Kreuztal

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Kreuztal
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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '  N , 7 ° 59'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Arnsberg
Circle : Siegen-Wittgenstein
Height : 287 m above sea level NHN
Area : 71.07 km 2
Residents: 31,122 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 438 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 57223
Area code : 02732
License plate : SI, BLB
Community key : 05 9 70 024
LOCODE : DE KRL
City structure: 13 districts

City administration address : 		Siegener Str. 5
57223 Kreuztal
Website : www.kreuztal.de
Mayor : Walter Kiss ( SPD )
Location of the city of Kreuztal in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district
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Kreuztal [ 'kʀɔɪ̯ʦ.taːl ] is a town in the administrative district of Arnsberg , North Rhine-Westphalia , Federal Republic of Germany , and belongs to the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein .

geography

Geographical location

Kreuztal is a town in Westphalia in the low mountain range of the northern Siegerland and lies on the western edge of the Rothaargebirge .

The city area is traversed by the Ferndorfbach (called: Ferndorf) coming from the east . In the city center (the youngest place of the city, which was newly founded in 1969 on the drawing board and for the most part from the former " Amt Ferndorf "), it then swings south and leaves the city area in the Buschhütten district .

The Littfe rises in the north of the urban area . It flows through the districts of Burgholdinghausen , Littfeld , Krombach , Eichen , and Fellinghausen , before flowing into the Ferndorfbach in the city center. Other tributaries of the Littfe are the Langebach , Heimkäuser Bach (Heimkause), Breitenbach , Krombach , Stendenbach and Bockenbach .

The Heesbach rises in the west of the city . It flows through the districts of Oberhees, Mittelhees, Junkernhees and Fellinghausen and flows into the Littfe at / under the pedestrian bridge over B 54n ( Hüttentalstrasse ) and the Siegen - Hagen railway line ( Ruhr-Sieg route ). A tributary of the Hees is the Ostheldener Bach , which feeds the Robertsweiher . The Berghäuser Bach, which flows through the Berghäuser Weiher , flows into the Ostheldener Bach below the Robertsweiher .

The valleys of the upper Ferndorf coming from the east (northeast), the Littfe coming from the north (northwest), the Heesbach coming from the west (southwest) and the remote village flowing south (southeast) form the eponymous "Kreuztal".

geology

The urban area is part of the Rhenish Slate Mountains . The southernmost district of Buschhütten merges into the breakthrough valley of the Sieg, which adjoins it to the south . While the subsoil is criss-crossed by numerous iron-bearing rock layers, the surface is characterized by loamy-sandy weathered soils.

Expansion of the urban area

The urban area extends over an area of ​​70.96 km². This is structured as follows:

  • 60.02% forest area
  • 14.9% agricultural area
  • 14.8% buildings and courtyards
  • 07.2% traffic areas
  • 03.1% other areas

The highest point in the city is the "Hohe Wald" in Burgholdinghausen at 655  m above sea level. NN , the lowest point is in bush huts. There the Ferndorfbach leaves at an altitude of 260  m above sea level. NN the urban area. The north-south extension is 12 km, the east-west extension 11 kilometers.

Neighboring cities and towns

The city is located in the northwest of the district and borders the district town of Siegen in the south, Freudenberg (Siegerland) and Wenden (Sauerland) in the west, Kirchhundem and Olpe in the north and Hilchenbach and Netphen in the east . The city is shaped by the valleys of the Ferndorfbach , Littfe and Hees rivers , which together form a cross-shaped valley.

The highest point in the city is the Hoher Wald mountain at 655  m above sea level. NN . However, the mountain summit is not accessible because it belongs to the Bundeswehr. Other mountains are:

  • the Kindelsberg 617.9  m above sea level NN (landmark of the city),
  • the Martinshardt 616.1  m above sea level. NN ,
  • the black grouse 604.5  m above sea level NN ,
  • the goat mountain 521  m above sea level. NN ,
  • the Wilder Stein 478.9  m above sea level NN ,
  • the Rodenull 436  m above sea level. NN ,
  • the head 407.4  m above sea level NN ,
  • the Pfaffenberg 398.7  m above sea level. NN ,
  • the Buberg which Pühlsberg , the Crow Mountain , the old rooster , the Löherhauberg which Höhberg which Rohberg , the Wolf Hagen , the Mühlberg , the mill head , the Kilgeshahn , the winner Berg , of Kohlberg , who Hohlestein which Dudeltätsch and Heidlofsberg .

