List of architectural monuments in Kreuztal

Urban area of ​​Kreuztal with districts

The following list of architectural monuments in Kreuztal contains all the monuments of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Kreuztal and its districts. The basis is the list of monuments of the city of Kreuztal. The monuments were entered in this list in coordination with the Westphalian Office for the Preservation of Monuments .

historical development

The town of Kreuztal was created on January 1st, 1969 as part of the local reorganization through the voluntary merger of the four communities in the central Ferndorf valley, Kredenbach, Ferndorf, Kreuztal and Buschhütten, the four communities of the Littfetal - Burgholdinghausen, Littfeld, Krombach and Eichen with Bockenbach and Stendenbach - as well as the four Heestal communities Oberhees, Mittelhees, Osthelden and Fellinghausen. These communities have always been historically and economically linked.

The earliest documented mention is in the year 1067 as "Berentraph", today's remote village, which was the namesake of the official administration at that time before becoming a town . The center of today's city was first referred to in 1826 in the baptismal register of the parish Ferndorf as "Kreuzthal".

Ore mining and iron smelting played an important role in the growth and development of the originally rural villages in the region. Mining reached its heyday in the 17th and 18th centuries, until it was completely extinguished when the last mine was closed in 1927.

Today's monuments

The North Rhine-Westphalian Monument Protection Act defines monuments as follows: Monuments are objects, majorities of objects or parts of objects, in the preservation and use of which there is a public interest. There is a public interest if the things are significant for human history, for cities and settlements or for the development of working and production conditions and if there are artistic, scientific, ethnological or urban planning reasons for their preservation and use.

This definition is the basis for the entry of the objects in the list of monuments of a city or municipality. Not all meanings and not all reasons are required for entry. It is sufficient if there is a meaning and a reason for each. It is also important to explain the meaning and the reason for the designation as a monument.

A distinction is made between architectural and ground monuments, whereby an architectural monument can also be a ground monument and vice versa.

The memorial contains a wide range of information about the time of its creation and all the periods it has passed through that cannot be obtained from other sources.

The monument value is not evident from the material of the object alone. Every monument therefore requires an interpretation that is elaborated using means and methods from the field of historical studies with the help of architectural and art history, folklore, archeology, paleontology, economic and social history, political history, the history of religion, etc.

Because the historical information is tied to the inherited monument substance, it is also important to evaluate the extent to which the monument z. B. certain materials, execution techniques, color schemes, room arrangements, facade designs and the ground monument z. B. Object and relief design as well as the environment contribute to the importance of the monument. For this, all knowledge about the objects must be collected and analyzed.

In close coordination with all the departments involved, a total of 161 architectural monuments and 17 permanent ground monuments in Kreuztal have been entered in the list of monuments after prior consultation.

Numerous half-timbered houses in typical Siegerland construction from the 18th and 19th centuries and some plaster and brick buildings from the current century have been included in the list of monuments as witnesses of earlier architecture and way of life.

However, history has not only left behind buildings that are visible, understandable and tangible “above ground”. Far more traces of human life and work are hidden in the ground: the 17 permanent ground monuments entered in the list of monuments are often barely visible to the layman with the naked eye. The unique Altenberg mining desert from the 12th century is particularly important here .

Burgholdinghausen

designation	description	photo
Sheepfold	The currently unused building is located above the old castle to the northeast of the forester's house in Burgholdinghausen . It is a lengthways, rectangular, vaulted room with curved window openings, built from rubble. The flat sloping gable roof is a repair measure of the late 19th century or early 20th century, following the simple design of the half-timbered gable. The interior of the building is provided with a wide barrel vault carefully made of rubble stone , which points to a construction between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Jewish Cemetery	The "Jewish cemetery" is the oldest of four in the old district of Siegen . According to an excerpt from the documentation "The Jewish cemeteries in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district" by Dietermann , Morgenstern-Wulff and Röcher from 1991, Benjamin Moses laid out the cemetery at Burberg in Burgholdinghausen in 1804 in an almost square design to bury his wife there. There are still two double and four single graves in the cemetery today.
House at Müsener Strasse 60	The building used today as a residential building is the former administration building of the former “ New Victoria mine ”, popularly known as “Holthaus'sches Grubenhaus ”, built in 1905. One and a half story slate-roofed half-timbered house under a half-hip roof.
Oral hole of the Tiefen Altenberger adit	The "deep Altenberger tunnel" is part of the Altenberg mine , which was built from 1571 to 1579. In the area of ​​Altenberg mining was already practiced in the 13th century . During this time the tunnel reached a length of approx. 400 m. The Altenberg mine ceased operations six years after the end of construction. In 1751, the deep Altenberger tunnel was cleared up again by a newly founded union.

Bush huts

designation	description	photo
Hofgut Langenau	The first mention of the Langenau estate as an aristocratic residence dates back to 1340. In 1452 the court master Ewert von Wischel and Daem von Seelbach-Lohe received permission from Count Johann IV von Nassau to build an ironworks , which, as the “Buschhüttener Eisenhammer”, decisively determined the development of the region. In 1746 the Prince of Orange-Nassau acquired the estate and sold it to the tax authorities in 1749. From 1764 it served as u. a. Gathering place of the Mennonite denomination . Johannes Heinemann , who converted to the Mennonite faith by marrying in 1771, was the founder of the Heinemann family dynasty, which lived and managed the Langenau estate for almost 200 years, which is why we still speak of "Heinemann's corner" today. In 1966 it became the property of Dr. Barten, owner of the company Achenbach and Sons, Buschhütten, about.
Equestrian signal box Kf	The signal box "Kf" (Kreuztal dispatcher) is located on the Ruhr-Sieg route in the Altena - Siegen section , which was opened in 1861. Commissioned on October 14, 1923 as an electromechanical command and dispatcher interlocking, it served as a replacement for an older mechanical interlocking. It was built as a bridge-like equestrian signal box in a conventional design.
House at Siegener Strasse 156	It is a former residential and commercial building ( butcher's shop ) in the form of Art Nouveau . The two-storey, massive plastered building under a slate-thatched half-hip roof was erected in 1910. On the ground floor behind an original shop entrance door is the historic sales room (without interior design) with two shop windows, which was used until 1996. There is currently a kebab snack in this house.

