Mulartshütte
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Mulartshütte
Roetgen municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 49 ″ N , 6 ° 13 ′ 9 ″ E
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| Height : | 290 m |
| Area : | 5.48 km² with Rott |
| Residents : | 300 |
| Population density : | 55 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 |
Mulartshütte is a place in the Eifel in North Rhine-Westphalia at the intersection of highways 12 and 238. It has around 300 residents and has been part of the municipality of Roetgen in the Aachen urban region in the administrative district of Cologne since 1969 .
Seen from all four points of the compass over the country roads, the place lies in a depression, from which the name "village in the hole" results. Neighboring places are the Roetgener district Rott as well as Venwegen , Zweifall and Lammersdorf .
Waters
The Vicht flows past the northern outskirts of the village and the Mückenloch baths are located northeast of Mulartshütte. The headwaters of the Rommerichsief are located between the forester's lodge Mulartshütte and the Romerich settlement (also Rommerich in a different spelling). This stream roughly follows the course of Hahner Strasse to the center of the village and flows north of it into the Vichtbach.
history
Mulartshütte goes back to an ironworks named Mulartshütte mentioned in 1504 . Iron smelting in the area already existed in antiquity, even if no settlement is documented from this time. The prerequisite for the medieval iron smelting was the inheritance rights on the Vichtbach (already regulated in a document in 1430), whose water power was required for this. This makes Mulartshütte the oldest part of today's Roetgen municipality.
After working in the cloth-making trade during the 18th century, agriculture was the livelihood of most of Mulartshütte's residents in the 19th century, as indicated by the typical structural features of the houses.
Until 1934 Mulartshütte belonged to the municipality of Zweifall, which in 1969 voluntarily merged with the municipalities of Roetgen and Rott . These communities included since 1816 the county Monschau in the administrative district of Aachen . On January 1, 1972, the Monschau district was dissolved. At the same time, Zweifall was separated from the municipality of Roetgen and incorporated into the city of Stolberg (Rhld.) .
Worth seeing
See also: List of architectural monuments in Roetgen
Typical for Mulartshütte are the numerous quarry stone and half-timbered houses from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, especially in Zweifaller Straße.
The architecturally striking building is the modern inn Old hunting lodge , a beautiful baroque United fachwerkhaus from the Eifel clothier time (dated to crest in 1709, after door Keilstein 1763). It is three-story with a basement made of quarry stone, two half-timbered floors and a slate mansard roof.
The old nail forge on the village square is also worth seeing with a gable front that characterizes the townscape, a remnant of the iron industry that used to be located in Mulartshütte . There are documents on the history of the ironworks in Mulartshütte and a mineral collection from the northern Eifel .
The large campsite on the Vichtbach and the "Geological teaching and hiking trail", which shows geological and mining historical evidence of the iron industry in the municipality of Roetgen, are also of tourist interest . Mulartshütte also has a connection to the European long-distance hiking trail E8 .
The “Bürgererverein Mulartshütte”, founded in 1983, uses the community center as a clubhouse.
