Holzlar

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Location of Holzlar in Bonn

Holzlar is a self-contained village and district of the city of Bonn Beuel district, east of the Rhine and north of the Seven Mountains located. Holzlar consists of the former villages Holzlar, Kohlkaul, Heather Bergen, Roleber and Gielgen whose former boundaries but hardly nowadays are still visible.

History

Holzlar was mentioned in 1394 for the first time as a village Hultzelar. Other names appeared on documents, are Hultzlair, Holtzlar, Holtz Lohr, wood Lahr Lahr and Holtz.

1757 began the lignite mining in Holzlar, probably at the top of Wolf creek. This brought the brothers Leopold and Abraham Bleibtreu to 1804 to buy land in Holzlar - Kohlkaul and Holzlar - Gielgen and also to promote lignite. They experimented with the alum content ( potassium aluminum sulfate) of coal, which was considered valuable in that time, and received in 1806 a Alaunhüttenkonzession. The first of three Alaunhütten later in Ennert was located above the primary school Holzlar in the current forest of Ennert. Preserved are the former water reservoir ( pond Hardt ) and landfills further west for Loren railway to transport coal.

South of the Lindershausweg is a short and cartographically unrecognized stream, which flows a few meters in Alaunbach, the contaminated rinsing in the immediate vicinity of its source pot that have arisen during the Alaungewinnungsprozesses. Located along this creek a vegetation-free area, the older established residents from Holzlar is already from the 1930s known and then " Red Mountain " and was also called " Red river ", probably waste the Alaungewinnung. The soil is too acidic so that no plant survived. Therefore, the present appearance of the Ennerts certainly can not be compared with its appearance in 1870. Holzlar likely then had massive environmental problems through the Alaunabbau and have needed after setting the promotion of lignite and alum around 1870 many years to regenerate.

Since 1816 Holzlar was a town of Menden mayor (from 1927 " Official Menden " ) in the district of Siegburg ( 1825 "Victory Circle "). She had an area of ​​310 hectares, of which 168 arable land, 16 acres meadow and 42 ha of forest. The community Holzlar consisted of the districts Holzlar, Gielgen (formerly belonging to the Honschaft Vinxel ) Kohlkaul and Roleben / Roleber (formerly Vinxel ). The municipality had Holzlar 1885 a total of 121 residential buildings ( including uninhabited ) with 117 households. Of the 585 residents (308 men, 277 women) were 547 Catholics and 38 Evangelical believers. The former had their church in Vilich and Stieldorf, the latter in Upper Kassel. On August 1, 1969 Holzlar was incorporated into Bonn and thereby added to the municipality Beuel. The district Holzlar in the borders of the former municipality is today.

Today ( 2013) there are in the places Roleber, Gielgen and heath mountain settlements with partially elevated level. In between - and even more so in Kohlkaul - there are multi-family homes social housing.

Holzlar - Roleber - view to the south

L 83 from Bechlinghoven towards Holzlar main road

The watermill

A jewel is the Holzlarer water mill (position) 50.7426167.175959. According to current knowledge, it is considered the only viable historic mill in the Bonn area.

The Holzlarer mill provides an early industrial cultural monument dar. to its history are only a few reliable data are available. Probably existed very early on a mill, in connection with a courtyard, which was transferred to the country bailiff Wilhelm von Nesselrode 1502 and was destroyed in the time of war of the 16th century. Mid-19th century, the family acquired the mill Reuter by Count Nesselrode. Historically certain is also the first-time mention of the Reuter family as tenants of the mill in the early 19th century. In the 1950s, the mill from last Josef Müller Reuter was shut down.

In 1989, the association has established Holzlarer mill. Thanks to generous support from the City of Bonn, through various private and public institutions and numerous Holzlarer citizens, using a grant from the North Rhine -Westphalia Foundation, the club was able to restore the mill in 1994 after several years of work. The association organized there with the German mill day and by appointment guides.

Along with the Civic Association Holzlar organized the club every year on the Saturday before the second Sunday of Advent in Miihlenweg at the Holzlarer mill Holzlarer the Christmas market. The mill is in this case co-used as a sales and exhibition space.

Watermill Holzlar

Christ the King Church

The Catholic Church of Christ the King is the first church that was built in Holzlar.

In 1925 came the first time in Holzlar an initiative to build a church of their own. The plot should be close to the school. However, there was no money for a building.

