Heath (Lohmar)

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City of Lohmar
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 33 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 172 m
Incorporation : 1st August 1969
Postal code : 53797
Area code : 02241
Heide (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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Location of Heide in North Rhine-Westphalia

Heide is a district of Lohmar in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Heide is located in the extreme southeast of Lohmar. Surrounding villages and hamlets are Birk in the north, Hochhausen in the northeast, Albach and Inger in the northwest.

To the west of Heide is the Siegburg State Forest. A narrow strip of the place along the B56 is in the area of ​​the city of Siegburg .

The Auelsbach , an orographically left tributary of the Agger, has its source near Heide . North of the heath of Birkenbach, a orographic right tributary of the springs to Wahnbachtalsperre pent mania Bach .

history

Until August 1, 1969, the place belonged to the previously independent municipality Inger .

In the state forest on Zeithstraße near Franzhäuschen, some concrete slabs from the National Socialist era bear witness to the preparations for a V1 launching ramp.

In 1958, the sect established private Sociale mission of Paul Schaefer an orphanage here. After an arrest warrant for child abuse in 1961, the shepherd, who had been warned about it, was able to flee to Chile with around 150 children in the home; around 200 other sect members followed later, where he founded the Colonia Dignidad , which was also used for abuse and child abuse, but also as a torture center for the Chilean secret service and shelter right-wing terrorist was notorious. The sect was able to sell the area in Heide to the Bundeswehr , which initially housed a company from the guard battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defense . From 1973 to 2002 the office of the General Doctor of the Air Force was here . In 2007 the building was converted into an apartment building; Single-family houses were also built on the site.

chapel

The chapel in Heide is dedicated to St. Francis Xavier . After the residents of Heide had a wooden cross blessed in 1734, the first wooden chapel was built a year later. In 1830 it was decided to build a stone building for renovation. In 1841 the village community began to procure materials. After two years of construction, the current chapel was completed in 1845.

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Trivia

Heide south of Birk must not be confused with the town of Heide east of Höffen, which also belongs to Lohmar .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City portrait, Lohmar in brief ( memento from February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the city of Lohmar
  2. ↑ a b Topographic map 1: 25000
  3. ^ Law on the local reorganization of the Bonn area (Bonn Law) of July 1, 1969; § 13
  4. ↑ Christoph Kämper: cruise missile on the snake deep. in: Lohmarer Heimatblätter issue 25, Lohmar 2011
  5. ↑ Bernd Imgrund , Nina Osmers: 111 places in the Cologne area that you have to see , Verlag Emons, Cologne, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89705-777-7 , place 78
  6. ↑ Der Spiegel , No. 46/1987: Façade only
  7. ↑ Christoph Kämper: Sektenzentrum - Bundeswehrdienststelle - residential building
  8. ↑ P. Gabriel Busch (Ed.): Chapel wreath around the Michaelsberg, 113 chapels in the old dean's office Siegburg , Verlag Abtei Michaelsberg, 1985