Hagelkreuz (Hilden)
The Hagelkreuz is located in Hilden in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The location “Hagelkreuz” represents the common starting point of six streets (Hagelkreuzstraße, Richrather Straße, Neustraße, Klotzstraße, Schulstraße and Südstraße), which radiate away from the “common center” and the Schützenstraße at the “Hagelkreuz” to the south of the Richrather Road leads away.
Before the city elevation in 1861, Hilden did not expand far. The southern development ended at the "Hagelkreuz", behind it was a field. Today the "Hagelkreuz" borders the southern inner city of Hildens.
Wayside shrine hail cross
There was a hail cross at the crossroads . Every year in the Middle Ages, processions were held here to ask God's blessing against storms and fire from house and court. Protection from hailstorms that destroyed harvests and could decide the weal and woe of an entire village was of particular importance. The weather cross at the important crossroads was therefore called "Hagelkreuz". The cross was visible from afar in the still undeveloped outer area of the village, as it was in an elevated position in the north-south profile. This is also expressed in the field names commonly used before the introduction of field numbers, such as “auf der Höhe” or “auf der Höhe, called am Hagelkreuz”. There was also a reference to the Hackenhof located next to the church in "am Hagelkreuz vom Große Hackenland". Occasions for processions were Ascension Day in May and Jacobi Day with a fair on July 25th. The procession went from the church on the market over Heiligenstrasse, Südstrasse to the Hagelkreuz. Via Feldstrasse (today's Schulstrasse) we went back to the market, where the fair with its little booths was set up. After Hilden became Protestant in 1558, there were no more liturgical processions. Since there was no iconoclasm in Hilden, the weather cross with its base made of Niedermendiger basalt lava remained. In the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) the cross was destroyed and only the base remained.
The Hagelkreuz building
Grain brandy distillery
In place of today's Hagelkreuz restaurant, a grain brandy distillery and bar was opened in 1818. The house is a plastered half-timbered house.
Restaurant Zum Hagelkreuz
The restaurant "Hagelkreuz" with garden terrace has been inviting people to linger since around 1830. The photo of the Hagelkreuz with advertising pillar and old gas lantern is from 1905. The landlord in 1921 was called Peter Klein. The building has been a listed building since 2016.
Da Domenico in the hail cross
Today the Italian “Trattoria Ristorante Da Domenico” is hosting the guests in the “Hagelkreuz” restaurant. There is space for up to 50 people in the restaurant. For celebrations in private company, the space can be expanded for up to 120 people. The Hagelkreuz also offers a bowling alley.
Streets to the "Hagelkreuz"
Hagelkreuzstrasse
Hagelkreuzstraße branches off from the “Hagelkreuz” in a south-easterly direction and joins Kirchhofstraße as a bicycle street. For cyclists it has been connecting the inner city area with the south of Hildens since 1994.
Pump room - Leo's Kiosk Snack Bar Cafe
At the northern end of Hagelkreuzstrasse, diagonally across from the Hagelkreuz restaurant, is the “Hagelkreuz Trinkhalle”, Hagelkreuzstrasse 1. Today it is called “Leo's Kiosk Snack Bar Cafe”. From July 21, 1977 to December 31, 1980 Irene Schickel b. Loebel and from January 1, 1981 to January 30, 1986 Käthe Meurer b. Klöcker the pump room.
Founding houses
There are four renovated buildings from the Wilhelminian era on Hagelkreuzstrasse.
Clinic in the park
At the southern end of Hagelkreuzstrasse, to the east, is the Capio Klinik im Park, Hagelkreuzstrasse 37. In the historic founding villa and a modern new building from 2007, the vein center for inpatient and outpatient phlebology treats around 20,000 patients annually. With around 6,000 operations per year, the Capio Klinik im Park achieved the lowest complication rates and relapse rates.
On May 24, 1984, the clinic in the park took over the villa from Günter Eichberg as the fourth vein clinic in Germany. The medical treatment was carried out by Dr. Klaus Wagner, Dr. Michael Wagner and Dr. Ulrich Katz. Since November 1, 2009, Dr. Horst Peter Steffen (* 1966) Chief Physician. Günter Eichberg had the villa from Dr. Clemens Biermann (born April 1, 1916 - January 17, 1998), who had operated the house from March 22, 1955 to May 23, 1984 as a private women's clinic. During this time, almost 32,000 babies saw the light of day there. There were three triplets born.
