Thomasberg (Koenigswinter)

Thomasberg City of Koenigswinter
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 38 ″  E
Height :	217  (180-250)  m
Residents :	4784  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code :	53639
Area code :	02244
Location of Thomasberg in North Rhine-Westphalia

Thomasberg is a district of the city of Königswinter in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It lies on the edge of the Siebengebirge , at the foot of the Great Mount of Olives .

Steinhauer monument

Quarry truck

St. Joseph

history

Thomasberg is named after a farm located here and was only created as a village at the end of the 19th century, mainly in the area of ​​the Hasenpohl district . It belonged to the municipality of Oberpleis in the administrative district of the mayor's office Oberpleis (from 1927 "Office Oberpleis)". In 1885 Thomasberg had 20 inhabitants in four houses, in 1905 the village already had 79 inhabitants in 14 houses. In 1953, the uniform place name "Thomasberg" was introduced for eleven residential places in what is now the Thomasberg area, and in 1958 Bellinghauserhohn was also included in this local association. On August 1, 1969, Thomasberg was incorporated into the city of Königswinter as part of the Oberpleis community by the law on the municipal reorganization of the Bonn area .

In its current form, Thomasberg emerged in the post-war period, when it merged with Heisterbacherrott in the course of extensive population growth . The Steinhauer monument by Thomasberg artist Sigrid Wenzel , erected in 1997 on the village square, reminds us that until 1940 basalt was mined in the quarries around Thomasberg and transported to Niederdollendorf with the Heisterbacher Talbahn . In June 2000 an original quarry truck was set up there.

Until the relocation of the seat of government from Bonn to Berlin in 1999, Thomasberg was the residence of the Ambassador of the Republic of Uganda in the Federal Republic of Germany (→ list of diplomatic missions ).

Population development

year	Residents
1871	16
1885	20th
1905	79
1968	2250
1991	3554
2011	4451

Culture and sights

The Thomasberger Marienkapelle ("Strücher Dom") dates from 1859 and is therefore the oldest building in the district. It is built from quarry stone blocks and has a flat gable roof . In the 1980s it was renovated and equipped with a grave cross resting on the roof ridge . As a monument listed are out of the Lady Chapel, a walled in a half-timbered shed oven (Steinringer Straße 13 / In Harperoth) and a stone cross at the Siebengebirgsstraße.

See also : List of architectural monuments in Königswinter

The Catholic parish church of St. Joseph was built from 1950 to 1952 and expanded in the 1960s. On the northern edge of Thomasberg is the "Blue Lake" in a former basalt quarry area , which the Bonn garden architect Heinrich Raderschall acquired in 1960 and then redesigned into a natural landscape garden.

Personalities

• Matthias Schonauer (born May 18, 1857 in Thomasberg-Harperoth; † August 23, 1931), geologist, connoisseur of the Siebengebirge and local history researcher, worked for over 40 years as headmaster and teacher (since 1882) at the Thomasberg elementary school, since 1991 a memorial plaque commemorates to him.
• Alfons Hitter (1892–1968), officer and lieutenant general in World War II, died in Thomasberg
• Sigrid Wenzel (* 1934), sculptor, lives in Thomasberg
• Markus Maria Profitlich (* 1960), comedian, actor and voice actor, lives in Thomasberg

literature

• Willi Schmidt: The bushes. A chronicle by Thomasberg , 1993.
• Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , pp. 81, 86.

Web links

Commons : Thomasberg  - Collection of Images

• Citizens' Association Thomasberg eV
• The Virtual Museum Thomasberg - Heisterbacherrott
• The Heisterbacher Talbahn (1889–1950) with the "Weilberg model system"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ without secondary residences ; Population statistics of the city of Königswinter (PDF)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, page 118
3. ↑ ^{a b} Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Booklet XII Rhine Province. Berlin 1909, p. 151.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Willi Schmidt: Die Strüch. A chronicle from Thomasberg
5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970.
6. ↑ Steinhauer Memorial Thomasberg , Thomasberg Virtual Local History Museum
7. ↑ The information in 1968 and 1991 refer to the Thomasberg local association created in 1953 and consisting of 13 locations.
8. ^ The communities and manor districts of the Rhine Province and their population. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1874, p. 111.
9. ↑ Population statistics of the city of Königswinter; As of December 31, 2011
10. ↑ Chapel hike: Marienkapelle in Thomasberg - “Strücher Dom” ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Parish community Königswinter - Am Oelberg