Dormagen
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Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ' N , 6 ° 51' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Dusseldorf | |
| Circle : | Rhine district of Neuss | |
| Height : | 45 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 85.5 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 64,340 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 753 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 41539-41542 | |
| Primaries : | 02133, 02182 | |
| License plate : | NE, GV | |
| Community key : | 05 1 62 004 | |
| LOCODE : | DE DMG | |
| City structure: | 16 districts | |
City administration address : |
Paul-Wierich-Platz 2 41539 Dormagen |
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| Mayor : | Erik Lierenfeld ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Dormagen in the Rhine district of Neuss | ||
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Dormagen [ ˈdɔrmaːɡn̩ ] is a large city in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia . It borders directly on Cologne and the state capital Düsseldorf .
Geographical location
To the east of Dormagen- Rheinfeld is an adjoining Rhine bend . Monheim am Rhein is located southeast of Dormagen on the opposite bank of the Rhine . On nice days, a view of the Bergisches Land, which is still further away, is possible on the banks of the Rhine . The city of Neuss is located north of Dormagen, bordering the Stadt Zons district . To the west of Dormagen- Delhoven are the cities of Grevenbroich and Rommerskirchen . Worringen, a district of the neighboring city of Cologne, is south of Dormagen . The city border between Dormagen and Cologne is also a border between the administrative districts of Düsseldorf (to which Dormagen belongs) and Cologne . Kölner Strasse, a former Roman road, runs through the historic city center of Dormagen, which is partly used as a pedestrian zone. Until the 1980s, it was part of Bundesstraße 9 , which now runs past Dormagen to the east as a bypass.
City structure
Districts with population figures (as of December 31, 2017):
| district | Residents |
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| Delhoven | 4343 |
| Delrath | 2931 |
| Dormagen-Mitte (with Dormagen Nord) | 10470 |
| Gohr with Broich | 2189 |
| Hackenbroich (with Hackhausen ) | 9086 |
| Horror | 9171 |
| district | Residents |
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| Nievenheim | 6461 |
| Uckerath | 2553 |
| Rheinfeld with Piwipp | 5272 |
| City of Zons (with nightingale ) | 5491 |
| Straberg with Knechtsteden | 2729 |
| Stürzelberg (with St. Peter ) | 4466 |
Neighboring places
| Grevenbroich | Neuss | Dusseldorf |
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Monheim am Rhein |
| Pulheim | Cologne | Leverkusen |
history
The name Dormagen comes from Durnomagus . According to recent research, the word comes from the Celtic languages and means something like 'gravel field' or 'pebble field'.
prehistory
The first traces of settlement date back to the Mesolithic . Microliths are discovered again and again throughout the city. Tools from the Neolithic Age were found in Delhoven. In the Bronze Age , several barrows were dug in the choir bush near Hackenbroich. Urn graves, which were found during the construction of a water pipe in the fir bush near Delhoven, probably date from around 200 BC. The Eburones probably inhabited this area before the Romans , at least one of their coins was found in the Dormagen area. After 19/18 BC, the Ubier were settled in the areas of the Eburones, which Caesar had exterminated. The main settlement of the Ubier at that time was the Oppidum Ubiorum, the later Roman Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (CCAA) - today's Cologne .
Roman time
In the period between 15 and 12 BC a Roman fort was built in Dormagen , which must have been located near the archaeologically unproven oppidum Durnomagus . This place name has been handed down in the Itinerarium Antonini , a travel book from the 4th century. The Roman travel book. It shared exactly the two-day route between Cologne and Neuss. A vexillation of the Legio I Germanica built a military brickworks with four kilns in Dormagen in 35. The bricks made here were stamped with the troop designation and symbols of the legion. After the Batavian Uprising , the 1st Legion was dissolved and the military brickworks in Dormagen were closed at this point at the latest. Around the year 80 a Roman auxiliary fort was built again in Dormagen. Ten years later it was replaced by a larger warehouse by the ala Noricorum . In the 2nd century a mithraeum , a place of worship of the Persian-Roman god Mithras, was built in a villa rustica near Dormagen . In the period between 393 and 402, the Roman troops were withdrawn from the province of Germania superior to protect Rome .
