Neunkirchen (Siegerland)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ' N , 8 ° 0' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Arnsberg | |
| Circle : | Siegen-Wittgenstein | |
| Height : | 270 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 39.81 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 13,165 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 331 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 57290 | |
| Area code : | 02735 | |
| License plate : | SI, BLB | |
| Community key : | 05 9 70 036 | |
| Community structure: | 6 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Bahnhofstrasse 3 57290 Neunkirchen |
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| Mayor : | Bernhard Baumann (independent) | |
| Location of the municipality of Neunkirchen in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district | ||
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Neunkirchen is a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany and belongs to the Siegen-Wittgenstein district .
geography
location
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The municipality of Neunkirchen is located in the south-western part of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district south of Siegen in the Siegerland . It is located in the valley of the Heller (" Free Ground "), which is an eastern tributary of the Sieg . The place is at 242 to 510 m above sea level. NHN . The highest elevation (outside the core town) is the Hohenseelbachskopf with 517.5 m , an extinct volcano ; south of the town center is the Hellerberg ( 366.9 m ).
Expansion of the municipal area
Neunkirchen extends in the east with Salchendorf to the "Ludwigseck" area and is about four kilometers from Wilden . The northernmost part is the "settlement" in Salchendorf, which ends southwest of the Pfannenberg .
In the west, the district of Struthütten meets Herdorf , where Rhineland-Palatinate borders the local area, in the south lies Wiederstein , about two kilometers from Wahlbach .
Neighboring communities
Neunkirchen is in the neighborhood of the municipalities of Burbach , Wilnsdorf , Herdorf ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) and Daaden (Rhineland-Palatinate) and borders Siegen in the north .
Community structure
Neunkirchen consists of the following districts:
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Until January 1, 1969, all districts were independent communities. Then they were united to form the large community of Neunkirchen.
climate
The climate in the area is mainly determined by south-westerly to north-westerly winds and the altitude. Frequent heavy cloud cover results in high amounts of precipitation (for the municipality of Neunkirchen about 1000 mm / year) and very low temperatures (for Neunkirchen between 7.0 and 7.7 ° C on an annual average).
history
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As early as April 28, 1048, the " free reason " was proven in writing for the first time. The place Neunkirchen was first mentioned in a document on August 23, 1288 as "Nunkirchen".
Until the 14th century, the nobles of Seelbach owned the free land. Between the 14th century and 1816 the Freie Grund was ruled in a condominium divided between the count houses Nassau and Sayn . However, this division did not take place according to localities or regions, but through the affiliation of individual residents to the respective noble houses. This brought disadvantages on the one hand, but also advantages that did not exist in the other areas of the count houses on the other. The residents, as well as the mines , did not have to pay a “ tithing ” in Freie Grund . The dual power only ended in 1816 through the Congress of Vienna with the annexation of the region to the newly founded district of Siegen and the associated incorporation into the Kingdom of Prussia . The Neunkirchen office was formed; due to the previous dual rule in Freie Grund, it comprised only half of the localities, the other half belonged to the Burbach office . In 1844 the Neunkirchen office was dissolved and the entire area was assigned to the Burbach office.
House numbers
| year | 1447 | 1450 | 1550 | 1600 | 1698 | 1700 | 1704 | 1706 | 1725 | 1730 | 1739 | 1788 | 1810 | 1846 | 1850 | 1913 |
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| Houses | 21st | 21st | 17th | 37 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 56 | 56 | 55 | 72 | 72 | 96 | 96 | 354 |
In 1862 the Deutz-Gießener Railway was opened, at which Neunkirchen received its own train station. Thus the pits and huts in the area were connected to the Ruhr area and the Rhine-Main region. With the opening of the Free Grunder Railway in 1907, the surrounding towns were finally connected.
Neunkirchen has been a large municipality since January 1st, 1969. In the course of the community reforms, the districts with a total of almost 15,000 inhabitants were added. When the Neunkirchen town hall became too small in 1973 , construction began on a new one. The old town hall, a historic building from 1754, was dismantled and rebuilt in the Hagen open-air museum . Since then it has served as accommodation for the German Forging Museum .
In the 1960s, people began to cultivate the Rassberg . The residents of the Rassberg are now counted by the community as part of the Neunkirchen district and are not, as it would be correct, divided between Salchendorf and Zeppenfeld. Neunkirchen has been accessible via the A 45 motorway since the 1970s .
Between June 2008 and the end of 2009, construction work for a new shopping center took place in the center of Neunkirchen. This was opened in October 2009.
Mining
As everywhere in the region, mining played a major role. Many pits were in Neunkirchen. The deepest mine in Europe, Pfannenberger Einigkeit , was located on Pfannenberg , but it was no longer profitable at the end of the 1950s and was therefore closed on April 18, 1962.
