Ittenbach

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Ittenbach
City of Koenigswinter
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 52 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 252 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 3768  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation : 1st August 1969
Postal code : 53639
Area code : 02223/02244
Ittenbach (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Ittenbach

Location of Ittenbach in North Rhine-Westphalia
Ittenbach from the Mount of Olives
Ittenbach from the Mount of Olives from
Ittenbach, aerial photo (2016)
Gate to the Siebengebirge
Evangelical Resurrection Church
Ittenbach around 1900

Ittenbach is a district of Königswinter in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district and is located on the Siebengebirge . The place, also known as Öttemich in the region , is a recognized resort and tourist destination.

The district of Ittenbach with the surrounding districts of Döttscheid, Gräfenhohn, Hüscheid and the Margarethenhöhe has 3768 inhabitants, the district of Ittenbach has 3124 (as of December 31, 2019).

geography

Ittenbach has the form of a cluster village . The village is located on the eastern edge of the Siebengebirge in the nature reserve and nature park of the same name , at the transition to the Pleiser Hügelland . It largely covers altitudes between 220 and 320 m above sea level. The highest elevation is the Ittenbach west superior Large Olives with 461 meters. The place is crossed by the Rottbach , which rises a little above and flows over the Lützbach to the Pleisbach . The extreme south-western part of Ittenbach on the slope of the Lohrberg is called Lahr and extends up to 360  m above sea level. NHN and is the highest residential area in the city of Königswinter. Outside the contiguous development of the village, there are still isolated houses in the west along the state road 331 running through Ittenbach , at the highest point of which the Margarethenhöhe district ( 320  m above sea level ) is located. In the north, the district of Döttscheid ( 210  m above sea level ) joins almost seamlessly and in the northeast, separated by the federal motorway 3 , Graefenhohn ( 205  m above sea level ). South of Ittenbach, the Stellweg begins at the Frühmesseiche , a straight aisle path that leads to the Asberg in the upper area of ​​the Siebengebirge Nature Park .

Due to its location, it was already a popular excursion area during the romantic era of the Rhine in the 19th century. Ittenbach therefore also became a residential area for commuters who work in Bonn or Cologne .

history

Ittenbach was first mentioned in a document as Idubag in 992 AD . The Archbishop of Cologne , Hermann I, confirmed the possession of an estate in "Idubag" to the Gerresheim monastery . The tithe in the district initially belonged to Vilich Abbey , and from 1230 to Heisterbach Abbey . 1320 the spelling "Yttenbach" is documented. In 1670 Ittenbach comprised 54 houses. Up until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 Ittenbach belonged to the Electoral Cologne office of Wolkenburg . Ittenbach was initially assigned to the Principality of Nassau-Usingen , came to the Grand Duchy of Berg after the formation of the Rhine Confederation in 1806 and belonged to the canton of Königswinter in the Rhine department .

The road connection from Ittenbach to Königswinter , on which today's state road 331 runs, goes back to a transport route from 1862 and was made accessible to general road traffic in 1928 through expansion.

Ittenbach municipality

After the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna , the Rhineland became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . Under the Prussian administration, Ittenbach was assigned to the mayor's office of Königswinter in 1816 (renamed to Amt in 1927) in the Siegburg district . In respect of postal Ittenbach belonged until 1854 to Landzustellbereich the post expedition Koenigswinter, then to the post office expedition Honnef .

The municipality of Ittenbach had an area of ​​554 ha in 1885 , of which 250 ha were arable, 42 were meadows and 232 were forest.

In 1885 the community had 63 places with 814 residential buildings (including uninhabited). There were 778 households. The community had 692 inhabitants (365 men and 327 women). In addition to 690 Catholics, there were two citizens of Protestant faith. The former had their own parish in Ittenbach, the latter were looked after by Königswinter .

In addition to Ittenbach, there were 19 other places to live in the community: Bacherhof, Bruch, Döttscheid, Elsteroth, Falkenstein, Gräfenhohn, Hagen, Hüscheid , Kante, Lahr, Mühten, Perlenhardt, Röttgen, Unter den Eichen, Unter den Linden, Laagshof , Margarethenhof , and Ölberg and Forsthaus Stöckerhof.

In 1967 the Ittenbach district comprised 560 hectares with 2,452 inhabitants. Of these, 78 worked in agriculture and forestry, 288 in manufacturing and 382 in the service sector. 355 outbound commuters were compared to 86 inbound commuters. In 1967 there were public facilities: a primary school, a sports field, a gym, a kindergarten and two libraries.

On August 1, 1969, the town of Königswinter with the district of Ittenbach was created as part of the municipal reorganization .

Margaret Cross

The Margarethenhöhe district also belonged to the Ittenbach community . The place is named after the Margarethenkreuz erected there, which was donated in 1641 by Ittenbach citizens as a cross on the Bittweg to the pilgrimage chapel on the Petersberg .

