. February 1, 2020, p. 25, Stephan Propach: When Rosbach was in ruins

↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 85 .

^ Mahlberg, Hermann Josef: The architect and sculptor Johann Georg Leydel . A contribution to the Rhenish architectural history of the 18th century, Cologne 1973, p. 93 ff.

^ Theodor Rutt: Land on Sieg and Rhine. History - culture - economy. Scientific archive, Bonn 1960, DNB 454240287 .

[EW-1] List of localities. Community of Windeck, accessed on April 21, 2019 .

[GL1884-2] Community dictionary for the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume XII. Rhineland Province. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888, p. 112–113 ( digitized version [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on April 21, 2019]).

[3] Rhein-Sieg-Rundschau v. February 1, 2020, p. 25, Stephan Propach: When Rosbach was in ruins

[4] Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 85 .

[5] Mahlberg, Hermann Josef: The architect and sculptor Johann Georg Leydel . A contribution to the Rhenish architectural history of the 18th century, Cologne 1973, p. 93 ff.

[6] Theodor Rutt: Land on Sieg and Rhine. History - culture - economy. Scientific archive, Bonn 1960, DNB 454240287 .