Cold oak

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Cold oak
Cold ponds viewed from savages (June 2007); A windbreak according to Kyrill is clearly visible (January 2007)

Cold ponds viewed from savages (June 2007);
A windbreak according to Kyrill is clearly visible (January 2007)

height 579.9  m above sea level NHN
location near Wilgersdorf ; District of Siegen-Wittgenstein , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany )
Mountains Rothaar Mountains
Dominance 6.3 km →  Haincher Höhe
Notch height 73.7 m ↓  Saalgrube , southeast of Wilgersdorf (towards Haincher)
Coordinates 50 ° 48 '0 "  N , 8 ° 8' 9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '0 "  N , 8 ° 8' 9"  E
Cold oak (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Cold oak

The cold oak near Wilgersdorf in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) is 579.9  m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Rothaargebirge , and thus the highest elevation in the area of ​​the municipality of Wilnsdorf. The area is famous for the industrial area of ​​the same name, Kalteiche, which is located on the Haiger - and thus Hessian - side.

Places called Kalteiche

About 800 meters (m) southeast of the summit of the mountain "Kalteiche" borders the mountain ridge of the same name, "Kalteiche", which is on the border to the neighboring state of Hesse, is up to 562.9  m high on the "Hirschstein" and is part of the watershed between Lahn and victory is. The local natural area Kalteiche (with Haincher Höhe) , the "Staatswald Kalteiche", the commercial and industrial area "Haiger-Kalteiche" south of the mountain and the "Talbrücke Kalteiche", a 500 m long motorway bridge that runs there, are also named Bundesautobahn 45 ("Sauerlandlinie").

geography

location

The Kalteiche mountain is located in the southern part of the Rothaargebirge in the east of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in the vicinity of the Lahn-Dill district in Hesse . It rises nearly 12 kilometers (km) ( straight line ) southeast of Siegen between Wilgersdorf (North northeast; all NW ), Dill Brecht (east-northeast), Fellerdilln (east-southeast), Steinbach (southeast), Seelbach (south-southeast, and all HE ) Würgendorf (south ), Burbach and Gilsbach (south-west), Wilden (west-north-west) and Wilnsdorf (north-west; all northwest). Its peak rises around 750 m northwest of the Hessian border, and around 30 m west of it is a trigonometric point ( 579.3  m ). South of the summit, on the other side of federal highway 54, lies the Landeskroner Weiher , Wiebelhausen landscape protection area ( CDDA no. 322403), which was designated in 1991 and is 8 km² in size.

While the Westphalian parts of the Kalteiche mountain ridge belong to the Siegerland , its south and south-east flanks belong to the Hessian Lahn-Dill-Bergland nature reserve . On the mountain and ridge lies the “Kalteiche state forest”, which is around 283 hectares in size and at a height of around 430 to 579.9  m . The mountain ridge is joined to the northeast by the Haincher Höhe (up to 605.9  m ) and to the southwest by Die Höh (up to 597.4 m ) near Burbach, the latter being the link between the Rothaar Mountains  in the north and the Westerwald in the south.

Natural allocation

The Kalteiche belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33), in the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland ) (333) and in the subunit Dill-Lahn-Eder source area (333.0) to the natural area Kalteiche (with Haincher Höhe) (333.00) . The landscape drops to the north in the main unit Siegerland (331) and in the sub-unit North Siegerland Bergland (331.0) in the natural area Südliches Siegener Bergland (331.04).

Flowing waters

About 400 m north-northeast of the Kalteichegipfel lies the source of the Goldschmiedsborn and 1.2 km east that of the Weiß . The Steinbach rises 1.4 km south- east, the Wiebelhäuser Bach 650 m south-east , the Wildebach (Wildenbach) 1.2 km west-south-west and the Eisernbach ( Heckenbach ) 900 m west . In addition, the source of the Heller is located about 2.2 km south-southeast on Donnerhain .

history

Even around the birth of Christ , Celts lived in the forest by the Kalteiche. On October 15, 1344 the mountain is called "Kaltenaich bi Sigen".

At the time of the French Revolution (1792-1799) and the Revolutionary War (1792-1802) met on July 4, 1796 in the Battle of the Kalteiche French and Austrian troops at Wilnsdorf each other with the French under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Jourdan were . For the localities on the Kalteiche this brought considerable disadvantages because the citizens had to provide food for the troops. After the Battle of the Kalteiche there were hundreds of dead and wounded, who were taken care of and buried by the citizens of the nearby places. There was also looting by the troops. Even in later years, wars claimed great civil sacrifices.

Since the end of August 2009, three wind turbines have been rotating on the Kalteiche. Here during construction at the end of July 2009.

Ore has been dug on the slopes of the cold oaks since the 13th century. The Ratzenscheid mine (later the Landeskrone ) was first mentioned in a document in 1298. The frame quarries on the southern slope are mentioned as early as 1789. First it was extracted in opencast mining, later in tunnel construction. In 1881, 26 t of frame stones, 31 t of dome stones and 2 t of puddle furnace stones were broken from three tunnels. The stones extracted were used throughout the Siegerland. In 2006 the upper gallery was prepared, secured and provided with an information board and is now part of the Wilnsdorf hiking trail “Hiking on miners' paths”, on which you can walk past 14 testimonies of mining history on the Kalteiche. The Marie and Löwenstern mines on the southern slope extracted lead, copper and zinc ores between 1867 and 1918. The New Hope mine in the Wilgersdorf area was in operation between 1883 and 1913.

After the establishment of the German Customs Association in 1833/34 and its implementation in Siegerland on January 12, 1836, the building set up as a secondary customs office, located at today's B 54 and the junction to Wilgersdorf, became superfluous. From 1838 it was used as a forester's house, which burned down in 1968 and was never rebuilt. A large green area with old trees still reminds of the building today.

