Greens (Iserlohn)

Green City of Iserlohn Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 58 ″  E
Height :	approx. 170 m
Residents :	2710  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code :	58644
Primaries :	02374 (lower green), 02371 (upper green)
Location of the green in Iserlohn
View into the undergreen

Iserlohn private brewery in the Obergrüne (2006)

The Green is a southwestern district of Iserlohn in the Sauerland in North Rhine-Westphalia and is divided into Obergrüne and Untergrüne . The green is elongated in the valley of the Grüner Bach and is 6 km long and only a few hundred meters wide. The Pillingser Bach and the Saatbach flow into the Grüner Bach through some side valleys.

At the end of 2019 there were 1,760 inhabitants in the Untergrüne, and 950 in the Obergrüne / Stadtwald district. An important traffic axis runs through the Untergrüne from Iserlohn-Zentrum to Letmathe or Altena . Neighboring districts are Lasbeck , Letmathe, Oestrich , Dröschede and Roden .

historical overview

The name of the Grüner Bach probably comes from old Germanic terms like gruden or grüdeln = to stir up , to disturb. First mentions as Gruden come from before 1250 or Grueden from 1439. Even today a street in the Untergrüne is called "Grudene".

Centuries ago, metal processing companies that used the water of the brook settled in the Grüner Tal. At the beginning of the 17th century, large wire production facilities were set up all over Iserlohn, including in the Grüner Tal. The Commerce Johann Caspar leaks suggested the mid-18th century, the founding of a brass union, which built a zinc smelter and a Messingschmelzerei in the green after the 1,751th His grandson, the industrialist Franz Arnold Lecke , had several rolls of wire , a yarn bleaching facility, a thimble mill and a paper factory built in the valley at the beginning of the 19th century . P. Wilke and J. D. Halver built chain works around 1805, some of which are still preserved today or secure the site through structural extensions.

In the middle of the 19th century the Letmathe – Iserlohn railway line was built with a stop at the Dechenhöhle . At the end of the 19th century there were considerations to run a railway line of national importance through the Obergrüne. You should be on the long-distance Frankfurt - Muenster to Hauptbahnhof Hagen relieve and Altena guide you through the Wixberg to Iserlohn and further north. The project was dropped for cost reasons.

The Iserlohner Brewery was founded in 1899 , which later became a private brewery and ceased production in 2014. In 1904 the Green Rifle Club was founded.

A world-famous invention from the green is the Heuer traffic light , which was invented in the Heuer-Hammer company by Josef Heuer in the 1930s. These traffic lights hung in many countries around the world, including several German cities until the 1970s. The Heuerampel was largely replaced by traffic lights.

Although the two districts are very similar, they were administratively separated for centuries. The Obergrüne has always belonged to Iserlohn, while the Untergrüne over time belonged to the Lössel Office, Oestrich Office and later to the town of Letmathe. Both districts have belonged to the city of Iserlohn since 1975.

Stone cross in memory of the tram accident in 1924

In 1901 a tram of the Iserlohner Kreisbahn was built by the Green and a large depot was built in the lower part of the Untergrüne. First of all, the route from Letmathe to Iserlohn was built, shortly afterwards a branch from the green to Nachrodt . On June 17, 1924, a train crashed on the sloping stretch of Düsingstrasse (Iserlohn – Letmathe route). 24 people died and 42 were injured. As a result, a new route with a lower incline was built along the mountain slope. After the cessation of rail operations in 1959, this line was converted into a bypass road for the Green district.

Local public transport is now ensured by the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft . Not only the neighboring districts, but also Hohenlimburg, Altena and Lüdenscheid can be reached via six bus lines.

In the second half of the 20th century, some residential areas (Pillingser Kopf, Ernststraße / Saatweg, Roden) were developed on the mountain slopes.

In the mid-2000s, the city of Iserlohn invested in the development of the district, as it was certified as having a decreasing quality of life. A roundabout was built in the New Green Center and a new shopping center on a former industrial site. Doctors, a pharmacy and a savings bank branch have settled in the immediate vicinity.

Overgreen

Iron Cross

The Obergrüne is located on the L888 state road on the western edge of the Iserlohn city forest. The Dannenhöfer area in the south of the district is the starting point for hikers in the city forest. Down the valley follow small residential areas and the fire station of the Obergrüner fire fighting group of the Iserlohn volunteer fire brigade .

In the district there was a primary school and a kindergarten, but they were closed because of the declining population. The building complex of the Iserlohn private brewery can be seen from a distance . A little further to the north-west is the Grüner sports field before the district ends at the roundabout in Grüner Mitte .

On the slope above the Green Center stands the Iron Cross memorial , which was erected in 1816 to commemorate those who fell in the Napoleonic Wars and the Wars of Liberation and was ceremoniously unveiled on October 18 , the anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig .

Undergreens

The Untergrüne runs in an east-west direction and lies along the state roads L 899 and L 743 and, in the lower part, when the Grüner Tal merges into the Lennetal , on the B 236 . In the upper part there is a well-developed infrastructure with a shopping center, bakeries, savings bank and doctors. There is also the Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche , whose congregation runs a kindergarten.

In Saattal primary school is Saatschule the city Iserlohn. In the lower area of ​​the Green Valley are the Dechenhöhle and the former depot of the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft , which today houses a delivery yard for the waste disposal association, in which residents of Iserlohn and some neighboring towns can dispose of almost everything. The Untergrüne fire station is in the neighboring district of Dröschede.

Before the construction of the A 45 (Sauerland line), a large part of the north-south traffic in the western Sauerland was routed through the Lennetal via the B 236 . Together with the B 7 that used to run here (today via the A 46 ), the Untergrüne was an important traffic junction in the Lennetal.

literature

• Götz Bettge: Iserlohn Lexicon . Hans-Herbert Mönnig Verlag, Iserlohn 1987, ISBN 3-922885-37-3 .

Web links

Commons : Greens  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Iserlohn: Contributions to urban research and statistics (PDF), accessed on March 15, 2020
2. ↑ Götz Bettge: Iserlohn-Lexikon, p. 54.
3. ↑ Götz Bettge: Iserlohn-Lexikon, p. 307f.
4. ^ Website of the Ostwestfalen University of Applied Sciences
5. ↑ Report in the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger on December 27, 2008
6. ^ Christoph Riedel: Railway in the Sauerland . GeraMond Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-932785-22-3 , p. 127.