Oak trees

designation	description	photo
Residential building Except for field 1	Around 1900 the original building was erected for the traveling salesman Otto Buch . The appearance of the house is determined by yellow facing bricks. The exterior of the building has the shape of a villa from the 1920s. The change to the facade made in 1925, the alterations, additions and additions were so extensive that the external appearance of the original building can no longer be read.
Residential house Bockenbachstrasse 76	The two-storey half-timbered house is already listed in the original cadastre from 1835. A bay window was added later and a massive incision was made. It can be assumed that the house was divided into two separate living areas by a subsequent change. It belongs to a group of half-timbered houses with a significant impact on the townscape.
House Bockenbachstrasse 77	A two-storey half-timbered house with a dwarf house, which was originally built as a residential building with an economic part, but was later divided. Although the ground floor has already been partially renewed in solid construction, the ancient half-timbered framework has otherwise been preserved. Based on an inscription on part of the house No. 77, the year of construction can be dated to 1772. Under the western part of the building there is a barrel vaulted cellar made of quarry stone with a quarry stone floor.
Residential building Eichener Strasse 15	A two-storey, eaves-standing massive clinker building from 1902 with a roof covered with concrete tiles. On the street side there is a risalit with a polygonal basement , which is emphasized by plastered pilasters , a profiled cornice and parapet mirror. The development of the house via the right gable side by a supervisor windscreen . The original front door is a simple, double-leaf panel door with pushed-over panels, partially glazed and barred with a profiled transom and a three-part skylight with a flat arch. In the district of Eichen itself, this area was called "Hammer House", derived from the nearby factory premises on the large pond next to what is now Hagener Strasse. The importance of the building results from the industrial history of Kreuztal and Eichen. This is a residential building that was built in 1902 for workers and employees of the then Eichener Walz- und Verzinkerei-Gesellschaft.
House Eichener Strasse 29	A diverse, massive clinker brick building with sheet metal roofs (crooked hip or saddle roof), built in 1905 by Hermann Achenbach . On the front (Eichener Straße) there is a left corner project with a crooked hip roof and ornamental framework in the gable area, merging into a round tower with an octagonal, hipped, high spire. On the south side there is also a corner risalit with a crooked hip roof. The house is accessed via the right side of the house through a vestibule. The windows on the ground floor are designed with basket or flat arches with a central keystone. Most of them are original, on the street side with skylight divided into small sections with green glazing, profiled transom and undivided wings. The front door - a single-panel double-panel door, the upper panel is glazed with a round arch - also dates from the time it was built.
Stone bridge on Eichener Strasse	Stone bridge on Eichener Strasse over the Littfe . Three-arched quarry stone bridge. The bridge piers with icebreakers. Quarry stone railing. The bridge was built at the end of the 18th century.
Residential building Eichener Strasse 67	Two-storey half-timbered building with wall-high main stands and connected struts. Built in 1764, the roof was renewed in 1928 and has an all-round embankment, which is atypical for the Siegerland . In connection with the buildings Eichener Straße 68/70 and 71 to 75, the residential building forms the historical core of Eichen and is located in a striking urban location right next to the old quarry stone bridge in Eichen.
House Eichener Strasse 68	The semi-detached house was built in the 19th century and is one of the oldest houses in the Eichen district. Together with the other nearby monumental houses, it forms the historic center of Eichens.
House Eichener Strasse 71	A two-story building from the 17th century with the name "Schützes Haus", assembled from three sections. It is first mentioned and documented by the bar inscription from 1699. Further renovations took place in 1810 and around 1870. The stately residential building remained in the family's possession for eight generations until it passed into the possession of the current owners in 1971. From 1859 to 1885, the house was home to the higher private school Eichen, which later became the rectorate school, as the predecessor of today's Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Realschule in Kreuztal .
Former school at Schulstrasse 1	The former Protestant primary school, built in 1900 and expanded in 1911. It served the schooling of school-age children of the former communities of Eichen, Bockenbach and Stendenbach and was part of the parish of Crombach. Until August 1, 1984, the old building was used for school purposes, most recently for the pre-school experiment and then for the pre-school kindergarten. Since then, one of three nurseries in oak has been set up in the building.

Fellinghausen

designation	description	photo
Fellenbachstrasse 2	It is the "Herje House" from the second half of the 18th century, named after the name of a previous owner Heinrich or Henrich . In the original cadastre from 1835 the stately gable, two-storey half-timbered house with a tiled gable roof is already included. It is accessed on the eaves side with a central entrance and a dwarf attached above. The ground floor was renewed with plastered masonry in the 1930s.