The founder's villa with a wood-paneled fireplace room was built around 1896 by the former hotelier and poultry farmer August Gressard as "Villa Fauna" after he had given the Hotel Zur Krone to Johann Peter Jansen. In 1921 the villa was taken over as an official residence by the plant manager of the Hilden pipe works of the Rheinische Stahlwerke , smelter Heinrich Esser (born July 20, 1879 in Duisburg - Hochfeld ; † October 13, 1955 in Hilden) and consequently called "Villa Esser". After the Second World War , when Esser had risen to the supervisory board of Deutsche Röhrenwerke AG , the latter had to move out of the villa because the British confiscated it and used it as an officers' mess during the occupation .
The Capio Jazz series takes place regularly in the rooms of the Capio Clinic and in the summer months in the Rhododendron Park.
S-Bahn station Hilden Süd
Opposite the Capio Klinik is the Hagelkreuzstraße access to the platform of the Hilden Süd stop on the S1 line of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn , Solingen - Hilden - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Mülheim an der Ruhr - Essen - Bochum - Dortmund . In 1894 the Düsseldorf – Hilden – Solingen railway was put into operation. It was initially at ground level. At the corner of Hagelkreuzstrasse and Kirchhofstrasse was the corrugated iron station house. From there the barriers on Kirchhofstraße, Richrather Straße and Schützenstraße were operated together. In 1915 the embankment was laid and the bridges built. A hill on the Ohligser Heide was removed for the sand .
Former tower pharmacy
In the founder's house with a turret on the corner of Hagelkreuzstrasse and Kirchhofstrasse, from 1903 to 1976 an inn with Club 17 was “the meeting place for teenagers and twenties”. It was later called the " Rubin Club". After that, the tower pharmacy was located here from 1976 until the end of 2018. The architect of the house was Walter Furthmann .
Richrather Strasse
To the west of the Hagelkreuz restaurant, the busy Richrather Straße runs south towards Langenfeld-Richrath.
Cabar - pub
Diagonally across from the Hagelkreuz, the “PUB” has been in the Bistro Richrather Strasse 4 since 2015. It was called “Cabar Bistro - Cocktailbar” until the beginning of 2014. At the weekend, the dance floor invited to dance. Before that it was called Bremme Bräu because beer from the Barmer brewery Carl Bremme was served there.
S-Bahn stairs Talstraße
To the south of the Hagelkreuz you can get from Richrather Straße at the railway bridge to the Talstraße stairs of the Hilden Süd S-Bahn stop.
Schützenstrasse
At the “Hagelkreuz”, Schützenstraße branches off at a sharp angle from Richrather Straße in a south-west direction.
brewery
At the Hagelkreuz at the entrance to Schützenstrasse 10, the innkeeper Carl Keller founded the Keller brewery in 1867. The buildings, which were built with brick on the 2400 m² site on what was then Karnaper Weg, comprised a residential building, a brewery, a dance hall with a bowling alley and a horse stable. To the north of the building there was a tree yard with a garden and a pump. Initially, brewing was unlicensed as a so-called "Heckzapp". Instead of hops today, Grut from the Hildener Heide was used as wort. These are the intoxicating pods of the Gagelstrauch . The brewery was last in the hands of the brewer Hermann Hülsmann, who sold it to the Catholic parish of St. Jakobus in 1889, some time after it was finally closed.
First Hilden hospital
As the population grew, the Catholic parish decided to build a hospital by converting the former Keller brewery according to the plans of Pastors Josef Schmitz and Robert Schmitz (born January 31, 1836 in Jackerath ; † May 6, 1917) . On August 13, 1889, the municipality received the necessary concession from the district government .
On March 19, 1890, St. Joseph's Day, the first (Catholic) hospital opened on Schützenstrasse. In the early years, medical director Eduard Vogelsang (* 1838 in Hilden; † August 9, 1918 in Wiesbaden ) was in charge. The sisters of the poor servants of Jesus Christ took care of the sick . After the construction of the railway line from Düsseldorf to Ohligs cut the Schützenplatz next to the hospital in 1894, the northern part bordering the hospital was donated to the Catholic parish. This then built an extension to the hospital in 1896. In 1938, the hospital moved into the new building on Walder Strasse, which has now also been replaced. The hospital is managed by the Kplus Group . The old hospital building on Schützenstrasse was converted into a residential building. The railway line, which originally had a level crossing next to the hospital, was later raised and the road passed through an underpass. Today the S-Bahn line S1 Solingen - Dortmund runs on it.
