Velau (Stolberg)

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Velau
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 13 ″  N , 6 ° 13 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 173 m above sea level NN

The Velau is a northern district of Stolberg (Rhld.) In the city ​​region of Aachen . It is located southeast of the Propsteier forest and forms a dual district with Steinfurt . The mean height is 173 meters above sea ​​level . In the Velau the Vichtbach flows into the Inde .

The parish of St. Franziskus is located in Velau .

history

On the Vichtbach shortly before the confluence with the Inde was the Kupferhof Velau, which was converted by Matthias Leonhard Schleicher into the first zinc smelter in the Aachen area in 1819 . The zinc smelter was later taken over by the EBV . On January 1, 1935, Velau came from Eschweiler to Stolberg. The Stolberg slaughterhouse was located here for decades. In the 1990s, after its closure, supermarkets were set up on the site. Today the district has a high proportion of foreign residents.

traffic

Road traffic

The next motorway junction is Eschweiler-West on the A 4 .

Public transport

The nearest passenger station is Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf . A bus line connects Steinfurt with Stolberg-Mitte, Waldschule settlement , Pump-Stich and Eschweiler- Mitte.

Velau freight yard

Former train station in Velau and connection to the mirror manufacture of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft

Around 1867 a freight yard in Velau was set up by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . The route ran from the Stolberg station - at that time just like Velau in the Eschweiler city area - to the Velau terminus station . It comprised an engine shed , outbuildings and a turntable . For the construction of the Stolberg - Stolberg-Spiegelmanufaktur railway line, the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft cooperated with the Stolberg establishment of the Spiegel Manufactures of St. Gobain, Chauny and Cirey . In 1863, the company bought the Spiegelmanufaktur Stolberg and began building a new factory at the current location in Schnorrenfeld, at the confluence of the Vichtbach and the Inde. Germany's first cast glass hall was built here in 1866.

On December 11, 1867, the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft opened the Stolberg – Stolberg-Spiegelmanufaktur railway line with a length of 1.4 km for goods traffic only. From 1883 this line was extended to Eschweiler-Aue station on the Mönchengladbach – Stolberg railway . This was done by the Prussian State Railways , which a year earlier had taken over the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft operating in Eschweiler . A new terminus station was built on today's Münsterbachstrasse in 1884, which also served to transport people. Since 1881, the Eschweiler Zinkhütte Birkengang had a siding that crossed today's Eschweiler Strasse in a hairpin bend up the mountain. With the takeover of the Rheinische Eisenbahn, the Velau train station lost its independence. Passenger traffic was abandoned, the track and operating facilities partly dismantled and partly integrated into the new Stolberg main station and the Stolberg depot .

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