Bürvenich

Bürvenich City of Zuelpich Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 18 ″ N , 6 ° 35 ′ 46 ″ E
Height :	209 m
Area :	8.52 km²
Residents :	922 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	108 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	53909
Area code :	02425
	Village view

Bürvenich is a district of Zülpich in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Geographical location

The Bürvenich Church of St. Stephen's Discovery

War memorial

Bürvenich is a street village in the Zülpicher Börde on the edge of the northern Eifel . It is located in the German - Belgian Hohes Venn-Eifel Nature Park , near the eastern border with the Rhineland Nature Park . Neighboring villages are Eppenich , Floisdorf , Langendorf , Merzenich , Schwerfen and Berg in the Euskirchen district and Vlatten in the Düren district . The Bürvenicher Bach , which belongs to the catchment area of the Rotbach, flows through the village, the last open section of which in the upper village was piped after 1945. The protected areas near Bürvenich include the nature reserve Bürvenicher Berg and Tötschberg as well as Berg- and Mausbachtal .

history

The settlement of the place should not have been demolished after Roman times even in Frankish times. Roman and Frankish finds are common. Goods from the Carolingian royal estate came to Bürvenich as a donation to the Carolingian house monastery, the Benedictine abbey of Prüm , which is documented as having ownership here in 893. A courtyard with an associated chapel or church, predecessor of today's parish church, including some surrounding smaller courtyards and the land ownership later passed to the territorial nobility, the Counts of Molbach and the Counts of Jülich , in whose latter hand land and court rule over Bürvenich to 1794 remained. Around 1200 the Counts of Jülich founded the Cistercian convent Bürvenich on their allodial property , perhaps on the site of their sovereign court, which existed until 1803. The preserved monastery buildings and the large former monastery church of St. Stephanus form the settlement geographical and architectural center of the village.

Bürvenich was in the Jülich Oberamt Nideggen , whose deputy bailiff and chief judge was the Vogt based in Bürvenich. Between the seat of the Vogt, the Wildenburg as the building of secular power and the monastery as the spiritual center, the so-called Unterdorf was probably only built in the 16th century, whose courtyards are generally larger and more lavish than the courtyards of the upper village, which were originally located only southeast of the main street . Because of the destruction in the 17th century, especially in 1687, the rural houses and courtyards in both districts mostly date from the 17th to 19th centuries and determine the still surprisingly well-preserved townscape. Only in the baroque complexes of church, monastery and Wildenburg are medieval buildings preserved.

Due to the Aachen law , Bürvenich was incorporated into the district of Nideggen in the Düren district of the city of Zülpich in the district of Euskirchen on January 1, 1972 .

Townscape

With a large number of historic courtyards and houses, Bürvenich has a vivid, harmonious, closed village character and has a strong agricultural character.

Attractions

Wildenburg

The so-called Wildenburg , the later official seat of the ducal bailiff , was built around 500 m northeast of the village center as early as the 13th century . Since 1555 at the latest, Wildenburg has been the home of the Vogteilichen judicial district of Bürvenich, to which Hoven , Floren, Sievernich , Juntersdorf , Kelz , Soller , Berg , Hergarten , Vlatten and Eppenich belonged. The Wildenburg is still owned by the descendants of the last bailiff . A local noble family von Bürvenich seems to have existed until the 16th century, but cannot be definitely associated with the ducal castle or the Wildenburg and never grew beyond local importance. The Wildenburg is located directly on the main street and consists of the detached manor house and a three-wing farmyard, both of which are connected by high walls.

St. Stephen's Discovery Church

Former monastery buildings

The Gothic tabernacle

Today's Roman Catholic Church in Bürvenich is under the patronage of St. Stephen's Discovery . After the cloister courtyard of the Cistercian women (with church) was cremated by French soldiers in 1673, a new baroque building followed in the middle of the 18th century, the appearance of which is still preserved today. In 1808 the government sold the monastery courtyard, the church became a parish church again, and part of the monastery has served as a pastorate ever since.

