Birkesdorf

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Birkesdorf
City of Düren
Coat of arms of Birkesdorf
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 13 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 51 ″  E
Height : 117 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.86 km²
Residents : 8292  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 2.148 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 52353
Area code : 02421
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Location of Birkesdorf in Düren
The through-town

Birkesdorf ( Dürener Platt Birkesdörper ) is the largest district of the district town of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The largest district of Düren is located in the north of the city on the Rur . The transition from the old town to Birkesdorf is no longer visible. Its neighboring towns are the old town of Düren with the districts of Düren-Nord , Mariaweiler , Hoven , Huchem-Stammeln and Arnoldsweiler .

history

Early finds suggest that Birkesdorf was founded during the time of the Franks . The place is mentioned for the first time in 1126 as Birkensthorp . The moated castle is first mentioned in 1365 as the residence of the Knights of Birkesdorf . The castle was destroyed in 1794 and no longer rebuilt.

Reorganization

As part of the local reorganization , the Birkesdorf office was dissolved on December 31, 1971. The rich industrial town was assigned to the city of Düren on January 1, 1972. Today, Huchem-Stammeln and Selhausen are localities in the Niederzier community . The municipal civil engineering office was located in the former town hall until 2015.

hospital

The old building of the Marienhospital

One of the three Düren hospitals is in Birkesdorf. In 1876, Wilhelm Schüll donated a “house for sick people in need” to the community, the current St. Marien Hospital . It was operated by the order of the Franciscan Sisters from Salzkotten . The construction of the hospital was constantly expanding and today has 381 beds. The hospital is mainly known for its children's clinic. This was the location for the documentary soap “Die Kinderärzte von St. Marien” on RTL .

Industry

Ludwig Peill built the Schoeller mill in 1790.

At the entrance to the village from the direction of Düren there is the Zanders Reflex paper factory , popularly known as Reflex .

In 1814 Johann Schüll founded a paper factory, the Fingerhutsmühle, in Birkesdorf. A year later he started making cloth . Schüll was the town's greatest patron .

In 1912 the company Isola-Werke AG (derived from Isolator ) was founded in Birkesdorf , which today, as Isola GmbH, manufactures circuit boards, among other things .

The Paul Hartmann AG bandage material factory is on the outskirts .

There used to be a brickworks at today's motorway slip road . It was closed in the 1960s.

In 1879 Philipp Schoeller's carpet factory moved to Birkesdorf. Today the factory is called Anker-Carpeting Gebrüder Schoeller GmbH + CO. KG .

From 1992 to June 2009, the IT technology company AnNoText GmbH (text and data processing for lawyers and notaries) resided in the former metal cloth factory at Nordstraße 102, together with its subsidiary DictaPlus (language processing). It moved its headquarters to Hürth .

Since 1999, Birkesdorf has been the headquarters of SOCO Network Solutions GmbH, a regional telecommunications company for the Düren district and the Aachen city region.

A few years ago, Bertelsmann set up a large distribution warehouse in the industrial park.

Hood.de , Germany's largest free internet auction house , is located in the same industrial park .

The company gepe Gebäudedienste Peterhoff GmbH is located directly on the A 4 in the industrial park .

Located on the B56 in the industrial park, there has been a Bauhaus hardware store including the Danish bed warehouse and a Tedox furniture store since the end of 2010 .

Metsä Tissue is the world's largest manufacturer of baking paper with its SAGA product . 99% of the baking paper sold in Germany is manufactured in the Birkesdorf plant.

Clubs, associations

There are many clubs in Birkesdorf

  • May society Birkesdorf 1985.
  • Carnival Association - Club Löstige Jonge 1951/58 Birkesdorf e. V.
  • Birkesdorfer Turnverein 1864 e. V.
  • Football club - FC Viktoria Birkesdorf 1903 e. V.
  • Shooting Association and Brotherhood of St. Petrus 1845 Birkesdorf e. V.
  • 1. Billard-Sport-Club Birkesdorf 53 e. V.
  • Carnival Association - KG Ackerjonge 1966 e. V.
  • Birkesdorf Wind Orchestra
  • Birkesdorf trombone choir
  • Carnival Association - BKG Grieläächer Birkesdorf
  • Culture and tradition friends Birkesdorf
  • Tambourcorps Unity Birkesdorf 1926 e. V.
  • Shock Club Alt-Birkesdorf

traffic

Public transport

The breakpoint in the great valley

The Dueren Railway (DEAG) took on 1 April 1893, the 2.8-kilometer meter-gauge railway line from Düren to Birkesdorf for freight transport in operation. The first passenger transport followed a year later on June 1, 1894. The Birkesdorf station was also the operational center of the railway. On September 9, 1897 DEAG received the concession for passenger traffic and the further construction of the railway in the direction of Inden . Rail traffic was finally stopped on June 30, 1965. Many people remember the “ fiery Elias ”, who pulled the railroad cars through the center of the town across the main street.

