Kretzhaus

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Kretzhaus is a district of the city of Linz am Rhein in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied . A smaller part in the southeast of the village ("Oberkalenborn") belongs to the local community Vettelschoss .

geography

Kretzhaus is between 350 and 365  m above sea level. NHN on the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge ( Niederwesterwald ), below and northeast of the Meerberg ( 429  m above sea level ). It extends as a street village along the state road 253, which leads from Rottbitze via Kretzhaus down to Linz am Rhein; Landesstraße 254 (Kretzhaus - Ginsterhahn - Weissfeld), which begins here at the end of the village, opens up the ridge to the south. Immediately opposite is on the eastern side of the road to the local church Vettelschoß belonging Kalenborn with some commercial space, north borders that as living space for local community drake belonging Reif stone to. Kretzhaus is the highest district of the city of Linz on the Rhine and is located in the far north of the city area.

history

The place arose in connection with the plans for the construction of a road from Linz to Asbach and on to Altenkirchen, which were intensified around 1850 . At Kalenborn there was a crossing of the forest paths in the direction of Asbach or Linz and over the places of the so-called Linzer Höhe to the Wiedtal . The Kalenborn farmer Anton Kretz learned of the plans to expand the paths and from 1858 planned to build a tavern at the future transport point. After buying a corresponding piece of land in the east of the intersection in 1859, a two-room house was built there, in which initially only schnapps was served. The road was completed in the spring of 1862, the intersection was named "am Kretzenhaus" in 1868 at the latest.

The growing business led to the addition of a dance hall in 1871 and enabled Kretz to get into arable farming and milk production . In the following years, some quarries were opened in the surrounding towns (including on Willscheider Berg ) that relied on horse-drawn vehicles for transport. The stables required for this were built next to the inn, which also received new customers with the workers from the quarries. With the clearing of bushes and forest areas and the construction of further residential houses, a village was created at the latest by the beginning of the 20th century, which was named Kretzhaus in reference to the founder of the inn and was counted as part of Oberkalenborn on the Vettelschosser side . Settlement on the Linz side of the street began in 1895/96 and was continued in 1903 with the construction of company apartments for Basalt AG (Asbacher Straße 37).

In 1912 a railway line was built from Linz to Neustadt (Wied) and Seifen with a train station in the immediately adjacent Kalenborn, which was intended to transport basalt from the region's quarries. The main user of the route was Linzer Basalt AG , whose director had the so-called "Waldhof" (Kalenborner Straße 4) built in Oberkalenborn in 1916, which as an estate owned 25 acres of land. The company set up its sawmill in Kretzhaus in 1921 with around 20 employees. From 1922 to 1924, a fused basalt plant (now Kalenborn Kalprotect ) operated by Basalt AG together with a French company was built across the street in Kalenborn, and a villa (Asbacher Straße 65) was built for its director on the Linz street side according to plans by the architects Mattar & Scheler . In 1930/31 the newly founded German tar and asphalt gravel works from Cologne ( Deutag ; also "Rhein-Sieg-Mischwerke") saw the construction of a tar plant (1936: 30 employees), in 1945 a large carpenter's workshop started operations. At the end of the Second World War , Kretzhaus was in the front area between the Wehrmacht and American troops, and the road junction, which was important because of the nearby Ludendorff Bridge ("Bridge of Remagen"), was the scene of heavy fighting.

In March 1945 there were 19 residential buildings in Kretzhaus, four of which, in addition to the restaurant, were destroyed by war damage. The restaurant was rebuilt together with the construction of a gas station until 1952. Other businesses also settled in Kretzhaus, while the quarries that were gradually closed lost their importance as an economic factor. The sawmill was shut down in 1965 and demolished in 1974 because Basalt AG's wood requirements decreased or could be covered by external procurement; In 1980 the tar factory also ceased operations. The narrow-gauge network running through Kretzhaus , to which both the local companies and the Meerberg quarry were connected, was dismantled. At the beginning of the 1970s, Kretzhaus had around 150 inhabitants, at the census on May 25, 1987 just under 110. The most important facilities in the still commercial district are today a construction center, a retirement home (opened in 1994/95) and a road maintenance service .

Others

The town of Kretzhaus gained national fame in mid-2017 when the British resident Gary Blackburn bought a disused Centurion tank and exhibited it in his front yard. This action did not remain undisputed. Among other things, the transport of the tank from the nearby Peterslahr was accompanied in a television report.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia (PDF), Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus, 1888, p. 39.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ↑ Handbook of German Stock Companies , Volume 48, Part 4 , Special Archive of the German Economy, 1943, p. 3407.
  4. ^ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality
  5. ↑ Dispute in Kretzhaus - tanks in Linz front garden displease the neighborhood . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . August 14, 2017 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Steel Buddies: A tank for the garden . In: DMAX.de . ( dmax.de [accessed December 10, 2017]).

literature

  • Elli Lind: Foundation and history of Kretzhaus. In: Landkreis Neuwied (ed.): Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied , Neuwied 1972, pp. 64–67.
  • Hans Heinrich Mohr: Kretzhaus. Reifstein. Vettelschoß , Bad Tölz 2006, pp. 1–150.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 48 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 37 ″  E