Altenrath (Troisdorf)

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Altenrath
City of Troisdorf
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '26 "  N , 7 ° 11' 49"  E
Height : 110 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.81 km²
Residents : 2276  (Jul 1, 2020)
Population density : 258 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st August 1969
Postal code : 53842
Area code : 02246
Altenrath (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Altenrath

Location of Altenrath in North Rhine-Westphalia
Church of St. Georg in Troisdorf-Altenrath

Altenrath is one of the twelve localities of Troisdorf in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district . Until 1969 Altenrath was an independent municipality.

location

The district is located about five kilometers north of Troisdorf-Mitte on the edge of the Wahner Heide nature reserve on the city limits of Lohmar . The close proximity to Cologne / Bonn Airport poses a number of problems. In the past, the proximity to the Wahn military training area , which is now only used to a limited extent, was problematic. Altenrath can be reached from Troisdorf via Altenrather Straße. Part of Altenrather Straße is called "Panzerstraße" because the adjacent Wahner Heide was a training area for various armies for a long time and this section was built with extra hard concrete for tanks, which is very uneven and looks rustic. Altenrath can also be reached via Landesstraße 84 or Landesstraße 288, which also connects to the Cologne districts around Porz . Lohmar can be reached directly via Kreisstraße 10. The driveways of the federal motorway 3 are in Lohmar.

history

Middle Ages and Modern Times

The oldest documented mention of the Altenrath settlement dates from the period between 1065 and 1075. In the foundation deeds of the Siegburg Abbey , a farm was named "Haus Sulsa", and in 1075 "Sulsa" was named in an exchange document from the Archbishop of Cologne, Anno II . "Sulsa" is to be equated with "Sülz". According to historians, this place name is related to the Sülz river , which flows into the Agger east of the current location .

The place was first named "Aldinroide upper Heide" in 1311 when the parish Altenrath was sold to the county of Berg . The Romanesque church of St. George probably dates from the middle of the 12th century.

In 1271 Altenrath belonged to the rule Heinsberg , in 1286 the place became the seat of a high court . In the 14th century the rulership changed several times. In 1311 Count Adolf VI bought. von Berg , the parish; In 1333 Altenrath came to the County of Jülich , 1341 to the Lordship of Heinsberg (Loon-Heinsberg-Blankenberg), in 1361 again to the County of Berg and in 1363 again to Loon-Heinsberg-Blankenberg. From the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century Altenrath remained permanently under the rule of the Duchy of Berg . From 1446 the place was subordinate to the office Löwenburg and from 1484 to the office Porz .

In a list of the court situation in the Duchy of Berg in 1555, Altenrath was named as an independent honor .

During the Reformation in 1572, some residents of the parish Altenrath practiced the Lutheran faith. The St. George Church remained in the possession of the Catholic parish, but Catholic and Lutheran services were celebrated simultaneously until 1613.

After the Napoleonic Revolutionary Wars, the Grand Duchy of Berg joined the Rhine Confederation in 1806 . Until 1813, Altenrath belonged to Mairie Lohmar in the Siegburg arrondissement , which was assigned to the Rhine department, under French administration .

Pottery site

There is evidence of pottery in Altenrath since the 1630s. The pottery families came from the Kannenbäckerland , some also from nearby Siegburg . Construction work on the old Kölner Strasse (Flughafenstrasse) made it possible to identify two burning sites after the Second World War. At the end of the 17th century, pottery came to a standstill again. In the old field names "Scherfelberg" (= shard mountain) in the north of Altenrath and "Uleschhüsje or Eulenhaus" (= pottery house) in the south, the pottery was still remembered.

Altenrath community

After the Rhineland was awarded to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Altenrath became an independent rural community, which was administered by the Lohmar mayor's office in the Siegburg district , which was newly created in 1816 . From 1845 on, Altenrath had an elected council that also elected the councilor.

