Steinbergen

Steinbergen City of Rinteln Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 11 ″  N , 9 ° 7 ′ 20 ″  E
Residents :	1730  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	31737
Area code :	05751
Location of Steinbergen in Lower Saxony

Steinbergen seen from above

the church from above

Steinbergen is a village in the Lower Saxon town of Rinteln in the Schaumburg district with 1730 inhabitants at the end of 2016.

geography

Steinbergen is located approximately 5 km northeast of the core area of ​​Rinteln in the Weserbergland Schaumburg-Hameln nature park . The A 2 runs north 1 km away. At Steinbergen the federal highway 238 meets the federal highway 83 .

Steinbergen owns a train station 111 meters high on the disused Rinteln – Stadthagen railway , a 20.4 km long standard-gauge railway from Rinteln to Stadthagen , which is operated as a museum railway.

history

In 1910 the place had 837 inhabitants, on December 31, 2012 there were 1820.

Culture and sights

On the Hirschkuppe as a striking mountain spur of the Weser Mountains near Steinbergen, the oldest metal artifact in Lower Saxony was found in 2011, the Steinbergen copper ax . The approximately 10 cm long flat ax made of almost pure copper is due to its shape in the first half to the middle of the 4th millennium BC. Dated.

Arensburg Castle and the adventure and leisure park Erlebniswelt steinzeichen are located in Steinbergen . To the south-east of the village are the remains of the Hünenburg Steinbergen as a small medieval fortification , which is probably the Stenborch , which was handed down from the 12th century and which gave the settlement its name.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Heiner Bartling (* 1946), German educator and SPD - politician , 1998-2003 Lower Saxony Interior Minister

literature

• Heinrich Hugo: History of Steinbergen [Schaumburger Heimathefte 12]. Published by Heinrich Lathwesen, Verlag C. Bösendahl, Rinteln 1967 on behalf of the Historical Working Group for Schaumburg
• Heinz-Erich Fauth: Steinbergen. The Weser Mountains Pass and the Arensburg Office in the history of the central Weser region . Self-published, Rinteln 1994 ISBN 3-88368-323-X

Web links

• Steinbergen as a district of Rinteln
• Historical local walk (pdf)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics as of December 31, 2016. (pdf) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 17, 2017 ; accessed on October 28, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe - Bückeburg district. Retrieved October 28, 2017 .