Hope Valley (Rösrath)
Hope valley is a district of Rösrath , a town in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
history
The old Volberg
The name of the old church village was Volberg : The place name Vogelberhc goes back to the Prümer Urbar from 893, a list of properties of the Prüm Abbey in the Eifel . Here 11 " hooves " ( mansi ) were listed for Vogelberhc , the taxes to be paid ( census ), the services to be rendered ( servitia ) and the " Herrenland " ( terra dominicata ) were counted in Jochen .
There was also a hoof for a priest in Vogelberhc . The street name Wiedenhof in the Forsbach district of Rösrath indicates an old parsonage. The street is in the immediate vicinity of the Altvolberg district , where the first settlement may have been.
Volberg in the Middle Ages
In addition to the old Volberg on the Forsbacher Heights, a second settlement called Volberg developed after the swampy Sülztal was drained and settled in what is now the Hopesthal district . Nowadays the name Volberg can still be found in a Hope Thaler street name and in the name of the Evangelical Church of Volberg . The oldest parts of the Evangelical Church in Volberg can be found in the apse and the basement of the tower. They come from the 12th century and reveal the Romanesque architectural style.
1899: Renamed into Hope Valley
The name "Hoffnungsthal" goes back to the hammer mill called "Hoffnungsthaler Hammer". The work provided bread and work for the poor rural population. During this period of economic boom, it was connected to the railway network in 1890. With the Cologne-Mülheim – Lindlar railway line (popularly: “Sülztalbahn”), the iron forge's products reached Mülheim on the Rhine and into the wider world. Due to the hopeful industrial development in the 19th century, the Volberg districts on the east bank of the Sülz, where the Reusch brothers' hammer mill was also located, were renamed Hopesthal on January 18, 1899. The districts on the west bank in which the Protestant church is located initially retained their old names. Today these parts of the medieval Volberg also belong to Hoffnungsthal.
Infrastructure
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railroad
The Cologne-Kalk-Overath railway runs through hope valley , on which the trains of the Oberbergische Bahn ( RB 25) run between Cologne Hansaring , Gummersbach and Lüdenscheid today . The Hoffnungsthal station is one of three stops on Rösrather city. There are other stops at Rösrath train station and Stümpen stop . The line was opened in 1910 after the tunnel between Hoffnungsthal and Honrath was completed. About 150 meters before the tunnel, the Knipperbach is led over the railway line by means of a small bridge. The railway crosses the Sülz river in the area of Vierkotten in hopesthal . The trains of the former Cologne-Mülheim-Lindlar railway line follow between Rösrath and Hoffnungsthal .
Hiking and biking trails
There are the following hiking trails in and around Hoffnungsthal:
| Art | Waymarks | Distance | Path length |
|---|---|---|---|
| trail | X22 | Kurkölner Weg : Meschede - Hoffnungsthal - Cologne-Rath | 153 km |
| trail | <2 | Rath-Heumar - Hope Valley - Honrath | 22 km |
| trail | <12 | Hope valley - Overath - Marialinden - Ründeroth | 42 km |
| trail | K | Kölner Weg: Rath-Heumar - Hope Valley - Lohmar - Neunkirchen - Westerwald - Siebengebirge | 253 km |
| Circular hiking trail | 15th | Mining route: Hope valley - Lüderich - Bleifeld - Hope valley with 10 stations on the subject of 2,000 years of mining in Rösrath | 12.1 km |
Administrative headquarters
The seat of the Rösrath city administration is not in the center of Rösrath, but in Hope Valley. As a result of the Congress of Vienna , Hoffnungsthal also became part of the Prussian Rhine Province . The municipal administration in Volberg (Hope Valley) has been installed since 1875. While his predecessor, the manufacturer Robert Rohr, resided mainly in Schloss Eulenbroich from 1851 onwards , Mayor Franz Leyhausen took up his official duties in 1878 in the mayor's office in Volberg. In 1899 the name "Mayor's Office Hope Valley" is found.
Today's historic mayor's office building goes back to an extensive renovation in 1912. Before it was used as a mayor's office, the building was a school. In addition to the old mayor's office, in which the mayor of Rösrath still holds office today, there has been a citizens' forum with several modern administrative buildings on the opposite side of the street since 1995.
Wöllner pen
The "Wöllner-Stift" is a retirement and nursing home. The institution is a member of the Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. The house is centrally located in Hopesthal. Town hall, train station and Catholic and Protestant churches are only a few meters away.
At first Pauline Reusch, born Wöllner decided to donate 50,000 marks to the city of Cologne for asylum for older men who were unable to work, preferably those who had worked in chemical plants. Then, on the advice of her cousin August Reusch, it became a donation to the community of Rösrath to build a hospital for the poor. The house was put into operation on January 10, 1903. In the maternity ward, many Hope thalers were delivered until 1957. The conversion to a retirement home began in 1956. The Protestant pastor Friedrich Gerhard Venderbosch had the idea. On January 10, 1956, the “Altersheim Wöllner-Stift e. V. “founded. In 1958, 120 senior citizens moved into the house. In 1985 the building complex was expanded. Approx. Since then, 180 people have been looked after at the Wöllner Stift.
In 2008 a complete renovation of the building complex began. In addition to fully inpatient one-room spaces, rooms for house communities should also be available after the renovation. Even assisted living to be made possible.