Ferndorf

designation	description	photo
House Bergstrasse 3	A two-story, plastered house with a fully hipped roof, to which a lower side wing is attached on one side and a winter garden with roof terrace on the other . The building is bordered on the street by a garden wall with lattice, this is also a listed building. The house was built in 1903/1904 and was later given a cantilevered hipped roof and a vestibule instead of the original saddle roof . The winter garden was added. The garage extension that still exists today was built in 1933.
Feldhof residential building 1	Stately two-story house, completely slated under a half-hip roof. Profiled cornice and eaves. A dwelling on both long sides. The renewed windows are mostly still in their old place. The house was built around 1700. The wall slate certainly comes from the 19th century. The house is located in the center of Ferndorf, north of the medieval Ev. Church. The monument was updated on October 20, 1988 by the enclosure wall.
Feldhof house 2	Two-storey founder temporal half-timbered house in saving framework construction under one with slate -roofed gable roof and with rear barn cultivation of 1908. It is the eaves side opened up, with a central entrance and above attached dormer . It is a typical former small farmhouse of a small family with an agricultural sideline from the late 19th century and is known in the village as "Dillmanns Haus" (home of the sexton Tillmann Siebel ).
Feldhof house 7	Small half-timbered house with a narrow porch at one point. Structure with stems and sparse struts, few bars. Windows are renewed. Small dwelling. Built in the 16th century. It is part of the "Feldhof" development. The half-timbered house is located in the historic core of Ferndorf. It is north of the medieval Ev. Church.
Ferndorfer Strasse 43 residential building	A house built in 1924 by the Kreuztaler architect Karl Meckel for the authorized signatory Fritz Scheuermann . Inside, the house is adorned with wood paneling in a spacious Art Deco-style hall. The stucco work on the ground floor was subsequently re-entered according to the original models. This quality indicates a traditionally oriented and traditionally excellently trained carpentry trade.
House at Ferndorfer Strasse 47	It is one of the oldest buildings in the northern Siegerland. During the restoration work, which was carried out in 1981 and 1982, a half-timbered beam was found that shows the age of the house. The year 1701 was branded on the beam. Externally, the house was largely restored to its original state. The house is part of the Alt-Ferndorf inventory and occupies a prominent location in the village on the corner of Ferndorfer Strasse and Kindelsbergstrasse.
House at Ferndorfer Strasse 51	The building belongs to the loosely assembled, right-angled group of houses at Ziegeleistraße 2, 4 and Ferndorfer Straße 49 as well as the houses at Ziegeleistraße 6 and 8 of the " Fröhlichshof ", first mentioned in 1470 . This was probably separated from the much older, well-known “ Irlenhof ” (see “Ein Siegerländer Dorf” 1963, p. 81, by Lothar Irle , Ferndorf). It is a two-storey, gable-independent half-timbered house with a sheet metal gable roof and a dormer , probably from the first half of the 18th century.
Local history museum Ferndorfer Straße 62	The building, which today contains a local museum , is a former elementary school built in 1893 . It is a typical school building from the Wilhelminian era . The facade still shows some traces of the effects of war (splinter and bullet damage). A memorial plaque on the former school indicates the historical circumstances.
Gravesite of the Schaub family	The Schaub family burial site is the resting place of the Albert Schaub (1867–1938) family, his wife Mathilde Schaub (1873–1926) and the successor families Reimer . The first burial dates from March 20, 1920, when Anneliese Schaub (1903–1920) daughter of the Schaub family found her final resting place there.
House in Kiel 1	The building is an eaves, single-storey half-timbered house with a loft, natural stone base, mansard gable roof with natural slate covering, which was built in 1911. On the street side and the rear eaves side there are dwelling houses. The gable surfaces are slightly cantilevered, profiled filler wood is located between the beam heads. The two weather sides are clad with wooden shingles (the wooden shingles on the gable side were renewed in the 1970s).
House Kindelsbergstrasse 2	A two-story, massive plastered building with a hipped roof, set back from the street; front risalit with a crooked hip roof. The parsonage , built in 1906 in villa style, together with the diagonally opposite church, characterizes the townscape. The church expansion in 1887 and almost two decades later the construction of the parsonage document the growth of the political and ecclesiastical community in times of industrial boom.
Residential building Marburger Strasse 135	The two-storey half-timbered house with a gable roof was built at the beginning of the 19th century. The symmetrical window arrangement on the eaves facade is typical. The small barn-like outbuilding with a crooked roof, which is currently used as a garage, was built at the beginning of the 19th century.
Residential houses at Marburger Strasse 138/140/142	The semi-detached houses Vorm Berge 2/4 and Marburger Straße 138/140/142 are of considerable urban significance. They are related to each other at right angles and are visually related to the medieval Evangelical Church. Both buildings belong to the historic center of Ferndorf. In particular the residential building Marburger Str. 138/140/142 forms the entrance area to this historically grown town center.
Adjacent building Marburger Strasse 160	The small single-storey half-timbered building is set back on Wittgensteiner Strasse on Irlenbach. It is already included in the original cadastre from 1835. Originally it seems to have been built as an agricultural outbuilding in the style of its half-timbered construction with sturdy wood in the early 18th century. Later one side of the roof was pushed open and provided with a loading hatch. The rear side has been renewed in brick with individual wooden posts, one gable side has been lengthened. The roof is covered with sheet metal.
Marburger Strasse 168 (Hotel Finke)	It is a stately half-timbered house in the center of Ferndorf, which was originally built as a residential building in 1780, but has been changed through multiple conversions and extensions. The house has a striking gable view and is located in a location that defines the townscape.
Residential building at Marburger Strasse 142	The semi-detached houses Vorm Berge 2/4 and Marburger Str. 138/140/142 are of considerable urban significance. They are related to each other at right angles and are in visual context with the medieval Ev. Church. Both buildings belong to the historic center of Ferndorf. In particular the residential building Marburger Str. 138/140/142 forms the entrance area to this historically grown town center.
Residential building at Marburger Strasse 146	The building, popularly known as "Schmett's House", is a two-story half-timbered house that was built shortly after 1800 according to the draft plans that are still available. Formerly used for agriculture, a forge and later a bakery were housed here.
Residential building at Marburger Strasse 170	In the two-storey half-timbered house with a gable roof and a street-side dwarf house with a loading hatch, presumably from the beginning of the 19th century. The originally low eaves line was raised in the late 19th century by a jamb . The design of the historic entrance door from the time it was built is particularly high-quality. The windows have been renewed taking into account the framework structure.
Residential building at Marburger Strasse 173	The residential building, popularly referred to as Achebach's house, derived from Pastor Achenbach, who lived there from 1838 to 1845, is a gable-free, two-storey residential building with a slate pitched roof. The core of the house may date from the 18th century. A barrel vaulted cellar made of quarry stone is located under the front area of ​​the building.
Evangelical Church Marburger Strasse 175	The Ev. Parish church, formerly St. Laurentius , has been a parish since 1300. Late Romanesque three-aisled hall church of the Siegerland type from the first half of the 13th century. From this building, three bays of the nave and the western tower in front have been preserved. Buttresses were added later. In 1887 the choir was replaced by a large new building with a transept. In the nave, heavy square pillars with three half-column templates and heavy capitals with corner bulbs. In the central nave there are domed straight vaults and ogival belts, in the side aisles one hip between belts that are widely spread outwards on wall templates. The two lower floors of the tower are also vaulted. Windows and portals extended with flat arches.
Residential building at Marburger Strasse 195	The house is what is popularly known as the "Hänkshaus", derived from the former owner Henk. It is located directly on the main road (B508) on the outskirts of the historic center of Ferndorf. It is a two-storey, three-axle residential building with a rear extension, facing the street, also two-storey with a gable roof at right angles to that of the front building with the same ridge height. The house is slated up to the rear gable wall, which shows largely frameless framework.
Residential building at Marburger Strasse 283	The residential building at Marburger Straße 283 is a villa-like half-timbered house built in 1906, in the rich late-historical style that was common around 1910. The interior of the house, which is still largely preserved, has somewhat simpler individual forms than is usual in villa buildings, as ceiling solutions designed with pieces were dispensed with. The doors and the banister show the Art Nouveau influences characteristic of this period.
Residential building at Marburger Strasse 248	The building is a two-storey residential building under a full walled roof. Right from the start, the house offered a high level of living comfort and particularly high-quality furnishings. The solid work in wood, which can be seen in the wooden porch, in the cladding of the upper floor with wooden shingles, in the massive execution of door panels, wall cladding, etc., is to be emphasized.
Residential building Schlehdornstrasse 20	The two-storey, massive plastered building with almost equivalent facades under varied roofs covered with artificial slate was built in 1907 according to the plans of the architect Kurth, Kreuztal. The building shows a risalit under curved gables on the street side . Unconventional Art Nouveau window shapes emphasize the facades on all sides. From the ground floor to the height of the cornice on the first floor there is the typical Art Nouveau masonry imitated by plaster grooves. The 1st floor of the street front shows ornamental framework. Richly designed Art Nouveau colored windows denote the stairwell. The house entrance door is originally preserved as a simple filling door with a rectangular barred window.
Vinsterhof house 1	The clad half-timbered house is in the immediate vicinity of the Ferndorf Church and is one of the oldest still existing half-timbered houses in the Siegerland. The building, built in 1524, still bears the name “Schuelmeistersch” today, as the previous owner Johannes Münker had been a schoolmaster since 1612 . The building is important for Ferndorf, as it is one of the oldest existing buildings and thus made it possible to research and demonstrate the life and habitation of the Ferndorfers into the 16th century.
Residential houses Vorm Berge 2 and 4	The semi-detached houses, which were built around 1800, are of architectural historical importance, as they represent preliminary stages within the development history of the buildings in series construction in which they have the same external training. The respective dwelling houses still show the earlier use of the storerooms for the storage of agricultural products and at the same time document the change from the type farmhouse to the middle class dwelling in the 19th century.
Tunnel mouth hole of the "Theodora" mine	The tunnel of the “Theodora” mine, located in the so-called “Hamburg District” between Kindelsberg and Martinshardt , was excavated between the beginning of 1860 and 1870 with a total length of 140 pokers , that is approx. 290 m. It was dealt with again between 1965 and 1966, and a Latvian crime was eliminated. Both the tunnel portal with its wing walls and the outgoing tunnel are set in rubble stones.
House at Ziegeleistraße 2	A two-storey eaves half-timbered house with a sheet metal gable roof, probably from the 18th century. The half-timbered construction has extensive transom and longwall constructions, as was common in the Siegerland until the 18th century.
House at Ziegeleistraße 4	A two-storey half-timbered house with a gable roof , probably from the 18th century. The half-timbered construction has extensive transom and longwall constructions, as was common in the Siegerland until the 18th century. The collar beams and ceiling beams on the 1st floor are set off in color with arrow-shaped carvings.
House at Ziegeleistraße 6	A two-storey half-timbered house with a sheet metal gable roof and a dwarf house, probably from the early 18th century.
House at Ziegeleistraße 8	The aforementioned building is a two-storey eaves half-timbered house with a gable roof and a dwarf house, probably from the 1st half of the 18th century. The building is already recorded in the original cadastre from 1835. An intact framework structure can be assumed under the sheet metal or slate cladding.

Junkernhees

designation	description	photo
Junkernhees Castle Heesstraße 202	Junkernhees Castle was completed in 1523 and the knight Adam von der Hees moved into it in December 1523. Extensive construction work was carried out under the subsequent owner Junker Dietrich Wilhelm von Syberg . The building made of rubble stones is one of the oldest houses of its kind in the Siegerland . The main building is built on its ground floor from heavy stone masonry. Above this there is a half-timbered structure with a high gable.
former mill Heesstrasse 198	It is the "Alte Mühle" house, which is related to the history of Junkernhees Castle. The mill was built directly on the road in 1796 according to a plan from 1793. She was a spell mill . The black and white half-timbering is typical of the Siegerland.