middle Ages
Today's parish church of St. Michael is a new building built after 1970, which, however, goes back to older predecessor buildings (8th century ff.); graves of the 6./7. Century. Probably since 476 Nievenheim was the main place of the Franconian settlement , but there is no archaeological evidence for it. The village of Horrem was first mentioned as Horchem in 1005 , Hackhausen in 1080. In 1128 the Knechtsteden Abbey was founded. In 1138 the construction of the current monastery church in Knechtsteden began. Pope Hadrian IV took the abbey with the villages of Hackhausen and Horrem under his protection in 1158. In 1190 the Catholic parish church of St. Michael in Dormagen was built on the foundations of a Roman temple to Mars. The Jussenhoven estate, west of Dormagen, was first mentioned in 1222 as Gozenhouen and Goischinhoue. In 1247, three archbishops, 11 bishops, numerous princes and dukes elected Wilhelm of Holland as German king in neighboring Worringen . However, there was not enough accommodation in Worringen and so the places in the area were used. The Hackenbroich moated castle was first mentioned in a document in 1250. It was in the possession of the noble Burkhard von Broich. Since 1274, the St. Andreas Stift in Cologne had a court court in Dormagen. Vogt of the court was the Count von Jülich . In the same year the village of Delhoven was mentioned for the first time. In 1288 Dormagen was the scene of the Battle of Worringen . Zons was largely destroyed. In 1291 the knight Bruno von Rinverde sold his Walhovener Hof, which was built in the former Rhine bed west of Dormagen, to the Andreas Stift in Cologne. At the end of the 14th century, a Hermann von Walhoven was abbot of the Knechtsteden monastery. The old Dormagener Schöffensiegel appeared for the first time on a document in 1320. It showed the Dormagen parish patron St. Michael with the electoral cross in the shield. In 1373 Zons was rebuilt, declared a customs post and named a city with its own judicial and administrative district by the Archbishop of Cologne, Friedrich von Saar Werden. Even before 1374, Dormagen with Rheinfeld and half of Horrem had become a Jülich enclave in the Electorate of Cologne . In 1409, the Hackenbroich Castle was in a war between Johann VI. von Reifferscheid, the Archbishop of Cologne Friedrich III. von Saar and his adjutor and successor Dietrich II. von Moers and Count Vinzenz von Moers destroyed.
Early modern age
The parents of the later Cologne chronicler Hermann von Weinsberg married in Dormagen in 1517. The chronicler's mother was the daughter of a customs officer working in Dormagen. In 1518 the plague broke out in Cologne and numerous Cologne citizens fled to Dormagen and Knechtstedten. In 1554/55 Dormagen and Riveden belonged to the Jülich-Bergisches Amt Bergheim . Between the Piwipp ( "Biwitte" = near the white stone), which is still on the territory of the Electorate of Cologne, and Monheim, a ferry company already existed in 1566 and was used to exchange goods between the Bergisches Land and Kurköln . During the Thirty Years War , Dormagen was not spared the chaos of war. In 1637 soldiers destroyed the manor Mertenshofen down to the foundation walls. The owner of the property, the director of the feudal archives of the Duchy of Jülich-Berg, ordered the immediate reconstruction. After a victory in the battle of the Kempen Heide in January 1642, Hessian soldiers attacked 30 Bavarian dragoons of General Wahl stationed in Dormagen, killing 12 dragoons. Finally, in 1645 allied French and Hessian troops attacked the city of Zons. On November 10, 1669, the new state parliament of the Duchy of Jülich-Kleve-Berg was to meet in Dormagen. However, only a few members of the state parliament appeared on that day, as the necessary furniture had remained in Düsseldorf. As a result, the state parliament was broken off one day later and it was continued in Düsseldorf on November 23. Since 1696 Dormagen was a Prussian post office that was three times a week from between Cologne and Nijmegen trains running coach approached. In 1714 the first Reformed church service took place in Dormagen in the Mertenshofen chapel. After the end of the Seven Years' War a second stagecoach stopped in Dormagen. This drove from Cologne to Kleve . In 1784 Dormagen was hit by the devastating winter floods . In 1794 the areas and places around Dormagen, Nievenheim and Zons were occupied by France in connection with the First Coalition War and later part of the French national territory. The Knechtsteden monastery was plundered by the inhabitants of Dormagen, Delhoven and Straberg with the help of French soldiers. In 1796 the canton of Dormagen was founded in the Arrondissement de Cologne in the Département de la Roer . The canton of Dormagen included the places Zons, Nievenheim, Gohr, Straberg, Delhoven, Hackenbroich, Rommerskirchen , Nettesheim , Stommeln , Fühlingen , Merkenich , Rheinkassel and Worringen and had over 10,000 inhabitants.
19th and 20th centuries
On January 15, 1814, Russian Cossacks occupied Dormagen, thus ending French rule. After the Congress of Vienna , Dormagen - like the Rhineland as a whole - was added to Prussia . Initially, the canton of Dormagen remained in the administrative district of Cologne. In 1816 it was dissolved and the mayor's office in Dormagen became part of the Neuss district . In 1821 an important Roman find was made, the Mithras sanctuary near the Mertenshof - today the new cemetery is located there. In 1832 Dormagen was the seat of a magistrate's court for the mayorships of Dormagen, Nievenheim, Zons, Nettesheim, Grimlinghausen, Norf and Rommerskirchen. Between 1833 and 1890 around 60 people emigrated from Dormagen to North America. Around 300 people left today's urban area in the same period and found a new home in the USA . Large numbers settled in Osage County , Missouri . In 1855, Dormagen came to the railway network: just east of the village of Horrem , the Cologne-Neuss-Krefeld railway line was built and a train station was built here. 1864 began the construction of the sugar factory , the industrialization in Dormagen. In 1876 Dormagen received the first telegraph station. The first city telephone system with nine subscribers was set up in 1897. In 1898 the brewery in Dormagen was converted into a public limited company. The brewery, founded in 1885, was the second industrial operation in Dormagen. The Franciscans founded on the initiative of Peter Klausener 1901 Raphaelshaus an educational institution for boys left school. The Bayer plant , which is still the largest employer in Dormagen to this day, was established in 1916 . After the First World War , English and Scottish troops occupied the city. In December 1919, they were replaced by French units, which withdrew in December 1920 and were replaced by Belgian units. These withdrew on December 15, 1923. The water supply in Dormagen has been ensured by Bayer AG since 1921. In 1922 the south to Dormagen mayoralty was Worringen of Cologne incorporated and the ship-order station Piwipp became part of the mayor's Dormagen. The first post bus route between Dormagen and Neuss started in 1925. Since 1935, Dormagen has had a city coat of arms with the dragon slayer St. Michael.