Ittenbach war cemetery

Ittenbach military cemetery
Aerial view of the military cemetery

In the city of Königswinter there are eight war cemeteries with a total of 2323 dead. The systems are located in the municipal cemetery and in the districts of Eudenbach, Heisterbacherrott , Ittenbach, Niederdollendorf , Oberdollendorf , Oberpleis and Stieldorf .

In Ittenbach there are 1,871 dead from the Second World War, specifically: 1,626 Germans, 224 Soviet citizens, 12 Poles, 4 Dutch, 2 Belgians, 2 French and 1 Italian. Until the end of the war, the Koenigswinter area was away from the great fighting. Only a few anti-aircraft positions were on the heights of the Rhine; in Eudenbach there was an airfield. However, the city already experienced isolated bombs on February 7, 1941, in which 5 people were killed in Oberdollendorf. The old town of Koenigswinter suffered heavy bomb hits on April 22, 1944; 56 people lost their lives. It was only when the Americans crossed the Ludendorff Bridge between Remagen and Erpel in the afternoon on March 7, 1945 that the war on land came to the Siebengebirge.

Population development

year Residents
1816 463
1843 641
1871 610
1905 725
1961 1765

Attractions

Catholic Church To the Sorrowful Mother

The catholic church "To the Sorrowful Mother", a hall made of trachyte , was built in place of a previous building from 1660 in 1833. In 1894 a four-storey, neo-Romanesque west tower was added, in 1953 a porch. The most recent expansion ( transept and choir ) took place in 1969/70.

At the entrance to the town in the roundabout on federal highway 3, a seven-element metal sculpture called the Gate to the Siebengebirge was erected, in which each of the elements is curved in the shape of a horseshoe and can be interpreted as both a gate and a mountain range. The most important buildings and monuments in the Margarethenhöhe district include the Margarethenkreuz inn and the former Hotel Margarethenhof, the seat of the FDP-affiliated Friedrich Naumann Foundation from 1984 to 1999 .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Ittenbach is located at the Siebengebirge junction of federal motorway 3 and is therefore in a convenient location, which favors the settlement of businesses. An Ittenbach citizens' initiative advocates the resumption of the Ennert ascent , which was deleted from the federal traffic route plan in 2003 , which should relieve the district of through traffic to the A 3, but would increase the burden in other parts of the city. In order to relieve Ittenbach, alternative possibilities are being examined, including a tunnel through the Great Mount of Olives as a bypass of Ittenbach.

A bus line connects Ittenbach with the ICE train station in Siegburg (journey time approx. 45 minutes), other bus lines lead to Königswinter, to the Bonn tram line 66 and to the ferry to Bonn- Bad Godesberg .

The high-speed line Cologne – Rhine / Main passes the place in the Ittenbach tunnel .

education

Catholic primary school Ittenbach

The Ittenbach Catholic Primary School is located in Ittenbach . For further education, the neighboring towns of Oberpleis or Königswinter are visited. Over there:

Personalities

  • Josef Müller (1875–1945), folklorist and editor of the Rhenish dictionary, died in Ittenbach.
  • Reinhard Selten (1930–2016), Nobel Prize laureate for economics, lived in Ittenbach.
  • Alf Marholm (1918–2006), theater and film actor, died in Ittenbach.
  • Bernhard Stasiewski (1905–1995), Professor of Modern and Contemporary Church History and Church History of Eastern Europe, Catholic priest and pastor in Ittenbach (1971–1995)
  • Matthias Ponnier (* 1940), theater and film actor, dubbing and audio book speaker, has lived in Ittenbach for many years.
  • Ralf Schmitz (* 1974), comedian, has lived in Ittenbach for several years.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ittenbach  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b without secondary residences ; Population statistics of the city of Königswinter (PDF)
  2. ^ A b Oberkreisdirektor Paul Kieras (ed.): The Rhein-Sieg-Kreis. Stuttgart 1983, p. 276.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 61.
  4. ^ Johann Günther Friedrich Cannabich: Latest news from Baden, Nassau, Hohenzollern, Lippe, Waldeck, Anhalt, the Schwarzberg and Reussian countries. Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, 1827, p. 268.
  5. ↑ Peter Adolph Winkopp (ed.): The Rheinische Bund. 1809, p. 97.
  6. ↑ August Heinen: History of the Post Office Königswinter , Königswinter 1952
  7. ↑ a b c Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.): 1888, p. 116/117 ( online at: digitalis.uni-koeln.de )
  8. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, DNB  456219528 , p. 84 .
  9. ↑ Census results from 1816 to 1970 of the cities and municipalities . Contributions to the statistics of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Vol. 17 / Siegburg 1980, pp. 62–63.
  10. ↑ http://imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de/selten/nobel.html