Heddinghoven
Heddinghoven is the name of an old settlement in the city of Erftstadt between Lechenich and Konradsheim . Heddinghoven, which was first mentioned in 1155, was integrated into Lechenich even before the municipal administrative reform . The landmark of Heddinghoven is the old Romanesque chapel of St. Servatius.
history
The place name Heddinghoven refers to the Franconian times with its final syllables -inghoven , but the exact time when the place was founded is unknown. Possibly the first property was a vanished Fronhof with its own church , which came into the possession of the Archbishop of Cologne , Philipp von Heinsberg , in the 12th century . The settlement, which only consists of a few houses, was first named around 1155 in a manuscript from the Deutz monastery with the name "Heddinchoven" as a place of the parish of Lechenich, but never achieved a village-like character.
Fiefdom to Heddinghoven
In the 13th century, the Cologne archbishop and sovereign gave the court to Heddinghoven as a castle fief from Lechenich. Known by name is in the service of Archbishop Engelbert standing knight William of Heddinghoven, who also called himself Wilhelm 1,260 of Lüftelberg. Although he owned the farm as a castle fief from Lechenich, he does not seem to have lived there. His descendants of the same name, bailiffs of Hülchrath , only had grain income as Lechenich castle feuds, which the last von Heddinghoven waived in 1345. A possible tenant was the Brent von Vernich family in Heddinghoven around 1440 , at that time also known as Heddekoven or Hettekoven , who owned a farmstead with dams and ponds there.
Heddinghover Mill
Heddinghoven had remained unchanged for almost two centuries and saw no increase in residents. In 1660 there was only a chapel and only one inhabited house in Heddinghoven . Even the Mühlenbach in the Heddinghoven district , the formerly known as the Rotbach tributary of the Erft , where mills (mostly grinding mills ) have been operated since ancient times , did not lead to any further settlement. The street name “An der Schleifmühle” is a reminder of the days when the mill was in operation.
In 1805 Friedrich Widder built a pearl barley and oil mill in Heddinghoven , which he operated until he was 92. In 1853 - after several changes of ownership - it was converted into a grain mill and was in operation until 1938. After the "Weltersmühle" was sold to an architect in 1977, the house and mill building were converted into residential purposes and the barn was converted into office space after restoration.
Today's Heddinghoven
Today, Heddinghoven is completely absorbed by the suburban settlements that emerged in the post-war period, only a street sign and the occasional name Chapel Heddinghoven reminds of this name. Presumably, the location of medieval Heddinghoven is within today's streets Frenzenstraße (L261), Blessemer Lichweg, Vilskaul and Weg An St. Servatius. With the old city center and its neighboring towns, the district is well connected and accessible by public transport .
Mühlenbach area below the chapel
Old wayside shrine
Wayside shrine at Weltersmühlenweg
Remaining memory
On site you will find the Welter Mühlenweg two of the original seven shrines . In earlier times there were stations in the corridor of the Seven Footfalls , a petition for a deceased.
Chapel and cemetery
Beyond the former Weltersmühle is the walled Lechenich cemetery with the old, Romanesque chapel dedicated to St. Servatius . The small church is now owned by the city of Erftstadt and is mainly used as a cemetery chapel, where church exequies are held at funerals by appointment .
After an urgently needed renovation of the building, which was made possible between 2001 and 2004 with the support of the Chapel's Friends' Association and other generous donations, cultural events are also held in the chapel.
Lechenich church and cemetery
Until 1795, the Lechenicher cemetery, the "cemetery" was, on the components belonging to the parish Lechenich Ahremer were buried immediately next to the parish church of St. Kilian. After the French occupied the Rhineland, a new burial order was introduced under their new administration. After the decree of 1795, the deceased were no longer allowed to be buried in the old church yards within cities, but were to be buried outside of the places. This decree was enforced by the responsible district government in Bonn despite considerable opposition in the form of substantiated justifications submitted by the population . The argument of the citizens of Lechenich that the churchyard was devoid of all houses, and therefore a relocation of the cemetery was superfluous, was rejected and the cemetery in Heddinghoven was determined as the future burial place of Lechenich.
