Steinebrück, Aachen — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Steinebrück?

Old estates give the Ortsteil its character. Gut Chorusberg, Gut Grindel, Gut Thönnesrath, Gut Waldhausen and Gut Weyern stand among manor houses such as the Eberburg, Herffs Erb and the Johanneshof. Gut Bodenhof is mostly gone.

Its main portal, some wall bases and an arched bridge survive, and the Aachen university of applied sciences has put a teaching and research building on the grounds. Water shaped the rest. The Diepenbenden dam was made in 1927 from the old mill ponds by workers on the unemployment relief scheme, and the fish-rich Kupferbach reservoir forms a protected cultural landscape together with the Waldstadion of the same year and the meadows of Gut Waldhausen.

What is the history of Steinebrück?

Charlemagne hunted this ground. The heath and woodland south of Aachen was favoured hunting country in his day, and mills along the Wurm in the sixteenth century slowly made it settled. Diepenbenden means deep meadows.

The Faulenbroich mill and the Guedens mill, also called the Lower Diepenbenden mill, stood there, and from 1616 the Gut Diepenbenden grew out of the second of them. Alfred Rethel was born in that house in 1816. More mills followed in the centre of Steinebrück from the eighteenth century, of which only the Eismühle still stands, and wealthy Aachen families settled around them, among them the industrialists Henry Suermondt and Georg Talbot.

Burtscheid held the ground until 1897. Steinebrück became Aachen land when Burtscheid was incorporated that year, and the parish of St Gregorius still belongs to the Aachen-Burtscheid pastoral area as a reminder.

Where is Steinebrück?

Steinebrück covers about eleven square kilometres in the south of Aachen, bordering Bildchen and Ronheide to the west, Burtscheid to the north and the Beverau to the east, with the Aachener Wald and the Belgian border beyond its southern edge.