Kredenbach

designation	description	photo
Residential houses Altlohe 2 - 6	The building belongs to the former workers' settlement Kredenbach. It can be seen in connection with the former silver smelter , which belonged to the Müsen district . The extraction of iron ore continued into our century. The house was built in 1718. The former workers 'settlement Kredenbach is the second oldest known workers' settlement in Westphalia-Lippe .
Residential building Am Lindenhof 1	The half-timbered house was already listed in the original cadastre from 1835. It is one of the oldest still existing houses in this district. As a so-called “Long Line”, the group of houses is of considerable importance for the local image and is therefore particularly worthy of protection.
Residential building Am Rain 1	The two-story half-timbered house was built in 1799. In a later time the gable roof was pushed open. The single-line Fraktur inscription in the floor frame, "This house was built by Franz Schafer Anna Margaretha married couple, opened May 21, 1799, was a master carpenter, Johann Jost Scheffe von Littfeld" is of particular importance. The house belongs to a group of half-timbered houses with a significant impact on the townscape.
Double houses at the Bahn 1 + 3	The double dwelling "An der Bahn 1/3" is a two-story half-timbered house with a mid-house. The half-timbered construction shows rich strut constructions, as they were common in Siegerland up to the 18th century.
Residential building An der Bahn 4	It is a two-storey residential building with a clapboard roof and two-sided dwelling houses. The core of the house may be from the end of the 18th century. An intact half-timbered structure can be assumed under the gable clad in artificial slate and under the southern eaves side, which is covered with natural slate in the old German style. The building in its only insignificantly changed form is one of the oldest buildings in Kredenbach.
Splinter protection cells (one-man bunker) a and b	According to contemporary witnesses, the protective cell, which was cast from a piece of concrete, was also set up in Kreuztal at locations near the railway, companies and the post office during the Second World War . It served as minimal protection against fragmentation effects of bombs against low-caliber fire from low-level aircraft. The two splinter protection cells are the last specimens of their kind still in the Kreuztal urban area. They document a piece of Kreuztal's history during the Second World War. There are scientific reasons in favor of preservation and use with regard to the history of the Second World War and the expansion of the fortifications in general, since such fragmentation protection cells are still in place, but are increasingly being lost.
Residential building Kredenbacher Strasse 20	The two-storey half-timbered house built in 1717 is one of the oldest still existing residential buildings in this district. It is to be assigned to a group of half-timbered houses with a significant impact on the townscape.
Double houses at Kredenbacher Strasse 21 and 23	The "Kuckes Haus" named after a previous owner named Kuckuck. The core of the current building, which has hardly changed in shape, dates from the first half of the 18th century and is therefore one of the oldest houses in the historic center of Kredenbach. It is an important document in the history of building and therefore significant for human history.
Residential building Kredenbacher Strasse 29	The former chapel school, which is used for residential purposes, was inaugurated on August 20, 1863. It is located in the historic center of the Kredenbach district and is of considerable importance for the local image.
Residential building at Marburger Strasse 349	The building is a decorative, two-storey, eaves-facing half-timbered house from 1870. The internal room structures with stairs and doors have been preserved. The two house trees in front of the historic main entrance stairs belong to the building. In 1973, the former wooden shed at the rear of the residential building on the first and second floors was converted for residential purposes. At a later time, these living spaces were given a balcony and terrace extension, which was built in such a way that it did not significantly interfere with the historical building fabric.
Residential building at Marburger Strasse 389	The aforementioned house is a house with an old wing extension at the rear, built around 1850. The typical frameless half-timbering of this time can be seen on two floors. In the middle of the eaves facade there is a gable between the two houses. The dwelling house Kredenbacher Str. 389 belongs to the small house type of the Siegerland in the typical form.
The tunnel mouth hole of the deep tunnel of the former quarry mine	A round-arched closed tunnel mouth hole located in a rose cut on the slope, which belonged to the Brüche mine . The entrance portal made of processed natural stone is carefully put together. Large keystone with the inscription “Entry and exit of the Brüche pit started in 1777. Bricked in 1802. 1822 hewn the passage with the tunnel ”. An iron door with the inscription “Wasserwerk Müsen-Dahlbruch 1951” and the mining ensemble Schlägel und Eisen closes the entrance.

Kreuztal

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Residential building Dörrwiesenstrasse 2	A three-part half-timbered house, which was built in the 18th century in the historic village of Ernsdorf. Together with other half-timbered houses, the building shows the way the population of Siegerland lived and built around 1800, as well as the originally village-like settlement structure of the place , which was later transformed in the course of industrialization .
House at Ernsdorfstrasse 11	A two-storey half-timbered building with a dwelling, which has been preserved almost unchanged and which impressively documents the craftsmanship and half-timbered construction of the 18th century. The building was erected around 1780 and is one of the oldest houses in Ernsdorf.
House at Ernsdorfstrasse 12	A gable-independent, two-story half-timbered house from the beginning of the 19th century. This building is already included in the original cadastre from 1835. On the left there is a two-storey extension, at right angles to the ridge and in line with the rear gable. On the right side of the eaves there is a modern single-storey extension with a slate-covered gable roof.
House at Ernsdorfstraße 13	A two-storey double house with a dwelling and a tiled roof. The building, which was erected around 1780, is one of the oldest in Ernsdorf.
House at Ernsdorfstrasse 36	Together with other half-timbered houses, the building shows the way the population of Siegerland lived and built around 1800, as well as the originally village-like settlement structure of the place , which was later transformed in the course of industrialization . The exposed parts of the framework show what was originally a timbered framework with long foot struts.
House at Ernsdorfstrasse 38	In the course of the 19th century, the former residential and farm building was divided up by an approximately central transverse partition, which was connected to the conversion of the former farm section (east) for residential purposes. Another division did not take place until the 20th century, with the western half of the house being divided into two residential parts by a partition wall parallel to the first.
Ferndorfer Strasse 2 residential building	A stately two-storey, massive corner building from 1908. It is covered with glazed roof tiles typical of the time with gnawed rafters and grease. At the front there is a gable with a crooked hip roof. The building was originally intended as a residential building. In 1928 the building was converted into a residential and commercial building with the addition of a larger shop.
Dreslers Park Hagener Strasse 22-30	The "Dreslers Park" facility is to be seen as a completely preserved work of art, consisting of the various structures (built between 1860 and 1907) and the park. The complex exemplifies the transition from the “simpler” historical villa with park to the “more luxurious” younger villa with a new baroque redesign of the ground floor within the landscaped park.
Facade of the Kronprinz-Friedrich-Wilhelm-Erbstollen (Marburger Strasse)	Facade of the tunnel made of quarry stones, inscription " Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm Erbstolln ", with a Prussian eagle and the year 1825. The Revierstollen was built between 1825 and 1878 and provides an underground connection between Ernsdorf (Kreuztal) and Müsen . Over a length of over 4,000 m, it leads 2,860 m almost straight to the Kuhlenberg mine and from there after 1,200 m to the Stahlberger Gang. The subsequent Stahlberger Erbstollen thus created a 5,145 m long underground connection. The construction should drain the Martinshardt pits, but primarily the Müsener Stahlberg . After long planning, the tunnel was only realized after the Siegerland became Prussian in 1815. For this reason, the tunnel was named after the Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. After the last shift was carried out in Müsen in 1931, the tunnel was only used to supply the Kreuztal community with water. During the Second World War it offered the population protection from air raids.
Residential building at Marburger Strasse 39	A two-storey, eaves-standing half-timbered house with artificial slate-covered crooked hip roof on a high, plastered basement from 1910. The eastern gable and southern eaves side are provided with visible, decorative half-timbered structures. Typical of the turn of the century are slim timbers, high storey heights, on the street side conspicuous structuring by head and corner timbers, right-hand risalit three-storey, right gable with jumping bars, visible beam heads between threshold and frame as well as recessed house entrance door.
Stollenhaus Marburger Strasse 58	Small half-timbered house, opposite the Kronprinz-Friedrich-Wilhelm-Erbstollen, built around 1865. In this tunnel house, also known as the prayer house, the miners gathered before their shift began. It was also used for storage purposes. The traditional half-timbered house was extensively renovated from 1990 to 1991.
Former Gasthof Marburger Strasse 81	The "Peter Ernst" building is one of the oldest houses in Ernsdorf. The house "Häusers" (house no. 1) is already listed in Ploennies ' map from 1720 and in the original cadastre from 1834. It can be proven that it has been family-owned for over 300 years. About 150 years ago, the largest property in Ernsdorf belonged to this property, in which in the course of time, in addition to the permanent restaurant, a brewery, a bakery, a coal shop and a trucking business were operated.
Residential house Moltkestrasse 8	A two-storey, plastered house under a hipped roof with a side bay window over a dormer window on the street side. The property includes a boundary wall with bars, an entrance gate and an entrance gate on Moltkestrasse. The building was erected in 1931 according to the designs of the architect Karl Meckel from Ferndorf.
former school building Roonstrasse 19	The former Protestant elementary school in Kreuztal, built between 1913 and 1914. Due to the industrial development at the time and the associated increase in population, it was built as a supplementary and replacement school to relieve the "Red School" in the immediate vicinity and served various types of school until 1980. After the internal renovation, the city's administrative offices and rooms for the political groups have been located there since 1982.
Residential building Roonstrasse 22	A building formerly constructed as a residential and commercial building. The three-storey, massive clinker brick building with a “Berlin roof” covered with artificial slate was erected in 1902. On the southwest side there is a set-back, plastered extension with the stairwell. The central entrance (northeast side) leading to the former shop was bricked up and the shop windows were replaced with modern plastic windows, taking into account the rest of the window layout. The other windows are unchanged (six-winged, six-parted with a profiled transom). The interior room division and large parts of the fixed equipment (stairs, doors, floors, etc.) have remained largely unchanged to this day.
Commercial building Siegener Strasse 2	A stately eaves-standing, two-and-a-half-story half-timbered building (frameless framework with a flat, sheet-metal gable roof, built around 1855). Initially there was an inn with a postal expedition in the building and later only an inn and a residential building. It is in a prominent location at the old intersection that gave Kreuztal its name.
Residence Zum Ameisenberg 16	Small half-timbered house. Structure of stems with sparse struts and bars. A low knee stick under the gable roof. Built at the end of the 18th century. The house "Kolwe" with house number 22 is included in the original cadastre from 1834. In 1729 the land belonged to the Drolshagen Monastery . Located at the fork in the road to the Ameisenberg / Lohstrasse.
Old fire station Zum Leyberg 2	The massive structure was erected in 1910. The outer masonry is made of bricks. Load-bearing walls are also made of brick. The towers and gables of the building have a half-timbered construction. Roof construction as a gable roof or crooked hip roof. With its red tiles, the half-timbered structure, the numerous round arches, bay windows and pointed roofs, the old fire brigade house reflects the typical architecture of the time around 1900. The building now serves as a culture and communication center.