From July 20, 1912 to February 28, 1970, Birkesdorf had a train station called Birkesdorf-Süd on the ring line of the Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB). This was primarily used for freight traffic and - until the First World War - to connect the HM Schoeller paper mill. From 1951 to 1955, passenger trains also ran to Mariaweiler and Distelrath during rush hour .

Since November 2001 there has been a stop in the industrial area in the large valley on the Jülich – Düren railway line . It was built on exactly the same stop at Arnoldsweiler, which was abandoned by the Federal Railroad in 1973.

The DKB, Rurtalbus since January 1, 2020 , travels to the place with various bus lines, e.g. B. the lines 205, 206, 209 and 216.

Streets

Bundesstraße 56 runs on the edge of Birkesdorf . As a motorway access road, it separates the town from a large industrial area . The federal motorway 4 runs past the place in an east-west direction. The descent at Birkesdorf is called Düren.

Sports

In 2006 the Isola Rur 5 Bridge Run , a fun run , took place in Birkesdorf for the 18th time .

There is also a handball club in Birkesdorf, which is particularly successful among young people . The male C-, B- and A-youth as well as the female C-, B- and A-youth of TV Birkesdorf played during the season 2009/2010 in the upper league , which represented the highest German league in this age group. In the same season, the male A-youth also won the Vice Middle Rhine Championship and the seniors were promoted to the state league in the 2008/09 season. In the 2011/12 season, the first men's team made it to the Mittelrhein Association League. In July 2012, Simon Ernst , a player who emerged from the club's youth work and who has played for Bundesliga club VfL Gummersbach since 2014 , became European champion with the German U18 national team. Simon Ernst was chosen in this tournament as the best mid-level player in the all-star team.

In the 2012/2013 season, the first men's team on Birkesdorfer TV was promoted to the top division of the Middle Rhine Handball Association (Oberliga) for the first time in the 85-year history of the handball department. In the same year, the club's first women's team made it to the association league for the first time.

schools

In Birkesdorf there is the Catholic primary school Birkesdorf (KGS), the community secondary school Mathias-Claudius-Schule and the special school (with special emphasis on learning, emotional and social development and language) Bürgewaldschule Birkesdorf.

fire Department

There is a fire fighting group of the Düren volunteer fire brigade in the village . It is equipped with a fire fighting vehicle LF 16, a team transport vehicle MTF and a tank fire engine 16/24 with a crew. The fire fighting group currently consists of 28 members and a youth fire brigade that has 12 members; she has to deal with about 100 trips each year and forms with the fire squad Arnoldsweiler the Fire Company 3 of the volunteer fire brigade Düren.

Churches

St. Peter's Church

There is a Protestant community center and the Catholic parish of St. Peter in the village.

The Catholic church was rebuilt in 1963 at its current location.

Architectural monuments

There are several architectural monuments in Birkesdorf that are listed in the list of monuments of the city of Düren :

Others

Birkesdorf has a large festival hall in which many, also regional, events take place.

The Birkesdorf fairground is located between the Birkesdorf festival hall and the fire station . The largest May festival in the region is held here. The organizer is the May Society Birkesdorf 1985.

Directly on the Rur is an amusement park with a mini golf course , the only one in Düren.

A song by the Cologne dialect band Bläck Fööss , called “ Buuredanz” (farmer's dance), which was published in 1977 and sang about dancing in Birkesdorf, made the place known to a larger music audience.

Personalities

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.dueren.de/kultur-tourismus/stadtportraet/zahlen__fotos?sr=7584
  2. ^ 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 .
  3. ↑ http://www.sagacook.com
  4. ↑ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways . tape 4 : North Rhine-Westphalia - southern part . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, p. 51 .
  5. ↑ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways . tape 4 : North Rhine-Westphalia - southern part . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, p. 50 .
  6. ↑ Text Buuredanz