The church is a single-nave Romanesque building that was built after 1234. It consists of a 36 m long and almost 10 m wide hall and a square west tower. On the north side of the choir there is an excellently preserved sacrament house made of stone with the donor's coat of arms and the date 1453 .

In the 19th century, the church was given uniform seating with carved gallery parapets and an organ case made of oak for the precious organ work (1867–70) of the Cologne organ builder Franz Wilhelm Sonreck, who was highly regarded at the time . Four bells form the peal that has endured through the course of time and the chaos of war. The church's greatest treasure is a so-called Antwerp carved altar , which is attributed to the master von Linnich (near Jülich). The carved altar (colored oak) shows scenes from the life of Christ and Mary.

House Piedmont

In 1812 Johann Nikolaus Piedmont built the manor house with outbuildings and a park. Johann Nikolaus Piedmont came to the Rhineland in 1794 as a French officer and was entrusted with the administration of what was then the judicial district of Bürvenich; since 1806 he was the responsible notary and mayor . The building is a two-storey, classical house made of plastered quarry stone with colored stone walls. The sandstone walls of the cellar date from the 16th century and can probably be assigned to the former monastery.

War memorial

In a dominant landscape position above the village there is a 6 m high monument erected in 1887 for the fallen soldiers of the Franco-German War . It is inscribed on March 22, 1887. The monument consists of a plastered, frontal stepped base with inscription plates, on it a red sandstone column, decorated with a plastic relief of the iron cross in a laurel wreath. The column bears an eagle. The inscription on the monument reads: In memory of the 91st birthday of His Majesty the Emperor William I built this monument to the campaign in 1870 and 71 have fallen, and the later deceased combatants the grateful community Bürvenich .

Geological hiking and educational trail

The geological hiking and educational trail in Bürvenich was created on the initiative of the Hohes Venn-Eifel nature park . Information on the formation of the shell limestone and red sandstone deposits in the Triassic 250 to 210 million years ago in the northern Eifel is provided on an approximately 2.5 km long circular route .

Eifel views

Eifel-Blick is an initiative of the Hohes Venn-Eifel Nature Park . The Eifel views are particularly beautiful vantage points in the Eifel. The Eifel-Blick geological hiking trail in Zülpich-Bürvenich is located on the northern edge of the Eifel . It is 297 m above sea level. NHN the highest point in the city of Zülpich. From here the view extends over the Zülpicher Börde to the brown coal mine in the northwest and to the Siebengebirge in the east.

Life support

On April 1, 1925, Ferdinand Nagelschmidt donated his villa, including outbuildings and the associated park, including 80 acres of fields, to the Düren district for the purpose of building a children's home. The old building of what was then the children's home was built in 1929 based on a design by the architect C. Westhoff. It is a broad stone building built on a hillside with two main floors and an outside staircase. Two flat-roofed side wings adjoin the central building with a large entrance niche, hipped roof and polygonal roof turrets. Later, a modern, purpose-built new building was built in the down-to-earth style at the rear. Towards the end of the 1960s, Lebenshilfe took over the former children's home in the Düren district above the village. After extensive and generous renovations and new buildings, a curative educational integration center has been created, in which mentally handicapped people are treated with a variety of support options. In House Self Help constantly living beyond 100 residents, work for the more than 100 employees, with their specific areas of responsibility. Employees and residents of Lebenshilfe are closely connected to the village.

Villa Nagelschmidt

In 1884, the brewery owner Ferdinand Nagelschmidt built this well-proportioned, Wilhelminian-style villa in a picturesque, winding structure and floor plan on the site of today's Lebenshilfe. The two plastered residential floors with stone walls and decorative elements are framed by a corner tower, wooden porch , bay window and floating gable . The original stained glass windows are partially preserved. The Villa Nagelschmidt currently houses the administration of the Lebenshilfe.