City structure

Kreuztaler districts

The city is divided into the districts of Burgholdinghausen , Littfeld , Krombach , Bockenbach , Eichen and Stendenbach in the north, Kreuztal in the center, Osthelden , Oberhees , Mittelhees , Junkernhees and Fellinghausen in the west, Ferndorf and Kredenbach in the east and Buschhütten in the south.

history

The city of Kreuztal in its current form is a result of the municipal reorganization of January 1, 1969. It was created through the merger of the municipalities of Burgholdinghausen , Buschhütten , Eichen (with the current districts of Stendenbach and Bockenbach ), Fellinghausen , Ferndorf , Kredenbach (but without the Neulohe district ), Kreuztal (the Kreuztal district with the Ernsdorf district ), Krombach , Littfeld and Osthelden (with the associated Junkernhees ) as well as the municipalities of Oberhees and Mittelhees, which formerly belonged to the Freudenberg district, and also a small section of the Dahlbruch municipality . At the time, however, this merger did not take place without protests, as some citizens asked themselves how the new community would develop.

The municipality of Buchen, which previously belonged to the Ferndorf district, was later the district town of Siegen, the Kredenbacher Flur Lohe z. T. Hilchenbach slammed.

The first documentary mentions go back to 1067. There you will find the village of “Berentraph”, which later became the Ferndorf district. It is one of the oldest named places in the Siegerland . Ferndorf was the namesake of the Ferndorf district administration until the city was founded .

The district of Ernsdorf was first mentioned in documents as "Erinstorff" in 1417/19. Ernsdorf was also the seat of the mayor at the time of the Rhine Confederation .

The current name of the city appears in 1826 as "Creuzthal" in the baptismal register of the municipality of Ferndorf.

In the 17th / 18th In the 19th century, today's district of Littfeld, with 60 houses, is one of the most populous places in the Siegerland .

From a tavern with a house brewery around 1800, a brewery emerged in today's Krombach district , which remained in the possession of the Haas family until 1896. In 1922 Bernhard Schadeberg took over the Hasbrauerei , later it was renamed the Krombacher Brewery ; The Schadeberg family has been co-owners of the brewery since then .

In the cooperative tradition of iron and steel works, a crude steel warehouse was built in Krombach in 1831, to which the first savings bank in Siegerland was attached.

The construction of the railway was an initial spark for the place. In 1861 the Ruhr-Sieg route was opened. In 1865, the office decided that the office building against the protests of the representatives from Ferndorf , Kredenbach and Buchen should not be built in Ferndorf, but near the Kreuztal train station . In 1867, the Cöln-Müsener Bergwerks-Actien-Verein in Langenau put the Kreuztaler Hütte into operation, which in 1917 reached an annual production of 130,000 tons of pig iron. Kreuztal became a railway junction from 1880 onwards. By 1888, the branch line in the direction of Erndtebrück - Bad Laasphe - Marburg ( Kreuztal – Cölbe railway ) was built in stages . The first section Kreuztal-Hilchenbach was opened on March 1, 1884. The construction of a route from Kreuztal - Olpe - Meinerzhagen was also planned, but this was only partially implemented as far as Krummenerl .

The Eichener Brewery was founded in 1888 as a family business and in the past was always closely linked to the Eichener rolling mill.

On March 17, 1928, the community of Ernsdorf was renamed Kreuztal .

In 1951 Siebau , a SAG subsidiary at the time, began manufacturing hall structures, and in 1959 the company began manufacturing garage doors.

Building development in the urban area

  • 1960: Inauguration of the Otto-Flick-Halle , a multi-purpose hall for sports and events
  • 1963: Inauguration of the Evangelical Kreuzkirche
  • 1963: Construction of the Protestant hospital in Kredenbach
  • 1968: Start of construction work on the Fritz-Erler-Siedlung residential area
  • 1973: Inauguration of a senior center in the city center
  • 1977: Kreuztal has a modern shopping center
  • 1991: Underground car park in the center with 87 parking spaces (cost volume 1.4 million euros)
  • 1992: City hall extension and addition (1.6 million euros)
  • 2007: Conversion of the station building into a cultural station (2.1 million euros)
  • 2015: Completion of the renovation and relocation of the library