Heddinghoven cemetery
The relatively small cemetery area in Heddinghoven, the expansion of which was considered inevitable as early as 1819, was used as a burial place for the Blessemer and Konradsheim deceased until 1795. The increase in burials on the Heddinghover site by far exceeded the existing capacity. As a result, the regular rest times of the older grave sites could no longer be observed, so that the decomposition process of the buried dead was often not yet completed before a grave was re-filled.
In order to end these conditions, an expansion of the cemetery was necessary for ethical but also sanitary reasons. The expansion was then carried out in the years 1821-1824. 50 years later, between 1870 and 1874, another, larger expansion took place. The Council of Churches' request to designate a separate cemetery for non-Catholics on the land acquired by the municipality was rejected by both the municipality council and the district government in Cologne, as this ran counter to the provisions of the royal cabinet order of August 27, 1820. In August, the government approved the expansion of the cemetery, which was enlarged to over an acre . The construction of the new cemetery was completed at the end of 1874. It was surrounded by a wall and now formed a unit with the old churchyard. After cemeteries were laid out in Ahrem in 1907 and Blessem in 1909, the cemetery in Heddinghoven only served as a burial place for Lechenich and Konradsheim.
Soldiers graves
Holy house at the southeast entrance
Leonard Berg, chaplain to Lechenich, died and buried in Heddinghoven in 1936
Due to the increased population, several expansions took place in the 20th century. The largest expansion of the cemetery took place at the end of the 1970s in a westerly direction. There, as in the southern part, grave sites for urn burials were identified. The 1978 resolution of the city council that the part of the cemetery, which is called the “new cemetery” and which adjoins the old cemetery to the west, should be designed as a park cemetery, was no longer maintained after a few years and was repealed in 2005 by a new cemetery statute. On the north side, which is provided with paved parking areas, there is another entrance and the driveway to the morgue.
The grave of the well-known soccer coach Hennes Weisweiler is located on the new section extending to the south . A military cemetery has been set up on the first, older site near the chapel. Sponsorships were taken over for the care of the 34 listed graves in the old cemetery.
literature
- Frank Bartsch / Hanna Stommel: Lechenich from Roman times to today. Erftstadt 2004. ISBN 3-92-4576-07-6
- K. and H. Stommel: Sources on the history of the city of Erftstadt , Vol. IV. Erftstadt 1990–1998.
Individual evidence
- ↑ HAStK inventory of Deutz Abbey RH 2
- ↑ HAStK Farr. Gelenii IV Bl. 211
- ↑ HAStK Best. Foreign 170b
- ↑ HAStK inventory Domstift U No. 3/963
- ↑ HSTAD Kurköln U No. 649
- ↑ Archive Salis-Soglio, Vernich D IX 50 in the State Main Archive Koblenz
- ↑ HSTAD Kurköln II 1117 pp. 257-270
- ↑ DOZA Vienna Abt. From 248/8 and HSTAD Kurköln IV No. 291
- ↑ Frank Bartsch, Dieter Hoffsümmer, Hanna Stommel: Monuments in Erftstadt, AHAG, Lechenich 1998 ff. (Loose-leaf collection)
- ↑ LAV R, Lechenich civil status register, deaths 1842, document No. 8.
- ↑ see e.g. B. LAV R, Notaries, Repertory 30, Deed 8737.
- ↑ HSTAK inventory Maas and Rhine 968
- ↑ a b Parish archives St. Kilian I. Part Dept. 1 Bd. 5 Heddinghoven
- ^ Parish archives St. Kilian I. part, section 1, vol. 3 Ahrem
- ^ Parish archives St. Kilian I. Part, Section 1, Vol. 4 Frauenthal
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ' N , 6 ° 46' E