Hammerstein (Idar-Oberstein)

Hammerstein City of Idar-Oberstein
Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 26 "  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 44"  E
Height :	290 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.17 km²
Residents :	488  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density :	224 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	7th June 1969
Postal code :	55743
Area code :	06781
Location of Hammerstein in Rhineland-Palatinate
Hammerstein from a bird's eye view

Hammerstein from the direction of Enzweiler

Hammerstein is a district of the city of Idar-Oberstein in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Birkenfeld .

geography

Hammerstein is the smallest district and is located south of the Nahe in a loop of the river. The state road L 176 leads past the village, which leads along the Nahe, approx. 3 kilometers northeast, to Idar-Oberstein and approx. 5 kilometers south to Frauenberg . The place is connected to the local public transport by the regional line 320 of the ORN . On the other side of the Nahe is a bay: the valley widens and the Nahe almost describes a full circle there. This remarkable shape of the basin is known as the sea port .

Bridge near Hammerstein with a view of the sea port

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Hammerstein consists partly of a red and white nested pattern, which refers to the origin of the county of Sponheim . The gemstone as well as the hammer symbolize the two guild groups of hammer smiths and gemstone cutters that used to be based there . The blue curved line symbolizes the Nahe river, which flows through the valley in which Hammerstein lies. The exact origin or origin of the coat of arms is not known.

history

Hamerzwiller (= Hammerstein) is mentioned in 1438 in the valid book of the County of Sponheim and was already in Hintersponheim possession in 1269, when it was given as a fief to the Count of Schwarzenberg. Its inhabitants used to be called hammer mill , as a hammer along with foundry was there. Lots of ore mines, in which copper and even silver are said to have been found once , but they have all been exploited and crumbled, and it can also be assumed with certainty that the yield was very low and that the operation dates back to Roman times. The legend tells that there was a castle on the Hofkopp, a beautiful mountain cone near the Homericher Hof. A rich count, who owned the surrounding villages, the pits, coal piles and hammer mills, lived there with his wife, a Greek princess; the princess is said to have been very gorgeous. It was fed by golden plates, the wagons were studded with solid gold, the harness shone with gold and silver. When the Huns fled to the Rhine after the battle of Thalons, they had to evade an enemy in the Moselle valley who approached from the Rhine and broke over the mountains into the Nahe valley (the mountains got the name Humm back, or Hunsrück). The count immediately had his servants bury his treasures. When the Huns came, the count had them fed abundantly. But when the news came that a Frankish army was marching against them from the Palatinate, the Huns destroyed the castle, the hammer mills and what was still available to them, as well as the two villages Hirschlaut and Völkersberg, which were no longer built . Hammerstein and the surrounding villages slowly recovered. The count's treasures have been searched in vain to this day; it is believed that these are buried in the so-called Kiebschgraben or hidden in a borehole in ore mines or tunnels.

The Au with a view of the sea port

In 1816 Hammerstein came to the Principality of Lichtenberg of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Rural character, actually more small-scale, a village from which many factory workers went to work in the nearby town. That was usually easy with the RheinNaheBahn, there was a single train station that separated the Enzweiler station from the Oberstein station. Two tunnels took you to town in just under four minutes. Around the outside, by cart or on foot, the way was quite difficult. It was only time consuming via Hasbach and Homerich, but the time was still "cheap" back then. The youngsters in particular liked to take advantage of the forbidden possibility of threshold running. In a triple step it went through the two creepy-looking long tunnels.

In 1937, when the Baumholder military training area was set up by the German Wehrmacht at the time , Hammerstein moved to a peripheral location. As it turned out later, this was not a special turning point.

Like any other village of its size, Hammerstein developed quite normally. We can remember two inns and the heavy athletes from Hammerstein. You had an extremely illustrious name in the sporting field. And then there were the athletes' festivals in Hammerstein. A major sporting event. The strength athletes came from everywhere to demonstrate their capabilities. No tavern room would have been big enough, no, you had to switch to the meadows in the nearby valley below. There was a hustle and bustle here for three days. Cultural and church life took place quite normally in the village. For the believers there was a really nice little church, it was built on a small rock head, whitewashed it always caught the visitor's eye first. A long ridge, the Hammersteiner Klepp, stretched over the town from east to west. It was a purely agricultural area that almost reached Frauenberg in the hinterland. Almost defiantly there was a fairly large farm at the top. Today, as then, there is flourishing agriculture and livestock farming. Gradually Hammerstein then developed into a "suburban community". It was built and renovated all around. The Klepp became pure building land and was quickly almost completely built. Especially those who bought their building land up here are compensated today by the wonderful view far out into the country. Today Hammerstein is largely "closed". The viewer only sees a few green spots that could be identified as building land without severely impairing the overall character of the place. Perhaps up on the heights, but the many cows still have their pasture there today.

But two things may have been very decisive for Hammerstein. In the 1960s the military training area was connected to a generously planned road network. Now the place had become one with its entire surrounding area. You have a network of bridges on your doorstep, so to speak. But what inspired the community of Hammerstein most in 1969 was the incorporation of the place into the urban area of ​​Idar-Oberstein.

As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate functional and territorial reform , Hammerstein was incorporated into the city of Idar-Oberstein together with three other communities on June 7, 1969.

Local associations

• Hammerstein Beautification Association
• Hammerstein interest group
• Friends of the cultural associations in Hammerstein
• Hammerstein youth room
• MGV according to Hammerstein / Hammerstein Children's Choir (since 2016)
• TSG Idar-Oberstein
• Club home of the sport fishermen Idar-Oberstein

Regular events

• Hammerstein water fair (on the second weekend in September)
• Carnival in the Hammersteiner Bürger- und Kulturhaus
• Bridge festival on the Nahe meadows (along the Nahe cycle path)
• Christmas Market
• TSG Sportfest, Meerhafen sports grounds
• Fishing festival in the sea harbor
• Oktoberfest at the beautification club
• Federweißerparty in the youth room Hammerstein
• May festival on May 1st at the Hammerstein community and culture center
• May fire on Witches Night at the Hammerstein Beautification Association

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Idar-Oberstein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ residents of the city of Idar-Oberstein, main residence at www.idar-oberstein.de
2. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 166 (PDF; 2.8 MB).