Stromberg (Windeck)

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Stromberg
community Windeck
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 35 "  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 59"  E
Height : approx. 100-120 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 604  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code : 51570
Area code : 02243
The jammed victory at Stromberg (2015)
The jammed victory at Stromberg (2015)
Siegbrücke Ringwallstrasse, view from the left bank of the Sieg onto Stromberg

Stromberg is a village in the municipality of Windeck in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until the municipal territorial reform, the place belonged to the municipality of Herchen .

location

Stromberg is in an open northwest victory loop at the border to Eitorf . The nearest villages are Herchen in the north, Werfen in the northeast, Rodder in the southeast and Alzenbach in the west (the latter are already districts of Eitofer). In the south the Kesselbach flows into the Sieg.

history

Stromberg was first mentioned in a document in 1131 as a court, which was confirmed by Pope Innocent II to the Cassius monastery in Bonn .

The Celtic term strum for a limited ridge refers to the fortified prehistoric ring walls near Stromberg , the traces of which were found on the opposite ridge. The double designation -berg shows the takeover by Franconian settlers.

Today's place is away from the mountain on the right bank of the Sieg. The bridge in Stromberg that today apparently only leads into the forest of the Leuscheid used to connect the villages of the Mark Stromberg . It was the site of a skirmish on October 19, 1795, when the Stromberg farmers repulsed a sixty-man French company. To the formerly Hohemark County were amongst next Stromberg and the Good Richard Hohn the villages far away Throwing, Schneppe, low and Oberalsen and also the great forest area of Eitorfer Hurst (formerly Mr. Forest), which up to the B 8 range. In addition, the localities of Unkelmühle , Sommerhof and Hammer that were created later belonged to the area .

On November 25, 1944, a US B-17 bomber crashed in the area of ​​the Kesselbachstal. The crew was able to save themselves from the crash and was taken prisoner by Germany.

chapel

The chapel was built in 1886. It is a 9 meter long, 7.25 meter wide simple brick building. On 13 October 2019, the chapel was deconsecrated to enable a sale of the chapel and the adjacent community center.

Watchmaker

A watchmaker's guild developed in the Protestant Mark Stromberg in the 18th century, some of whose grandfather clocks are exhibited in Homburg Castle , but are often also in private collections. The watchmakers are well known

  • Kitchen houses from Stromberg, around 1774
  • Dietrich Koch from Stromberg, approx. 1820–1880
  • Weyand from Werfen
  • Joest from Schneppe
  • Thoennes from Schneppe
  • Schmidt from Alsen, approx. 1814–1837

The watches were sold as far as the Rhineland and Hachenburg . Dietrich Koch also supplied the church clocks for Eitorf and Nümbrecht . In the local guild, he used the simple installation technique with double plate for the first time and improved the clock design from Kuchhäuser so that it no longer had to be wound every day, but only every eight days.

swell

  • MGV Eichenkranz: 850 years of Stromberg. Self-published.

Web links

Commons : Stromberg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of localities. Windeck municipality, December 31, 2013, accessed on August 22, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Gerald Scholz: "Blonde Bomber" . In: Heimatverein Eitorf e. V. (Ed.): Eitorfer Heimatblätter . No. 28, 2011, p. 17th ff .
  3. ↑ Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger v. October 17, 2019, p. 32, Stephan Propach: The chapel has already been de-dedicated