Black Pub
Generations of people from Hilden celebrated from 1969 to 2013 in the “Black Pub” at Schützenstrasse 8 near the “Hagelkreuz”. In the run-up to Christmas, over 1000 people from Hilden met and sang Christmas carols with the tenant Uwe Müller. For many who have left Hilden and are returning home for Christmas, the pub on Christmas Eve was a fixed date and meeting place to meet old buddies and friends from the past once a year. The pub reopened in 2015 at 4 Richrather Straße diagonally across the street.
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Neustraße
From the “Hagelkreuz” to the west, Neustraße runs to the intersection with Hofstraße, Proactiv Platz with HDI / Targo insurance and the tax office , over Itter to Düsseldorfer Straße.
According to the 1927 city map:
- walked the extended Südstraße beyond the Hagelkreuz to the intersection with Hofstraße (today Proactiv Platz)
- Bachstraße ran from the intersection with Hofstraße over Itterbrücke to the corner, which is now the pub Ittereck Neustraße 35.
- Neustraße extended from the corner to the intersection with Düsseldorfer Straße.
Neustraße, factories on “Hagelkreuz”, corner of Schützenstraße-Neustraße
On the current site of the Lindopharm company at the corner of Schützenstraße - Neustraße, the following factories were successively:
- 1895 to 1897: Schmitz & Comp, plush and carpet factory Krugmann u. Hair house; Decorative carpets.
- 1897 to 1902: Rheinische Teppichfabrik AG Hilden von Otto Hallensleben; mechanical manufacture of damask and smyrna carpets .
- 1902: Metal processing plant in Brandenburg Weyland; Attempts to recover metal from slag .
- 1902 to 1965: Theodor Poncelet bakery machine and steam oven factory , then continued to operate under the name Bäckereimaschinenfabrik Robert Zapp. In 1965, Zapp relocated its operations to Ichenhausen near Günzburg .
- 1941 to today: Lindopharm, on the current site at the corner of Schützenstraße / Neustraße 82, specializes in the filling of powder, powder mixtures, granules, micro-tablets as pharmaceutical products, medical products, food and dietary supplements in sachets and film-coated tablets.
Klotzstrasse
The Klotzstraße runs from the "Hagelkreuz" in a north-west direction. Its name comes from the fact that in the company Gressard & Co. at Fritz Gressard Platz silk - woven goods were dyed using the Klotz method .
Büdchen-Trinkhalle petrol station
The “Hagelkreuz” square was and is a popular meeting place. Another pump room has been inviting visitors to linger near the former Hagelkreuz for decades. A Shell petrol station was also attached to it in the 1950s.
Hotel at the city park
The house with the turret and natural stone facade at Klotzstrasse 22, built in 1910 by the architect Walter Furthmann , was the administrative building of the Kampf & Spindler weaving mill . In 1970 the company, which last traded under the name of Paul Spindler Works, ceased production. After six years of renovation by the Römer family, the hotel "Am Stadtpark" opened in August 1988.
Scala restaurant
A restaurant is attached to the hotel. The former “Römertopf” is now “La Scala”, an Italian restaurant and wine bar. There is space for up to 200 people. In summer there is also a terrace and a roof terrace available.
Blue note
In the basement of the Blue Note you can listen to jazz sounds on Mondays and on weekends.
Schulstrasse
From the “Hagelkreuz”, Schulstrasse runs north. It takes you directly to downtown Hilden and the Reformation Church .
In the Middle Ages, the road was part of the mouse path . It led past the Hagelkreuz to Langenfeld. Grain , " capes " and sugar beets were grown in the adjacent fields . Kappes means white cabbage. The fields belonged to a farm in Büren on Hofstrasse (today a mini golf course in the city park). That is why the street was previously called Feldstrasse.
After the municipal primary school was built in Feldstrasse in 1861, Feldstrasse was renamed Schulstrasse.