While before the so-called seizure of power by Hitler in 1933 the NSDAP in Dormagen found little support (votes for the NSDAP in the Reichstag election on September 14, 1930 10.29% compared to 18.3% reaching far Reichstag election on 31 July 1932 21:12 % compared to 37.3% nationwide), this changed at the beginning of 1933. The NSDAP became the strongest party in the elections for official and municipal representatives that took place at the same time. This also applies to the Reichstag elections of March 5, 1933. The NSDAP achieved a result of 39.26% in Dormagen (nationwide: 43.9%, for comparison Cologne: 33.1%). The first pogroms in Dormagen also date back to 1933. During the November pogroms in 1938 , the Jewish prayer room in Dormagen was desecrated. In 1940 the last Jews from Dormagen were deported to Riga . Due to the important war operations of IG Farben in the city area, many forced laborers were brought to Dormagen. The Dormagener saw the end of the Second World War with the liberation by the Americans on March 5, 1945.
In the 1950s and 1960s the population grew significantly. In December 1960, 34% of the total population were displaced .
Incorporations
On July 1, 1969, Dormagen received city rights after the two municipalities of Dormagen and Hackenbroich merged . As part of the municipal reorganization that came into force on January 1, 1975, the cities of Dormagen and Zons as well as the Nievenheim office were merged with the municipalities of Gohr, Nievenheim and Straberg to form today's city of Dormagen.
Population statistics
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from 1974: December 31st
Sources: 1975–1995 City of Dormagen, from 2000 it.NRW
Denomination statistics
According to the 2011 census , 21.1% of the population in 2011 were Protestant , 48.1% were mostly Roman Catholic and 30.8% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Catholics has decreased since then. Currently (as of December 31, 2019) Dormagen has around 65,300 inhabitants, of which 29,000 (44.4 percent) are Catholics .
politics
On May 25, 2009, the city received the title “ Place of Diversity ” awarded by the federal government .
City council
| CDU | SPD | center | Green | FDP | BfD | per NRW | EHFD | left | UWG | AfD | Pirates | total | |
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| 2004 | 20th | 16 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 46 |
| 2009 | 18th | 12 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 44 |
| 2014 | 16 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 44 |
2009–2014 parliamentary term
After the election, a coalition of CDU, FDP and Greens ruled. The two district council members of pro NRW left their party in January 2013 and founded the “Ein Herz für Dormagen” (EHFD) parliamentary group.
2014–2020 parliamentary term
The coalition of the CDU, FDP and the Greens missed another two-seat majority in 2014. After the election, the CDU, FDP and the center worked together in an alliance. The council members of the Pirates and Die Linke have formed a faction community. The SPD member Gerd Sräga switched to the FDP parliamentary group in September 2015 and was elected vice chairman of the parliamentary group in early 2016. Also in September 2015, the MP Markus Roßdeutscher left the AfD and shortly afterwards became a member of the ALFA . In the summer of 2016, the “bourgeois alliance” broke up after internal disagreements, and in October the CDU and SPD decided to work together until 2020 as part of a grand coalition . As early as September 2016, the two non-attached individual candidates formed a joint parliamentary group called ALFA / Ein Herz für Dormagen .
According to parliamentary groups, the current distribution of seats results (as of September 2016):
| CDU | SPD | center | Green | FDP | Pirates / leftists | ALFA / EHFD | total |
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| 16 | 15th | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 44 |
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Pirate 1 Left 1 |
ALFA 1 EHFD 1 |
mayor
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Office director and city director
- 1946–1948: Johann Kaiser
- 1948–1961: Johannes Bock
- 1961–1973: Arno Janzen
- 1973–1980: Peter Daners
- 1980–1986: Paul Wierich
- 1986–1994: Eberhard Hücker
administration
Mayor Erik Lierenfeld, First Alderman Robert Krumbein and Alderman and City Treasurer Tanja Gaspers together form the Administrative Board (Section 70, Paragraph 1, Clause 1 of the Municipal Code for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia). The city's spokesman is Max Laufer.
coat of arms
Blazon : "Divided by gold and silver by a blue wavy bar, above a striding red-armored and tongued black lion, below a cut, continuous black bar cross."
