Mountain Thuir

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Mountain Thuir
City of Nideggen
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 34 ″  N , 6 ° 31 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : approx. 240 m
Area : 7.36 km²
Residents : 699  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 95 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 52385
Area code : 02427
St. Clemens to Berg

Berg-Thuir is a district of the city of Nideggen in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The district consists of the two villages Berg and Thuir [ tyːɐ̯ ].

location

Berg and Thuir are on the edge of the Zülpicher Börde in the middle of the Devonian shell limestone peaks with an extremely rare flora .

history

The area is an ancient settlement area. In the mid-1950s, archaeologists uncovered a large Roman estate south of Berg . Another nine farms were found on Rödelsberg . Between 100 and 400 AD, ore mining was carried out in the nearby bathing forest. The Celts were already mining here before the Romans came. The Romans dug for brown iron stone and other stones containing metal.

On the ridge between the mountains and Thuir, the Breidel , were Frankish graves exposed.

According to local research, it is said to have been on the Rödelsberg in 56 BC. Have given a winter camp of Julius Caesar .

In the Middle Ages , Berg belonged to the forest counties, which passed to the Counts of Jülich through marriage in 1177 . With Thuir it later belonged to the subordinate Thum .

View of Thuir

Reorganization

On January 1, 1972, Berg-Thuir was incorporated into the new city of Nideggen in accordance with the provisions of the Aachen Act . After the judgment of the Higher Administrative Court on August 4, 1972, Berg-Thuir stayed with Nideggen, which was temporarily revoked the designation city .

church

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Clemens was first mentioned in the Liber valoris around 1300. The Clemenspatrozinium points to even earlier centuries. In the 16th century, the church, which presumably stands on the foundations of a pagan temple, was expanded with Drover sandstone to form a three-aisled basilica .

traffic

Berg and Thuir can be reached via a well-developed network of country roads . The Düren Kreisbahn ensures local public transport .

Clubs, associations

  • FC Montania Berg 1926 e. V.
  • Church choir St. Clemens
  • Drum corps Edelweiß Berg 1921
  • Carnival Society Berger Grieläächer 1967 e. V.
  • Berg fire fighting group of the Nideggen volunteer fire brigade with youth fire brigade

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.nideggen.de/zdf/downloads/20190108_Einwohnerstatistik_bis_einschl._2018.pdf
  2. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 306 f .

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