Gosenbach

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Gosenbach
City of Siegen
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 51 ″  E
Height : 267  (250-400)  m
Area : 2.94 km²
Residents : 2293  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 780 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1966
Incorporated into: Eiserfeld
Postal code : 57080
Area code : 0271
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Location of Gosenbach in Siegen

Gosenbach is a district in the west of the city of Siegen .

geography

It borders in the northwest on the Oberschelden district , in the east on Siegen and in the south on Niederschelden . Gosenbach is approx. 3 km² in size and lies in a narrow valley running from northeast to southwest, through which the Gosenbach flows. In the center of the village, the Schelderbach coming from Oberschelden joins the Gosenbach .

The lowest point is at the exit of the Gosenbach valley on the border with Niederschelden and is 236  m above sea level. NN . The highest point is the summit of the Red Church and has a height of 439  m above sea level. NN . The amount of precipitation is around 1,000 mm per year.

history

Gosenbach was first mentioned in a document on November 25, 1347 as "Gosinbach". The document speaks of a farm in Gosenbach. The Selbacher Hof in the local area was first mentioned in 1347. It was owned by the old noble Selbach family . The second large Gosenbacher Hof was the Wildenburger Hof.

Mining has a long history in Gosenbach, which only ended in 1942 when the last mine, Storch & Schöneberg, was closed. The total depth was 1162.7 m last, at the time of the closure it was the deepest iron ore mine in Europe. Only later was it surpassed by the Pfannenberger Einigkeit and Eisenzecher Zug pits . In addition to the ore mines, there was the Gosenbacher Hütte between 1417/1444 and 1927 , in which the Gosenbacher ore was smelted.

In 1958 the town's new church was inaugurated, for which the old machine house of the Storch & Schöneberg mine was rebuilt for five years.

Until 1878 Gosenbach belonged to the Weidenau office as an independent municipality, to the Eiserfeld office between 1878 and 1966 and was incorporated into the new city of Eiserfeld on July 1, 1966 , which in turn was incorporated into the city of Siegen on January 1, 1975.

Population numbers

Population of the place:

year Residents
1600 20th
1700 39
1800 102
1818 106
1880 921
1885 1027
1890 1125
1895 1079
year Residents
1905 1430
1910 1557
1925 1545
1933 1627
1939 1588
1950 2050
1962 2389
1965 2481
year Residents
1961 2386
1994 2839
2000 2646
2004 2565
2006 2489
2008 2455
2009 2416
2010 2417
year Residents
2011 2406
2012 2405
2013 2341
2014 2312
2015 2300
2016 2293

Infrastructure

Gosenbach has a sports field, a football field and several tennis courts. A gym and a school sports facility are available in the village. Gosenbach also has its own elementary school. There is industry in the south of Gosenbach in the direction of Niederschelden. In addition, there is a war memorial from 1914/1918 and a war cemetery inaugurated on August 30, 1953 in Gosenbach.

The country road 533, which leads from Niederschelden to Achenbach , runs through the village . In the village itself, the L 907 branches off to Oberschelden. Gosenbach is connected to the federal motorway 45 via the Siegen driveway . The next train station is in Niederschelden.

In addition to the Gosenbach source, which was newly framed in 1979, the Gosenbach Home and Beautification Association has built two Latene melting furnaces. More information about the Gosenbach source and the ovens can be found on the display boards.

Personalities

The teacher and prehistoric Otto Krasa taught in Gosenbach at the Protestant elementary school and researched the prehistory of the Siegerland. He wrote the chronicle of the community of Gosenbach and was made an honorary citizen of the city ​​of Eiserfeld in 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegen document book. Volume I, Siegen , 1887, pp. 188-189, no. 305.
  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. 237 .
  3. ^ 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 .
  4. ↑ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen. Wins 1968.
  5. ↑ siegen.de: main resident population by district (updated regularly)
  6. ↑ Siegen-Info: Population figures in Gosenbach ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet 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
  7. ↑ a b c d Heimatverein Gosenbach: On the trail of the miners in the Gosenbacher Bergrevier. Homeland and Beautification Association Gosenbach, 1997.
  8. ^ Westphalian community dictionary . 1887, pp. 108-109.
  9. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
  10. ↑ genealogy.net: Office Eiserfeld
  11. ↑ 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).
  12. ^ Volkhard Wrage: Success of Territorial Reform. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1975, p. 16. (Series of publications by the University of Speyer, Volume 56)
  13. ↑ 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. 190 .
  14. ↑ 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
  15. ↑ Siegen - Gosenbach war cemetery
  16. ↑ gosenbach.de: Heimat- und Verschönerungsverein Gosenbach ( Memento of the original from November 7th, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gosenbach.de 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. , accessed November 3, 2017

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