Today's coat of arms shows a black lion on gold, which points to the Lords of Jülich, and a black cross on silver, which points to belonging to Kurköln . A striding Jülich lion is also from Düren and was featured in the coat of arms of Mönchengladbach until 1974, Dormagen was a Jülich enclave in the Electorate of Cologne. The blue wave bar symbolizes the Rhine to emphasize its importance for Dormagen. Until 1935, the Archangel Michael was the namesake of the largest parish in the city.
Town twinning
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Saint-André-lez-Lille in the Hauts-de-France region of France : On the French national holiday in 1967, several French people from Saint-André visited Nievenheim. They wanted to overcome the differences between France and Germany at the time. This relationship matured until September 23, 1973 when the partnership agreement was signed. -
Toro in Castile and León , Spain : Contacts with the Castilian Toro have existed since 1989. The town twinning document was signed in the summer of 1994. There are only six other German-Spanish relationships of this type. -
The partnership with Kirjat Ono was sealed in July 1995.
Culture and sights
Dormagen and its districts - with their history going back to the Romans - offer residents and visitors a number of things to see and experience.
buildings
- In the city center is the historic town hall , which was restored until 1997. It is only used for representative purposes and weddings. Behind the historic one is the New Town Hall . The city administration moved into it in May 1996.
- Catholic parish church St. Michael : On historical ground, a burial ground with a Roman grave and Franconian graves from the third century AD, there was already a first hall church. Itis not knownwhether it was alreadyconsecrated tothe Archangel Michael , whose veneration arose in Europe in the 6th century. A first Romanesque building, of which three floors of the tower have been preserved, dates from the end of the 12th century. A later Gothic building was replaced in 1888 by a neo-Gothic building by the famous Cologne diocesan master builder Vinzenz Statz , who survived the two world wars, but had to be demolished in 1968 as not fit for renovation. That is why the Cologne architect Hans Schilling was commissioned with a new building by St. Michael . The monument -protectedtower with the upper neo-Gothic storey and the pointed helmet by Vinzenz Statz and the still usable structure of the neo-Gothic church were to be included in the new church complex. This succeeded in a convincing way. The history of the sacred building can be traced on the corridor from the Romanesque tower through the now flat-roofed parts of the neo-Gothic church with side aisles designed in the manner of cloisters to the modern, polygonal asymmetrical central building of the new church. The floor plans of the two previous churches are embedded in the paving in front of the church tower. The old colorful church windows have been preservedin the side walls of Alt St. Michael . The interior of the new building was designed by the Cologne sculptor Toni Zenz .
- Evangelical Christ Church: The building was built between 1961 and 1963.
- Mary of Peace: The Catholic Church was built in 1963 in a new building area in Dormagen-Nord.
- Crossroads : The city of Dormagen has 70 crossroads. There are around 20 crossroads in the Nievenheim district alone. Most of them have a bleached stone base and are from the 18th century.
Phono and Radio Museum
As of June 20, 2010, the private phono and radio museum in Dormagen presents its collections of gramophones, old records, magnetophones , tape recorders and radios on Sundays . The museum also presents its treasures nationwide in cooperation with other organizers. Musical supporting events are also offered.
Stumbling blocks
Since 2005, so-called “ stumbling blocks ” have also been laid in Dormagen by the artist Gunter Demnig . These 10 cm × 10 cm large stones are small brass plates in the pavement that remind of the victims of the extermination of the Jews and the political persecution under National Socialism . The collection of donations for the stones and the processing of the history of the people to whom they are dedicated is mainly based on secondary school students (Bettina-von-Arnim-Gymnasium, Realschule am Sportpark etc.).
Nature, relaxation and leisure
In the east of the city lies the Rhine, on the banks of which are the large nature reserves Rheinaue Zons-Rheinfeld and the Altrheinschlinge Zons as well as the Zonser Grind . There is also a campsite in the Zonser Grind. The Rhine dike is also popular with walkers, cyclists and joggers.
To the south-west, the fir bush offers families with children in particular a good opportunity to relax. In addition to a playground , there is a small zoo , a geopark and a fitness trail . The Knechtsteden forest nature reserve is not far from the Knechtsteden monastery .
To the south, near Hackenbroich / Hackhausen, Dormagen borders on the Chorbusch, where long walks in the forest are possible. Passing many horse farms you can quickly reach Arff Castle , which already belongs to Cologne-Roggendorf .
To the west is the Mühlenbusch, which stretches from Rosellerheide to Knechtsteden, where it merges into the Chorbusch. The artificially created Norfbach, which flows into the Erft near Neuss, also flows here.
In summer there is also the possibility to swim in the Straberg-Nievenheimer See (between Nievenheim and Straberg). Since 2013 there has been a wakeboard and water ski facility with 2 lanes that can be used by beginners and advanced skiers. It is also there stand-up paddling offered. The lake gained national fame in July 1994 when a swimmer's caiman named Sammy, a young animal a few months old, escaped after it had freed itself from its dog leash. The new "Sammys" indoor swimming pool opened on July 22, 2017 and is visited by around 8,500 bathers every month.