Population development

date Residents
Dec 31, 1962 25,791
Dec 31, 1965 27,031
Dec. 31, 1970 28,952
Dec. 31, 1975 30,473
Dec 31, 1980 30,219
Dec. 31, 1985 29,012
Dec 31, 1990 30,885
Dec 31, 1995 32,243
Dec. 31, 2000 32,099
date Residents
Dec 31, 2001 32,127
Dec 31, 2002 31,970
Dec 31, 2003 31,864
Dec 31, 2004 32 042
Dec 31, 2005 31,939
Dec 31, 2006 31,771
Dec 31, 2007 31,661
Dec 31, 2008 31,300
Dec 31, 2009 31,081
date Residents
Dec 31, 2010 30,995
Dec 31, 2011 30,792
Dec 31, 2012 30,827
Dec 31, 2013 30,899
Dec 31, 2014 31,067
Dec 31, 2015 31,500
December 31, 2016 31,082
December 31, 2017 31,017
 
The data prior to 1977 have been converted to the territorial status of July 1, 1976. Source: State database NRW

Honorary Citizen Friedrich Flick

An article in the news magazine Der Spiegel , which spoke of Kreuztal as the “bought city”, caused a stir in the 1980s . The industrialist Friedrich Flick had supported the NSDAP with donations since 1932 , then joined it and since 1934/35 a member of the Friends of the Reichsführer SS . He became one of the largest arms producers and profiteers. He acquired Jewish companies on a large scale through aryanization and employed forced labor "on a gigantic scale" . In the Nuremberg case V , the " Flick Trial " named after him (with, among other things, another Kreuztaler and a Dahlbruch entrepreneur in the dock), he was assigned to the SS in 1947 for slave labor, deportation to slave labor, looting of the occupied territories and participation in crimes Sentenced to seven years in prison. In 1950 he was released by the US High Commissioner McCloy as part of a general reduction in prison term for particularly accused Nazi criminals. He has always refused to admit moral or political guilt or even just "involvement" in the National Socialist crimes.

In 1954 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Kreuztal with the votes of the CDU, SPD and the Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised (BHE). In addition, the municipal high school founded in the 1970s was named after him until 2008 ("Friedrich-Flick-Gymnasium", FFG for short), for which he donated three million  DM through a foundation that had to be spent through purchases in his companies.

The name given generated constant criticism on the particular biographical background of Friedrich Flick, which grew into intensive discussions at regular intervals and found resonance far beyond the city limits. Authors such as Lea Rosh and Bernt Engelmann took part. Most of the teachers teaching at the school were silent or, like the school management, explicitly refused to change their name. A majority in the council made up of the CDU, FDP and representatives of the SPD (29:16) rejected an especially extra-parliamentary request and an application by the Greens to be renamed " Janusz Korczak School" in 1989 . During a visit by Ignaz Bubis in 1994, he said that Flick had tried to use his money to clear his name. It would never be possible for him, Bubis, to send his daughter to a school named after Friedrich Flick . A report on Flick's role in the cultural life of the city of Kreuztal was awarded the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism in the young talent category in 2005. The discussion did not flare up again until 2007/2008. Former schoolchildren brought a new impetus to their critical review and founded an initiative “Flick is not a role model”, which was also reported by the national media.

After months of discussion, the Council of the City of Kreuztal decided on November 6, 2008 to rename the grammar school " Städtisches Gymnasium Kreuztal " .

politics

Local election 2014
Turnout: 51.6% (2009: 53.5%)
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town hall

City council

After the past three local elections, the city council is composed as follows:

SPD CDU GREEN FDP UWG total
2014 19th 11 4th 2 2 38
2009 16 12 5 3 2 38
2004 14th 16 3 2 3 38

mayor

coat of arms

DEU Kreuztal COA.svg

Blazon : Divided by gold and blue; above a horizontal blue hip horn with a mouthpiece and strap on the left, below a golden collar.

The city's coat of arms is divided into two areas. In the upper area is the old city coat of arms of the community Kreuztal- Ferndorf , a Hifthorn. It is also the symbol of the Princely House of Nassau-Orange and thus a reference to the city's past. The lower part is the stylized shape of the city, a crossing valley. Gold (orange) is the color of Orange, blue that of the former Principality of Nassau.

Town twinning

Sister cities have been the city of Nauen in Brandenburg since 1991 and the municipality of Ferndorf in Carinthia / Austria since 1967 . Friendly relations have been maintained with the city of Skoczów in Poland since 2003.

Culture and sights

City Hall

theatre

In the town hall, which was built in 1989/90 and located in the school center, a wide-ranging and varied cultural program is offered. In addition, events such as B. Theater performances, schools take place there.

Museums

The local history museum is located in the Ferndorf district. Finds from prehistory and early history, as well as products of local handicrafts and evidence of domestic culture from the 17th and 18th centuries are exhibited here on an area of ​​around 200 m².

