Steinrausch (Saarlouis)

The Steinrausch is a neighborhood of the district town of Saarlouis in Saarland and has about 4200 inhabitants (as of June 2006).

history

• Celtic settlement in pre-Christian times . Remnants of this settlement were cataloged and measured before construction began.
• From 1962, the Steinrausch residential area, designed on the drawing board, was built on the landmarks of Roden and Fraulautern in order to create living space for the employees of the Ford factory in Saarlouis, which was being built nearby . In 1967 the first house (Kurt-Schumacher-Allee) was completed.
• In 1972 the Steinrausch became a separate district (Saarlouis 8).

useful information

Until the mid-1970s there was only Kurt-Schumacher-Allee as a connection to the Roden district. In order to reach the industrial area Röderberg, considerable detours had to be accepted. Only then was Teilhard-de-Chardin-Allee completed and a second connection to Roden (Saarwellinger Straße), the Röderberg and the sawmill created.

In the mid-1980s (after the cable pilot project in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ), cable television was introduced by the Deutsche Bundespost at a very early stage . Previously, reception was only possible via so-called collective antennas (locations: Kurt-Schumacher-Allee and Max-Planck-Straße), as individual installation of antennas was not permitted for reasons of aesthetics . The cable head-end station for satellite reception was located in Ölwerkweg (Fraulautern), the terrestrial signals for VHF radio and TV stations from France and Luxembourg were received from a 50-meter-high concrete mast by the old outdoor pool. The cable head-end station in Ölwerkweg was shut down in the mid-1990s due to high costs (heating of the parabolic antennas in winter) and the programs received via satellite were brought about by radio link from the cable head-end station in Lebach. For this purpose, a directional radio antenna was installed on the antenna mast at the outdoor pool. The antenna mast is now also home to GSM / LTE converters and relay systems for digital government radio. During the planning, it was also important to ensure that the telephone and power supply were laid underground. The exclusive heating with fossil fuels (wood, coal, gas, oil) was (and is still partly ) not permitted. Even hot water could only be prepared with flow heaters or electric boilers.

The former ruin in today's Berliner Allee is worth mentioning. A high-rise building that was not completed in the early 1970s defaced the cityscape for years. The construction (lower than originally planned) was only completed with the construction of the shopping center.

All houses were equipped with night storage heaters until the beginning of the 1990s . There were special, cheap electricity tariffs (night tariffs) for this. With the completion of the Saar central coking plant in Dillingen / Saar , Steinrausch was supplied with district heating across the board , and through subsidies as an incentive, many residents had their night storage heaters disposed of ( asbestos ) and district heating systems installed.

The proportion of households with district heating is now over 90 percent. The outdoor pool is also heated with district heating.

The Steinrausch outdoor pool replaced the old Roden outdoor pool, which was closed in the early 1970s; Remnants of this swimming pool could be seen in the Schwimmbadstrasse in Roden until the mid-1980s.

From the mid-1980s to 2012, the two-day Steinrauschfest took place regularly in September. The organizer was the local interest group OIG Steinrausch e. V. as well as a party. At first the fairground was at the shopping center, later between the elementary school and the stone rush hall. Once the festival took place on the “Steinrauscher Festwiese”, which was not well received by the visitors due to the unattractive location. The festival was canceled several times due to discrepancies, but has now established itself.

In the Steinrauschhalle there was a hotel that was mainly used by fitters. The hotel was officially closed at the end of the 1990s.

The western part of the Steinrausch is traversed by a Siegfried Line. A total of four armored domes, which survived the Second World War almost unscathed, bear witness to this . There is also a former water reservoir on the Galgenberg , which supplied the Roden district with water until the 1920s. Access to the water reservoir and parts of the Siegfried Line was open until the early 1980s, but was then filled in for safety reasons. The name Steinrausch comes from the earlier agricultural use by farmers from Roden, Fraulautern and Saarwellingen . Since the soil is very stony, the stones "rustled" under the plow when the fields were plowed.

Catholic Church of Saint John

Social facilities

On the Steinrausch there is a fun pool, a judo hall, a multi-purpose hall, four churches (Roman Catholic, Protestant, Free Protestant, Jehovah's Witnesses), a primary school, two kindergartens, the fire station of the fire-fighting district east of the Saarlouis volunteer fire department and in the core a shopping center with various shops, doctors and other service providers. Until the end of the 1980s, the cath. Parish only has an emergency church (barracks made of wood) with a small lending library. This was demolished after a "parish center" called St. Johannes was rebuilt in the immediate vicinity .

sunbathing

The outdoor pool, which was newly opened in 2002, has a total water area of ​​1924 m², divided into four pools: sports and swimmer pools, multi-purpose pools, diving pools and children's pools. In addition, there is a large sunbathing lawn, a beach volleyball field, a table tennis table and many water elements such as two slides, a water mushroom and a flow channel. There is also a small kiosk with an attached terrace.

The old Steinrauschbad was built around 1970 and consisted of a main building with changing rooms, showers and toilets, as well as two attached buildings, a first aid center and a technical center.

The main building was demolished in 2008, the other two buildings, which are now the DLRG and the Judo club Ford Saarlouis e. V. has been preserved. On the site of the old pool and the main house, a large parking lot and a footpath to the new, neighboring bathroom were created. The old Steinrauschbad, which was generally referred to as the Steinrausch outdoor pool , was significantly larger than the current one.

Statistical data

Residents

As of December 30, 2006, the population was 4188 with 5% foreigners. 16% of the population are young people, 26% are seniors and 53% are adults.

Election results

The Steinrausch consists of the Saarlouis constituencies 316, 317, 318 and B6 ( postal vote ). Until the local and European elections in 2014, the CDU tended to have a majority over the SPD .

Personalities

• Roland Henz (1949–2017), Lord Mayor (SPD) of the district town of Saarlouis

Individual evidence

1. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )

Web links

• Literature on Steinrausch (Saarlouis) in the Saarland Bibliography

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '  N , 6 ° 46'  E