House of Youth
In 1938 the architect Helmut Hentrich built the youth home for the Hitler Youth on Hagelkreuz, at the corner of Klotzstrasse and Schulstrasse . The House of Youth was inaugurated on April 20, 1939 at Schulstrasse 44. The youth hostel of the German Youth Hostel Association (DJH), which subsequently offered overnight accommodation for migrating young people in the building, had to cease operations in the mid-1950s. For two years the rooms were used as accommodation for refugees. Only in July 1956 was the DJH able to reopen the house to young people after the necessary repair work. By the beginning of December 1956, 880 overnight stays were recorded. In October 1958, the city of Hilden took over the building as a youth home. Today 50 children from 3 to 6 years of age are looked after in the municipal day-care center "Mäusenest" in the former youth home.
Urban primary school
The Protestant elementary school opened in 1861. The municipal community elementary school on Schulstrasse and the Walter Wiederhold School on Düsseldorfer Strasse have merged.
AWO in the former Protestant parish hall, Kindergarten Arche, Schulstrasse 35
The Protestant parish hall was built in 1899 at Schulstrasse 35 by the architect Balken from Ohligs. The inauguration took place on May 12, 1901 by the superintendent Friedrich Wilhelm Bleier (born February 3, 1843 in Elberfeld , † March 31, 1920 in Kelzenberg ). Six years earlier, on the initiative of Pastor Paul Hagenbeck and the industrialist Hermann Wiederhold (born May 11, 1852 in Elberfeld, † October 10, 1905 in Hilden), the decision to build.
A kindergarten was built in the rear building in 1929 under the direction of the Evangelical Congregation , which was enlarged in 1961. The Protestant trombone choir rehearsed in the hall of the community center from 1900 until the building was sold .
The city of Hilden took over the evangelical parish hall in 2008. The Workers' Welfare AWO has found her neighborhood center (ABZ) a new home for the previously contained in the Sacred Way Josef Kremer house, demolished it and was replaced by residential development. The senior citizen and family center has been offering a wide range of free services for the Stadtmitte social space since 2010.
After the renovation of the former Protestant and now municipal kindergarten Arche, the modern building has been able to accommodate 135 children since 2011. Each group has a group room, an adjoining room, a relaxation room and a laundry room.
Südstrasse
The seventh street at “Hagelkreuz” is Südstraße to the east. It is essentially a residential street.
Renaming of streets around the Hagelkreuz during the Nazi era
From May 26, 1933, Mayor Walter Schomburg (1933 to 1945) had streets renamed.
- "Klotzstrasse" in "Albert-Leo-Schlageter-Strasse"
On March 9, 1939 around the "Hagelkreuz"
- "Albert-Leo-Schlageter-Strasse" in "Schlageterstrasse"
- "Schulstrasse" in "Horst-Wessel-Strasse"
- "New, Bachstrasse and extended Südstrasse" in "Norkusstrasse"
- "Hagelkreuzplatz" in "Herbert-Norkus-Platz"
- "Schützenstrasse" in "Knickmannstrasse" to Ludwig Knickmann
- "Südstraße" in "Kehrerstraße" after Jodokus Kehrer
In May 1945 the National Socialist names disappeared again.
Social events at the "Hagelkreuz"
The Circus Althoff showed its elephants at the performance at Hagelkreuz in 1960. Today the former students of Hildens meet at the "Hagelkreuz" at Christmas time and celebrate the reunion and sing Christmas carols together.
During the Carnival Monday parade, the “Hagelkreuz” is an attractive location for visitors to watch the carnival floats and the groups of feet passing by. Due to this risk situation, a glass prohibition zone was set up in the area of the Hagelkreuz for the first time in 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dönekes and History, history and stories from Hilden; Ulrike Unger, Michael Ebert; Rheinische Post, Museums & Heimatverein Hilden eV; 1998 p. 38; ISBN 3-9804615-2-1
- ↑ a b Requests for a good harvest
- ↑ Hilden City Archives, Das Hagelkreuz, Rheinische Landzeitung No. 113 April 25, 1987
- ↑ a b City Marketing Poster- What's hailing there?