The following pits existed in the local area (only core town Neunkirchen, largest pits):
- End ( conjecture before 1827; shutdown 1931)
- Frauenberg unity (Mutung 1827; shutdown 1931)
- Habakuk (mutation around 1872)
- Harteborn ( assumption around 1750)
- Jäckel (speculation before 1812; shutdown 1940)
- Cherry tree (speculation around 1872)
- Knappschaftsglück (closure 1945)
- Cancer (speculation before 1812; shutdown 1931)
- Art (proposed 18th century; shutdown 1925)
- Röhmel / Römel ( presumption before 1812; shutdown after 1860)
- Rother Adler (mutation 1814; shutdown 1868)
- Steimel (speculation before 1812; shutdown 1931)
- Windhahn (Mutung 1866; shutdown 1931)
Note: The most important pits are marked in bold; the date refers to the first mention, dismantling was possible beforehand!
Religions
In the 19th century, as a result of the so-called revival movements, a large number of people in the entire Siegerland changed their personal life in the sense that they wanted to lead it according to God's will from now on, so that there was a great need for Christian instruction and praise for God originated from the base. Since the Prussian state church was skeptical and sometimes hostile towards this movement, the awakened believers organized themselves independently, sometimes outside the state church (today: Protestant regional church).
The Roman Catholic Church has only played a significant role since 1945 with the influx of refugees, and the Calvary Chapel was added at the beginning of this century .
Today the following churches and free church parishes can be found in Neunkirchen:
- Roman Catholic Church
- Protestant Reformed Parish (regional church)
- Ev. Community Löhrstr. (orientated towards the regional church)
- Evangelical Free Church Congregation ( Baptists )
- Ev. Assembly on Kölner Strasse
- Ev. Calvary Chapel Free Ground
Incorporations
On January 1, 1969, the previously independent communities of Altenseelbach, Salchendorf, Amt Burbach (official name), Struthütten, Wiederstein and Zeppenfeld were incorporated.
Population numbers
Official population of the community of Neunkirchen since its foundation according to IT.NRW
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Core town Neunkirchen
Population of the core town:
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Note: Population figures from 1994 on December 31; 2000 in October
politics
Municipal council
After the local elections on May 25, 2014, the 28 seats of the municipal council are distributed as follows (in brackets profit or loss compared to the 2009 election):
| SPD | CDU | Green | FDP | UWG | total | |
| 2014 | 10 (- 1) | 10 (+ 2) | 2 (+ 2) | 2 (- 2) | 4 (- 1) | 28 |
mayor
- 1969–1989: Otto Reiffenrath (SPD)
- 1989 -?: Walter Uhr (CDU)
- July 1, 1995 - October 21, 2009: Manfred Gillé (independent)
- Mayor Manfred Gillé was replaced on October 21, 2009 by the non-party Bernhard Baumann, who was elected in the local elections on August 30, 2009 with 62% of the vote. In the 2014 local elections, he was confirmed in office with 89.1% of the valid votes.
coat of arms
The coat of arms is that of the nobles of Seelbach and shows three black diamonds, slanted to the right and in bars, on a golden background.
On October 28, 1969, the municipality of Neunkirchen was granted the right to use its own coat of arms by a certificate from the district president from Arnsberg .
Town twinning
Pausa in the Vogtlandkreis has been one of Neunkirchen's twin towns since 1990 . The second twin town Gainsborough in England has been on friendly terms with Neunkirchen since 1972 and was officially declared a twin town in 1991.
Culture and sights
Museums
In 1977, after two years of conversion and renovation work, the building on the Leyhof was opened in Neunkirchen as the "Museum of the Free Ground". 1979 the sponsorship of the museum was taken over by the municipality of Neunkirchen. Today, after numerous renovations, the building has almost 600 m² of exhibition space on all floors. Around 3000 exhibits are on display from the areas of Hauberg , agriculture, mining, handicrafts and living spaces with different rooms. A tunnel system and mineral collection can be seen in the basement, and electronic and household items from the past and present are exhibited in the attic. Next to the museum there is the “East German home room”.
In the Salchendorf district, the Wodanstolln has been a show mine since 1997, providing information about the mining tradition of Salchendorf and the Siegerland.
Buildings
The old Neunkirchen administrative building has been in the LWL open-air museum in Hagen since the 1970s . It was built around 250 years ago through forced labor by the Freie Grunder population and had to give way to a new town hall .
The Pfannenberg tower on the Pfannenberg head is an old winding tower of the Pfannenberger Einigkeit mine , which was demolished in 1932 and rebuilt in 1934 as a lookout tower on the mountain.
Natural monuments
Meter -high basalt domes can be seen on the Hohenseelbachskopf and Mahlscheid . They were created around 7 million years ago through volcanic activity and were dismantled between 1900 and 1920 as a surface for road construction, especially on the Mahlscheid. Today they are under nature protection, in the open pit of the Mahlscheid opencast mine the Silbersee has formed. The Hohenseelbachskopf in particular is a popular destination today .
