Hagelkreuz (Langenfeld)

Hail cross City of Langenfeld (Rhineland) Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 23 "  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 40"  E
Height :	55 m above sea level NN
Location of Hagelkreuz in Langenfeld (Rhineland)

Hagelkreuz is a location in the Reusrath district of the city ​​of Langenfeld .

Geographical location

The Hagelkreuz is located east and north of Gieslenberg , north of Hausingen and Reusrath itself, south of Galkhausen and west of the Dückeburg . Once by the mouse path , later Via Publica and today Opladener road undeveloped area in recent years due to the influx of many new citizens in a family house - and Townhouse - settlements greatly increased. To the east of the B 8 the Alte Schulstrasse (formerly called Schulstrasse ) belongs to it , further the streets Am Hagelkreuz , the lower part of the Locher Weg , further Iltisweg , Wieselweg , Dachsweg and Am Ohrbusch . To the west of the B 8 there are Sandstrasse , Neustrasse , Quellenweg , the upper part of Bergstrasse and the lower part of Brunnenstrasse .

The name Hagelkreuz

In order to implore the blessing of God regarding good weather , hail processions were held in the fields on the day after Ascension , the so-called hail Friday, with mass , sermon and Vespers . In addition, the people of earlier days set up crosses in their fields to avoid the feared hailstorm that could ruin entire harvests . Such a cross still stands in Reusrath on Opladener Straße and gave its name to the location, a street and the bus stop of the 231 bus from Kraftverkehr Wupper-Sieg . Incidentally, the name Hagelkreuz for the small town has been proven to have existed since 1518.

History and economy

Despite this apparently still young settlement age, a burial ground from the Iron Age was found at the Hagelkreuz . Be recovered, were able to vessels of clay, the part of the researchers in the Hallstatt period have been dated. The location of this burial ground made it possible to reconstruct the course of the earliest known trade route through the Rhineland . The so-called mouse path , a later Hansestrasse , ran in Langenfeld from Opladen over the Rosendahlsberg , where a burial ground could even be dated back to the Bronze Age . The path also touched the localities of Schnepprath and Hausingen . From there, the route led over today's Opladener Strasse through the village of Hagelkreuz and from here past Galkhausen through Talstrasse , then via Hucklenbruch to Ganspohl . The Richrather Straße with the stone rush formed the station on the way to Richrath . From here came travelers finally the Hilden road with the toll customs house where once a burial ground from the Germanic was time for Hilden . The mouse path once connected the Rheingau with Essen in a supraregional line , where it reached the Hellweg .

Unfortunately, the location was not mentioned frequently in earlier times. However, based on a table from 1816, it is known that 52 residents lived on Schulstrasse , a peasantry . A restaurant at the present time makes with geraniums - fertilizer and the only inn - Brewery in Langenfeld with own beer attention.

Settlement development

In earlier times there were individual farmsteads that were scattered everywhere in Reusrath and sometimes formed small localities. In three large phases of development, additional houses have been built. The first further settlement took place in the Hagelkreuz area at the end of the 19th century, and a second after the Second World War , because new living space was needed for East Germans . The urge to own homes resulted in particular from the 1990s at the School Street and the adjacent streets Locher way , ears Busch and Iltisweg for the construction of single-family homes and terraced houses . As early as the 1980s, new apartment buildings , some of them parking garages , were built on the Hagelkreuz . In the meantime, we can speak of a closed location on the southern edge of the Galkhauser Forest with regard to the Hagelkreuz.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Rolf Müller, " Stadtgeschichte Langenfeld Rheinland ", Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld 1992
2. ^ Friedhelm Görgens, Langenfeld , Droste, Düsseldorf 1984