Arzdorf

Arzdorf Municipality Wachtberg Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 30 ″ N , 7 ° 5 ′ 28 ″ E
Height :	204 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	303 (Jul 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	1st August 1969
Postal code :	53343
Area code :	02225
Location of Arzdorf in North Rhine-Westphalia

Arzdorf is one of 13 districts of the municipality Wachtberg in the Rhein-Sieg district in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ). Until the local reorganization in 1969, Arzdorf was a municipality belonging to the Meckenheim district in what was then the district of Bonn .

geography

Geographical location

Arzdorf is located in the southwest of the municipality of Wachtberg , about 2 km from the state border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate .

Geographically, the area belongs to the Voreifel , to the east the Rhine flows past 10 km away . Arzdorf is located on the southern edge of the Cologne Bay , about 20 km south of Bonn city center. The spa town of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is 10 km south and the town of Remagen , which became famous during the Second World War for the Ludendorff Bridge (Remagen Bridge), is 14 km to the east .

Neighboring places and communities

The following places border on Arzdorf. They are called clockwise , starting in the north and all, with the exception of Eckendorf , Oeverich and Niederich, which are located in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate , belong to the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia :

Klein-Villip, Holzem , Berkum , Werthhoven , Niederich , Oeverich, Fritzdorf , Eckendorf , Adendorf

history

The first known documented mention of the place name Artstorp comes from the year 1166. A donation from Abbot Gerhard von Are to the Bonn Cassius Foundation was documented .

In 1815 the Rhineland and with it Arzdorf fell to Prussia . The community was the mayor Adendorf in county Rheinbach in Cologne Region of the Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg allocated the 1822 with the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine to the Rhine province was merged. The mayor's office was later moved to Meckenheim. At the census on December 1, 1912, the community of Arzdorf had 210 inhabitants.

When the Rheinbach district was dissolved in 1932, Adendorf became part of the Bonn district. On August 1, 1969, the municipality was merged with the municipalities of the Villip office and the municipalities of Adendorf and Fritzdorf of the Meckenheim office to form the new municipality of Wachtberg by the law on the municipal reorganization of the Bonn area ( Bonn law ) , which together with the other parts of the simultaneously dissolved district of Bonn (if not incorporated into Bonn or Wesseling) was incorporated into the Siegkreis , which has been called Rhein-Sieg-Kreis since then .

Population development

Lived in the Arzdorf district (including second homes):

year	Residents
1961	229
1969	263
1979	303
1989	288
1999	322

year	Residents
2002 ¹	307
2003 ¹	304
2004 ¹	305
2005 ¹	313
2006 ¹	324

year	Residents
2007 ¹	332
2008 ¹	335
2009 ¹	338
2014 ²	317

¹ June 30th of each year. Source: Statistical information in the 2010 draft budget of the municipality of Wachtberg
² Status: 25 Sep. 2014

Local representation

The chairman of the local representation in Arzdorf is Volker Gütten (CDU) (as of 2010) .

Culture and sights

Birthplace of Heinrich Welsch ("Teacher Welsch")

Buildings

Anthony's Chapel
Heinrich Welsch's birthplace , Villiper Weg 27

Personalities

Heinrich Welsch , born May 29, 1848 in Arzdorf, † June 7, 1935 in Cologne , teacher in Cologne, committed to disadvantaged working-class children , model for the carnival song En d'r Kayjass number zero : “We were with the teacher Welsch in de Klass '“

Johann Baptist Welsch , called Tilla , born February 22, 1888 in Arzdorf, † March 2, 1943 in Mauthausen , well-known Cologne travesty artist in the 1920s and 1930s

Web links

Commons : Arzdorf - Collection of Images

Website of the Arzdorf Citizens' Association

Individual evidence

↑ Population figures for the municipality of Wachtberg (as of July 31, 2018)
^ Antoniusverein Arzdorf: 850 years of Arzdorf
↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, DNB 456219528 , p. 83 .

[Einwohner-Quelle-1] Population figures for the municipality of Wachtberg (as of July 31, 2018)

[2] Antoniusverein Arzdorf: 850 years of Arzdorf

[3] Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, DNB 456219528 , p. 83 .