Jägerspfad settlement

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The Jägerspfad settlement is a district of Eschweiler in the Aachen city region - divided between the pump-stitch district with the St. Barbara parish and the Röthgen district with the St. Marien parish. The settlement is located on the northern slope of the Eschweiler city forest .

Settlement history

Jägerspfad level crossing

The main street and namesake is the "Jägerspfad". Originally it was a forest path from Oberröthgen to Pump-Stich and a path for hunters. The open spring at the beginning of the path after the Second World War was for a long time the only water supply for the local population. The "Jägerspfad" has a gradient of 5 to 7%. It was expanded further in 1996 because, along with the "Sticherberg", it is the main connection between the southern Eschweiler suburbs and the city center. Where it meets the "Burgstrasse" in Röthgen near Röthgen Castle , there was the last remaining level crossing on the high-speed line from Cologne to Aachen . This was closed in April 2020.

The settlement is divided into three clearly separated parts, although it is completely built up:

In the Hag

The old field name was retained for this building area. Construction started in 1956. This quarter with single-family houses and villas is characterized by the dense tree cover. The only requirement was to cut down the trees that were absolutely necessary for building the house. The area is popularly known as the "Mortgage Quarter" or "Mortgage Grove", as many building owners had to take out a mortgage for the house themselves in addition to the cheap land price of 50 pfennigs per square meter. "Im Hag" belongs to Pump-Stich and to the parish "Heilig Geist", which was formed in 2010 from five former parishes in the southern urban area of ​​Eschweiler. The quarter lies to the west of the "Jägerspfad" and east of the "Colonie Wilhelmine zu Stich", which was built from 1899 to 1900 and whose typical miners' houses are listed.

Ring furnace area

To the south of "Im Hag" and also to the west of the "Jägerspfads" lies the so-called "Ringofengelände", which has been built on since the late 1990s. The name is reminiscent of the former brickworks with Hoffmann's ring kiln , which was founded in 1898 by JH Faensen, employed up to 100 people and produced until 1967. In 1981 the facility was demolished. It comprised a field fire oven, two ring ovens, a sawmill and a timber and building materials trade. Clay mining took place on the south-western slope on the edge of the city forest.

Hermann-Löns-Anger

Hermann-Löns-Anger with a view of the city center

To the west of the "Jägerspfads" the settlement extends around the Anger, named in 1959 after the German poet Hermann Löns . Between 1937 and 1939, forests were cleared here and Dehag created a building area for around 100 settler positions for the German Labor Front DAF. The original name of the Angers in the middle of this Ley settlement was "Angerstrasse" in 1939. The street names here are reminiscent of the forest vegetation and Eschweiler mining as well as its personalities: Am Grünen Winkel , Am Hang , Am Kitzberg and Buschweg on the one hand, Am Heinrichsschacht , Am Pütt (Pütt = mine, mine), Heinrichsweg , Kunstschacht and Matthiasweg on the other. The lower half of the settlement belongs to Oberröthgen, the upper half to the Stich in the Pump-Stich district.

traffic

The next junction is "Eschweiler-West" on the A4 . The next train station is " Eschweiler Hbf " on the Cologne - Düren - Aachen route . The three stops "Am Hang", "Stich Siedlung" and "Oberdorf" are connected by an AVV bus line with Eschweiler Bushof, Röthgen, Stich, Pump, Siedlung Waldschule and Stolberg . While the "Oberdorf" stop is in Oberröthgen and the "Eschweiler-Mitte" tariff zone, the other two stops are in Pump-Stich and the "Eschweiler-Umland" tariff zone.

Web links

Commons : Siedlung Jägerspfad  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Müller: The train digs on Burgstrasse. In: aachener-zeitung.de. March 21, 2019, accessed August 2, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '  N , 6 ° 16'  E