Arnoldsweiler

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Arnoldsweiler
District town Düren
Arnoldsweiler coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 17 ″  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 118 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.51 km²
Residents : 3180  (Dec. 31, 20198)
Population density : 334 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 52353
Area code : 02421
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Location of Arnoldsweiler in Düren
Half-timbered house in Arnoldsweiler
Half-timbered house in Arnoldsweiler

Arnoldsweiler ( Dürener Platt Anoldswiele ) is a district and district of the city of Düren in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The manor house Rath belongs to the Arnoldsweiler district .

Klein St. Arnold (left) and Groß St. Arnold (right)

location

Arnoldsweiler is located on the southern edge of the Bürgewald in the north of the urban area. A few hundred meters north of the village also runs the federal motorway 4 , to the northeast is the Hambach lignite opencast mine , which is approaching the local border with the relocation of the A4. Neighboring towns of Arnoldsweiler are Ellen and Oberzier in the north, Morschenich in the north- west, Merzenich in the south-west, Düren in the south, Birkesdorf in the west and Huchem-Stammeln in the north-west . To the east of the village at Haus Rath, the Ellbach flows past the village.

history

General

The Neolithic settlement near Düren-Arnoldsweiler is proven to be the first settlement with houses .

Arnoldsweiler was called Ginizwilre until the middle of the 12th century . As early as 922, the Archbishop of Cologne, Hermann I, listed the church and courtyard of "Ginizwilre" among the estates of the St. Ursula Foundation in Cologne. Two churches are also mentioned in this document. Klein St. Arnold is the successor church to one of the two churches, nothing is known about the other church listed today. In 1168 the place was named "Wilre S (ancti) Arnoldi", that is, after St. Arnold . Over the centuries this became Sankt Arnoldsweiler and finally Arnoldsweiler. Furthermore, Arnoldsweiler was one of the four courts around Düren, which Friedrich II pledged to the dukes of Jülich in 1246 . The village was owned by the Church of Cambrai until 1289 and was sold to the knight Gerhard Rost von Disternich in the same year.

In 1360, a document from Duke Wilhelm I of Jülich confirmed the wax interest that 26 villages on the Bürgewald had to pay to the parish church of Arnoldsweiler annually on Whit Tuesday. The residents of St. Arnoltzwiler , along with the residents of Ellen and Oberzier, also had to deliver a candle of 12 pounds of wax. The wax interest was only dissolved in the first half of the 19th century with a one-off monetary payment. This candle offering is based on the legend of St. Arnold von Arnoldsweiler , through whom the villages were only allowed to use the forest. Previously, this was under the imperial wild ban , entry was forbidden for the common population. For centuries, the authorized communities used the forest equally, only in 1775 was each community assigned a specific piece of forest. Arnoldsweiler also received a piece of the forest northeast of Ellen, the Arnoldsweiler Bürge . This part of the Bürgewald has now been completely cut down and dredged by the Hambach opencast mine.

The grave of Arnold von Arnoldsweiler is located in Klein St. Arnold (Arnoldus Chapel). In 2010, near Arnoldsweiler, the remains of a Neolithic village were uncovered, which suggest that the area was already settled around 5100 BC.

Bürgewald

The Bürgewald , a forest area between Arnoldsweiler, Elsdorf , Manheim and Alt-Steinstrasse was first mentioned in the 12th century. In the forest code of 1557, the main town is the guarantor “St. Arnoldtswieler ”(in different spellings) mentioned seven times.

Memorial plaque at the Stalag Arnoldsweiler memorial on the Rather corner in the Merzenicher Heide

Branch office of Stalag VI H

A barrack camp, a stalag, was located northeast of the village during the Second World War . Thousands of French and later Soviet prisoners of war and slave labor were interned here, and many of them died in horrific circumstances. It was not until 1960 that the dead were exhumed at the cemetery in Merzenich Heath. They have found their final resting place on the Ehrenanlage in Rurberg . Instead of the originally estimated 500, over 1,500 deaths were found there. Only now did the full extent of the atrocities become known. At the corner of Cormeillesstrasse and Neußer Strasse there is a stele by the artist Ulrich Rückriem , which commemorates the victims, and a memorial plaque is attached in the entrance area of ​​the old parish church. There is also a memorial stone at the former cemetery in Merzenicher Heide.

Second World War

In the vicinity of Arnoldsweiler, to the west of the town and in the southeast corner between the A4 and the Düren-Jülich railway line at height 120.6, there was only a limited battery position for the west air defense zone . Four shelters were found in the main position. On the western edge of the railway line, the rubble of the MG saddle was found .

In 1944 the population of Düren used the bunker as a shelter at night . On September 23, 1944, the command post of Flak Regiment 3 (motorized) was in the Rheinbach inn. On December 5, 1944, heavy jabo and fighter attacks were flown against the place. They dropped bombs on artillery and flak positions. The place was captured by the Americans on February 25, 1945 .

Architectural monuments

Parish and reorganization

From 1794 Arnoldsweiler was also under French occupation . This formed the Mairie Arnoldsweiler in the Département de la Roer . In addition to Arnoldsweiler and Haus Rath, Ellen and Morschenich also belonged to this administrative district . After the town and the entire Rhineland fell to Prussia in 1815 , the Mairie became the mayor's office in Arnoldsweiler in 1816. The area again consisted of the communities of Arnoldsweiler (with Rath House), Ellen and Morschenich. In 1927 the mayor's office was renamed to Amt and on March 8, 1936, the two offices of Arnoldsweiler and Merzenich with the associated communities were merged to form the new Merzenich office. These included the communities of Arnoldsweiler, Ellen, Girbelsrath , Golzheim , Merzenich and Morschenich.

