Kalenborn (Vettelschoss)

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Branch church Kalenborn
Landmark from 1680

Kalenborn is a district in the west of the municipality Vettelschoss in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied .

geography

Kalenborn lies on the edge of the Niederwesterwald at an altitude of about 315 to 360  m above sea level. NHN and is surrounded in the south and west by the Rhine-Westerwald nature park . In terms of natural space, the place is at the transition from the Asbach plateau in the east to the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge in the west. There is an industrial park outside the village . From Kalenborn there are direct road connections to Vettelschoss ( Landesstraße 252) and into the Rhine Valley to Linz am Rhein (Landesstraße 253) and Unkel(Landesstrasse 252). The Bad Honnef / Linz junction of federal motorway 3 is about 5 km northeast of the town.

Kalenborn borders in the west via Landesstraße 253 (Asbacher Straße) on Kretzhaus (city of Linz am Rhein ) and the former forester's house Reifstein (local community Erpel ), in the north on Oberwillscheid and in the southeast on the town center of Vettelschoss.

history

The place name is derived from "kallen" for "talking" and "born" for "buren" ( authorized persons ) by various representatives of place naming . The geographical location also plays a role here. Not far from Kalenborn is the Asberg , on which remains of a Celtic ring wall still exist in the 1930s , which were destroyed by the basalt mining. These ring walls also served as a ting site. The spelling of the place name changes frequently: Calenburne (1209), Kallenborn (1641), Kahlenborn and Kaleborn (1699), Callenborn (1736). In the Eifel there are various places with the name Kalenborn , in the Westerwald there is also a Kaltenborn . The interpretation of the place names of these places comes to partly different results for various reasons.

The first mention of Kalenborn can be found in a document from the year 1209, in which the Archbishop of Cologne Dietrich I of Cologne waived his right to ban the wilderness in the forest of "Calenburne" in favor of the Mariengraden Abbey in Cologne.

The so-called "Heisterbacher Klosterpfad" led through Kalenborn, which led from the Heisterbach Abbey to the St. Katharinen Monastery . The Heisterbacher monks were responsible for the pastoral care of the nunnery. Along the monastery path, some farms were owned by the monasteries, in Kalenborn the Katharinenhof, the farm was probably a donation from the Lords of Rennenberg to the St. Katharinen monastery, which was donated by the Rennenbergers in 1208. The Katharinenhof is mentioned for the first time in 1509 in a lease register of the monastery. After the Thirty Years' War, the Archbishop of Cologne, Maximilian, had an inventory carried out. Two houses were registered in Kalenborn, one of which was probably the Katharinenhof, the second the Antonshof, which had been in the family since 1613.

Since the Middle Ages, Kalenborn has belonged to the so-called “second part” (Vettelschoss) of the Lorscheid Honnschaft in the parish of Neustadt and was under the administration of the Electoral Cologne Office of Altenwied . In Prussian times (from 1815) Kalenborn became part of the Vettelschoss community. Since 1904 there was a Catholic elementary school in the village, which was attended by 70 children (status: 1913). Later - in the same school building - an "agricultural vocational school" for the school districts of Kalenborn, Lorscheid, Sankt Katharinen and Vettelschoss was added. In 1912 Kalenborn received a train station on the newly built Linz am Rhein – Flammersfeld railway , which was used to transport basalt from the region's quarries.

From 1922 to 1924, the plants of the Schmelzbasalt AG, newly founded by Basalt AG and the French Compagnie Générale du Basalte , were built on the border with Kretzhaus (Linz am Rhein) with a connection to the neighboring Kalenborn train station. They were created according to plans by the architects Mattar & Scheler and, in addition to the factory halls, included a two-wing administration building, a water tower and, on the Kretzhaus side of Asbacher Strasse, a residential building for the company's director. The fused basalt plant developed into the most important industrial enterprise in Kalenborn and shaped the townscape with its storage areas, loading facilities and an associated narrow-gauge rail network. The factory facilities are no longer used for the production of cast basalt and are the headquarters of Kalenborn Kalprotect , one of the world's leading companies in the field of universal wear protection. From September 2014, the Kalenborn thoroughfare on Landesstraße 252 was expanded.

Kalenborn Kalprotect GmbH & Co. KG, aerial photo (2016)
Population development
year Residents
1816 99
1843 158
1885 162
1987 941

Sights and leisure

Bridge of the Kasbachtalbahn near Kalenborn
The Kasbachtalbahn rail bus
  • At the exit to the north, on Landesstraße 253, there is a boundary stone from 1680, which marked the border between the offices and parishes of Linz, Neustadt and Erpel. Today the city of Linz on the Rhine and the local communities of Vettelschoss and Erpel meet here.
  • The Catholic branch church Mary Queen was built in 1955 by a chapel building association, the "Lady of the August 17, 1958 Fatima " dedicated and completely refurbished in 1987/88. It has belonged to the Catholic parish of St. Katharina and St. Michael Vettelschoß / Sankt Katharinen since 2008 .
  • The Kasbachtalbahn is a popular destination in the Kalenborn area in summer. The historic railcar of the type VT 798 (Uerdingen rail bus start) from the fifties and finish here their 8.9 km long ride on the steep route to Linz am Rhein.
  • Various hiking trails lead from Kalenborn to the “Erpeler Kirchspielwald”, which is a nature reserve because of the rich Ilex population, and to the nearby Asberg ( 430  m above sea  level ), where there is also a former basalt quarry. One of the two access routes to the Rheinsteig (yellow marking) leads along the route of the Kasbachtalbahn.

literature

  • Hans Heinrich Mohr: Kretzhaus. Reifstein. Vettelschoss , Bad Tölz 2006, pp. 151–192.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b H. H. Mohr: The Kalenborn Marienkirche was half a century old on August 17th, 2008 (PDF)
  2. Hans Heinrich Mohr: Vettelschoss and his problems a hundred years ago
  3. Hans Heinrich Mohr: 65 years ago - the war was over , 2010
  4. ^ District administration Neuwied, Lower Monument Protection Authority (ed.): H. Mattar & E. Scheler. Architects of the "Heimatstyle" and their buildings in Linz and Neuwied. Neuwied 2001, ISBN 3-920388-95-X , pp. 23/24.
  5. L 252 - Expansion in Kalenborn  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , LBM Cochem-Koblenz, August 29, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lbm.rlp.de  
  6. ^ The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population and division ... , Coblenz: Pauli, 1817; Page 88
  7. Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Hölscher, 1843, page 71
  8. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.), 1888, pp. 44 u. 45
  9. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality
  10. Catholic parish , local parish Vettelschoss
  11. ^ Parish St. Katharina and St. Michael , parish community Linz

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 57 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 55 ″  E