Sand (Königswinter)
Sand is a district of the city of Königswinter in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It belongs to the district and the district Oberpleis , on December 31, 2019 it had 213 inhabitants.
geography
Sand is about 2.5 km east of the center of Oberpleis on a hill on the southwestern ridge of the Stuxenberg . The village covers altitudes between 220 and 235 m above sea level. NHN . In the north-west, sand flows smoothly into the hamlet of Waschpohl, the closest localities also include Wiersberg in the north, Wellesberg in the north-east (both town of Hennef (Sieg) ), Bennerscheid in the south-east, Sandscheid in the south-west and Frohnhardt in the west. Sand is traversed by Landesstrasse 268 ( Uckerath –Oberpleis– Oberdollendorf ).
history
The village of Sand emerged from a collection of several farms . It belonged to the parish of Oberpleis in the Bergisches Amt Blankenberg . After the dissolution of the Duchy of Berg in 1806, Sand was assigned to the Oberpleis mayor (until 1813 Mairie Oberpleis ), which from 1816 belonged to the Siegburg district . In the 1843 census , sand was still listed as courtyards and comprised 12 residential buildings. From 1846 the village belonged to the politically independent municipality of Oberpleis. The children of Sand attended the Catholic elementary school in Sandscheid, which opened in 1898 and which was converted into a primary school in 1965.
- Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1816 | 32 |
| 1828 | 35 |
| 1843 | 72 |
| 1885 | 119 |
| 1905 | 75 |
Attractions
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The following are listed as historical monuments :
- a road cross ( votive cross ) made of sandstone on Oberpleiser Strasse; built in 1913; Stepped granite base , altar plate with shell niche, crowning stone cross with three-fitting ends and a cast-iron body
- a war memorial outside the village on the corner of Oberpleiser Strasse and Pützstücker Strasse for those who died in the First and Second World Wars ; originally built in 1920; Base made of basalt columns with inscriptions (names of the fallen) on black marble, obelisk made of red sandstone with inscriptions on white marble , relief representations in the center ; embedded in a square including iron fence and oak tree
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ without secondary residences ; Population statistics of the city of Königswinter (PDF)
- ^ AA Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state , Verlag KA Kümmel, Halle 1823, fourth volume, p. 207
- ^ Friedrich von Restorff: Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 303
- ↑ Royal Government of Cologne: overview of the components u. Directory of all localities in the government district of Cologne. Cöln 1845, p. 106. ( Online ub.uni-duesseldorf.de )
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Province of Rhineland, Publishing House of the Royal Statistical Bureau (Hrsg.), 1888, pages 118 u. 119.
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Booklet XII Rhine Province. Berlin 1909, p. 151.
- ↑ a b Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in the Rhineland , volume 23.5.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 261.
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 45 " N , 7 ° 18 ′ 47" E