Zeppenfeld (Neunkirchen)

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Zeppenfeld
Neunkirchen municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 276 m
Area : 8 km²
Residents : 2900  (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density : 363 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1969
Postal code : 57290
Area code : 02735
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Location of the place Zeppenfeld within the municipality of Neunkirchen

Zeppenfeld is a district of the municipality of Neunkirchen in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia . With 2900 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2014), the place is the third largest in the municipality.

geography

Zeppenfeld is located in the southern Siegerland in the foothills of the Westerwald low mountain range. The Heller flows through the middle of the town . In the local area the Volkersbach flows into the river. It is bounded by the 421.7  m high Schelenberg in the extreme northeast of the local area, where it also rises and continues. To the north of the course, the stream is bordered by the ridge of the Rassberg and the summit of the same name with a height of 417.8  m and the Leyenkopf ( 431.5  m ) lying on this ridge . The largest elevation of the place is the Heibergscheberg with a height of 476.9  m about 1.8 km south of the town center.

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Zeppenfeld are Salchendorf in the north, Wilden in the northeast, Wiederstein in the southeast, Emmerzhausen in the south, Daaden in the southwest, Altenseelbach in the west and Neunkirchen in the northwest.

history

Center, in the direction of Wiederstein

The area was first settled around 200 BC. BC back. The place Zeppenfeld was mentioned for the first time in 1231 and 1232. In 1600 the sons Philipp and Conrad took over the knight Wilhelm v. Selbach the Zeppenfeld estate.

On March 4, 1739, Johann Konrad Wilhelm von Selbach-Reuss, the last noblewoman from Zeppenfeld, died in Zeppenfeld Castle. His estate was divided in 1757. The main buyers of this were the two count houses “Nassau” and “Sayn”. In 1816 the area became Prussian. Zeppenfeld got into the district of Siegen and about half each in the new mayor's offices of Neunkirchen and Burbach. In 1844 it became the Burbach office .

A school in Zeppenfeld was first mentioned in 1717. In 1751 a school was built. In 1879 the municipality of Zeppenfeld bought part of the castle for 11,820 marks and converted the rooms into classrooms. The inauguration of the rooms took place on August 24, 1880.

On April 7, 1885, 27 houses were destroyed in a major fire in Zeppenfeld. The fire had broken out in a granary. The voluntary fire brigade was only founded 24 years after the fire, in 1909. In 1913, the Heimatverein was founded.

In 1913, water pipes were laid in Wiederstein and Zeppenfeld and the power grid was built. Electricity came from the Petri sawmill and one light bulb was installed per house. From 1923 the EWS supplied the electricity. The war memorial was also inaugurated that year. Ferdinand Christ was mayor between 1914 and 1933.

In 1925, the community of Zeppenfeld consisted of a mixed and working-class community with 1,031 residents, consisting of 1,012 Protestants and four Catholics as well as 15 residents of other denominations. Facilities were an elementary school, an electricity and water supply and a sports field.

At the end of 1968 the office of Burbach was dissolved and the place was incorporated into the new municipality of Neunkirchen on January 1, 1969 in the course of the municipal reorganization .

Business

According to a report by the Bautenberg mine, the Zeppenfelder Hütte was built in the 15th century. The hut was allowed to work 56 days a year. According to records, it was rebuilt in 1824, which suggests that it had not been in operation for a while and was no longer operational in its former condition. In 1844 the hut was expanded. The furnace was last operated in 1875, ten years later Phillip Kreutz bought the hut and tore it down. The charcoal was obtained from the Wittgensteiner Land, with a consumption of 168 cars per year. Six ironworkers were constantly employed. The local mill was first mentioned in 1283. In 1883 it passed to its last owner, Phillip Kreutz. Between 1870 and 1969 there was a brick factory in Zeppenfeld. This was founded by LW Petri. After the cessation of operations, the buildings were demolished.

Mining

Mining in Zeppenfeld was by no means as large and productive as in the neighboring communities of Altenseelbach or Salchendorf. According to a list of the offices of Neunkirchen and Burbach, there are no pits in operation in Zeppenfeld in 1812. It was not until 1814 that the first indications of pits were found in the district. The Aurora , Leonore and Hellertal pits are mentioned for the first time.

All three pits promoted galena , sphalerite , chalcopyrite and occasionally Rotgiltigerz and Rotspat. The Aurora and Leonore pits shared an ore. On January 24, 1845, a pump from the Hoffnungsstern pit in Buchhellertal was used on Aurora . Leonore had a shaft that collapsed on April 9, 1890. In 1891 it was sunk from 25 to 45 m after a new conveying and dewatering machine was put into operation on July 24, 1890 . A 12 m deep die was made from the tunnel on the Hellertal mine . The vein of the pit was 0.3-0.9 m thick. All three mines were taken over by the Salchendorfer Grube Pfannenberger Einigkeit after purchase negotiations on October 26, 1917 and April 20, 1918 .

The Fortuna pit was on the southern slope of the Rassberg. Lead luster, brown iron stone, copper and zinc were extracted through a tunnel. Nearby was the Tannenwald mine , which later belonged to the Pützhorn company in Eiserfeld. It was muted in 1830 and re-awarded on April 22, 1856. Until 1865, galena, brown iron stone, copper and zinc ore were mined through a tunnel. The pits Hoffnungsstern and Zankapfel were partly also in the Wiederstein district. Both were muted in 1863. Spate iron stone, lead ore, zinc blende, copper ore and glaze ore were extracted through an upper tunnel , which has since broken, and a deep tunnel in the Volkersbachtal with a depth of 242 m and 47 m. Two dies brought an additional 10 m depth. In 1885 the operation was closed after the passage means became less powerful in the depth. The total production was 301.5 t of lead ore. The Zankapfel mine had a 300 m long tunnel. In 1995 a machine shaft in the pit was filled.

