Stallberg

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Stallberg is a district of the district town of Siegburg in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church in Stallberg

The church portal

geography

Stallberg is north-northeast of Siegburg and west of the district of Kaldauen . In the north, Stallberg borders the Siegburg / Lohmar state forest. The development of Stallberg mainly consists of residential areas. The center of the village is the traffic-calmed Kaldauer Straße.

Economy and Infrastructure

The chemical factory Kepec , which last belonged to Henkel and was founded in Bonn in 1922 , moved to Stallberg in 1929. Before relocating production to Düsseldorf in 2004, it manufactured surfactants (cosmetic raw materials, fragrances, textile auxiliaries, additives) for detergents for 75 years . After the renovation of the factory premises in 2011, a ReweXL store was built and the adjoining free space was built on with multi-family, semi-detached and single-family houses.

The largest employer on the Stallberg today is the Thales Group .

Stallberg has good road connections with four bus lines that go to various neighboring towns and Siegburg every 10 to 15 minutes. In addition, Stallberg is on the B 56 , the Siegburg u. a. connects with Bonn in the south-west and with Cologne in the north-west via the federal highway 3 . Stallberg does not have its own rail connection.

The Siegburg branch of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief is based in the Stallberg district. The Siegburg equestrian center is also located on the Stallberg. The fire fighting group 4 (Stallberg) of the Siegburg volunteer fire brigade is deployed here.

history

The designation Stallberg means stable , Old High German-Middle High German for place, room, place, place to live .

Excavations in the vicinity of the district revealed that the area was first settled in prehistoric times. At least finds from barrows from the years 800 - 400 BC indicate this . Chr.

As early as the Middle Ages, a long-distance trade and messenger route led from Cologne to Frankfurt through Stallberg.

The first documentary mention of the Stallberg can be found in a repurchase agreement dated May 17, 1399 . This is kept in the Siegburg City Archives. From this contract it follows that the area was already built on with several farms at that time. Today street names such as Deutzer-Hof-Straße, Winterberger Straße or Seidenbergstraße still remind of these courtyards.

With the promotion of the development of the Stallberg from 1949/50 and the associated growth in the population, today's Stallberg primary school was built in 1957 . In 1953/54 the Catholic parish church of St. Mary's Conception was built, which received a baptismal font carved from wood by the sculptor Xaver Willmann . This baptismal font was designed by Abbot Dr. Ildefons Schulte Strathaus was consecrated on May 8, 1958.

It was also at this time that the Evangelical Church Community of Siegburg built the Martin Luther Church Hall designed by Siegburg architect Wilhelm Heuser .

Web links

• Stallberg Citizens' Association

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 57 ″  E