Neichen (Bad Honnef)

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Neichen is a district of Aegidienberg , a district of Bad Honnef in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Neichen is located in the west of the Aegidienberg district on a ridge that slopes slightly from south to north between the valleys of the Logebach in the west and the Kochbach in the east. The village covers altitudes between 280 and 290  m above sea level. NHN . Immediately to the north is Siefenhoven and to the south there is a flowing transition to the district of Himberg , of which Neichen is a closed village . Together with Himberg, Neichen is located at the eastern exit of the Schmelztal valley that descends to Bad Honnef and through which the state road 144 runs. The Siebengebirge nature reserve in the Honnef city forest extends west of Neichen .

history

Neichen first appeared in writing as a place of residence in 1698, the name being developed from "zu / an / von" Eichen . Families had already settled on the site of the village, but their houses were initially included in Himberg and then temporarily in Siefenhoven. In 1803 Neichen recorded eight houses or house numbers. The place was part of the Himberg honors , one of eight honors that made up the parish of Aegidienberg from the middle of the 18th century until the dissolution of the Duchy of Berg in 1806. In 1843, the number of eight residential buildings in Neichen was still given, in which 42 people lived. By 1885 the number rose significantly to 18 residential buildings and 60 residents.

pit Mined ores
wedding copper
Help of God copper
Fair Copper, lead, zinc
Britannia copper
Infant baptism copper

As in numerous other places in the area, mining was also carried out near Neichen , with the deposits to be exploited being concentrated on copper ore veins . In 1799 a consortium submitted the application (the so-called mutation ) for the mining of iron ore in a pit near the Servatiushof on the Neichen Heath to the west of the village . 1854 another mine field in this area was awarded was that bore the name "christened" and (according to a listing from 1902) the extraction of lead - zinc - copper ore and served. The name "Britannia" as the name of the pit near the Servatiushof appeared at the latest from 1870. It comprised two parallel ore veins ( copper pebbles and zinc blende ) that were developed from 1902 to 1908 by a tunnel . Another copper mine in the mining area west of Neichen was lent under the name "Gotteshilfe" (also "Gotteshülfe"). The last leaseholder of the mines was Alfred Mannesmann , who closed them down between 1906 and 1908 after the development of more economical mining sites.

When Neichen already had 154 inhabitants in 1963, the district, which was once registered as a hamlet , had merged with Himberg in the course of the noticeable population growth of the post-war period in the Aegidienberg municipality. At the end of the 2000s, a commercial center with a larger retail location was built between Himberg and Neichen at the junction of Landesstrasse 143 ( Rottbitze –Aegidienberg– Oberpleis - Troisdorf ) to Landesstrasse 144 (Himberg – Bad Honnef) .

coat of arms

Chalkboard as the town's coat of arms

In 2009 the artist Richard Lenzgen created a slate as the local coat of arms of Neichen. It shows a coal pile in the foreground as a reference to the charcoal-burning process associated with ore mining . Above this, in front of a covered pit, a cable pull equipped with a reel is depicted, which also symbolizes mining. In the background, forest trees point to the nearby Honnef city forest and former Aegidienberg community forest.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ West German Society for Family Studies (ed.); Johannes Jansen: Aegidienberger Familienbuch 1666–1875 , Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-933364-57-4 , p. XIV.
  2. ^ Otmar Falkner: The Quirrenbacher Mühle. In: Heimatblätter des Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , 75th year 2007, p. 140.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 315.
  4. ↑ Royal Government of Cologne: overview of the components u. Directory of all localities in the government district of Cologne. Cöln 1845, p. 86.
  5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Volume XII Province of Rhineland . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, 1888, pp. 114/115. ( online PDF , 1.5 MB)
  6. ^ Klaus Engels: Ore mining in Aegidienberg. In: Aegidienberger Bilderbogen 1995 , 2002, p. 48
  7. ↑ Christian Reinhard Kieß, Klemens Dormagen: Mining between Schmelztal, Aegidienberg, Brüngsberg, Nonnenberg and Quirrenbach . In: From water art and pinging . Rheinlandia Verlag, Siegburg 2005, ISBN 3-935005-95-4 , p. 12ff
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Wegener: From the happy Elise to the help of God. In: Archäologie im Rheinland 1992. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7927-1384-5 , p. 159 ff.
  9. ↑ Mining work group in the Bergisches Land: Presentation of the important mining in the Duchy of Berg within the historical limits (PDF; 1.2 MB) , 2010/2011, p. 7
  10. ↑ Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages . Aegidienberg 1964, p. 93.
  11. ↑ Karl Heinz Piel: The coat of arms of a small town with a great historical background . In: Siebengebirgsbote , Volume 16, Issue 389, July 15, 2009

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 12 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 1 ″  E