Sports
Neunkirchen has six school gyms and one sports hall for club and school sports. The latter is located on Rassberg, the gyms in Altenseelbach, Struthütten and two each in Salchendorf and Neunkirchen. Five sports fields are available, two of which are equipped with artificial turf (Salchendorf and Neunkirchen). In addition to these options, there are two bowling alleys, a riding arena, several tennis courts and shooting ranges, and a mini golf course.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Neunkirchen has three stations on the Hellertalbahn : Neunkirchen (Kr Siegen), Altenseelbach and Struthütten. The latter two are demand stops . The RB 96 line connects Neunkirchen every hour by rail with Betzdorf (Sieg) via Herdorf and every two hours with Burbach, Haiger and Dillenburg .
The public transport with buses is determined by the transport companies Westphalia south and the BRS ( bus Ruhr-victory operated). In addition, a citizens' bus was introduced in Neunkirchen to supplement the existing offer. Neunkirchen Post is the intersection of the bus routes
- R15: Neunkirchen– Wilden - Wilnsdorf - Siegen (VWS)
- R22: Neunkirchen – Siegen (BRS)
- R23: Neunkirchen– Herdorf - ( Daaden ) (BRS)
- R24: Neunkirchen – Burbach (BRS)
- L230: Local traffic Neunkirchen (only school traffic ) (BRS)
- Citizen bus Neunkirchen
The A 45 autobahn ("Sauerland line") can be reached via the Wilnsdorf district of Wilden . Siegerland Airport , south of Burbach , is not far away .
There is a traffic training area in the Altenseelbach district , which is opened on request.
Established businesses
- Buhl Data Service GmbH
- Schäfer Group - sheet metal blanks, split strips
- Schäfer Werke GmbH - Kegs, perforated sheets
- SSI Schäfer - waste technology, shelf storage systems
media
In Neunkirchen there is a radio transmission tower which, among other things, broadcasts Radio Siegen for Neunkirchen and the surrounding area (98.9 MHz). Since March 2006, broadband internet access DSL has also been available in parts of Neunkirchen .
education
The community of Neunkirchen forms a school center in the southern Siegerland. In addition to the three primary schools in Salchendorf, Neunkirchen and Struthütten, there is a secondary school and a grammar school .
Others
Personalities
- Emil Denker (1889–1934) Democrat, trade unionist
- Ernst Nassauer (1901–1944), politician, born in Struthütten
- Karl Roth (1902–1980), entrepreneur, local politician (FDP) and honorary district administrator
- Otto Reiffenrath (1921–1990), 20 years (1969–1989) mayor, 33 years local politician (SPD)
- Hans-Jürgen Knieke (1932–2006), lawyer and politician, born in Wiederstein
- Klaus-Bernd Kreutz (* 1957), entrepreneur and former motocross driver, born in Zeppenfeld
literature
- 700 years of Neunkirchen , Otto Braun Verlag, Neunkirchen 1988
- Neunkirchen in old pictures. Otto Braun, Neunkirchen 1980.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ Siegener Urkundenbuch Volume I, Siegen, 1887, pp. 34–35, no. 55.
- ↑ a b c d e f g E. Weidenbach: History of the county of Sayn and the components of the same , print E. Weidenbach, Dillenburg 1874, p. 287.
- ↑ a b Heinrich Gamann: history of free reason , printing of the West German Publishing Company, Neunkirchen 1925, p. 6
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970.
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 72 .
- ↑ State database NRW
- ↑ 700 years of Neunkirchen , Otto Braun Verlag, Neunkirchen 1988
- ^ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen , Siegen 1968
- ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1887, pp. 110/111
- ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1897, pp. 112/113
- ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
- ↑ genealogy.net: Office Burbach
- ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 227 .
- ^ Volkhard Wrage: Success of Territorial Reform. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1975, p. 16. (Series of publications by the University of Speyer, Volume 56)
- ↑ Rolf Betz: Neunkirchen (PDF; 7.3 MB) , approx. 1995
- ^ Community information Neunkirchen ( Memento from March 6, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Municipality of Neunkirchen in Siegerland: Citizens' Information Figures / Data / Facts ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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.
- ↑ neunkirchen-siegerland.de: population data ( Memento of 31 August 2007 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b neunkirchen-siegerland.de: facts and figures
- ↑ State Returning Officer NRW - municipal elections 2014, final result for Neunkirchen
- ^ Neunkirchen community Neunkirchen - overall result - distribution of seats
- ^ Siegerländer Chronik from September 1, 1989 to August 31, 1990 , Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1991, pp. 173–174, 66th edition, published by Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein e. V., publishing house for local literature
- ^ Report "DerWesten.de" from August 31, 2009
- ↑ State Returning Officer NRW
- ↑ siwikultur.de: Museum of Free ground, Neunkirchen
- ↑ neunkirchen-siegerland.de: East German history museum , accessed 25 February 2012
- ↑ neunkirchen-siegerland.de: sports facilities , accessed 25 February 2012
- ↑ neunkirchen-siegerland.de: education landscape , accessed 25 February 2012
Web links
- Website of the Neunkirchen community
- Extensive information about Neunkirchen at www.findcity.de
- Neunkirchen in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
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