Sistig

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Sistig
Municipality of Kall
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 31 ″  N , 6 ° 31 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 539  (520-543)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.83 km²
Residents : 744  (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 76 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 53925
Area code : 02445
St. Stefan, church tower and south-east facade
St. Stefan, church tower and south-east facade

Sistig is a district of the municipality of Kall in the district of Euskirchen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

location

Sistig is located in the southwest of the municipality of Kall, directly neighboring districts are Diefenbach , Felser , Frohnrath , Krekel , Rinnen and Steinfelderheistert . In the north is the Sistiger forest with the Sistiger Venn, in the south the Sistig-Krekeler Heide, a nature reserve of supraregional importance with some very rare plants, e.g. B. the real moon rue , flesh-colored orchid and broad-leaved orchid . With 748 inhabitants, Sistig is the fourth largest district in the municipality. Sistig is located at the extreme southern end of the Eifel National Park at an altitude of over 500 meters, about 20 kilometers from the green border with Belgium .

history

The place name Sistig is probably derived from the Latin numeral "sextus". The Roman-Celtic settlement is likely to have originated around 2000 years ago.

A chapel must have stood in Sistig at least in 1214, because a document dated January 1214 stipulated that the monks of the Steinfeld monastery had to read a Holy Mass one day a week. In 1792 marauding French troops tried to devastate the chapel; the soldiers were opposed by a brave Sistiger named Milten Theis, who was then killed by the French.

In a directory from 1774, Sistig consists of 65 houses with 288 residents (214 of them "communicants" and 74 children). In 1773 Sistig had achieved a certain importance for public administration. In his “Chronicle of Schleidener Oberthales”, for example, Eugen Virmond describes a tax list with Hellenthal taxpayers from the “Graflich Schleidische Amt Sistig”, neatly differentiated into Reichstaler , Stüber and Pfennige .

On July 1, 1969, Sistig was incorporated into Kall.

Infrastructure / village life

In Sistig there is a kindergarten , one of the two primary schools in the community and the Catholic parish church of St. Stephanus . The second parish priest is Saint Quirinus von Neuss , after whom a spring in the village is named (Quirinusborn).

Citizens' associations, voluntary fire brigades , carnival, sports and music associations, youth clubs and parish councils take on essential social tasks and obligations and are committed to active and meaningful leisure activities for Sistiger citizens of all ages within a lively village community . The associations form a network of residents from the immediately neighboring villages of Sistig, Frohnrath and Steinfelderheistert. In addition to the church holidays, the highlights of village life are the Rose Monday procession with the child prince couple and the traditional fair (on the first weekend in October).

Sistig's industrial focus is wood processing .

Church and Parish

The Catholic parish church of St. Stephen was built in 1904; a parish has existed in Sistig since 1804. The church is decorated with modern frescoes by the famous artist Ernst Jansen-Winkeln . The painting began at the beginning of the Second World War . After Jansen-Winkeln was drafted as a soldier, the work was interrupted and then continued again after his happy return after the end of the war. Thematically, it is a visual interpretation of the "Our Father" with associations with recent history. There are depictions of a concentration camp in which people are tortured and other references to the temptations of the zeitgeist. Adolf Hitler is one of the devils in recent history; he is shown burning the Bible and how a church is destroyed by the effects of war. Karl Marx and Lenin can be found as further historical figures . But also personalities like Robert Koch, the discoverer of the tubercle bacterium.

Since 1978 the parish no longer has its own pastor. Today it belongs to the community of the communities of Saint Hermann-Josef Steinfeld in the diocese of Aachen . In addition to Sistig, Frohnrath and Steinfelderheistert, the parish also includes the Hellenthal districts of Wollenberg and Eichen.

Culture

The writer Theo Breuer, who was born in Bürvenich , lives in Sistig .

Natural events

Wiebke and other severe hurricanes in January to March 1990 destroyed many hectares of the forests around Sistig. In January 2007, storm Kyrill again flattened large parts of the Sistiger Forest. On May 13, 2007, Sistig was hit by a tornado which, in addition to numerous serious damage to houses, cut a swath of uprooted and broken trees from the upper Neustraße to the cemetery.

traffic

By the location or as a bypass of the runs Aachen according Koblenz leading B258 . The nearest motorway junctions are Blankenheim and Nettersheim on the A 1 . There is a rail connection from Kall to Cologne and Trier. The station can be easily reached via the collective call taxi (AST).

literature

  • Sources on the regional history of the Euskirchen district, Volume 1: Chronicle of Schleidener Oberthales, created in 1896 by Eugen Virmond; Euskirchen 1996.
  • Karl Vermöhlen (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the parish anniversary on July 18, 2004. 200 years of the Sistig parish and 100 years of the St. Stephanus parish church, Sistig 2004.

Web links

Commons : St. Stefan (Sistig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Municipality of Kall: residents by districts. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 100 .