Rock cellar

The Felsenkeller is the former ice cellar of the Nagelschmidt brewery. It is inscribed and dated to the year 1858. It is a gothic brick architecture as a cladding of the tunnel entrance into the mountain. The neo-Gothic windows and the gate form the partitioning of the wall sections. In the western entrance there is a pointed arch tympanum with a relief of brewery tools. In the mountain there is a 15 m high main cavern with two side arms that were blasted into the rock.

Abode

The home of Lebenshilfe in Bürvenich was opened in 1978. Today around 40 mentally and multiply handicapped adults live in the home. Part of the furnishings of the dwelling is the outdoor living group (AWG) located in the »Felsenkeller house«, which offers space for 5 mentally handicapped people - who live almost independently.

Bürvenich children's home

The children's home was opened in 2006. It offers space for 26 mentally handicapped and behavioral adolescents.

Events

summer party

The summer festival of the Bürvenich local association takes place annually on the premises of the Lebenshilfe in Bürvenich. An integral part of the two-day celebrations is a large hike organized by the disabled sports community. The festival offers good opportunities for integration and inclusion .

Carnival session

The carnival meeting of the »Karnevalsgesellschaft Wohnheim« (KGW) took place annually in the hall of the village restaurant, occasionally (for example at the 33th anniversary) one moves to the town hall of Zülpich or recently for the 40th anniversary in the Schützenhalle Schwerfen . Since the KGW is unique in Germany as a carnival society for the disabled, the event is attended by numerous regional, but also supra-regional guests of honor.

societies

Bürvenich Carnival Association 1972 (BKV)

SC Bürvenich 1925.

Tambour corps Blau-Weiß Bürvenich 1932 eV

Bürvenich volunteer fire department
St. Sebastianus Rifle Brotherhood (founded 1848)
Carnival society Lebenshilfe HPZ Bürvenich from 1979.
Disabled Sports Association (BSG) Lebenshilfe Bürvenich 1984 e. V.

traffic

By Bürvenich leading national road 11 ( Eppenich -Bürvenich- Schwerfen ), wherein after the village Floisdorf extending circuit road 20 and the by Langendorf branch leading K 23rd The former main street is now called Stephanusstraße and runs for more than 1 km along the Bürvenicher Bach. This main street, from which only a few side streets lead away, probably corresponds to the course of the former Roman trunk road Cologne - Zülpich - Reims . A Roman side street, leading from Mechernich via Floisdorf to Embken towards Zülpich, crossed the main street and determined the second Bürvenich street, today's Mechernich r or Eppenicher street, whose side street character is still recognizable in the less built-up area. The outer boundary of the village is formed by the course of ring roads.

literature

Christian Quix : The Counts of Hengebach. The castles and towns of Heimbach and Niedeggen . The former monasteries Marienwald and Bürvenich and the Collegiatstift later Minoriten monastery before Niedeggen; represented historically. Hensen (Ed.): Aachen 1839 ( E-Kopiw ).
Kristin Dohmen, Sigrun Heinen, Christina Notarius: The parish and Cistercian church in Bürvenich. Building research in the context of monument restoration (= LVR Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Rhineland [Hrsg.]: Yearbook of the Rhenish Preservation of Monuments . Volume 45 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Worms 2015, ISBN 978-3-88462-360-2 , p. 93–120 ( denkmalpflege.lvr.de [PDF]).

Web links

Commons : Bürvenich - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ Population figures as of December 31, 2018
↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X .
↑ Kristin Dohmen: The parish and Cistercian church in Bürvenich. A new look at the origins, dual function and zoning . In: INSITU. Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 7 (1/2015), pp. 21–36 (22, 36).

[1] Population figures as of December 31, 2018

[DE_BFN-Karten-2] Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

[3] Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X .

[4] Kristin Dohmen: The parish and Cistercian church in Bürvenich. A new look at the origins, dual function and zoning . In: INSITU. Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 7 (1/2015), pp. 21–36 (22, 36).