Bergrath (Eschweiler)

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Anthony's Chapel

Parish Church of St. Antonius

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Bergrath [ 'bɛʁkrɑ: t ] ( dialect : Bärschroot ) is a south-eastern part of Eschweiler in the Aachen city region in North Rhine-Westphalia and is closely connected with Bohl . Since the middle of the 19th century, Bergrath has been divided into a north and a south half by a railway line. Since the “Antoniusstraße” level crossing was closed in 2003, the underpasses at “Grachtstraße” and “Kopfstraße” (maximum passage height 3.1 m) have been the only two connections between the two districts. A few meters east of the former level crossing there is still the narrow pedestrian underpass “Auf dem Höfchen”.

history

Bergrath was probably founded around 830 together with Volkenrath and Hastenrath by the Cologne church and, together with Röhe and Röthgen, has belonged to the Eschweiler office since the 16th century at the latest. In 1250 Bergrath is mentioned under the name Berchingrode. The catholic parish church St. Antonius and the Antonius chapel are worth seeing. This chapel from 1670 is the oldest church building in Bergrath. In the winter of 1904/1905 a Roman farmhouse was excavated on the slag heaps of the Nothberger mine near Bergrath. There were a large clay urn, sigillata shards, a bowl base with the words “COMITIALIS”, iron nails, hooks, clips and instruments, a mortar made of clay and one-handled jugs.

Residents

Bergrath with Bohl and Volkenrath had a total of 5468 inhabitants on December 31, 2016.

St. Anthony

St. Antonius was the name of the Catholic parish and parish church in Bergrath on "Pfarrer-Kleinermanns-Straße". Bergrath was an independent community from 1900 to December 31, 2009. The oldest church building is the Antonius Chapel from 1670 in the middle of Antoniusstrasse. The parish church is from 1905/1906. Other church buildings are a three-group kindergarten, the parish hall with hall and group rooms, an old people's room in the former chaplaincy , the caretaker's apartment and the parsonage. Since 2010 it has been a branch church of the newly formed parish "Heilig Geist", which was formed from five former parishes in the southern urban area of ​​Eschweiler. The St. Hubertus Rifle Brotherhood belongs to St. Antonius .

See also : St. Antonius (Bergrath)

traffic

Bus traffic: The bus stops "Bergrath Kapelle", "Bergrath Schule", "Feldenendstraße", "Hubertusstraße" and "Zechenstraße" are served by the lines EW1, EW2, EW3 and 26 and connect Bergrath with Eschweiler Bushof, Nothberg , Bohl, Volkenrath, Hastenrath, Scherpenseel, Werth, Gressenich, Heistern and Hamich.

Trunk roads: The next motorway junction is "Eschweiler Ost" on the A 4 .

Railway: The nearest train station is Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof on the main Cologne-Aachen line . The railway stations “Eschweiler-Nothberg” and “Eschweiler-Talbahnhof” are close to the valley railway and take the Euregiobahn to Aachen , Düren , Herzogenrath , Alsdorf and Heerlen .

Associations in Bergrath

• SV Falke Bergrath 1924 (2019 the club plays in the district league B Aachen)
• Prinzengilde Bergrath 1974
• Rabbit Breeding Association Bergrath
• Spielmannszug Eschweiler-Bergrath 1951
• St. Hubertus Rifle Society Eschweiler - Bergrath 1868
• Theater company "Happiness 1902"
• Bergrather Health Circle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the theater company "Fröhlichkeit 1902" ( memento of the original from November 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '  N , 6 ° 17'  E