Buildings / monuments

Kulturbahnhof

After the city of Kreuztal had acquired the train station in Kreuztal from the Deutsche Bahn, they converted it into a so-called " culture station ". The building now has studios for the artists Annette Besgen and Ulrich Langenbach as well as an exhibition area.

Kindelsberg Tower

Kindelsberg Tower

On the second highest mountain in the city area is enthroned at 617.9  m above sea level. NN the 22 m high Kindelsberg tower . It was built in 1907 by the Sauerland Mountain Association (SGV) and has undergone further modifications over the course of its history. From there you have a view over the city area and in good weather conditions you can see as far as the Siebengebirge near Bonn .

Junkernhees Castle

Junkernhees Castle

The Junkernhees Castle , a Renaissance gem of the Siegerland, is one of the most important secular architectural monuments in the Siegerland and was originally built in 1523 by the knight Adam von der Hees as a moated castle. In 1698 a half-timbered gable was added and the round tower was reconstructed in 1999. The former brandy distillery and the former mill from 1796 have been preserved as ancillary buildings.

Ferndorf Evangelical Church

Ev. Ferndorf Church

The St. Laurentius Church was built in the first half of the 13th century. It is a late Romanesque Westphalian three-aisled hall building with a west tower and a three-bay nave. The choir was replaced in 1887 by a new building with a transept (two bays). Inside there is a grave epitaph (Renaissance, cast iron) with an inscription and the year 1559 by the knight Velten von der Hees.

Evangelical Church Krombach

Ev. Krombach Church

The church was built around 1250 as St. Ludgerus. It is a simple late Romanesque hall construction with a strong west tower. The main choir is single-bay with a semicircular apse, the nave is two-and-a-half bay. Heavy square pillars in the central nave support domed ridge vaults between pointed arched belts. The pulpit with carved panels dates from 1764 and the altar table from 1781. The current tower with the so-called "Welschen Dome" was built in 1706 after its predecessor was destroyed by a lightning strike. In the tower of the Krombacher church there are three bells, the Katharinen- or midday bell (approx. 13th century), the storm bell donated by Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen (17th century) and the death bell , which had to be replaced in the 19th century .

Dreslers Park

Yellow villa in Dreslers Park
White Villa in Dreslers Park

The park area, named after the “Dresler” family of manufacturers, now houses the citizen and cultural center with the city archive. The buildings "Yellow Villa" - a residential villa in the style of a Florentine Renaissance palazzo  -, "White Villa" - a historicist plastered brick building with unique equipment details - as well as "Wagenremise" (now a day care center), "Kutscherhaus" (today a restaurant), "Bandstand" and "Garden shed" were built between 1860 and 1880. The Kreuztaler Christmas market has been taking place here since 2011 under the motto "Lights in the Park". The light effects of various elements of the park using modern technology, but also with open fireplaces, convey a romantic Advent atmosphere to the visitor, which invites you to linger and inspires to be amazed.

Altenberg

On the Altenberg between the Littfeld district and the Hilchenbach district of Müsen, there are settlement, mining and smelting remains from the 13th century ( Altenberg mining desert ). A signposted circular hiking trail leads through this former mining settlement . Finds are exhibited in the mining museum in Hilchenbach-Müsen.

Wind turbine "Eternal Carter"

The “Eternal Fuhrmann” is one of the highest wind turbines in the world at around 150 m high. The rotor has a diameter of around 66 m. The tower is made of steel framework and weighs about 145 tons. The machine house alone has a total weight of 63 tons.

Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Erbstollen

The former entrance area of ​​the Kronprinz-Friedrich-Wilhelm-Erbstollen can be seen in the city center. The tunnel was driven from 1826 to 1876 in order to shorten the entry into the Müsener Revier for the miners and, in conjunction with the Stahlberger Erbstollen, established a 5145 m long underground connection between Ernsdorf and Müsen . From the end of the ore mining in Müsen in 1931, it served as a water supply for the Kreuztal community until 1956. During World War II , it provided protection for the population during air raids. Opposite is the so-called tunnel house, built around 1865 and used as a “prayer house”, which today houses a branch of the city administration.

Hambloch inn

The former Gasthof Hambloch is located in the Krombach district and can look back on several hundred years of tradition. It used to be used as a harnessing station for the horse-drawn vehicles that determined long-distance trade from Frankfurt am Main to Soest and from Wipperfürth to the Netherlands . Today there is an inn in the building.