Religions
Until the Reformation , the Volberg Church was a Catholic church, which was probably consecrated to St. Servatius . In the middle of the 16th century the Volbergers changed to the Lutheran faith. It was only 400 years later that a Catholic parish was re-established in Hopesthal. When the new Servatius Church was consecrated on May 13, 1956, the name of the parish “St. Servatius Volberg in Hope Valley ”. The Protestant religious community also has the old name “Volberg” in its name. It is called "Evangelical Community Volberg - Forsbach - Rösrath".
Regular events
The local ring Hopesthal (umbrella association of the clubs in the district) organizes the street festival "Art & Klaaf" on the second weekend in September. Then the main street between the Protestant church and Veurneplatz briefly becomes a pedestrian zone over a length of approx. 700 meters.
Attractions
Bunker Hoffungsthal
The "air defense system" built between 1943 and 1944 for up to 800 people (town hall employees, teachers, schoolchildren and those working in the Reusch company building bombs) has recently served as a backdrop for a " crime scene " television thriller.
Villas belonging to the Reusch family of manufacturers
In 1816, the Reusch brothers from Kleinfischbach bought the “Hope Thaler Hammer”, a hammer mill founded by Rudolf Philipp Boullé from Zündorf in 1773, for 7,000 Reichstaler . In 1784 Boullé had a representative house built for his hammer master, the Weiherhaus, known today as the listed Villa Reusch "Auf dem Hammer". Behind the neoclassical villa, a pond extends to the north, the water of which was previously used to drive the hammer. The water was supplied via the Hammergraben fed by the Sülz . The Reusch family of manufacturers initially used the villa as a residence and from 1950 to 1970 as an administration building. After the Second World War , the Reusch company specialized in the manufacture of radiators. Production stopped in 1998 and the factory closed. After the villa had been vacant for a long time, it has been used by an advertising agency since 1989 after extensive renovation.
Three further listed Reusch villas can be found along the main street. The Villa Longree (Hauptstraße 316), also called Hammerhaus, was built in 1864. It was followed in 1894 by Villa Kurt Reusch (Hauptstrasse 312) and in 1896 by Villa Wilhelm Reusch (Hauptstrasse 310). With its neoclassical style, Villa Longrée differs significantly from the two other villas, whose construction is reminiscent of the Swiss country house style.
Sports
The oldest Hope Thaler sports club is the Blitz Hopesthal 1901 e. V. In 2005, the club hosted the German school championship, in which the student Simon Strohmeier from Unterweissach set a German record with 301.60 points, which is still valid today.
The gymnastics club Hopesthal , founded in 1907, is known nationwide due to the success of its female gymnasts, who have been doing gymnastics in the first division since 2003 and who were runner-up in 2004. In addition to artistic gymnastics, there are the departments of badminton, basketball, fistball, fencing, soccer, judo, ju-jitsu, athletics, gymnastics and volleyball.
The district for Hofferhof leading downhill Hoffer Straße 2009 was the venue for the German championship in Bobby Car race .
economy
Former mining
The Romans were already mining on the Lüderich in the first century AD. The mines Grube Lüderich , Grube Anacker , Grube Bergsegen , Grube Gustav Bischof , Grube Henricus , Grube Klaproth , Grube Leibnitz , Grube Schnepfenthal , Grube Wallenstein , Grube Wallenstein II , Grube Victor and Gruben Nestor and Peter belonged to the Bensberg ore district and have bread for many hopes and given work.
Steel and rolling mill
The Reusch Gebr. Steel and rolling mill was of importance far beyond hope valley. It was of great importance for the development of the iron-making and iron-processing industry in the Bergisches Land. Hundreds of workers were employed here at times.
literature
- Johannes Ralf Beines: Villas of the 19th Century in Hopesthal , in: Buildings and monuments worth preserving in the community of Rösrath , series of publications of the history association for the community of Rösrath and the surrounding area, Volume 4, Rösrath 1980, pp. 125–147, ISBN 3-922413 -07-2 .
- Ludolf Kuchenbuch: Vogelberhc in the year 893 - An economic and social study , in: Chronik der Gemeinde Rösrath, Volume 1, ed. by Klaus-Dieter Gernert and Helmut Wolff, Rösrath 1993, pp. 133-140, ISBN 3-922413-35-8 .
- History Association Rösrath eV (Hrsg.): Hoffnungsthal - A historical picture book , series of publications of the History Association Rösrath eV, Volume 36, Rösrath 2006, ISBN 3-922413-58-7 .
- Robert Wagner: The Villa Longrée - Where industry and mining met , in: Geschichtsverein Rösrath eV (Hrsg.): Mining in the Bergisches Land - examples of mining traces between Sülz and Wahnbach, Rösrath 2002, pp. 85–87, ISBN 3-922413 -52-8 .
- Wöllner-Stift (Ed.): History of the poor and hospital and the old people's home Wöllner-Stift , Festschrift 100 years Wöllner-Stift 40 years old people's home, Rösrath 1998.
- The history of the family business Gebrüder Reusch , Hoffnungsthal 1966.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Beyer: Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume I, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, p. 183, Prümer Urbar ( dilibri.de )
- ^ Gerhard Geurts , Hans Dieter Hilden, Herbert Ommer , Siegfried Raimann, Herbert Stahl (editor): The heritage of ore . Volume 4, The Lüderich. In: Series of publications by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg . tape 52 . Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 3-932326-52-0 .
- ^ Herbert Stahl (editor): Das Erbe des Erzes, Volume 5, New news and stories about the ore district of Bensberg , Bergisch Gladbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-044826-3
- ↑ Stahl- und Walzwerk Gebr. Reusch in Rösrath-Lehmbach accessed on June 20, 2019
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ' N , 7 ° 12' E
Districts: Forsbach | Hope valley | Small oaks | Rösrath
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