Breite Heide

The width Heath is a district of the municipality Rheinbreitbach in Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied. The settlement area includes about 200 homes and has a population estimated at 300-500.

Geography

The width Heath is a closed -contained settlement, which is located about one kilometer to the east from the center of the Rhine broad Bach. There is only one fully paved road to the settlement, which runs partly in the valley of the broad stream, so no through traffic. This is one kilometers extending in an east-west direction settlement area is surrounded by forest and is at the mill on a mountain from west to east slightly rising terrain of the so-called Linzer terrace in about 190 m above sea level. NN. From a geological point counts the width heath the Younger main terrace of the Rhine valley, the deposits largely consist of sandy gravel.

History

The history of the widths Heath begins with the beginnings of mining in 16-17. Century in Rheinbreitbach. At that time there were only factory building and the house of the mine director. The tunnels run through the whole mountain and made it for the later development difficult, as there was danger of collapse. After mining unprofitable and eventually was discontinued, the community put on a sports field, which served for the elementary school for the implementation of physical education. In the early 1960s he was again demolished to make a development viable. The under its present name known " width Heide" developed in the 1960s, after Bonn had established itself as seat of government and triggered a settlement pressure in the region. Young families and officials preferred because of its quiet location after Rheinbreitbach and environment. A building boom ran through the town and it created new homes and settlements. Today still remember some roadside crosses the miners, the former pond, vehicle troughs in the rock, a round studs and a huge pile of rubble at the former mine and the former determining the widths Heath.

Attractions

  • (partially) restored circulation tunnel
  • Coupling cross ( on the coupling between width and Heath Rheinbreitbach )
  • Clouthe Cross ( honorary monument commemorating the Clouth family)
  • Virneberger Cross
  • Bergwergskreuz
  • Schnitzler Cross
  • Blood Cross
  • Rare minerals and rocks of the former mine
  • Stock Image Eye of God ( mid to late 19th century, built as a warning against timber thieves, 50 ° 37 ' 33 "N, 7 ° 16' 23" O50.6258737.273099 )
  • V1 launch pads ( ruin in the direction of rupture Hausen, 50 ° 37 '30 " N, 7 ° 16' 22" O50.6250827.272911 )

Virneberger Cross

Mine Cross

Cross coupling

Economy

On the widths Heath runs on school days of bus 133 which goes over Rheinbreitbach to Unkel. There is also a taxi, which can be requested on the terms of public transport on the basis of a roadmap.

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