Oberbolheim

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Oberbolheim
Nörvenich municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 39 ″  N , 6 ° 39 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 120 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.9 km²
Residents : 221  (May 31, 2020)
Population density : 76 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1969
Postal code : 52388
Area code : 02426
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Location of Oberbolheim in Nörvenich
The new Oberbolheim

Oberbolheim is a village in the municipality Nörvenich in Düren , Region of Cologne , North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The place and the air base

Oberbolheim is a very young, pure place to live. The old Oberbolheim, which has developed and grown over centuries, was relocated from its old location ( 50 ° 49 ′  N , 6 ° 38 ′  E ) northwest of the St. Antonius Chapel in 1968/1969 . Due to the close proximity to the runway of the Nörvenich air base , the aircraft noise had become unbearable, and there was a risk of danger from jet planes that might crash .

Alt-Oberbolheim was on the Benzelrath – Nörvenich railway line and federal road 477 .

The relocated place

The new Oberbolheim was built in an open field around two kilometers south-east directly by the Nörvenicher Forest . Immediately after the residents moved out, their houses were demolished and the village disappeared from the map. Only the Antonius Chapel remains of the old Oberbolheim. Oberbolheim is the only place in North Rhine-Westphalia that was relocated because of aircraft noise.

The Antoniuskapelle next to the air base entrance

Naming

The Düren place name researcher Wilhelm Kaspers derives the name part "bol" from the Old High German "bolla" via "bol" = "round hill". Since Oberbolheim was not on a hill , the explanatory approach of the Bonn linguist Heinrich Dittmaier, who traces this syllable back to the personal name "Bolla". According to Dittmaier, the place names on the left bank of the Rhine that end in “-heim” date back to the first post-Roman centuries .

Incorporation

On January 1, 1969, Oberbolheim was incorporated into Nörvenich.

Population development

Population development
year population   year population   year population
1885 247   1905 198   1925 218
1945 194   1955 216   1965 236
1975 187   1985 245   1995 214
2005 194   2010 184   2015 171

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.noervenich.de/gemeinde/einwohnerzahlen-monatlich/20200602-Einwohnerzahlen-05-2020.pdf
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 77 .

Web links

Commons : Oberbolheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files