Ameln
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Ameln
municipality Titz
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E
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| Height : | 96 m |
| Residents : | 698 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Postal code : | 52445 |
| Area code : | 02463 |
Ameln is a district of the municipality of Titz in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
Ameln is located south of the main town of Titz, west of Kalrath , east of Spiel and north of Rödingen in the Jülich Börde .
history
Ameln was mentioned for the first time in 1138 in the Annales Rodenses : "[...] these days the Godescalcus gave the church nine acres of land at Amble and they pay nine denarii in Cologne currency. [...]" Later the place was used for sales or inheritance matters in connection with the large estates of Schunkenhof, Krichelshof and Kasperhof.
economy
In Ameln there is an industrial park several hectares in size. For decades, the largest company in town was the sugar factory , founded in 1872 , which has belonged entirely to the Pfeifer & Langen company since 1928 . In the course of the concentration process of the sugar industry, it was closed after the 1991 campaign . The Buir-Bliesheim agricultural cooperative opened a warehouse there in 2003.
In 2007, additional areas of the former sugar factory were designated as the "Ameln Energy Park". Since then, ADRW Naturpower GmbH, which belongs to the Maschinenring Rheinland-West, has commissioned two biogas plants with a total output of around 1.2 MW. The process heat from the plant is taken over by Westpellets GmbH & Co KG, which has been operating since 2008, in cogeneration and is used to produce high-quality wood pellets.
There has been a grain distillery in the village for more than 100 years, but it has now ceased operations.
traffic
Road traffic
Ameln can be reached via a well-developed road network. The Titz junction of the A 44 motorway, which was completed in this area in 1975, is 3 km away and the Bedburg junction of the A 61 is around 8 km away.
railroad
In 1873, the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft connected the village of Ameln to the railway network, which was still growing rapidly at the time, with its Mönchengladbach - Hochneukirch - Jülich line. The associated station was on the eastern outskirts north of Bedburger Strasse. In 1881 the line was nationalized. In 1899 Ameln was connected to the Bedburg - Ameln railway , the "Amelner Johännchen". This line was built by the Bergheimer Kreisbahn as a narrow-gauge railway with separate stations west of the Amelner Staatsbahnhof - north of the station, the state railway was crossed on a bridge. In 1912/13 the conversion to standard gauge, the nationalization and then the integration of the track systems into a large common station without crossing the two lines. Although Ameln is smaller than Titz, the Ameln train station gained greater importance due to the very extensive transports to the sugar factory in autumn and the branch in the direction of Bedburg.
Passenger traffic to Bedburg was discontinued on March 17, 1953, goods traffic continued there until 1966. Passenger traffic on the Hochneukirch - Jülich section was suspended on May 30, 1980, and goods traffic between Ameln and Jülich shortly afterwards on July 15, 1980. When goods traffic between Ameln and Hochneukirch was finally abandoned on June 1, 1984, the age of the railways ended for Ameln. After the shutdown, the station building was demolished.
Bus traffic today
The public transport today, the BVR with the line 284 Jülich - sure Jackerath. It was set up as a rail bus line as early as the 1950s as a replacement for individual canceled trains and continued through Jackerath to Hochneukirch station until 1994, where there was a connection to the trains on the Cologne - Mönchengladbach line. In 1989, Sunday operations on this line were stopped.
Attractions
- The parish church is dedicated to St. Nicholas .
Personalities
- Severin Rüttgers (1876–1938), educator and writer, born in Ameln
Others
- For a long time Ameln was known to the hang-gliders through the family kite festival . The organizer was DC Grisu, which dissolved in 2013 after 25 years.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://offenedaten.kdvz-frechen.de/dataset/d04-einwohner-nach-ortsteilen-titz
- ↑ Annales rodenses - narrative texts by Dr. Franz Heidbüchel and Hermann Kramer, 1990
- ↑ newspaper article Kölnische Rundschau from July 22nd and 26th, 2000