In addition to these exemplary structures, many traces of human life and work are hidden in the ground. The 16 permanent ground monuments in Kreuztal, which are entered in the list of monuments, are often barely visible to the unaided eye. These are usually placed under protection at the instigation of the Westphalian Museum of Archeology.

So z. B. the "Schlag am Heerweg" in the district of Hees. He was part of the outer "Siegener Landwehr". These are ramparts that delimit a country. They were used from the 14th to the 17th centuries. The entrenchment of the "blow" consists of several earth walls, which can still be seen in the terrain.

Agriculture

Historic Hauberg

The historic Hauberg in Fellinghausen shows the form of traditional forest use in the Siegerland . In the project, the forest cooperative has committed itself to continuing an area of ​​around 24 hectares from its forest ownership in the old form of forest management (historical Hauberg use) in order to make a contribution to maintaining tradition. Regular tours for school classes, clubs or private groups are organized by the Fellinghausen Forest Cooperative in cooperation with the Hilchenbach Forestry Office.

Natural monuments

Sports

Kreuztal is characterized by a particularly wide-ranging sporting club life. Almost every sport is offered in the 52 clubs organized in the State Sports Federation. There are the following municipal sports and leisure facilities: 5 multi-purpose halls, 12 sports halls (including a triple hall with 700 grandstand seats), 7 sports fields, 5 outdoor pools (including 1 warm water outdoor pool), 35 playgrounds and 19 football fields. There are also other facilities owned by the club, including an equestrian center. There is an 18-hole golf course in the Heestal.

Regular sports events

  • On the first Sunday in May: Triathlon of TV Germania Buschhütten 1885. Meanwhile, the Triathlon is one of the most important in Germany.
  • Mid May: Open table tennis city ​​championships of the city of Kreuztal, hosted by TuS Ferndorf . National open tournament for 14 years (as of 2016)
  • Beginning of September: TV Eichen's Kindelsberglauf . The run belongs to the Rothaar run series.

Religions

Denomination statistics

In Kreuztal (as of December 31, 2018) a total of 14,564 (47.0%) people are Protestant and 5,268 (17.0%) Roman Catholic people . 11,103 (36.0%) people stated a different creed or were non-denominational . 10 years before:

  • 56.7% Evangelical
  • 18.1% Catholic
  • 25.2% others
(As of June 30, 2008)
St. John's Church

Protestant church

The parishes Buschhütten, Ferndorf / Kredenbach, Kreuztal and Eichen / Krombach / Littfeld exist in the area of ​​the city of Kreuztal. Together with the parishes from Müsen and Hilchenbach, they form "Region 7" in the Evangelical Church District Siegen with a total of twelve parish offices. There are important churches in Krombach and Ferndorf.

Catholic Church

A Catholic parish has existed in Kreuztal since 1877 . A little later, in 1880 , this community acquired a piece of land on Dörnberg near the train station, and in 1887 a Catholic school was founded. At the beginning of the 20th century, the foundation stone was laid in 1904 and the consecration of St. John's Church in the following year . After the First World War, the parish of St. Johannes became independent in 1920 . There is also another municipality for the districts of Krombach, Littfeld and Eichen.

Islamic community

In Kreuztal there is a "Fatih Mosque", set up in the former main building of the Deutsche Post.

Other religious communities

Economy and Infrastructure

Kreuztal cultural station

traffic

The urban area is crossed by the B 54 in a north-south direction . It has been developed as a city ​​motorway and bears the name Hüttentalstrasse . It connects the city in a southerly direction to the Siegen regional center and the A 45 . On June 23, 2006, the extension of the B 54 to Krombacher Höhe north of the Krombach district was opened to traffic. From there, on December 1, 2006, a connection was made via the A4 to the Olpe-Süd motorway junction.

In an easterly direction, the B 508 in the direction of Hilchenbach and the B 517 in the direction of Kirchhundem and Lennestadt .

The railways run parallel to the federal highways. The Ruhr-Sieg route runs in north-south direction, and in west-east direction the Kreuztal – Cölbe railway line runs through Wittgensteiner Land towards Marburg. There are six train stations or railway stops in the city area (as of 2003). The central train station is in the Kreuztal district. There are stops in Littfeld, Eichen , Ferndorf and Kredenbach. The train station in the Hilchenbach district of Dahlbruch is also located in the urban area of ​​Kreuztal. There is also the only marshalling yard ( Kreuztal Güterbahnhof ) in South Westphalia . Connected to the Kreuztal marshalling yard is the only container terminal in the region. This is located in the district of Langenau and, after giving up its supra-regional functions, serves the regional freight traffic of the Sauerland and Siegerland . Freight trains run from and to Kreuztal Gbf via the national marshalling yard Hagen-Vorhalle to all destinations that can be reached by rail.

