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Kurten municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 25 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 36 ″  E
Residents : 3127
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 51515
Area code : 02207
Bechen (Kürten)
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Location of Bechen in Kürten
Bechener donkey (sculpture by Heide Dobberkau, 1983)
Bechener donkey (sculpture by Heide Dobberkau , 1983)

Bechen is a district of the municipality of Kürten , which is located in the middle of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis . The place is on the southern edge of the Great Dhünntalsperre . The symbol of Bechen is the donkey . Bechen is characterized by a diverse club culture and the carnival .

At the same time, Bechen formed an independent rural community from 1806 to 1974 together with numerous surrounding residential areas and was part of the mayor's office in Kürten in the 19th century .

history

History of the village of Bechen

The place name goes back to a stream.

In the early Middle Ages , the first permanent settlement in the area of ​​today's Bechen was built on an old military road that led from Cologne via Wipperfürth to Westphalia . In 1175 Bechen was first mentioned as a Beche ; Reinard of Kenten his estate should in Bechen to build a monastery donated have. In the 13th century, Bechen was incorporated into the office of Steinbach in the course of enforcing the constitution of offices in the Duchy of Berg . In 1280 the place is called apud beche , in 1300 as Beke . The apparent plural form Bechen was not used until 1363 .

In the Middle Ages, the place was next to the Heerweg Köln – Wipperfürth – Soest , an important medieval old long-distance road from Cologne via Wipperfürth to Soest . The route of the old Höhenstraße, which ran between Schnappe and Neuensaal east of Bechen, is still used today by the federal highway 506 , apart from small deviations, such as here .

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach, shows that the residential area was a church village as early as 1715. Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the place on his chart of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Bechen. It emerges from it that the place was the titular place of the parish of Bechen at that time, which also formed the honor of Bechen in the Bergisch district court of Kürten.

1822 48 people lived in the village categorized place. For the year 1830 58 inhabitants are given for Bechen. At that time he owned a Catholic parish church and a cotton mill . The town, which was categorized as a church village in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cöln , had five residential buildings with 71 inhabitants at that time, 68 of them Catholic and three Protestant denominations. The local and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Bechen 1871 with 15 houses and 107 residents.

During the time of National Socialism there was a labor camp of the Reich Labor Service in Bechen .

In the Second World War , Bechen was largely spared despite its proximity to Cologne and other large cities in the Bergisches Land. Many refugees from the big cities looked for a new home in the countryside after the war.

In the period between the end of the war (1945) and the local reorganization (1975) there were the following mayors in Bechen: Leo Felder from Bechen-Hau (deployed in 1945 by the British occupying forces), Johann Schmitz from Fellühr (1948 after the first municipal council election), Peter Krämer from Kleinheide, Hans Höller from Neuensaal, Hans Odenthal from Krautweg, Heinz Geus from Bechen, Paul Krämer from Bechen (as the last mayor before the municipal reorganization).

History of the municipality of Bechen

Due to an exchange of territory, the Duchy of Berg was ceded to France by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria in 1806 and thus became the French satellite state of the Grand Duchy of Berg . Kürten with the honor of Bechen then formed a mairie (mayor's office) after the fundamental French administrative reform, which belonged to the canton of Wipperfürth in the Elberfeld arrondissement . In 1816 the Honschaft Bechen became a rural community in the mayor's office of Kürten in the Wipperfürth district, part of the Kingdom of Prussia (first in the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg and, from 1822, in the Rhine province ), which largely took over their administrative structure as the successor to the French. With the introduction of the municipal code for the Rhine Province in 1845, Bechen became a municipality within the mayor's office of Kürten.

In addition to the main town, the municipality included the villages and places of residence Altensaal , Durchmarsch , Durhaus , Eiberg , Eikamp , Eisenkaul , Haaswinkel , Hau , Heidergansfeld , Herrscherthal , Herweg , Höchst , Höhe , Hohemühle , Holz , Hommermühle , Kleinheide , Klief , Knappstockberg , Kochsfeld , Königsspitze , Kotzberg , Kragau , Krautweg , Liesenbergermühle , Müllenberg , Nelsbach , Neuenhaus , Nussbaum , Ober Kalsbach , Ober Ossenbach , Plätzmühle , Pohl , Pompelbusch , Richerzhagen , Rodenberg , Schnappe , Schwarzeln , Stockberg, Streets , Trinenhaus , Unter Kalsbach , Unter Ossenbach , Viersbach and Wehrkotten .

The community lexicon for the province Rheinland 1888 is a population of 1,335 in (1,323 Catholic and twelve Protestant denomination), in 47 for the rural community Bechen living quarters lived with together 282 houses and 275 households. The area of ​​the municipality (1,615 ha ) is divided into 699 ha of arable land, 100 ha of meadows and 720 ha of forest. By 1905 the population had dropped to 1,279.

In the 19th century, the Bergisches Land was still characterized by agriculture . There were hardly any industrial settlements in Kürten, which is why many moved to the big cities because food and work were no longer available ( rural exodus ).