Krombach

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Crombacher Backes	It is an eaves-standing, massive building made of quarry stone masonry with a gable roof, the roofing in concrete blocks, from the year 1850. The house shows a gable with a slender half-timbered structure , in which there is a loading hatch. It is located in the historic center of Krombach, directly on the old Hagen - Siegener- Strasse, which was one of the five main streets in the province of Westphalia and which goes from Altenhagen via Breckerfeld - Halver - Kierspe - Meinerzhagen - Drolshagen - Olpe -Krombach- Siegen- Wilnsdorf extended to the Nassau border. In the immediate vicinity, across from the main street, is the historic Hotel Hambloch, which is also on the list of monuments. The Backes was renovated in 1979 and has been used at irregular intervals since then.
Residential house on the piece 1	A slated half-timbered semi-detached house, probably from the 18th century. The top floor has been expanded, and the lighting is through the gable . Access is via the gable facade. The construction of the interior is largely unchanged. Inside there are still colored tiles from the turn of the century. The building is in an exposed location in the historic center of Krombach.
Residential and inn at Hagener Strasse 230	An eaves-standing two-storey half-timbered house with a gable roof that is covered with concrete stone and stands on a plastered base that compensates for the slope. The left and right gables are clad in artificial slate. The jamb and diaphragm may have been added later. Most of the windows have been changed, taking into account the framework. The house entrance door is equipped with side windows. The building is entered in the original cadastre from 1835, but may have been built after the building regulations were issued in 1790. The frameless construction and the single braced wall-high plaster styles indicate this.
Residential and office building at Hagener Strasse 275	The building was probably built by Johann Friedrich Schreiber at the beginning of the 19th century . This is indicated as the owner in the original cadastre from 1835. Johann Friedrich Schreiber was an important person in the Ferndorf office. From 1840 to 1856 he was mayor and from 1856 to 1858 he was a bailiff in the Ferndorf district based in Krombach. He also ran a grocery store and a post office in his house in Krombach .
Residential house at Hagener Strasse 282	It is a slated half-timbered house with a gable roof. It was built around 1840 and expanded through renovations in 1860. The windows are little changed, while the front door with casement windows is new.
Business and inn at Hagener Strasse 286	The nine-axis, plastered building has a representative central axis, which is formed by a main entrance, a staircase constructed over a semicircular floor plan and a triangular gable with semicircular fan windows. Otherwise, the neoclassical facade has no ornamental decorations, it is structured by the edging of the main entrance, the plastered walls of the windows and the eaves. Since 2004 the house contains a pub and a restaurant.
Residential house at Hagener Strasse 288	Two-storey half-timbered house from the 18th century. In the 19th century the ground floor and the areas on the rear gable were clad with horizontal wooden formwork. It belongs to the historical center of Krombach.
Residential building Hagener Strasse 328	The property, built in 1877 and significantly expanded in 1914, is located on federal highway 517 outside the actual development of the Krombach location. It is a stately, two-storey and multifaceted structure under a roof covered with slate . The part of the building to the right of the street was probably built from half-timbered houses in 1877, shows small windows in different shapes and a house entrance door from the construction period with the Freemason's mark .
Residential building Kirchweg 7	A former coach retreat from the 19th century. It used to belong to the tannery across the street . This building served as accommodation for the coachmen and their teams. It is a wide, single-storey, solid plastered building with a slate-covered gable roof on a jamb floor with a profiled main cornice. The structure of the facade is characterized by flat niches in the axes of the windows.
Residential and office building at Kirchweg 12	The two-storey house with a gable roof has a relatively generous staircase and doors from around 1900, and a push-up on the upper floor shows that the building was heavily rebuilt around this time. The historic roof structure in the roof and the overall appearance of the building also show that the original structure of the building has been preserved. The building is already marked on the plans of the original cadastre from 1835, so it is very old. The building is located directly at the main entrance to the churchyard of the listed church. It is part of an extensive historical center that has been preserved around the Protestant church.
Evangelical Church Krombach	Ev. ref. Parish church, formerly St. Ludgerus. The Romanesque style suggests the time before 1200. The number 1118 chiselled over the main portal. Simple late Romanesque hall construction with a strong west tower. Nave of 2 ½ bays, the main choir has a single bay with a semicircular apse , in the just closing side aisles there are semicircular niches. Heavy square pillars with three half-column templates, in the central nave domed straight vaults between ogival belts. In the western half yoke and in the side aisles there are single-hip vaults, the latter over round belt floors. Arched windows, choir with rich wall structure and graceful set columns as a vault support. South portal with cloverleaf arch. Remains of a late Gothic tabernacle built into the tower hall. Altar from 1781, the pulpit was built in 1764.
Gasthaus Olper Strasse 2	The hotel / inn "Hambloch" is one of the outstanding and important historical buildings in Kreuztal. This building shows the life and habitation of the Krombacher up to the 17th century. There are also popular reasons for its preservation and use, because the building proves the demands on living and lodging in Krombach. Pastor Hambloch founded a hostel on Olper Strasse around 500 years ago .
Residential building Pastor-Stein-Strasse 8	The eaves-standing two-storey half-timbered house is essentially one of the oldest buildings in Krombach that remained after the great fire of 1880. The building is already included in the original cadastre from 1835. There is decorative wood paneling on the front of the house, simulating a plastered facade. On the right gable is a recessed two-storey half-timbered extension with a gable roof. On the front, off-center and in the axis of the house entrance, there is a dwelling with a loading hatch, breaking through the main cornice.
Housing complex Wildenburger Straße 7/9	Building of the former workers' settlement "Zur Silberhütte" in Kredenbach , which was demolished in 1986 with the aim of later rebuilding elsewhere. During the reconstruction in the typical Siegerland half-timbered construction, most of the wood from the old half-timbered structure was used. The year of construction of these houses was in the years 1720 to 1730.

