Bahnhofstrasse (Nörvenich)

The road before the war

The Bahnhofstrasse in Nörvenich , Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia , is a historic main thoroughfare, on the important, partly listed are building.

location

The road branches off west of Nörvenich from Bundesstrasse 477 , an old Roman military road, in an easterly direction. It leads across the market square , Burgstrasse and Am Kreuzberg street with its Holy House in the direction of Pingsheim and Erftstadt . In 1926, the road was first paved with bluestone paving .

History

Before 1934 this street was called Provinzialstraße . From 1934 until the end of the Second World War , the street was called Hermann-Göring-Straße . By resolution of the council on December 3, 1954, the name was changed to Bahnhofstrasse . Until the 1980s, the street was a classified state road with the number 263. Due to the bypass, it lost its importance and was downgraded to a municipal road.

The street got its current name after the end of the Second World War due to the house No. 55, the former train station . It was still in operation until 1968 and was a terminus of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the predecessor of the Bundesbahn, coming from Blatzheim until May 19, 1960. On June 30, 1968, the traffic of the small railway on the former line from Embken via Zülpich and Nörvenich hired after Düren . The station building came into private ownership in later years.

Hof Veithen

The court Veithen was a farm in the Bahnhofstrasse in the town center.

Peter Joseph Veithen, born in Oberbolheim in 1822 , is mentioned for the first time in a birth announcement in 1849 as living in Nörvenich. At this time he and his wife from Merzenich built his house here. In the documents his occupation is indicated with beer brewer and also with host . So he must have brewed the beer he was serving himself.

The property he built on belonged to the heirs of Johann Gymnich and the widow of Sebastian Dohmen. Perhaps only parts of the two properties have been used or acquired for his new building .

Peter Joseph Veithen died in 1875. His son Engelbert, born in 1869, was married to Anna Gertrud Veith from Eschweiler via Feld and continued his father's inn . However, he is only called an innkeeper, no longer a brewer. From 1897 onwards he was only called a farmer and innkeeper. Engelbert Veithen died in 1924. His business, meanwhile the main focus on agriculture , has been continued by four sons and one daughter. The inn was closed soon after his death. During the Second World War , the buildings, especially the residential building , were badly damaged. It was then rebuilt. Most recently, Karl-Heinz Veithen, Engelbert's grandson, was a farmer here . He gave up the farm in the 1980s and converted the house into a retail store.

Gymnichshof

The Gymnichshof is an estate on Bahnhofstrasse.

Today the courtyard property extends from the border of the building at Bahnhofstrasse 11 to Rathausstrasse . At the beginning of the 19th century there were three owners for this extensive area:

Immediately next to the house at Bahnhofstrasse 11 was Reiner Badenheuer's parcel, which was occupied by three buildings.
next to it is a piece of land owned by Bartholomäus Gymnich, which instead of the usual designation garden or house is called "business",
then there is a large, undeveloped plot of land up to Rathausstrasse that belonged to the Barons von Gymnich .

In the past, you could still see the wall very clearly in the rear part of the garden, roughly parallel to Rathausstrasse, which used to be popularly known as "Hinter den Hagen" , which, together with the Hag , was the impenetrable hedge created by ancient bushes and trees that formed the medieval village fortifications.

Today the three large properties belong together to the Gymnichshof. The plot of Reiner Baden Heuer probably come through the marriage of his daughter Anna Maria with Bartholomew Gymnich from 1809 to the family Gymnich. The house , which was destroyed in 1945 , had the year 1809 above the front door. The Gymnich-Badenheuer couple probably built the house the same year they were married.

In the old documents, Bartholomäus Gymnich's profession is always given with the tax recipient. Until the middle of the 20th century, the court was popularly known as "ahn Fängersch" for the recipient. At that time the taxes were leased to a private person . The tenant had to collect and pay the taxes, he received a fixed percentage as payment .

Barth. Gymnich was a son of Johann Gymnich, who was a helper at Harff'schen Burg . The Gymnich family can be traced back to this castle since 1666.

B. Gymnich died at the age of 78. The tax recipient had long since become a full-time farmer . The farm came through his son Reiner to his son Wilhelm, who died unmarried in 1937 at the age of 86. He passed the property on to his nephew Reiner von Laufenberg, with whose descendants he is still today. The current owner is Peter von Laufenberg. He built a large hall in Rathausstrasse in which he grows mushrooms .

The Gymnich family donated the Gymnich cross, which is located diagonally opposite, and is a listed building .

Listed buildings on the street

Important and interesting buildings on Bahnhofstrasse

War memorial in the castle park, created by the then local artist Ulrich Rückriem
primary school
the only gas station in the community
Buir-Bliesheimer Agricultural Cooperative