Population and house numbers

Population figures of the place: Population figures

year Residents
1810 416
1818 450
1850 529
1867 612
1885 740
1895 767
1900 899
year Residents
1910 925
1913 959
1925 1031
1933 1020
1939 979
1950 1211
1961 1321
year Residents
1967 1626
1985 2175
1994 2158
2000 3362
2004 3164
2006 3362
2009 3010
year Residents
2011 2870
2014 2900

Note: Population figures from 1994 on December 31; 2000 in October

House numbers

year 1589 1600 1698 1700 1704 1706 1725 1730 1788 1810 1846 1850 1867 1913
Houses 25th 24 33 36 36 40 41 41 51 51 70 75 96 158

Transport and infrastructure

Numerous changes have taken place in the “In der Au” industrial park in recent years. Numerous discounters and a hardware store as the largest as well as other shops and companies are located in this area.

traffic

A heavy-duty transformer transport for Amprion , destined for the Dauersberg substation , with a DB class V100 diesel locomotive on the Hellertalbahn between Zeppenfeld and Neunkirchen (November 2018).

In Zeppenfeld there was a stop for the Hellertalbahn . The closest train station still in operation is in Neunkirchen. From there the line RB 96 of the Hessische Landesbahn runs to Betzdorf and Dillenburg . The bus transport is carried out by VWS . Zeppenfeld is connected to the A 45 via Neunkirchen, Salchendorf and Wilden .

media

Radio reception in southern Siegerland is characterized by local and national radio, with Radio Siegen having the most listeners. In addition to the North Rhine-Westphalian radio stations of the WDR , the Hessian FFH and the Rhineland-Palatinate stations RPR 1 and those of the SWR can also be received.

In addition to the Siegener Zeitung , the Westfalenpost and the Westfälische Rundschau are also offered as local newspapers . DSL has been available in Zeppenfeld since spring 2007 .

Attractions

Zeppenfeld Castle

In the middle of Zeppenfeld is the castle of the nobles "von Selbach-Zeppenfeld". The history of the building, which is now privately owned, can be traced back to 1378. In this year a Friedrich von Seelbach, called Zepinveld, was named as the first owner of the castle. In 1492 the knights of Zeppenfeld were granted jurisdiction. In the 16th century, half of the aristocratic property in Zeppenfeld was sold due to many divisions through inheritance and marriages. In 1739, Johann Konrad Wilhelm von Selbach, the last heir of the Zeppenfeld family, died. However, dispute broke out over the inheritance of the property as several relatives filed property claims. In 1757 the property was finally sold to the Prince of Nassau-Orange. Relatives of the "Selbach" line lived in the castle until 1876, and two years later the community bought part of the building and set up classrooms there. The rest went into the possession of private individuals.

School and free time

Zeppenfeld does not have its own elementary school, the next is in Neunkirchen itself. The Kopernikusschule , the secondary school of the Neunkirchen community, is located on the Rassberg in Zeppenfeld's local area.

The place shares a sports field with Neunkirchen, which is mainly used by the Spielvereinigung Neunkirchen, which has existed as a club since 1907. On August 1, 2008 the inauguration of the new artificial turf field took place.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 700 years of Neunkirchen. 1988, p. 44.
  2. ↑ 700 years of Neunkirchen. 1988, p. 159.
  3. ^ History of the Zeppenfeld Volunteer Fire Brigade 1909–2010
  4. ↑ a b genealogy.net: Office Burbach
  5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia. A handbook on the local reorganization with systematic overviews and lists of the new and the dissolved (=  Kommunale Schriften für Nordrhein-Westfalen . Volume 32 ). Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, 1970, ISSN  0454-2584 , p. 72 .
  6. ↑ The Zeppenfelder Hütte ( Memento from October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ 700 years of Neunkirchen. 1988.
  8. ↑ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen. Wins 1968.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k E. Weidenbach: History of the county of Sayn and the components of the same , print E. Weidenbach, Dillenburg 1874, p. 287.
  10. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1887, ZDB -ID 1458761-0 , p. 112/113.
  11. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1897, pp. 114/115.
  12. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
  13. ↑ a b Heinrich Gamann: history of free reason , printing of the West German Publishing Company, Neunkirchen 1925, p. 6
  14. ↑ 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).
  15. ↑ 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. 270 .
  16. ↑ Rolf Betz: Neunkirchen ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lwl.org 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; 7.3 MB) , approx. 1995
  17. ^ Community information Neunkirchen ( Memento from March 6, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ^ Community Neunkirchen in Siegerland: Citizens' Information Figures / Data / Facts ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ neunkirchen-siegerland.de: population data ( Memento of 31 August 2007 at the Internet Archive )
  20. ↑ a b neunkirchen-siegerland.de: facts and figures
  21. ↑ http://www.zws-online.de/fileadmin/contents/1_aktuelles/1_04_termine/top_verband/5_10_12_2008_Vorl_180_19_08.pdf

literature

  • 700 years of Neunkirchen. Otto Braun, Neunkirchen 1988.
  • Neunkirchen in old pictures. Otto Braun, Neunkirchen 1980.
  • Kurt Becker: Our fathers. The miners of the Bautenberg mine between Gilsbach and Wilden, Dill and Westerwald. Dillbrecht 1994.
  • Hartmut Laumann : A late Latena forging site of Neunkirchen-Zeppenfeld, Siegen-Wittgenstein district , in: Excavations and finds in Westphalia-Lippe 3 (1985) 49-57.

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