Littfeld

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Residential building Altenberger Strasse 19-21	A stately double house from the 18th century in typical half-timbered construction, which in earlier years was inhabited by rich Littfeld citizens with large estates. A special feature of the spacious building design is the double system of the house with symmetrically arranged entrances. The historic front doors are plentiful and intricately carved.
Residential building Altenberger Strasse 36	This building, popularly referred to as “Justes Haus”, is a two-storey typical Siegerland house made of frameless half-timbering with an economic section, built around 1880. The construction is apparently still completely in place. Around 1880 the right part was redesigned in ornamental framework with a large high wing with a shop on the ground floor, and then in the 1920s a gallery-like two-storey "tub" and a porch on the left side were added to the eaves side. The building illustrates the historical change in use from a farmhouse to a shoemaker's workshop to a textile store.
Residential building Grubenstrasse 9	A two-storey half-timbered house with a tiled gable roof from the first half of the 19th century. The house is included in the original cadastre from 1835. On the front of the house there is a mid-sized house with a half-timbered structure and a loading hatch. The two-winged four-panel door on the eaves side, the upper panels of which are glazed and barred, dates from the turn of the century. The building is one of the oldest buildings in Littfeld and one of the houses that has not been changed the least, both inside and out.
Residential building at Grubenstrasse 21	The "Flännersch House", named after the builder Friedrich Flender , dates back to 1894. The core of the house is a typical Siegerland Ernhaus made of frameless timber framing. The eaves undeveloped building is decked with a concrete brick gable roof with dormer provided. Most of the windows have been changed, taking into account the framework. The building has a partial cellar with a typical Prussian cap.
House at Grubenstrasse 40	The former miner's house from 1877, popularly known as "Mertens Haus" . It is a single-storey, three-axis half-timbered house with a jamb with a central roof house in the eaves facing the street. On the ground floor there is a half-timbered, boarded porch with large, small-scale windows between the posts from the time around the First World War . On the slope-leveling plastered base is a frameless framework construction with diagonal corner struts and St. Andrew's crosses in the lateral jamb walls.
Residential building Johann-Heinrich-Jung-Strasse 1	In addition to the historical reasons for the village center of Littfeld and urban planning reasons, the house is particularly noteworthy as an important prelude to the historical center for reasons of folklore and architectural history, as it is an unusually well-preserved 18th century house in the Siegerland half-timbered construction. So is very rarely z. B. a similarly well-preserved Ern in a comparable house. The essential spatial structures are also well preserved.
Residential building Johann-Heinrich-Jung-Strasse 8	It is a two-storey half-timbered building, which according to the inscription on the Zwerchhaus was built in 1764. The street and the gable front are provided with black and white half-timbering, the blow bar is made of sheet metal and the gable is slated. The house was built by Johann Heinrich Jung , an uncle of Jung-Stillings . In earlier times the house was also used as a school and doctor's office.
Double house in Meisterstrasse 2/4	A double dwelling, popularly known as "Böches House". It is a two-story, eaves-standing former farmhouse with a gable roof on a plastered base. Apart from minor additions to the exterior and imperceptible changes to the interior, it has been completely preserved as a typical early Siegerland Ernhaus (built in 1716).
House Zum Burberg 7	The house is a decorative, two-storey, eaves-facing half-timbered house from 1768. The original cadastre from 1835 already includes the stately eaves, two-storey half-timbered house with a tiled gable roof. It is accessed on the eaves side, with a central entrance and a dwarf attached above. The richly designed half-timbered construction has ample bolt and strut constructions with "man figures" with neck and chest bolts, as was common in Siegerland until the 18th century. From the laundry room a steep stone staircase leads down to a small cellar with a well. On the south side of the gable there is a built-on shed with a half-timbered wall and a tiled roof. The house is popularly known as the “Krämersch House”, derived from the Krämer families, who have lived there since 1864.
Old forge Zum Burberg 7	The one-storey outbuilding with a tiled gable roof, located on the opposite side of the street from the residential building Zum Burberg 7, is a former blacksmith's shop. The compartments of the side walls are lined with bricks. Inside there is still a forge furnace that has been preserved almost in its original condition.
Kindelsberg tower with imperial linden tree and enclosure	The Art Nouveau-style Kindelsberg tower, built from rubble stones between 1905 and 1907, consists of a tower shaft with four buttresses, the spaces between which were formerly occupied by arbors under pent roofs. These arbors are massively closed today. The shaft profile of the tower is closed off by an all-round glazed viewing room and a lantern with an existing viewing platform that does not carry the shaft. In 1896 the Sauerland Mountain Association intended to build a lookout tower on the Kindelsberg in the middle of the historic Wallburg . It became the symbol of the Siegerland and the city of Kreuztal, a real point of identification and, with its unmistakable silhouette, the trademark of a landscape and the Krombacher brewery .

Middle Hees

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Backhaus Heesstrasse	Small half-timbered house under a gable roof, construction with struts and stems, no transoms. In the back there is a brick stove with a chimney. Location between several fish ponds. Construction time 18th century.
Residential building Heesstrasse 303	Two-storey house, upper storey and gable shield slated. Located on the courtyard on a slight bend in the street, built in 1760. On the ground floor there is an original living room wall, which is a rarity for the Siegerland .
Residential house at Heesstrasse 305	House from two construction periods. The rear part of the ground floor is massive, the upper floor is an ancient half-timbered construction. Symmetrical input side. Inscription dated 1751. Entrance with casement windows, above a dwelling. At the front above the massive, higher ground floor, younger half-timbered houses. Uniform knee stick under a gable roof. This and the front building probably from the 2nd half of the 19th century.
Hof Berghaus and Backhaus	The “Hof Berghaus” is a farm that is over three centuries old. Emerging from the Krausenhof or later Rainhof, it was first mentioned in 1526. It was rebuilt in 1688 due to destruction in the Thirty Years War . At the end of the 17th to the beginning of the 18th century, the homestead was a fief of the Baron von Syberg .
Bakery Hof Wurmbach	A typical Siegerland frameless half-timbered building under a sheet metal gable roof, built in 1859. It belongs to the "Hof Wurmbach" mentioned for the first time in 1417.
Residential and farm building Hof Wurmbach 16a	As a count's fief, as a Junkerngut and as a Prussian domain, the Wurmbach farm is one of the oldest settlements in the municipality that can be documented. Settlement began in the upper Heestal with the Wurmbach farm. It was first mentioned in a document in 1417.