- ^ Werner Kirchhoff: Hilden restaurants in the 20th century , Museum and Heimatverein Hilden eV 2001, ISBN 3-9804615-4-8
- ^ Peter Klein, 65 years of the innkeeping trade in Hilden, 1884–1949
- ^ Directory of the architectural monuments in the area of the city of Hilden. City of Hilden, December 31, 2016
- ↑ Ristorante Da Domenico
- ↑ Image: Leo's Kiosk Snack Bar Cafe
- ^ Hilden City Archives, Hagelkreuzstrasse, operator of the drinking hall
- ↑ Image: Capio Klinik, Photo Staschik
- ↑ Capio Clinic in the Park
- ↑ Vein Clinic
- ↑ Head physician at the Capio Clinic Horst Peter Steffen
- ↑ Locations of the Capio Vein Clinics ( Memento of the original from October 2, 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.
- ↑ Dr. Biermann Women's Clinic
- ^ Bodo Volmer: Hilden memories - The last post holder in Hilden , Stadtwerke Hilden GmbH 1991
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Horst A. Wessel, Hut Director Heinrich Esser and the House in the Park Lecture on February 22, 2003, Hilden City Archives, Hagelkreuzstraße
- ^ August Vollmer: Hüttenirektor Heinrich Esser Words of Remembrance in Hilden Yearbook 1953-1955, pp. 414-416
- ↑ Capio Jazz series ( Memento of the original from April 2, 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.
- ↑ Bodo Volmer: Hilden Memories - When the railway embankment did not exist in Hilden , Stadtwerke Hilden GmbH 1991
- ^ Tower pharmacy formerly Club 17
- ↑ 2013 Capar pub crawl
- ↑ Wolfgang Wennig: Gasversorgung in Hilden 1864-1964 , in: Hildener Jahrbuch 1961–1964, Hilden 1965, p. 361
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1869, p. 797
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1877, p. 860f
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Wennig, History of Hilden Industry, From the Beginnings of Commercial Activity to the Year 1900, Verlag Stadtarchiv Hilden, 1974 p. 89
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1889, p. 307
- ^ Heinrich Schmitz, Das first Hildener Krankenhaus, In: Hildener Jahrbuch 1965–1970, Hilden 1971, pp. 234–238.
- ↑ a b c Wolfgang Wennig, Hilden yesterday and today, Hilden City Archives, 1977 p. 85
- ^ First Hilden hospital
- ↑ Thomas Bernhardt, Werner Kimmel, Christina Görtz, Michael de Clerque, Andreas Stephainski, Roland Ermich: Time travel 1000 years of life in Hilden, 150 years of city rights , ISBN 978-3-9812527-9-8 , Göttingen 2011
- ↑ Christmas Eve 2013: What (still) works today
- ↑ a b Christmas Singing Pub Hilden
- ↑ Dying bars
- ↑ Wolfgang Wennig: History of Hilden industry, from the early days of commercial activity by the year 1900 , published by the city archives Hilden, 1974 S. 173
- ↑ Lindopharm sachet manufacturer
- ↑ Lindopharm expands location
- ↑ From the Seidenkontor to the Hotel am Stadtpark
- ↑ Ina Bartmann: The Henkel factory in Düsseldorf-Holthausen 1900–1940. An extraordinary entrepreneur and his architect. Wuppertal 2008, pp. 743-744.
- ↑ La Scala Restaurant & Wine Bar
- ↑ Jazzkeller Blue Note
- ^ Youth home - youth hostel
- ↑ Antifascist City Guide 2008 p 19
- ↑ KITA Mäusenest ( Memento of the original from April 2, 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.
- ↑ Community Primary School Schulstrasse and Walter-Wiederhold-Schule Düsseldorfer Strasse
- ^ Evangelical parish hall since 1899
- ↑ Kindergarten Arche
- ↑ Childcare in the municipal day care center Arche ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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.
- ↑ Leon Peters: renaming of streets in Hilden as a means of Propaganda , in: Hilden Yearbook 2012 p 81-99, published by the city archives Hilden, ISBN 978-3-940710-37-6 / street names during the Nazi period
- ↑ Hilden Yearbook 1945–1946, Verlag Fr. Peters Hilden 1950
- ↑ Glass ban at the Hagelkreuz ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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.
Web links
- The hail cross
- The Hilden street names and their meaning
- Image: Old Hagelkreuz restaurant with advertising pillar
- Electricity and lighting in Hilden, former gas lamp at Hagelkreuz
- Image: House of Youth on Schulstrasse
- Renaming of streets in Hilden as a means of Nazi propaganda
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '54.1 " N , 6 ° 56' 4.6" E