Trupbach

Trupbach City of Siegen Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 28 "  N , 7 ° 58 ′ 56"  E
Height :	265  (260-330)  m
Area :	5.12 km²
Residents :	1820  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	355 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1966
Postal code :	57072
Area code :	0271
Location of Trupbach in Siegen

Trupbach is a district of Siegen .

geography

Trupbach lies in the valley of the Alche at an altitude between 260 and 330  m . Coming from the north, the almost 3 km long Trupbach flows into the village. The highest elevation in the district is the Kirrberg at 395.6  m in the far northeast of the district, about 2 km from the village. Other mountains are the 394.2  m high Bastenberg in the east, the Hammel with 381.2  m north-east of the village or the 349.5  m high Wurmberg in the east.

Trupbach borders in the south-west on Seelbach , in the south-east on Siegen, in the north-east on Birlenbach and in the north on Langenholdinghausen and the Freudenberg district of Alchen in the west. Trupbach and Seelbach are not, as is often assumed, separated from each other by Landstrasse 562. The district boundary runs at the end of the Seelbacher Weg (Trupbach) and from there in a short cut to the east, southeast over Alche and Straße and from there next to the Catholic Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Seelbach up to the top. To the north-west of the village lies the Heiden und Magerrasen nature reserve near Trupbach .

history

year	1563	1707	1818	1939	1981
Houses	15th	21st	26th	172	480

Trupbach was first mentioned in a document in 1389. Already around 900 there was a courtyard on the site of the place. In 1563 95 people lived in 15 houses in Trupbach. The oldest dated half-timbered building in the area of ​​the city of Siegen is in the village. It was opened on May 17, 1611. The first school chapel was built in the village in 1670/71. In 1739 the chapel school , today's old school , was built. The volunteer fire brigade was founded as early as 1860.

A military training area was laid out above Trupbach in 1936. This was used from 1945 to 1994 by Belgian armed forces stationed in Siegen.

Until the municipal reorganization on July 1, 1966, the place belonged to the Weidenau office and was incorporated into the city of Siegen.

Population numbers

Population of the place:

year Residents 1563 95 1707 145 1818 175 1885 465 1895 519 1905 610 1910 680

year Residents 1925 854 1933 972 1939 1019 1950 1359 1961 1671 1981 2222 1994 2151

year Residents 2001 2169 2004 2020 2006 1992 2008 1964 2009 1966 2010 1928 2011 1883

year Residents 2012 1841 2013 1831 2014 1869 2015 1813 2016 1820

Infrastructure

Trupbach is on Landstrasse 562, which connects Siegen with Freudenberg. In the village, the district road 8 branches off to Birlenbach. The place is connected to the federal motorway 45 via the Freudenberg exit. The next train station is in Siegen. Industry can be found in Trupbach near the L 562.

Trupbach has a fire brigade and the nearby Evangelical Resurrection Church. In the center of the village there is a kindergarten, a gym and a sports field as well as a second a little further north outside the village. The citizens of Trupbach are buried in neighboring Seelbach.

Attractions

Chapel school

When, after 60 years, the school had to be rebuilt, the Trupbach Chapel School, which still exists today, was built in 1739. In the 1750s, a new bell was cast for 12 guilders. In 1870 the chapel school was extensively rebuilt. The dividing wall between the school and chapel hall was removed, the building got large windows and the entrance door was relocated. Parts of the half-timbered wall were renewed. The chapel school continued to teach until 1928. From 1776 to around 1900 there was a clock on the bell tower, and the building was also used for meeting sports clubs and church activities. Then the students were taught in the new building of the "Scheidschule". During the Second World War , the National Socialists established themselves in the school. The building was badly damaged towards the end of the war. The bell had to be handed in to be melted down years earlier. From 1950 the center of the village was rebuilt or renovated. The slate made in 1870 was removed, and a new bell was donated to the USA by the descendants of a Trupbach emigrant. Today the chapel school is owned by the city and the local heritage association takes care of the building. A mechanism makes the bell ring every hour during the day.

societies

Shooting club and shooting festival

The Alchetal Schützengilde was founded in 1938 and has been practicing shooting sports in Trupbach ever since. The association celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2013 and this year had 195 members. This makes it one of the largest shooting clubs in Siegen.

CVJM Trupbach

The CVJM Trupbach was founded in 1884 and forms a free church with the former Protestant community. The local YMCA trombone choir stopped its wind work a few years ago.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} village bell rings again. In: Siegener Zeitung of September 4, 2010, p. 45.
2. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 287 .
3. ↑ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen. Wins 1968.
4. ↑ siegen.de: main resident population by district (updated regularly)
5. ↑ Siegen-Info: Chronicle Trupbach ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1887, ZDB -ID 1458761-0 , p. 112/113.
7. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1897, pp. 114/115.
8. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
9. ↑ genealogy.net: Weidenau Office
10. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
11. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 256 .
12. ↑ Hartmut Eichenauer: Siegen ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 12.2 MB) , approx. 1995

Web links

• Website of the home association
• Trupbach in the Westphalia Culture Atlas