Fixed zones and fairy tale games
The city of Zons , located directly on the Rhine , is a tourist attraction with its well-preserved medieval buildings. The Zons fortress was founded in the 14th century by the then Archbishop Friedrich III. from Saar are built as a customs station between Neuss and Cologne . In Zons, very popular fairy tale games take place on the open-air stage in summer . The guest performances by the Düsseldorf Opera are an insider tip.
theatre
- Chamber theater Dormagen
Art and servants
Knechtsteden Monastery is located in the south-west of Dormagen . Built in the 12th century, the Romanesque vaulted basilica is one of the most important ecclesiastical buildings in the region today. Spiritans currently inhabit the monastery. Every year since 1992, in the second half of September, the festive days of early music have been held in the monastery basilica and are known beyond the borders of Dormagen.
The art association Galerie-Werkstatt Bayer Dormagen has existed since 1985 and has been based in the monastery premises since 1990. Around 250 Dormagen residents are currently members.
A literature prize has been awarded by the city of Dormagen since 1979. See Dormagener quill pen .
Churches and other places of worship in Dormagen
Roman Catholic Churches
- St. Michael (Dormagen-Center)
- St. Maria-vom-Frieden (Dormagen-Nord)
- St. Katharina (Hackenbroich)
- St. Agatha (Straberg)
- St. Aloysius (Stürzelberg)
- St. Raphael ( Autobahn Chapel ) (Nievenheim)
- St. Gabriel (Delrath)
- St. Josef (Delhoven)
- St. Martinus ( Zons )
- St. Odilia (Gohr)
- St. Pankratius (Nievenheim)
- To the Holy Family (Horrem)
- Knechtsteden Basilica ( Knechtsteden )
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Protestant churches
- Christ Church (Dormagen-Mitte)
- Lukaskirche (Stürzelberg)
- Friedenskirche ( Zons )
- Matthew Church (Delhoven)
- Community Center Arche ( Rheinfeld )
- Community center in the Markuskirche senior center from 2008 ( Horrem )
- Kreuzkirche (Nievenheim)
Evangelical Free Church Churches
- Baptist Church ( Rheinfeld )
- Evangelical Free Church Congregation (Dormagen-Nievenheim)
New Apostolic Churches
- New Apostolic Church Community Dormagen
- Horror. In the middle of Horrem is the church of the New Apostolic Church in Dormagen. It was inaugurated in 1972 and offers space for around 250 worshipers. A total of 268 New Apostolic Christians live in Dormagen.
Islam
There are four mosques and Muslim prayer rooms in the city area:
- Dormagen Camii, Höhenberg 11 (Dormagen-Mitte)
- Mosque, Kieler Strasse 3 (Horrem)
- Süleymaniye Camii, Roseller Straße 21 (Dormagen-Nord)
- Mescid Salahuddin Al Ayyubi, Neckarstrasse 4 (Hackenbroich)
societies
In Dormagen there are over 400 different associations from the fields of culture and customs, business and social affairs, sport, leisure, nature and the environment as well as churches and religious groups.
Well-known sports clubs
- AC Ückerath e. V.
- BGC Dormagen e. V.
- Dormagen Badminton Community 62 e. V.
- FC Straberg 1968 e. V.
- FC Zons 1911 e. V.
- Dog friends Dormagen 77 e. V.
- MGC Dormagen-Brechte e. V.
- SSV Delrath 1927 e. V.
- Sportfreunde FC Delhoven 1922 e. V.
- TJ Dormagen 1989 e. V.
- TSV Bayer Dormagen e. V.
- TuS Germania 1930 Hackenbroich e. V.
- TTC Dormagen 1955 e. V.
- VdS Nievenheim e. V.
- JC Nievenheim
- SV Rheinwacht Stürzelberg
- Lawn sport Horrem 1919 e. V.
- SUS DJK Gohr 1930 e. V.
Carnival clubs
- KG “Ahl Dormagener Junge” from 1979 e. V.
- KG Thalia Blau Weiß Delhoven from 1877 e. V.
Tradition and Customs
- Citizens' shooting association Delhoven 1926 e. V. (www.bsv-delhoven.de)
- Citizen-Schützen-Verein Dormagen e. V. from 1867
Economy and Infrastructure
trade
There is around 80,000 m² of retail space in Dormagen. Around 28,000 of these are in the 150 or so shops in the city center, 33,000 in the Top West area and the remaining 19,000 m² are in the individual districts. According to surveys by the retail trade association in Dormagen, purchasing power is around 350 million euros. Only about 250 million are spent in the city itself, the rest is distributed (with an upward trend) to the nearby cities. There are a total of 400 shops in Dormagen. The 150 or so downtown stores account for around 40 percent of sales, the Top West area generates around a third with just under 50 stores and the rest of the sales (almost 30%) are made up of the 180 retailers in the districts. The town hall gallery in the city center with around 40 shops attracts up to 90,000 visitors a week.