Between 1902 and 1921 there was a wooden observation tower on the Kalteiche.

On January 18 and 19, 2007, hurricane Kyrill also raged on the Kalteiche. A large spruce plantation was uprooted or snapped off, especially on the mountain top. The devastation is still visible years later. Most of the damage has been repaired and new trees are growing again.

From July 16, 2009, two wind turbines were set up on the western slope of the Kalteiche in Gilsbach. These were put into operation at the end of August and, with a total height of 150 m, each have an output of 2.5 megawatts. There have been three wind turbines on the mountain since 2011.

Cold oak industrial area

history

The industrial area Kalteiche is located on the Hessian side of the Kalteiche directly at the Haiger / Burbach motorway junction on the federal motorway 45 . The area has a gross area of ​​710,000 m² and is 60 hectares in 2011. In 2011 around 1000 people worked in the industrial area.

On May 24, 2011, the Haiger city council decided that the industrial area should be expanded by 17.9 hectares in order to enable further companies to settle in Haiger. The expansion is to take place in the direction of Bundesstrasse 54 and Haiger-Seelbach.

As part of construction work, scientists from the University of Münster researched the remains of a Celtic settlement in 2000 and found, among other things, stoves , witnesses and Iron Age settlements and burial mounds.

A third extension (Kalteiche III) was started in 2018. This means that the industrial area continues to grow towards the south. Five million euros are earmarked for the development of the area near the so-called "Shell Cross". Since the area is derogatory, terraces have to be created. The third section is about nine acres. The third construction phase is to be connected to the confluence area B 54 / B 277 with a roundabout.

Well-known companies in the industrial area on the Kalteiche include Siemag Tecberg and Ingersoll tools.

criticism

Before the development in 2000 there were citizens 'protests, especially in the villages of Haiger-Allendorf and Haiger-Seelbach, which led to the foundation of the citizens' initiative NLA (Naturally Living and Working). The party immediately made it into the Haiger city parliament. On June 16, 2010, the party disbanded. Many NLA politicians joined the Free Voters.

In the event of heavy rainfall, after the construction of the industrial area in the Kalteiche district, flooding increases. The residents of Burbach- Würgendorf also associate the increased flooding of the Heller with the industrial area. However, the city of Haiger has fulfilled all the requirements such as the construction of a retention basin.

Traffic and walking

Sections of the Bundesautobahn 45 (“Sauerlandlinie”) and Bundesstraße 54 run over the Kalteiche mountain ridge , the former leading to a maximum of 504  m and the latter to a maximum of 566.9  m . The state road  904 , which leads to Wilgersdorf , branches off about 800 m east-southeast before the highest point of the B 54 . The Rothaarsteig leads over the cold ponds and around the mountain the above-mentioned educational trail “Hiking on miners' paths ”.

Soccer

The youth teams of the south-west regional division TSV Steinbach Haiger play in the JSG Kalteiche. In the 2000s, the sports clubs from Allendorf, Haigerseelbach and Steinbach joined forces in the youth sector to form the youth game community JSG Kalteiche. On July 1, 2016, SV Rodenbach joined this gaming community as a geographical neighbor, which is now represented by these four clubs. In the 2018/2019 season, a total of 14 teams from A-Juniors to G-Juniors will be playing for the youth syndicate. There is also a girls' team (F juniors).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information )
  2. ↑ On maps of a coarser scale, the cold oak is given as 581.0 m. However, the German basemap from 2009 does not provide this. Also in the digital terrain model , no contour line above 579 m is displayed.
  3. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  4. ↑ Heinz Fischer: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 124 Siegen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1972. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
  5. ↑ Siegen Document Book Volume I, Siegen , 1887, p. 174, No. 285.
  6. ↑ a b Flyer hiking on Bergmann paths ( Memento of 25 April 2009 at the Internet Archive ) , on archive.org, from siegen-wittgenstein.de (PDF 3.02 MB)
  7. ^ A b Franz Dango: Wilnsdorf - history and landscape , Vorländer publishing house, Siegen 1955
  8. ^ Otto Arnold Photography 1927–1938, Siegerländer Landscapes , Verlag Arnold, Siegen 1986, p. 53
  9. ^ Elmar Schneider: 800 years of Wilnsdorf 1185-1985 , self-published, Wilnsdorf 1985
  10. ↑ Article steel against a blue sky in the Siegener Zeitung from July 17, 2009 (local section, page 5)
  11. ↑ Kalteiche Technology Park: Overview, data and facts ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on kalteiche.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kalteiche.com
  12. ↑ a b c The cold oak continues to grow. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 5, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.mittelhessen.de , on Mittelhessen.de
  13. ↑ Haiger excavation project "Kalteiche" , on uni-muenster.de
  14. ↑ https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/region-dillenburg_artikel,-%E2%80%9EKalteiche-III%E2%80%9C-ist-in-vollem-Gange-_arid,1328798.html
  15. ↑ https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/region-dillenburg_artikel,-Neuer-Kreisel-auf-der-Kalteiche-_arid,1069435.html
  16. ↑ NLA has disbanded. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 5, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.mittelhessen.de , accessed on April 29, 2012, from Mittelhessen.de
  17. ↑ Article Haiger: Heavy rain puts cold ponds under water. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 5, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / m.mittelhessen.de , from September 1, 2012, on Mittelhessen.de
  18. ^ Article Fear of the flood ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), from on siegener-zeitung.de, from 2009
  19. ↑ http://www.jsg-kalteiche.de/index.php/informationen/traegervereine
  20. ↑ http://www.jsg-kalteiche.de/index.php/manschaften