Steinrausch (Langenfeld)

Steinrausch (Langenfeld) City of Langenfeld (Rhineland) Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 9 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 4 ″  E
Height :	52 m above sea level NN
Location of Steinrausch (Langenfeld) in Langenfeld (Rhineland)

Steinrausch be called a local situation , a road , a bus stop and an under monument protection standing settlement in Langenfeld (Rhineland.) .

geography

The name “Steinrausch” today refers to a settlement halfway between Immigrath and Richrath , but originally - if you take the chapel at Steinrausche - it might have reached from Ganspohl in the south to behind the cemetery in Richrath. The location presumably extended on both sides of Richrather Straße , which, by the way, traces the course of the former mouse path . The area rises behind the town hall via a terrace to the north. This is a former river terrace , the middle terrace of the Rhine , otherwise the terrain is flat. The soil is largely sandy , and in the past it was covered by a pine forest . In the area of Carl-Diem-Weg there was also a heather overgrown with gorse , called "Dreesch", until the 1970s . Mentioned in this context, a number of sand and gravel pits are reported, which provided the owners with a small additional income in addition to modest horticulture or poorly productive agriculture .

history

The story of the location "Steinrausch" should be told in a few sentences - even if it were known in detail - between 1662 and 1676 a chapel was built on the Steinrausch , which was dedicated to St. Joseph of Nazareth . It can be regarded as the forerunner of today's St. Josef Church . It stood opposite the town hall, roughly on the site of today's Hewag monastery. This is the old people's home with the rounded corner at the intersection of Theodor-Heuss-Straße , Richrather Straße and Solinger Straße (here: area of ​​the former Kanalstraße , which got its name from the canalised Immigrather Bach). Incidentally, the small church was first mentioned in a debt certificate from 1676. Since it was also still unknown around 1662, the construction date is between these two years. After that, the stone rush was quiet again, until around 1830 there was an argument about replacing the chapel , which had since become dilapidated by the flooding of the Immigrather Bach , with a new building . After the resignation of the old building a baupolizeilicher stop and the subsequent then heated demolition of the nearly finished new chapel in the minds Immigrath. Yet still lasted until 1886 until the emergency church of St. Josef another church building was built in Immigrath. Finally, from 1920 onwards, the Langenfeld building association founded in 1919 built the settlement called Steinrausch, which will be the subject of consideration shortly.

The name

The name “Steinrausch” is a mystery to science . As far as the rustling over stones in the stream is assumed to be the origin, this is not very convincing due to the sandy terrain. In any case, stone could at best be understood in the sense of gravel , if one were referring to a natural occurrence of this material. A later composition would also be unthinkable due to the erection of a simple floor cross (made of stone) instead of the chapel, since this was already called the chapel on the Steinrausche. An interpretation based on a phonetic translation of the Germanic “labis” (= Bach ) into the almost identical-sounding Latin “lapis” (= stone) combined with the reference to preferred places of Germanic cult sites , which were remembered with the establishment of Christian churches, is also less convincing . Such assumptions seem far-fetched, after all, the chapel would have been built here almost one and a half millennia after the fall of Germanic culture ( migration from 100 AD ) and presumably a complete repopulation of this area after 500 years without settlement sites (from 750 AD). In addition, there is no mention of a former cult site of Germanic origin on the Immigrather Bach.

The assumption of a derivation from the plant name “stone rush” , with which the crowberry was described, seems more plausible. This occurs in heathland and on dunes as a shrub . The aspen , popularly known as “Rausche”, could also have been the godmother of the name, especially since it grows as a cultural successor in gorse heaths . Finally, this could wild , in the hunter language referred to as "noise", nor to the naming contributed.

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  Office building association Richrather Straße 92

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  Two-family houses street: In den Griesen

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  “Building sin” Paulstrasse Viewpoint Jahnstrasse

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  Martinsiedlung: crossing Martinplatz: Martinstraße

Architectural monuments at the Steinrausch

The architectural monuments at Steinrausch were assessed by the Rhenish Office for Monument Preservation , Brauweiler Abbey, Pulheim . The corresponding statements of this office in the Region Rheinland for settlement "Steinrausch" date of 11 May 1994, the 1996th to the settlement "Martin Place" of 20 June basis were the one hand, the information provided by the applicant, the Building Association itself, its own investigation as well as information of the in Rolf Müller, "Stadtgeschichte Langenfeld, Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld 1992", was particularly honored in both elaborations.

The "Steinrausch" settlement

The Steinrausch settlement , built between 1920 and 1928 according to plans by the Düsseldorf architect Gustav August Munzer , consists of various houses on Richrather Strasse and the Steinrausch , which also gave the settlement its name.

The "Martinplatz" settlement

The Martinplatz housing estate was designed by the architects Bernhard and Heinrich Rotterdam and was built from 1949 on Jahnstraße , Martinstraße , the cross street of Richrather Straße and Martinplatz .

Individual evidence

1. ^ VHS work group "History", "The Chapel at Steinrausche" , Langenfeld 1993
2. ^ "Expert opinion on the monument value of the Steinrausch settlement in Langenfeld", Pulheim 1994
3. ^ "Expert opinion on the monument value of the Martinplatz settlement in Langenfeld", Pulheim 1996