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality was incorporated into the city of Düren.

politics

Council members

In the last local elections on May 25, 2014, the Arnoldsweiler elected for the City Council of Düren:

CDU 594 votes 47.41% 7 seats
SPD 416 votes 33.20% 5 seats
Green 89 votes 7.10% 1 seat
AfD 74 votes 5.91% 1 seat
The left 37 votes 2.95% -
FDP 31 votes 2.47% -
BfD 12 votes 0.96% -

District Committee Arnoldsweiler

A district committee for Arnoldsweiler has existed since 1999. Presided over

  • 1999–2014 Hermann Josef Geuenich, CDU
  • Since 2014 Frank Heinrichs, SPD

The chairman of the district committee is Frank Heinrichs, SPD, his deputy is Hermann Josef Geuenich, CDU.

Population development

In the last few years the population of Arnoldsweiler has decreased slightly.

year 1830 1885 1925 1933 1939 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Ew 0766 1284 2381 2340 2388 3303 3289 3286 3273 3270 3236 3253 3241 3222 3218 3185

schools

There is a Catholic primary school in Arnoldsweiler . The Bürgewaldschule, a special school for people with learning disabilities, moved to a newly built school building in Birkesdorf on December 7, 2009 .

Churches

In Arnoldsweiler there is the Romanesque-Gothic church of Klein St. Arnold and right next to it the neo-Romanesque church of Groß St. Arnold. In addition, the small Maria Rast path chapel from 1960 is to the east of the village .

Regular events

societies

  • Carnival association "Bedrövde Jecke 1930" e. V.
  • Football club Viktoria 08 Düren-Arnoldsweiler e. V.
  • Dog sports club MV Arnoldsweiler at the Hambach opencast mine V.
  • Turnverein Arnoldsweiler 1883/06 e. V.
  • Motorsport Club Arnoldsweiler 1969 e. V.
  • Sankt-Arnoldus-Schützenbruderschaft Düren-Arnoldsweiler 1587 e. V.
  • “Gemütlichkeit” bachelor club founded in 1905
  • German Scouting Association Sankt Georg (DPSG), tribe Arnoldsweiler
  • Saint Matthias brotherhood Arnoldsweiler
  • Rabbit Breeding Association R16 Arnoldsweiler e. V.
  • Martin's Committee Arnoldsweiler
  • Kfd -Arnoldsweiler (Catholic women's community)

traffic

The buses of the Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB), since January 1, 2020 Rurtalbus , run at short intervals from Arnoldsweiler Mitte to the Düren and Merzenich train stations and integrate the place into local public transport . The S-Bahn station Merzenich, 2.5 km away from the center of Arnoldsweiler, connects via S-Bahn line 12 to Cologne Central Station every 20 minutes . Since April 1, 2006, the city of Düren has also been part of the tariff collar of the Rhein-Sieg transport association . Before that it was part of the Aachen Transport Association . The next motorway junction is Düren on the A 4.

economy

Twin town

A partnership with Cormeilles in France has existed since 1970 .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Arnoldsweiler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Arnoldsweiler in the Topographia Westphaliae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.dueren.de/kultur-tourismus/stadtportraet/zahlen__fotos?sr=7584
  2. ↑ Arnoldsweiler first mentioned in 922. In: Dürener Zeitung. August 22, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Arnoldsweiler: Historie & Wappen ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. , at www.dueren.de (accessed on June 2, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dueren.de
  4. ^ Rudolf AH Wyrsch: The holy Arnold von Arnoldsweiler. Legend and history of the veneration of a Rhenish saint. In: Forum Jülich History Issue 9 , Jülich 1994, pp. 73 f.
  5. ↑ Large Neolithic settlement near Düren uncovered. In: Aachener Zeitung. August 25, 2010. Retrieved May 25, 2018 .
  6. ^ List of Wehrmacht prisoner-of-war camps
  7. ↑ The living conditions. Stalag Arnoldsweiler. In: historicum.net. October 30, 2006, accessed May 25, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Keeping the memory of the prisoners of war alive in the Düren region. In: Dürener Zeitung. November 27, 2013, accessed May 25, 2018 .
  9. ↑ From "Bunker positions in the West air defense zone in the Rhineland and Hitler's headquarters in Bad Münstereifel-Rodert" by Manfred Groß, Meckenheim, 2001, p. 119
  10. ↑ Arnoldsweiler: Historie & Wappen ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. , at www.dueren.de (accessed on June 2, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dueren.de
  11. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 306 .
  12. ↑ Council election on March 25, 2014 , from http://wahlen.regioit.de/ (accessed on June 2, 2015)
  13. ↑ District Committee Arnoldsweiler , on http://wahlen.regioit.de/ (accessed on June 2, 2015)
  14. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Düren district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  15. ^ Population of the city of Düren. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the city of Düren. Archived from the original on March 16, 2018 ; accessed on March 15, 2018 . Info: The 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dueren.de
  16. ^ F. von Restorff: Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province. Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 801.
  17. ↑ St. Arnold Catholic Primary School in Düren-Arnoldsweiler
  18. ↑ https://www.atv1883.de
  19. ↑ Arnoldsweiler with S-Bahn station Merzenich on OpenStreetMap