Up to May 29, 1952, trams of the Siegen line 1 of Siegener Kreisbahn GmbH also ran in the city . This is also the owner of the industrial trunk line Kreuztal - Buschhütten, which runs parallel to the Ferndorfbach on the west side of the valley.

The city is connected to the surrounding cities by numerous regional bus routes. The first citizens' bus in South Westphalia has been running in Kreuztal since 1998 . The fare of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen-Süd applies on regional trains and buses .

Kreuztal can be reached from the air via Siegerland Airport in the south of the district.

Established businesses

education

Clara Schumann Comprehensive School

Libraries and Archives

The city archive is located in the Yellow Villa in Dreslers Park. The library, which used to be there, moved in February 2015 to a newly designed building on “Red Square”.

Other educational institutions

  • The Kreuztal Music School has existed since 1980 and offers a wide range of courses.
  • The community college of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district has a branch in Kreuztal.
  • The Kreuztal municipal high school , the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Realschule , which was handed over on May 25, 1965, and the Clara-Schumann comprehensive school are located in the Kreuztaler school center . Connected to the school center are a town hall , the Stählerwiese stadium with natural grass and a triple and a double gym .

schools

The city of Kreuztal currently operates five secondary schools, including an integrated comprehensive school, a special needs school and eight primary schools. The current eight primary schools include six community primary schools and two denominational schools.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Personalities born in Kreuztal

Personalities who lived or worked in Kreuztal

literature

  • Mues, Willi: The big cauldron. A documentary about the end of the Second World War between Lippe and Ruhr / Sieg and Lenne . Erwitte 1984.
  • Schneider, Peter: Spies in the Sky, Allied aerial reconnaissance in the Wittgenstein area during and after the Second World War. ISBN 3-87816-092-5 , Erndtebrück 1996.

Web links

Commons : Kreuztal  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Kreuztal  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 71 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e City of Kreuztal - Walk through space and time; Verlag Vorländer 2001; ISBN 3-00-008764-8
  4. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 254 .
  5. ↑ State database NRW: Population status Kreuztal, city
  6. ^ Indictment of the Nuremberg Trials of March 15, 1947, cited above. to: Frei, Ahrens, Osterloh, Schanetzky : Flick. Munich 2009, p. 414
  7. ↑ Last website of the "Friedrich-Flick-Gymnasium" available in the Internet Archive , Friedrich-Flick-Gymnasium Kreuztal ( memento of October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), October 9, 2007.
  8. ↑ See report by Deutschlandradios , broadcast country report , April 21, 2008.
  9. ↑ Ignaz Bubis (interview). In: Thilo Schmidt: The Flick, Money and School. (MP3; 6.0 MB) On: thiloschmidt.de, accessed on November 6, 2008.
  10. ↑ Flick is not a role model. Initiative to rename the Friedrich-Flick-Gymnasium .
  11. ↑ E.g. Nils Klawitter: The great forgetting ( Memento from September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in the one day section on Spiegel-Online.
  12. ↑ Boris Schopper: Out for Flick-Gymnasium. . Retrieved November 6, 2008.
  13. ^ The State Returning Officer NRW, municipal elections 2014, final result for Kreuztal
  14. ↑ Lights in the Park ( Memento from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Kreuztal in facts and figures , accessed on December 21, 2019
  16. ↑ On the history of the parish of St. John Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 October 13, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.st-johannes-kreuztal.de
  17. ↑ Turkish state religious authority DITIB: Mosques in Germany - places with the first letter K
  18. ^ "Scrolled back ...", Siegener Zeitung of May 28, 2011
  19. ^ Report derwesten.de, viewed September 29, 2014
  20. ↑ http://www.ferndorf.de/nachrichten.php?id=3 , News from Ferndorf, accessed on March 13, 2015
  21. ^ "Scrolled back ...", Siegener Zeitung of January 29, 2011
  22. ↑ The family's obituary in the Siegener newspaper from November 11, 2016
  23. ^ Obituary from the city of Kreuztal in the Siegener newspaper from November 11, 2016
  24. ↑ "Honoring the city for a world champion in kickboxing" on www.sauerlandkurier.de from November 11, 2007 ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 15, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sauerlandkurier.de