A regional company of Aldi Süd is located in Dormagen . In addition, the American online mail-order company Amazon set up a sorting center in Dormagen at the end of 2018 .
Industry
Around 17,000 people are employed in around 2800 Dormagen companies in Dormagen. Almost 9,000 work in the approximately 600 hectare Dormagen Chemical Park (since January 1, 2008 Chempark), where 18 other companies and the Bayer Dormagen power plant are based in addition to Ineos , Covestro AG , Bayer AG and Lanxess . This makes the chemical park the largest employer and trainer in the Rhein-Kreis-Neuss. The industrial and commercial areas in St. Peter, Delrath, Hackenbroich, on Roseller Strasse and in Top West still have significant jobs.
In 1864, the sugar factory was the first industrial company to open in Dormagen. This later traded under the name Rheinische Actien-Verein für Zuckerfabrikation , Dormagen. In the following years the Schwengers & Sons company in Uerdingen had the majority of the shares. In 1926 this was transferred to the company Pfeifer & Langen and in 1930 Pfeifer & Langen merged with the Dormagener sugar factory. Production at the sugar factory was stopped as early as 1979.
As early as 1885 there was a brewery in Dormagen , which was converted into a share brewery in 1898. In 1967 the Harzheim company from Cologne acquired the Dormagener brewery from the Dortmunder Actien brewery . At the same time, the beer brand was changed from ABD-Kölsch to Kess-Kölsch. In 1979 the name was changed again with the new name Garde-Kölsch and the brewery in Dormagen was now called the Brauhaus zur Garde. In 1998 35 employees were still working in this. A few years later, production was stopped, the brewery was torn down, and beverage sales were sold to another company.
traffic
The Left Lower Rhine railway runs through Dormagen from Kleve via Krefeld and Neuss to Cologne . Trains on the regional express lines Rhein-Münsterland-Express (RE 7), Rhein-Weser-Express (RE 6) and the S-Bahn line 11 of the Cologne S-Bahn stop at Dormagen station . The Rhein-Weser-Express travels via Dormagen to Cologne / Bonn Airport train station . This makes it possible to reach both Düsseldorf and Cologne / Bonn airports without having to change trains . There is also a direct connection to the Ruhr area. Dormagen belongs to the Rhein-Ruhr transport association via the Rhein-Kreis Neuss . Since Dormagen is on the border of the Rhein-Ruhr and Rhein-Sieg transport associations , both tariffs apply here. With the exception of the stops around Chempark, price level 2b applies to a ticket to Cologne. If, on the other hand, you drive from a stop (885, S11) at Chempark, the trip to Cologne only costs the price of price level 1b. “Nievenheim” and “Dormagen Chempark” are the other two stops in the city.
StadtBus Dormagen GmbH is responsible for local public transport . This company also operates the Nievenheim-Zons industrial railway . There are seven bus routes (881–887), plus a weekend and a night network (WE1 / 2, NE1 / 2/3).
The length of the municipal roads (not including through-roads) is 212 km.
Dormagen is on the A 57 (junction 25). It runs north towards Neuss, Krefeld and the Netherlands and south towards Cologne city center. Dormagen is also on the B 9 and the village of Gohr runs through the B 477 . The Kaiser Route , a long-distance cycle route from Aachen to Paderborn , runs through the city.
The location of Dormagen on the Rhine is of additional importance for freight and freight traffic . Dormagen has a container port in Dormagen-Stürzelberg, and Bayer AG also has a transshipment point primarily for liquid goods and salt . Most of the goods transported today, however - as almost everywhere - go by road.
The “Niederrhein” car ferry connects Zons across the Rhine with the Düsseldorf- Urdenbach .
Since September 1, 2012, the passenger ferry “Piwipper Böötsche” has been operating on the Rhine between Dormagen and Monheim again on weekends and public holidays . The ferry is operated by the Piwipper Böötchen e. V. operated.