1951 attacked a town hall meeting the Kirchbaufrage again. On July 22, 1951 joint venture with the founder of the Kautex works and former town mayor Reinhold Hagen was formed as chairman. As the best place for the church again was close to the school. The 5,000 square meter site was acquired using the Archbishopric of Cologne and Reinhold Hagen. The approved plan of Cologne had done Hagens brother Hermann, who also took over the construction management.

Construction began on 20 June 1952. Attracted students with their teacher a long trench for soil sample. On January 15, 1953, the excavation began. A short time later, a name for the church was found: Christ the King.

On Sunday, June 28, 1953, Dechant Rösgen laid the foundation. In the same year the church was completed Holzlarer: The times for the Sunday Mass, which should keep the clergy from Pützchen first, the subcommittee of the Church Building Association on 15 November at 08:30 to 10:00 clock fixed.

The celebration of the consecration of bells on 6th December was celebrated in the nave. Through foundations four bells were there, the dean Rösgen blessed: 350 kg Christ the King bell, donated by the staff of Kautexwerke, St. Mary's bell (270 kg), the Margaretaglocke (140 kg) and Anthony Bell (100 kg). With its shock tones b1, c2, f2 es2 and they provide the first notes of the chorale Christ is risen. For each bell godparents were drawn so that all four districts were considered in special meetings. On December 13, 1953 benedizierte prelate Lewen from Cologne at the Christ the King Church. Three days later the first school Mass was celebrated.

On April 19, 1954, the church was consecrated by Bishop Joseph Ferche.

For Christ the King parish also includes the neighboring district Hoholz and the chapel in the castle Birlinghoven.

Age Protestant Cemetery

There is a 330 square meter large cemetery with about 50 graves between the main street and the Hövelweg50.7434517.174326.

This cemetery is listed, because he is one of the oldest Protestant cemeteries throughout the Rhineland. Mid-17th century it was created by the family Linder. Today, he is the property of the Evangelical congregation Bonn- Holzlar.

The oldest grave stone in this cemetery, which is also called " Linder's Garden ", bears the inscription M. Linder and is from the year 1658. Linder To his family, the Linden later called himself, still reminds the Lindershausweg, which in the immediate vicinity of the cemetery is located.

Contrary to the information on the board ( there is 1860), the cemetery in 1816 by the Bergmeister Leopold Bleibtreu (* May 30, 1777; † September 11, 1839 ) was extended. There are now a total of 14 graves that bear the name Bleibtreu.

This cemetery was closed in 1968. Exception were some funerals for named persons in family graves; the last of which took place in 2006 or 2007.

Age Protestant Cemetery

Grave stone of Leopold Bleibtreu

Landscape and rare animals

The landscape wood Lars is marked in the south and east by woods, streams, lakes and ponds. In the middle of Holzlar there is a nature reserve.

The Ennert is largely mixed forest consisting inter alia of partially stately oaks.

Due to the numerous hiking trails in Ennert this is a popular recreation area in the Bonn area. Furthermore, there are some sources, some of them not mapped.

The streams cartographically captured read:

• Alaunbach
• Anchor Bach
• Peschsiefen
• Vilicher Bach
• Wolfbach

Rare animals such as salamanders, smooth snakes, woodpeckers and blindworms feel to the streams, lakes and ponds well. In the northern and western parts of wood Lars the landscape is free of forest and consists largely of fields with the typical for the Cologne - Bonn area landscape.

Mill Brook in Holzlar

" Red river " in Ennert

Holzlarer lake

Clubs

Holzlar is characterized by an active club life. Among other things, there is a sports club, several carnival clubs - the festival committee Veedelszoch Holzlar represents the Holzlarer children prince and princess - and four very active civic associations.

Economy

1935, Reinhold Hagen Kautex works ( first Galvanic workshops ) for processing plastic, later especially hollow forms (vehicle tanks) and machinery for their manufacture; Successors are Kautex and Kautex.

Around 1994, built the Chamber of Agriculture Rheinland on the southern outskirts, a new building; In 2004, she was merged organizationally with the Chamber of Agriculture Westphalia for Agriculture of North Rhine -Westphalia ( corporation governed by public law ). There are efforts to dissolve the Bonn location; by 2015 its existence is assured.

Personalities

• Leopold Bleibtreu, operator of the Alaunhütte in Holzlar
• Peter Gabrian, artist, painter of Midsummer night in Finland
• Uli Kelber, German politician and member of the Bundestag
• Helmut steel, German politician and former Member of the State Parliament
• Stephan Eisel, German politician and former Member of the Bundestag