Herchen train station

Herchen train station community Windeck Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 24 ″  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 8 ″  E
Height :	approx. 103.8 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	101  (Jun 30, 2015)
Postal code :	51570
Area code :	02292
Hotel hammer

The victory at Herchen-Bahnhof

Herchen-Bahnhof is a district of the municipality of Windeck in the Rhein-Sieg district . The place used to be called Hammer .

location

Herchen station has a height of 103.829  m above sea level. NHN according to the measuring point on the platform. It is located directly on the Sieg , which has a height difference between 94.5  m and 91.1  m above sea level. NHN overcomes. The highest point of the place between Leuscheid and Nutscheid is located outside the Sommerhof at 198.6  m above sea level. NHN . The neighboring town to the west is Stromberg , to whose march the area formerly belonged. Above the eastern shore victory is throwing . To the north is the eponymous town of Herchen , which begins on the opposite bank of the Sieg with the district of In der Au within sight .

history

Herchen-Bahnhof is a young place that only emerged in the period of industrialization . It was first mentioned in a civil registry in 1875. The farmer Carl Hundhausen from Stromberg married Wilhelmina Marcus here. The witnesses were the station attendant Peter Rösgen and the railway foreman Heinrich Schumacher.

Until 1969 Herchen-Bahnhof belonged to the municipality of Herchen .

In 1962 the place had 170 inhabitants, in 1976 213.

Transport links

It is named after the train station on the Sieg line with stops of the S 12 , S 19 and RE 9 as well as connections to some bus lines. The railway tunnel behind Herchen train station is 370 m long. The railway bridge in between was destroyed in the flood of victory in 1909 and in the Second World War and then renewed again, albeit only on a single track.

Herchen-Bahnhof is on the state roads 312 and 333 .

Public facilities

schools

secondary school

• Herchen-Bahnhof is the location of the secondary school for boys and girls in Herchen. It was completed in 1966 with six classrooms, but lessons have been provisionally given in Herchen since 1963. In 1967, 1968 and 1970 barracks were added to accommodate the growing number of students. In 1981 and 2003, decent new buildings were built. 752 students are taught in 27 classes.
• The Bodelschwingh-Gymnasium Herchen is located on the Reifershardt above the Igelshof, at times the buildings there were part of the boarding school.

post Office

The Herchen-Bahnhof post office was initially operated in the Kölner Hof restaurant , but was later moved full-time to the adjacent, now abandoned, small half-timbered house.

railway station

Herchen station building

The train station, built in 1860, used to house four servants' apartments, which have now been merged into two apartments. The two external signal boxes have now been relocated to the counter sales rooms. The earlier buildings with a laundry room and stable for goats and sheep for the servants as well as a public toilet no longer exist either. The area of ​​the freight yard, leased from the building materials dealer Martin Land, has been converted into a Park & ​​Ride car park. Buildings to the south of the station were formerly used privately as a panneschoppen (brick production) and sawmill and have also long since been put down. The station building is now a listed building.

tourism

House Herchen

The Herchen house has been used in various ways throughout history

The Wuppertal public utilities maintain a rest and training home for their employees in Herchen-Bahnhof.

This area, which was laid out as a fruit farm at the beginning of the 20th century and operated as a poultry farm in the 1930s, served as an NSV maternity home in the Third Reich . After the Wuppertal Stadtwerke until Landheim Bourauel were housed, they took over the plant in 1947 from the public utilities Cologne .

After the house was first used by those returning from the war, it became a rest home for employees of the Wuppertal municipal utilities. The house is now a seminar center with 21 double and 17 single rooms.

The farm belonging to the house was closed in 2002. A modern training and seminar center was then built on this site after the demolition.

Keep

The keep

The former guesthouse Haus Heimatliebe was built as a private house in 1930 and operated as a guesthouse in 1939. It was a place of rest for eight Bayer Leverkusen employees . After the Second World War , the house was only operated as a café. In 1958 the house was sold and as a restaurant keep operating.

Sonneck

Haus Sonneck, built in 1906 as a private house, was first operated as a grocery store and since 1925 at the latest as a guesthouse. At times there was also a public petrol station here. The house is now used purely for residential purposes again.

Cologne court

The inn, operated by Friedrich Rötzel from 1900, still exists today, but has ceased its hotel operations. The additions to the bowling alley and dance hall licensed in 1909 were converted into apartments a few decades ago. The building is a historical monument.

Karl Koch Hut

A holiday accommodation of the church district of Düsseldorf, which has been privately sublet in recent years. In 2007 it had to give way to the construction of a second gymnasium for the secondary school.

Others

The high-altitude hiking trail leads from Haus Herchen via the Martin-Land-Hütte and the Düsseldorfer Hütte to the Thingplatz (Herchen) and the cannons there, which have been on the Heumarkt in Cologne since the Franco-German War and were evacuated to Herchen in the First World War . The Heilbrunnen is located north of Igelshof . The platform of the former Hindenburg monument offers a good view over Herchen train station .

Industry and Commerce

The apple cabbage from Herchen train station

An advertisement from the Eitorfer Zeitung from 1924

Apple cabbage country

The largest employer in the village was the apple cabbage factory Land , which exported its Rhenish specialty to America. The factory was founded in 1872. It was only operated as a small company in Hammer . Then Gottlieb Land built his small factory at the train station. After his death, apple processing was taken over by son Walter, and coal and building materials sales by son Martin. In 1950 38 percent of the total German sales of apple cabbage were produced here.

Others

In addition, there were a number of commercial buildings: Grocery store Böhmer, in which a pet shop is now operated, Elektrohandel Schlabbach, grocery store Fenners, car dealership (for glass , Goggo and Fiat ) and petrol station Olbertz, snack bar Rodeck and the barrack on the Sieg, which was demolished in 1960 a building contractor before the war, the art turner Bentele during the war and a sawmill after the war.

Igelshof district

The Igelshof district on the left-hand side of the Sieg is presented primarily by Reifershardt Castle . Today's residential development used to be commercial; there was a civil engineering company, a bookstore, the Fritz Burbach restaurant and a laundry from the Bodelschwingh grammar school , where French prisoners of war were quartered during the Second World War. Today Igelshof belongs to Werfen .

Monument protection

Reifershardt Castle was listed on November 11, 1986, the Kölner Hof on October 7, 1988 and Herchen train station on November 11, 1991.

Personalities of the place

• Walter Land (* 1938), transplant doctor (surgeon)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of localities. Windeck municipality, June 30, 2015, accessed December 18, 2016 . 
2. ^ Emil Hundhausen (ed.): Our home in old pictures . Windeck Local History Museum, Fritz Franz, Windeck-Stromberg 1976, DNB  770620876 .
3. ^ Theodor Rutt: Land on Sieg and Rhine: History - Culture - Economy . Scientific archive, Bonn 1960, DNB  454240287 , p. 218 .
4. ↑ List of listed monuments of the community Windeck 2011