media
- Westdeutsche Zeitung Düsseldorf, local editorial office in the Neuss district - regional daily newspaper, W. Girardet KG publishing house
- Neuss-Grevenbroich newspaper - national daily, Neuss newspaper publisher GmbH to Rheinische Post duly
- Rheinischer Anzeiger - local advertising paper (Wednesday), Panorama Vertrieb GmbH Düsseldorf
- "Shop window - Sunday edition" (local advertising paper; appears on Saturdays in the 20th year; print run: 31,695 copies, publisher: Druck + Verlag Josef Wegener GmbH)
- NE-WS 89.4 - local radio station, belonging to Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH
- dormago.de - local internet portal for the city of Dormagen
education
High schools
- Bettina-von-Arnim -Gymnasium (Dormagen-Nord)
- Leibniz -Gymnasium (Hackenbroich)
- Norbert High School ( Knechtsteden )
Realschulen
- Realschule am Sportpark (Dormagen-Nord)
- Realschule Hackenbroich (Hackenbroich)
Secondary school
- Secondary school Dormagen (Dormagen-Nord)
comprehensive school
Elementary schools
- Christoph Rensing School ( Horrem )
- Henri-Dunant School (Delrath)
- Erich Kästner School (Dormagen-Nord)
- Rainbow School ( Rheinfeld )
- Theodor Angerhausen School (Dormagen Center)
- Salvator School (Nievenheim)
- Peace School (Nievenheim)
- St. Nicholas School (Stürzelberg)
- Friedrich von Saar Werden School (Zons)
- School Burg (Hackenbroich)
- Tannenbusch School (Delhoven)
- Astrid Lindgren School (Gohr)
- School at the Kronenpützchen (Straberg)
Other schools
- Vocational training center Dormagen (Dormagen-Nord)
- Special school - Raphaelschule (Dormagen-Nord)
- Förderschule - Schule am Chorbusch (Dormagen-Hackenbroich)
- Adult education center (VHS) in the center
Public facilities
Dormagen has an adult education center and, since 1964, a city library . There is a municipal music school, which also includes a youth symphony orchestra and a youth big band. There is also a library in the Evangelical Christ Church. The technical operations in Dormagen are responsible for urban drainage, road construction, green spaces and cemeteries in the city of Dormagen. Dormagen also has a volunteer fire brigade . The youth welfare office developed and implemented the Dormagen model , which is exemplary nationwide. The district hospital of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss is located in Dormagen.
Personalities
People who were born in Dormagen
- Johann Adolph Steinberger (1777–1866), Lord Mayor of Cologne
- Cornelius Stüssgen (1877–1956), entrepreneur and founder of the Stüssgen company
- Hermann Goebel (1885–1945), painter
- Oscar Gans (1888-1983), dermatologist
- Karl Kress (* 1945), politician ( CDU )
- Heinz Hilgers (* 1948), politician ( SPD ), honorary mayor, chairman of the child protection association
- Hartmut Becker (* 1949), publisher and agent for advertising artists
- Ulla Koch (* 1955), head coach of the women of the German Gymnastics Federation
- Hans-Wolfgang Bergerhausen (* 1956), historian
- Achim Brauer (* 1958), geoscientist
- Engelbert Wrobel (* 1959), jazz musician
- Klaus Vechtel (* 1963), Catholic theologian
- Stephan Zöller (* 1966), Catholic theologian and journalist
- Axel Reitz (* 1983), former neo-Nazi
- Andreas Lambertz (* 1984), football player at Fortuna Düsseldorf and Dynamo Dresden
- Valentin “Sarazar” Rahmel (* 1984), entrepreneur, presenter and web video producer
- Jens Böckamp (* 1986), jazz musician
- Daniel Wernitz (* 1987), volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Mayke Dähn (* 1991), actress
- Jennifer Montag (* 1998), track and field athlete
Personalities who have worked in the city
- Hermann Max (* 1941 in Goslar ), German church musician and conductor, founder of the Knechtsteden Early Music Festival
- Peter-Olaf Hoffmann (* 1947 in Sankt Peter-Ording ), ( CDU ), former mayor of Dormagen; from 2000 to 2010 managing director of AVG Köln mbH
- Tassilo Küpper (* 1947 in Düsseldorf) Professor of Mathematics, Rector of the University of Cologne 2001–2005, grew up in the Hackenbroich Forestry House
- Michael Iwanowski (* 1948 in Hindenburg ), publisher and tour operator, lives in Hackenbroich
- Haimo Schack (* 1952), lawyer (university professor in Kiel and judge at the Higher Regional Court of Schleswig a. D.), lives in Dormagen
Honorary citizen
- Gustav Geldmacher (1909–1979), first honorary citizen of the city of Dormagen; Awarded 1979 (... due to his reputation as the founding father of modern Dormagen)
- Paul Wierich (1924–2003), second honorary citizen of the city of Dormagen; Awarded 1986 (... after 48 years in the service of the city)
- Heinz Hilgers (* 1948), third honorary citizen of the city of Dormagen; Awarded in 2009
Others
The people of Dormagen used to be called "Wenkbüggele" in the Rhenish dialect, literally translating as "windbag" or "a lot of wind". This means something like show-off and means that the Dormagener tended to be cocky.
On October 27, 2000 Lufthansa named an Airbus A321-231 with the identification D-AISG after the city of Dormagen. The model of the A321-231 hangs on the third floor of the New Town Hall (Mayor's reception area)
literature
- Eduard Breimann: Rheinfeld, district of Dormagen. History and stories, Verlag Wegener 1994.
- Eduard Breimann: 825 years Rheinfeld. Neusser Druck und Verlag, Neuss 2003, ISBN 3-923607-41-5 .
