Steinernkreuz

Steinernkreuz City of Marl Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 12 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 44 ″  E
Height :	79 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.09 km²
Postal code :	45770
Location of the village in the urban area

Steinernkreuz is a locality in the town of Marl in the Recklinghausen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The settlement is in the southeast of the city of Marl and is close to the border with the city of Herten to the south and the border to the district town of Recklinghausen to the east . Not far to the northwest is the core of Alt-Marl , and Drewer to the north . In the east are the "fish ponds", south of the place flows from west to east, the Kleverbecke , the left source brook of the Loemühlenbach . In the south of the village is the Arenberg Forest, in the east the built-up areas border on the foothills of the Matena forest .

Origin of name

The (second) replica from 1893

Steinernkreuz got its name from a stone cross on the corner of Langenbochumer Strasse and Recklinghäuser Strasse. At this place a stone cross was erected by the local farmers in 1536 at the latest to give so-called "poor sinners" the opportunity to say a last prayer there before those sentenced to death in Recklinghausen went to the place of execution "am Galgenknöppken" on the Kleverbecke river were led. Even if research can only prove the existence of a cross at that point only from around 1660, the oldest mention of a "Steinern Kreutz" can be found in a note from the Ostendorf house from 1536 on an inheritance loan between the Ostendorf house and that of Loë .

Many years later the cross was moved to the Frentrop Heath, a forest area owned by the Duke of Arenberg . After the hunts in this area were stopped, the cross was moved again near the "Zum schwatten Jans" inn on Dorstener Straße, where the Schmies family has taken care of the care and maintenance of the cross ever since. In Steinernkreuz, however, a simple wooden cross was set up as a replacement. In 1893 the property owners, the Halfmann family, had the wooden cross replaced by a new sandstone cross with the inscription "Dem Heil ein Kreuz" embedded in the base. The cross was initially set with the front facing Langenbochumer Straße, before it was turned with the front facing north during road works in 1938. Due to the cross standing there for several centuries, the description of the stone cross was transferred over time to the intersection and later to the farmers and the village. The first mention of names in the Marl administration for the place is shown in files of the Marl mayor's office from 1811.

history

In the early modern era, the "stone cross" marked a striking crossroads on the trunk road between Dorsten and Recklinghausen, where an important transport route from Westerholt via Hüls to Haltern crossed the road, and later a residential area within the old Drewer farming community , today's Drewer district . The location of the town, which is important for traffic, as well as the relatively long distances to the towns of Marl and Recklinghausen made Steinernkreuz an important stop and point on the route, so that a carter pub to take care of the horses as well as a post office were established early on. In 1893 the "Catholic Primary School Drewer I" in Steinernkreuz was the second Marl school ever to be built. A tram stop on the Recklinghausen-Dorsten line followed in the village. The German Reich Map 1: 100,000 shows only a few scattered buildings at the beginning of the 20th century, which were mostly "Kotten" (ie farms). After industrialization, especially in the 1930s and 1940s, a large number of new buildings were erected on Langenbochumer Straße and along Recklinghäuser Straße (today houses no. 142 to 235), so that a comparatively dense development was created in the rural area. As a result, Steinernkreuz has developed into a town that has more inhabitants than the rest of Linde. In the Marl city structure, Steinernkreuz was run as an independent district between the Rest-Linde in the south and Drewer-Süd in the north until the regional reform in 1975. Today Steinernkreuz is no longer a nominal district and belongs to the statistical district Alt-Marl-Süd within the district Alt-Marl .

traffic

Signpost in Steinernkreuz (road sign No. 385)

Following the historical development of the old Dorsten-Recklinghausen trunk road, the federal road , until 1945 Reichsstrasse 225, still runs right through Steinernkreuz. With around 16,000 vehicles per day, the main road is the main connection through the town. The city centers of Dorsten and Recklinghausen can be reached in about ten to 15 minutes by car. In a north-south direction, the west is passed by Hertener Straße , which is the connection between Herten and Marl center. In the center of the village, near the cross, the Langehegge branches off from the B 225 , which leads through the southern Drewer and ends at Bergstrasse .

The tram stop in Steinernkreuz, which existed in the district until the tram system was abandoned, has since been replaced / continued by a bus stop operated by Vestische Straßenbahnen GmbH :

Type	number	Route
line	270	Recklinghausen Hbf - RE Knappschafts-Krhs. - Steinernkreuz - Marl-Drewer-Süd - Marl Mitte
line	SB 25	Recklinghausen main station - Steinernkreuz - Marl Mitte - Dorsten ZOB
line	NE 3	Dorsten ZOB - Marl Mitte - Steinernkreuz - Recklinghausen Central Station

Infrastructure

In addition to a bakery, a restaurant with an attached hotel and a gardening business, Steinernkreuz has hardly any commercial companies. An industrial park developed by the city has been under construction on Karl-Breuing-Strasse since 2007. The area around the place is still mainly characterized by a lot of agriculture.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Birgit Wessel, painter and artist

Individual evidence

1. ^ Map of the districts of Marl before 1975 , estimate of the city of Marl based on the map
2. ↑ GenWiki: House Loë (Marl-Drewer)
3. ↑ Marler month (series of publications of the adult education center), vol. 2 (1953), issue 4, p. 16
4. ↑ File inventory of the Mayor's Office Marl 1811 - 1841, Marl City Archives
5. ^ German Reich Map 1: 100,000, sheet 354 Recklinghausen
6. ^ Map of the districts of Marl before 1975 , genealogy.net
7. ↑ Map of the statistical districts of Marls , accessed on May 9, 2016 (PDF; 6.5 MB)
8. ^ Traffic census on German federal highways (2010). BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on January 29, 2015 .  (PDF file; 936 KB)