The hamlets and farms Boxhohn, Euelen, Ludwigshütte, Schauenberg and Utzenrath also belonged to the parish.

The community of Altenrath had a total of 711 inhabitants in 1885, who lived in 159 residential buildings; 346 of the residents were male and 365 female. The community was predominantly Catholic with 703 believers and belonged to the parish of St. Georg in Altenrath; there were also seven Protestant Christians who belonged to the Volberg parish and one citizen of the Jewish faith.

In 1885 the community had an area of ​​905  hectares , of which 220 hectares were arable land, 26 hectares were meadows and 388 hectares were forest.

20th century until today

Around 1910 there was a school in which the teacher Joseph Rademacher, the excavator of many barrows in the Heide, taught, a midwife , a gymnastics club, the Cäcilia church choir , a comradely club, a local club of the Rhenish farmers' association and its own savings and loan association .

The location at or in the military training area meant that Altenrath ceased to exist in 1938: The area was required for the military training area. It was only shortly after the Second World War that people were able to settle there again - and it was only from 1983 that private property in Altenrath was allowed to be acquired. Since then Altenrath has grown steadily again. At the census on June 6, 1961, the community had 1244 inhabitants on an area of ​​8.81 km². On August 1, 1969, the community was dissolved under the Bonn Act and incorporated into the city of Troisdorf. At the time of incorporation, the community had 1,081 inhabitants.

In the mid-1950s, Altenrath was a promising candidate as a location for the then planned Rhenish Open-Air Museum. In 1958, however, this project was awarded to Kommern .

Today the district has almost 2,300 inhabitants. The place is characterized by development with single-family houses. If you take a closer look, you will notice the similarity of many prefabricated houses built in the early 1990s. Such similarities are nothing new in Altenrath: in the streets “An der Witzenbach” (today Witzenbachstraße), “Am Rambusch” (today Rambusch) and “Waldsiedlung” you will find almost identical houses that were planned in the 1930s and started and finished after the end of the war. There are also several houses in the town center, which were built almost identically - some also mirrored. So has z. B. the house of the aforementioned teacher Rademacher in the Höckergasse a counterpart in the street "Rübkamp".

Attractions

  • The Romanesque church of St. Georg is one of Altenrath's landmarks. Altenrath has a cemetery, which is located at the St. Georg Church.
    Tank wash on the Wahner Heide
  • The Wahner Heide, the second largest nature reserve, is the greatest attraction of the otherwise almost exclusively residential area.
  • The former tank washing facility on "Alte Kölner Strasse"
  • The natural monument , the 1000-year-old Boxhohn oak on Hasbacher Straße towards Rösrath .

Infrastructure

  • Altenrath owns an artificial turf pitch, which the soccer department of TUS Altenrath 1907/54 e. V. uses.
  • Altenrath has an adequate village infrastructure in terms of retail stores and restaurants.

Personalities

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Troisdorf: residents and households . Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  2. ^ Entry on Alte Altenrather Straße ("Panzerstraße" on the Wahner Heide) in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on January 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Matthias Dederichs: Geschichtsverein Troisdorf eV - Troisdorf history information in short form up to 1932 ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ a b Website of the city of Troisdorf , The Troisdorf district Altenrath - historical
  5. ↑ Ursula Francke: Stoneware pottery in the 17th century in Troisdorf-Altenrath, Rhineland (accessed from Furnologia November 2010)
  6. ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia (PDF; 1.5 MB), Publishing House of the Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.), 1885, page 114
  7. ↑ a b Residential address book Siegkreis 1910
  8. ^ Law on the local reorganization of the Bonn area (Bonn Law) of July 1, 1969; § 9
  9. ↑ Bernd Imgrund , Nina Osmers: 111 places in the Cologne area that you have to see. Verlag Emons, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89705-777-7 , location 65.
  10. ^ Entry on the tank washing facility at Camp Major Legrand (tank washing area at the former barracks Altenrath) in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on July 17, 2017.