- Eduard Breimann: The dyke history 1928–2003. Neusser Druck und Verlag, Neuss 2003, ISBN 3-923607-42-3
- Eduard Breimann: The village of Dormagen and its people. From originals, their house names and nicknames. 2nd Edition. Neusser Zeitungsverlag, Neuss 2008, ISBN 3-9803165-9-9 . (With 244 pictures)
- Eduard Breimann: Dormagen has something! Stories and anecdotes. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8313-2365-4 . (With black and white illustrations)
- Hermann Cardauns, Reiner Müller (ed.): The Rheinische Dorfchronik of Joan Peter Delhoven from Dormagen (1783-1823). Society for book printing, Neuss 1926, DNB 572684819 . New edition: Dormagen 1966. (With pedigree of the chronicler and black and white photographs)
- Heinz Dohmen: City of Dormagen. Rheinische Kunststätten issue 217, Neuss 1979.
- Karl-Heinz Engler: Dormagen. Sketches from a young city. Wegener, Dormagen 1969.
- Karl-Heinz Engler: From one economy to another. Dormagen economic history (s) from two centuries. Wegener, Dormagen 1996, ISBN 3-926963-22-0 .
- Norbert Grimbach: The landscape history of Dormagen. Wegener, Dormagen 1993, ISBN 3-926963-11-5 .
- Historical yearbook of the city of Dormagen. 1981-1989.
- Gerd Huppertz, Axel Pollheim (ed.): 100 Cologne Heads. Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-00-000234-0 .
- Arno Janzen, Paul Wierich: Dormagen. City between water and forest. Mercator-Verlag , Duisburg 1969. (With black-and-white illustrations)
- L. Koch, H. Pankalla: Everyday Life in National Socialism. Teaching u. Source materials, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-7927-0760-8 .
- Michael Linnartz: Political elections for Catholics and Social Democrats in the Dormagen and Neuss area 1919–1933. Dormagen 1997.
- Walter Lorenz: Gohr, Nievenheim, Straberg. Sources on the history of the office Nievenheim 1–2, Cologne 1973–1974.
- Bettina and Bernhard Mux: The “Krautmanns Korner” saloon is based on German recipes. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. (Rheinische Post) dated December 24, 1997.
- Heinz Pankalla (arr.): The First World War. Reports from Dormagen school chronicles. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7927-0538-9 .
- Markus Raasch: "We are Bavarian". A history of mentality in German industrial society using the example of Dormagen in the Rhineland (1917-1997). Klartext, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-762-8 .
- Sigrid Scheuss, Birgit Wilms: Dormagen. City landscape on the Lower Rhine. Wienand, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-87909-248-6 . (Photos by Scheuss, texts by Wilms)
- Stephan Thönneßen (Ed.): About Dormagen. A sightseeing flight in 80 pictures. edition by pages, Dormagen 2014.
- Thilo Zimmermann: Dormagener Aktien Brewery was founded 100 years ago. Cool Kölsch for thirsty throats. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. dated January 9, 1998.
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- Link catalog on the subject of Dormagen at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
- Website of the city of Dormagen
- Administrative history and population ( Memento from April 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- The diary of Johann Peter Delhoven (1783-1823)
- Jona Lendering: Durnomagus (Dormagen) . In: Livius.org (English)
- Monuments in the city of Dormagen
- Tannenbusch Zoo and Geopark
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ^ Social report. (PDF; 7.45 MB) City of Dormagen, pp. 2 - 4 , accessed on March 24, 2019 .
- ^ Günther Binding : The excavations in the Church of St. Michael in Dormagen. In: Rhenish excavations. 25. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1984, pp. 319-327.
- ^ Frank Siegmund: Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. In: Rhenish excavations. 34. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, pp. 282-284.
- ^ Source: Historical yearbook of the city of Dormagen 1988/89. P. 73 ff., Homepage of the city of Dormagen on the city's history ( memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 102 .
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 294 .
- ^ City of Dormagen Religion , 2011 census
- ↑ Fewer and fewer Catholics in Dormagen 2019 , accessed on May 28, 2020
- ↑ Results of the 2009 local elections. Accessed November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Results of the 2014 local elections. Accessed November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Center Party in Dormagen (accessed: Sep. 30, 2015)
- ↑ http://dormago.de/archiv_artikelbeispiel.php?user_id=15715
- ^ Dormagen - FDP parliamentary group elects Gerd Sräga as vice-chairman. In: rp-Online , accessed on May 11, 2016
- ↑ Dormagen - Roßdeutscher and Patatzki leave the AFD. In: rp-Online , accessed on May 11, 2016
- ↑ Dormagen - FDP wants to form all new committees. In: rp-Online , accessed on November 12, 2016
- ^ Dormagen - grand coalition of CDU and SPD is in place. In: rp-Online , accessed on November 12, 2016
- ^ Dormagen - New parliamentary group in the Dormagen city council. In: rp-Online , accessed on November 12, 2016
- ↑ "WAKEBEACH 257" website accessed on October 7, 2014
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- ↑ Stephan Zöller: This is how the new "Sammys" works. In: Neuß-Grevenbroicher Zeitung, May 17, 2018, p. C2. Online version.Retrieved May 23, 2018.
- ↑ dormago.de
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