Kreuznaaf

Kreuznaaf is a hamlet that belongs to the town of Lohmar in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Kreuznaaf is in the east of Lohmar. Surrounding villages are Peisel in the north, Hausen and Röttgen in the northeast, Wahlen in the east, Grimberg in the southeast, Naaferberg in the south, Ungertz and Besenbroich in the southwest, Wielpütz in the west, Reelsiefen and Höngesberg in the northwest.

The Naafbach , an orographically left tributary of the Agger , flows through Kreuznaaf. The Agger flows past Kreuznaaf in the northwest and west.

history

In 1885 Kreuznaaf had 28 residents who lived in seven houses.

From 1870 to 1875 a mill was built in Kreuznaaf, which was driven with dammed Naafbach water. The wheat and rye flour produced was processed in an additional bakery from 1920. The products were sold under the name "Aggertaler Brot". In 1972 the mill and a little later the bakery ceased operations.

From the 1930s, buildings were erected on the hillside above Kreuznaaf, which originally served for the production of a leather goods factory, later also as a training center for the Ford works and asylum seekers' accommodation. The building complex is also known as "Castell Steineck".

Until 1969, Kreuznaaf belonged to the previously independent municipality of Wahlscheid .

Cultural monuments

• "Landhaus Kreuznaaf" (Kreuznaaf 2a)

traffic

• Kreuznaaf is located directly on federal road 484 and district road 34.
• The nearest train station for Kreuznaaf is in Lohmar- Honrath near Jexmühle .
• The bus route 557 connects the place with Siegburg and Overath . Kreuznaaf belongs to the tariff area of ​​the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS).
• The shared call taxi (AST) supplements the connection to local public transport ( ÖPNV ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Topographic map 1: 25000
2. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland (PDF; 1.4 MB), Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus, 1888, page 120
3. ↑ Traffic and Beautification Association Wahlscheid - Lohmar hiking route. (PDF; 202 kB) Retrieved September 29, 2010 . 
4. ↑ 'Castell Steineck' in Kreuznaaf: successful auction. In: lohmar.info. March 7, 2013, accessed April 15, 2020 . 
5. ↑ List of monuments. (PDF) Stadt Lohmar, p. 9 , accessed on April 16, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '  N , 7 ° 15'  E