Ichenberg
The Ichenberg is a 180 to 190 meter high Eschweiler mountain ridge between Aue and Röhe . It was largely undeveloped until the middle of the 19th century and stood isolated with steep slopes. Ludwig Drees suspects the legendary Aduatuca camp here . There are also legends of a Juffer vom Hohenstein. The name comes from the oak tree that grows here .
The street Ichenberg between Odilienstraße and Hüttenstraße near the tunnel and Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof in the Röthgen district is named after the Ichenberg .
Hohenstein and Napoleonstein
The northern tip of the Ichenberg is called Hohenstein or Hoher Stein; there is the Napoleon Stone, a dark conglomerate rock. The legend that Napoléon Bonaparte led the battle of Aldenhoven down from this rock in 1793 has no real core, if only because the ridge on which Röhe lies blocks the view of Aldenhoven.
Ichenberg tunnel
The Ichenberger Tunnel is located on the Cologne – Aachen high-speed line about 100 m west of Eschweiler Central Station at 57.2 km and is 95 m long. During the Second World War it was blown up on November 21, 1944 along with the Sticher Berg and Dreibogenbrücke railway bridges. The repair by American pioneers was completed on March 7, 1945. In August 1962 it was cut open over a length of 255 m due to the electrification of the route and a new tunnel tube was built.
State road 238n
The second construction phase of the L238n bypass road leads over the Ichenberg with a gradient of 4%. For this purpose, an incision was made west of the Hohe Stein . The Ichenberg tunnel is also used to cross the high-speed line between Cologne and Aachen. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 21, 2010; the opening took place on May 19, 2014.
Ichenberg mine
In the 19th century there was the Ichenberg mine on the Ichenberg . Christine Englerth acquired it in 1824 and closed in 1825.
Ichenberger mill
The Ichenberger Mühle was founded in the 16th century by Mattheis Peltzer from Aachen . In 1824, the Löwenich fulling mill was founded by Peter Jakob von Löwenich from Burtscheid . It also includes two copper mills, a wire drawing shop and a needle factory. It ceased operations on January 30, 1847 and merged with the Stoltenhoffmühle, after which both mills were only grain mills. Since 1877 they have been operating as the Eschweiler Mühlen AG stock corporation . On January 2, 1927, a major fire destroyed the Ichenberger Mühle, whereupon it was converted into workers' apartments for the Eschweiler Mining Association ( EBV) in 1930 . August 1974 the building is demolished. The three buildings arranged as C were on the Padtkohlgraben near the Talbahntrasse at the corner of Odilienstraße / Stoltenhoffstraße. A group of trees and remains of the wall are still reminiscent of the building complex.
literature
- Series of publications by the Eschweiler History Association, Volume 14, EGV , Eschweiler 1993
- Series of publications by the Eschweiler History Association, Volume 17, EGV , Eschweiler 1997
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at eschweilergeschichtsverein.de from July 13, 2007
- ^ Karl Meurer: Excerpts from: 'The railway history of the city of Eschweiler in data'. In: Series of publications by the Eschweiler history association. No. 12, 1991, ISSN 0724-7745 .
- ↑ https://www.eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de/lb/inhalt/tunnelportale/2600-ichenberg.html Pictures of the renovation
- ↑ Ottmar Hansen: Fast to the A4: Second section of the L238 almost finished on aachener-zeitung.de , accessed on May 26, 2014.
- ↑ Rudolf Müller: L238n: New traffic artery between Eschweiler and Stolberg on aachener-zeitung.de , accessed on May 26, 2014.
- ↑ Roland Keller: Photo diary May 2014 on eisenbahn-stolberg.de , accessed on May 26, 2014.
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ N , 6 ° 15 ′ E