Eastern heroes

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Residential building Ostheldener Strasse 57	The half-timbered building, popularly known as "Schmedts Huss", is located directly on "Hees-Wiel-Straße", which was completed around 1855, today L 714. It is a two-storey, three-axis residential building facing the street and standing on a plastered base that compensates for the slope. with an older annex at the rear, also two-storey with a tile-covered roof at a right angle to that of the front building with a low ridge height and a dwelling.

Other architectural monuments

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Landmarks on the Cologne rear	These are the boundary stones Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Z, AA, CC and DD. The stones that marked the border between Nassau and Kurköln show the inscriptions "NASSAW" and "COLLEN" on two opposite sides . The entire border, starting from the Wittgenstein district to today's Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district , was marked with boundary stones marked with letters. In May 1690, the boundary stone was ceremoniously set.
3 trigonometric points	Trigonometric points generally belong to a network of fixed points by means of which a larger part of the earth's surface, e.g. B. a country is measured. The fixed point field consists of a large number of ground and high points. The ground points are marketed by stone pillars. A plate underneath serves as a backup. The high points are, for example, church spiers or flagpoles on observation towers.

Soil monuments

According to the North Rhine-Westphalian Monument List Ordinance of March 6, 1981, the monuments are to be kept in a list and numbered consecutively. The numbers in front of the monument correspond to the actual numbering in the monument list.

1. Siegener hedge with Krombacher Schlag : the ramparts and moats of the " Krombacher Schlag " are part of the "Siegener Landhecken". Hedges were purely protective systems. In the 15th century, the county of Nassau-Siegen built an extensive border security system across from the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia . This border security system consisted of an impenetrable strip of forest, the so-called land hedge, which was secured at particularly endangered points by ramparts and ditches. The passages through the Landwehr were called blows, a word which means turnpike, but was soon transferred to the passages. At the end of the 16th century there was an extensive expansion and new construction of these facilities, which can be associated with the Dutch Wars of Liberation . The Siegen hedge was of great importance for the territorial development of Kreuztal and the demarcation from the Sauerland in the Electorate of Cologne.
2. Wallburg Kindelsberg : remains of a prehistoric hill fort that served as a refuge . According to location and habitus, it is divided into a system of hill fortifications, which, as a systematically laid out fortress belt, enclosed the ore-rich area, which is called Siegerland in the broader sense. The circumference of the wall is around 270 meters in an oval. The rampart has a length of 120 meters and a maximum width of 60 meters.
3. Mining desert Altenberg : The ground monument "Bergbauwüstung Altenberg" consists of remnants of medieval and early modern mining that can still be seen in the area. Among other things, excavated and non-excavated basement floor plans, the floor plan of a tower and several shafts, some of which were excavated that were used for ore mining, can be recognized. In addition, pinge trains and mountain heaps still exist. In the southern part of the area to be protected, there are air holes from tunnel systems running underneath. Studies of the age of the mining industry and the settlement on the Altenberg have provided evidence for the years 1209, 1212, 1235 and 1244. The tunnels with the light and air holes coming from the south are younger systems. The oldesttunnel comingfrom Müsen was first mentioned in 1571. Mining on the Altenberg documents a branch of industry that is important beyond the Müsen area and which was of great importance for history well into the 20th century.
4. "Lower House", Junkernhees Castle : The "Lower House" is the older castle complex at Junkernhees , which existed in 1372 at the latest. This year, the house and the moat are mentioned on the occasion of a loan from the Count of Nassau . From later maps it can be seen that the complex consisted of the castle house, a square courtyard, the garden and the moat . When the two houses were merged in 1779, the “Lower House” lost its importance. The subsequent decay ultimately led to the abandonment of the "Lower House". In addition to economic and military aspects, Junkernhees Castle had a major influence on the development of the Siegen territory.
5. Remnants of the "Siegener Hedge" : The remnants of the "Siegener Hecke" served as a land defense to defend the Siegener lands. The ramparts that demarcated the land were strengthened by a hedge planted on the rampart and run roughly along the territorial borders. The "Siegener Hecke" was used, renewed and preserved throughout the period from the 14th to the 17th century.
6. Hollow roads of the "Old Siegener Weg" : The hollow roads of the "Siegener Weg" are several side by side and different depths hollow ways that can still be clearly seen in the terrain. They extend from the Kindelsberg farm to the Hagen – Frankfurt railway line in Littfeld , where the embankment has led to major changes. The "Alte Siegener Weg" was part of a long-distance route that led from Frankfurt via Siegen to Arnsberg and is shown in historical maps as early as 1806. Roads of this type were an important link to the outside world until the end of the 19th century.
7. "Edle Rose" gallery and shaft : The permanent ground monument "Edle Rose" with the upper and lower tunnels are mining relics from prehistoric times. The first traces of mining in the low mountain range of Westphalia date back to the centuries before the birth of Christ, the Latène period . It is presented in the form of pingen ( open-cast mining ), shafts and tunnels . In the “Noble Rose” mine, attempts were made to extract copper ore . A die up to 12 meters deep was removed from the upper floor of the tunnel in the 19th century and brought to a breakthrough with the deep tunnel below. According to a representation from the end of the 19th century, the latter must be an older mining industry, which was "driven in" by the ancients, but which has not yet been dated more precisely.
8. Hollow roads to the "Welschen Ennester-Schlag" : The existing and recognizable remains of a hollow road are of different depths and are clearly recognizable in the terrain. The lower section marked in the German basic map is about 700 meters and the upper about 350 meters long. They originally served as access roads to a fortified wall and moat, the "Welschen Ennester-Schlag", which lies in the Kirchhundem municipality . They are part of the "Old Siegener Weg" (see above). At the same time, they represent the remains of a former road connection that existed between Krombach and Welschen Ennest or Rahrbach until at least 1840 .
9. Castle site and remains of the castle Holdinghausen : This ground monument is the location of the actual castle house, of which there are still remains in the ground, as well as a moat in the north that has been converted into a fish pond and the outer slope of the filled moat in the east. On the two remaining moats in the south and west, there are no longer any traces on the outside, but there are also original moats here. Holdinghausen was owned by the Deuz Monastery, after which a family of the same name has called itself since the end of the 13th century. In 1318 the Deuz monastery enfeoffed several members of this family with the property, so that it can be assumed that the castle was built shortly after this point in time. On the occasion of an unsuccessful purchase by the Princely House of Siegen-Nassau around 1700, the castle house is mentioned as derelict in a moat.
10. Hohlwegrest in Dreslers Park : The Hohlwegrest in Dreslers Park is the remnant of a medieval to early modern highway that, coming from Arnsberg , led via Welschen Ennest and Littfeld to Siegen and on to Frankfurt. It characterizes the road system before the start of artificial road construction (from the end of the 18th century) and is characterized by the strong soil erosion associated with the road traffic at that time, which today is a deep depression in the existing soil. The street appears on historical maps at the beginning of the 18th century and is still recorded in the original table from 1840 at its current location. It can be seen as the forerunner of the B 54 .
11. Remnants of the pits "Eleonore" and "Reinhold", district Littfeld : With the help of the pits "Eleonore" and "Reinhold" copper, lead and zinc were extracted. The medieval and early modern mining relics are remnants of the Siegerland mining industry, which has existed since the Latène period and was of great economic importance in all periods. He began with surface pits that were created at the site of emerging veins. The tunnels and shafts, on the other hand, belong to the early modern period and were built in the 18th and 19th centuries in particular.
12. Schlag am Heerweg : The "Schlag am Heerweg" was important for the history of the entire Siegen area. The Siegener Hecke (see above), as the outer Landwehr is also called, and as part of it also the Schlag am Heerweg, have shaped the outer border of the Nassau-Siegen rule for centuries. Until the takeover of both Nassau-Siegen and the west-bordering Electoral Cologne area by the Kingdom of Prussia at the beginning of the 19th century, very different regions developed on both sides of the Schlag am Heerweg - reinforced by the religious difference.
13. Hohlwege Ferndorf : The "Hohlwege Ferndorf" are the remains of an old road that can be recognized today in the form of ravines. Several long and shallow ditches or hollows of different depths can be seen in the terrain, which are routes used one after the other. They reach a total length of about 350 meters and are a maximum of about 100 meters wide. Resulting from the erosion of the lanes that are being used continuously until the 18th century, the number and depth of the ravines provide indications of the historical significance of a road. The Ferndorfer Hohlwege form a path connection leading from the Stahlhammer on the Ferndorfbach to the Bottenbach district of Buschhütten , which there connected to the old trunk road from Arnsberg or Olpe to Siegen.
14. Hollow roads on the Krombacher Schlag : The "hollow ways on the Krombacher Schlag" also belong to the old long-distance route Frankfurt - Olpe - Hagen, of which remnants of a similar form are preserved in various places, such as west of the Krombacher Schlag (in the area of ​​the city of Olpe) are. Since part of the ravines directly on the Krombacher Schlag were blocked by the recent expansion in the 17th century, parts of these paths must have existed before this point in time.
15. Ostheldener Schlag with parts of the "Siegener Hecke" : On the Ostheldener part of the territorial border between Siegen-Nassau and Kurköln, which was secured with a Landwehr, there was a turnpike ("Schlag") at the point where the Landwehr road was crossed. The “Siegener Hecke” (see above) prevented the bypassing of the fields, so that customs could be levied on fields such as the Ostheldener Schlag.
16. Formerly surrounding cemetery "Pfarrkirche Ferndorf" : The earliest archival evidence for the existence of the parish church of Ferndorf, consecrated to Saint Laurence , dates back to 1339. At that time the brothers of the von Wilnsdorf family sold the Nassau sovereign their right to appoint the pastor of Ferndorf important decision with regard to the fact that the parishes of the Siegerland formed the basis for the development of the count's official constitution. As the church building itself with its late Romanesque style on the tower and nave shows, the existing church building, with the exception of the choir, was built around the middle of the 13th century. Around this time Ferndorf was detached from St. Martini in Siegen, next to Netphen the oldest parish church in Siegerland, and raised to the status of an independent parish . But there is much to suggest that, comparable to the parish churches in Hilchenbach and Oberholzklau , there was also an even older chapel in Ferndorf. It was erected with some certainty on the property of the farm, which was part of the founding equipment of the St. Georg Abbey in Cologne in 1067 and was not sold to the Count of Nassau by the clergy until 1304 with all accessories. A coin from the middle of the 12th century, which was found during the expansion of the choir in 1887, suggests that the chapel was built before the 13th century. At that time the older choir was replaced by a transept with a choir and sacristy . The surrounding cemetery is separated from the town center by a surrounding wall, which was mentioned as early as 1580 when it was being repaired. The cemetery itself seems to have been a meeting place, perhaps even a place of justice, for a time, as a comparison made there in front of the parish in 1345 suggests. In 1827/1829 the use of the burial place at the church was stopped. The noble families von der Hees and von Langenau had their hereditary burial within the church until the 18th century.
17. Erzebach tunnel and surface mining products : The Erzebach tunnel and the associated surface mining products are mining relics from the Latène period . The tunnel runs almost straight to the east for the first 54 running meters ; in this area it has a narrow rectangular, easily used route cross-section. Mallet and iron work and hooked noses for the frog lamps can be seen regularly. A side crosscut to the south has also been driven along a chasm using hammer and iron work and is about twelve meters long. This part of the mine is apparently older than the rear parts of the tunnel system. Drilling pipes can be regularly observed there and the route network is more irregular. A cross passage branches off about eight to ten meters before the end of the main tunnel and retreats to the west-southwest. This last piece is offset with the excavation work of the crosscut. The crosscut was also driven by blasting, as was a small lateral drive, where low-iron ore was extracted. However, no part of the deposit containing iron ore is found anywhere in the mine. Mining tracks can also be observed above ground, such as a large, multi-stepped pinge that runs a few dozen meters north of the Stollenpinge in the same direction up the slope. There are also two funnel-shaped pings up the slope, one of which has a clear heap down the slope. She assigns this to near-surface mining. The near-surface pings and the front part of the Ertzebach tunnel are likely to belong to an older extraction phase of the 16th or 17th century. The iron mallet work and the tunnel cross-sections speak for this. Obviously, one will assign these parts to the documentary mention of iron ore mining and blacksmithing activities of Hans Stähler from Dornbachseifen, who is said to have carried out mining work here around 1540. At least the mine itself will be addressed as a re-opened exploration tunnel, which has never been mined. Development work, which can be seen in the rear parts of the pit, is also younger. The shooting work can be assigned to the 19th or early 20th century, when one tried - probably in vain - to prospect an iron deposit at this point. Here, too, there was no significant degradation. Two side, scratch-shaped slits in the joint shortly before the end of the older part of the pit indicate preliminary prospective measures. Detonators found can be linked to this work.