On January 1, 1975, the district reform in North Rhine-Westphalia created the municipality of Kürten, to which most of Bechens belongs. An area of ​​97 hectares and then 319 inhabitants was assigned to the municipality of Odenthal.

Many of the residents now work in the surrounding cities ( commuter community ).

traffic

Bechen is connected to the A1 in Burscheid , A3 in Leverkusen and A4 in Bergisch Gladbach - Moitzfeld . The busy federal highway 506 divides the place into two halves. There are hiking trails that lead along the Great Dhünntalsperre .

Culture

Evangelical Church in Bechen

There are numerous clubs in the village, including sports and music clubs, a beekeeping and a carnival club.

The Catholic Church of St. Antonius Einsiedler is located in the center of the village. Nearby, next to the Catholic primary school, is the Evangelical Reconciliation Church.

The sculpture of a donkey (created by Heide Dobberkau ) has been standing near the church in the middle of Bechen since 1983 . There are several stories about the donkey as a symbol of the place. The name "Eselsdorf" goes back to a story from the Bergisch region. In earlier times the farmers from Bechen brought their produce to the Cologne market with donkeys. Since the donkeys are sometimes a bit stubborn and headstrong, the Bechener came to the market a little later. So the saying went around on the Cologne market: “Loss mer jet waade mem koofe, the Bechener donkeys are still not doing” (let's wait to buy something, the Bechener donkeys are not there yet). From then on, all Bechener people were also called "donkeys".

Youth and education

Catholic Church

  • KLJB Bechen (Catholic Country Youth Movement)
  • Ladder round
  • Altar boy Sankt-Antonius Bechen

School:

  • Bechen Catholic Primary School

Music:

  • Youth orchestra of the Musikgemeinschaft Bechen e. V.

Kindergartens:

  • Evangelical kindergarten in Bechen
  • Bechen Catholic Kindergarten
  • Daycare center Kürten-Bechen Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e. V.

Youth fire brigade:

  • Youth Fire Brigade Kürten 2 (Bechen)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Heinrich Dittmaier : Settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 74 , parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956.
  2. ↑ Herbert Nicke : Forgotten ways: the historical network of long-distance routes between the Rhine, Weser, Hellweg and Westerwald, its protective systems and junctions . In: Land and history between Berg, Wildenburg and South Westphalia . tape 9 . Galunder, Wiehl 2001, ISBN 3-931251-80-2 , pp. 85 f .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794 ; Bonn; 1898
  4. ^ A b Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  5. ↑ Overview of the components and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne: by districts, mayor's offices and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions, Military and former state conditions. / ed. from the Royal Government of Cologne [Cologne], [1845]
  6. ^ The communities and manor districts of the Rhine Province and their population. Edited and compiled by the Royal Statistical Bureau from the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. In: Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Hrsg.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population. tape XI , 1874, ZDB -ID 1467523-7 ( digitized ).
  7. ↑ See Rudolf Schmidt: More than a barrack on the meadow. Memories of the Bechen labor camp. In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar Vol. 81, 2010, pp. 26–34. At the time of the Nazi regime in Bechen see also the experience report from the records of master locksmith Aloys Rodenbach. Part 2: My experiences with the Hitler regime. In: Heimat between Sülz and Dhünn Vol. 5, 1998, pp. 52–55.
  8. ^ Karl-Heinz Sommerhoff: The large stream of refugees changed the picture. In: Maria Louise Denst (ed.): The Delling. Origin and history of the Evangelical Church Congregation Delling, for the 150th anniversary of the church building 1834–1984. Self-published, Kürten-Delling 1984, pp. 289-293.
  9. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Statistical Bureau. In: Royal Statistical Bureau (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. tape XII , 1888, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 ( digitized version ).
  10. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Prussian State Statistical Office. In: Königliches Prussisches Statistisches Landesamt (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Booklet XII, 1909, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 .
  11. ↑ Further reading Paul Kalkbrenner: Why one could hardly read and write in Bechen in 1790. From the chronicle of the Catholic primary school in Bechen. In: Kürtener Schriften Vol. 6, 2007, pp. 129–137.
  12. ↑ 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 .
  13. ↑ Franz Toenniges: 30 years Weiberfastnacht in Bechen. The story of the carnival friends Bechen. Carnival friends Bechen, self-published, Kürten-Bechen 1981.
  14. ↑ Further Kunibert Förster, Peter Gronewald: The laying of the foundation stone for the Bechener Church 1876. In: Kürtener Schriften Vol. 6, 2007, pp. 138–142.
  15. ↑ Claus Boelen-Theile: 30 years memorial: The donkey celebrates a milestone birthday. In: Bergische Landeszeitung (website), July 8, 2013.
  16. ↑ About the donkey Bernd Weber: Where did the derisive names and nicknames of the villages in the Bergisches Land come from? Attempt to derive a local history using the example of the “Bechener Ässels”, but also other Bergisch church villages. In: Kürtener Schriften Vol. 7, 2009, pp. 180–200.