literature

• Various homeland books, among others

• Ferndorfer Dorfchronik - Volume 1 (First edition of a loose continuation of reports about Ferndorf), Association for the care of the village community in Ferndorf eV, funded by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Druckhaus Kay GmbH Kreuztal, 2002
• Ferndorfer Dorfchronik - Volume 2 (Second edition of a loose continuation of reports about Ferndorf), Association for the care of the village community in Ferndorf eV, funded by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Druckhaus Kay GmbH Kreuztal, 2004
• Werner Herling: The Lower Heestal, local history of Fellinghausen, Dornseifen and Weiden, Druckhaus Kay GmbH Kreuztal, 1981
• Werner Herling: The upper Heestal, Mittelhees and Oberhees, Druckhaus Kay, Kreuztal 1990
• Gerhard Oberländer, Manfred Reitz, Klaus-Dieter Zimmermann: Osthelden-Junkernhees, Verlag Die Wielandschmiede Kreuztal 1990, ISBN 3-925498-33-8
• 650 years of Osthelden - A commemorative publication for the anniversary year 1994, published by the Osthelden village community
• Andreas Bingener, Erich Schmidt: Krombach - history of a Siegerland village, publishing house Die Wielandschmiede Kreuztal 2001, ISBN 3-925498-68-0
• Erich Klein: Ortschronik Buschhütten, Druck Schlabach Bad Berleburg 2002
• Erhard Krämer: Church in the village, Verlag Die Wielandschmiede Kreuztal 1998, ISBN 3-925498-60-5
• Hans Joachim Schumacher: The old Littfeld, published by Volksbank Littfeld eG, Druckhaus Kay, Kreuztal 1986
• Hans Joachim Schumacher: Vom alten Littfeld, Burgholdinghausen and Kindelsberg, published by Volksbank Littfeld eG, Druckhaus Kay, Kreuztal, 1987
• Altenberg eV association: The Altenberg mining settlement, 1979
• Werner Wied: Kreuztal - young town on Kindelsberg, Verlag der Buchhandlung Otto Zimmermann, Kreuztal, 1969

• Administrative reports of the city of Kreuztal since 1969
• Act for the protection and maintenance of monuments in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Monument Protection Act - DSchG NRW) of March 11, 1980 (GV.NW.S. 226) in the current version

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments on the homepage of the city of Kreuztal ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2011 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.  
2. ↑ Monument List Ordinance North Rhine-Westphalia  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

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