Berkum (Wachtberg)

Berkum Municipality Wachtberg Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 5 ″  E
Height :	210 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	2432  (Jul 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	1st August 1969
Postal code :	53343
Area code :	0228
Location of Berkum in North Rhine-Westphalia
Berkum, left Odenhausen Castle, aerial photo (2016)

Berkum is a village in the municipality of Wachtberg in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , south of Bonn . The town hall of the municipality of Wachtberg is located in Berkum.

geography

The Berkum district is 340 hectares in size. It is located in the headwaters of the Berkumer Bach , which together with the Züllighovener Bach forms the Mehlemer Bach in Oberbachem . The district is topographically shaped by the 258 m high Wachtberg - the municipality Wachtberg was named after him in 1969 - as well as the approximately 230 m high Stumpeberg in the north and the Hohenberg (263 m) in the south. The border of the district in the southwest is also the state border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate . The state road L 123 leads through Berkum from Mehlem to Meckenheim . County road K 58 runs on the ridge above the settlement area .

history

There was already an estate in Berkum in Roman times , which was discovered in 1879. In the immediate vicinity, under today's St. Gereon Church, was a Gallic place of worship for the matron Atufrafineha . Across from today's Odenhausen Castle, there was another altar dedicated to Matron Asericineha . At that time, a path ran through the current settlement areas of Remagen , Bandorf , Berkum and Villip . The Wachtberg served the Romans as an observation point. The first known documented mention of the place name comes from the year 856. It is also mentioned in a document that Archbishop Bruno donated a piece of land in Berkum to the St. Cäcilien women's monastery in Cologne in 962. In the 12th century, the leaders of St. Gereon from Bacheim built a chapel in Berkum as a branch. Berkum only became an independent parish later.

After 1301 Berkum belonged to the Electorate of Cologne burgraves to Drachenfels . Together with the neighboring villages of Gimmersdorf , Ließem , Niederbachem , Oberbachem , Pissenheim (today Werthhoven ) and Züllighoven, it formed the so-called Drachenfelser Ländchen . In 1670 there were 14 houses in Berkum with Odenhausen. The French merged the seven localities in 1798 to form Mairie Villip in the canton of Bonn. After being taken over by the Prussians in 1816, Berkum became part of the Villip mayor's office , which was renamed Amt Villip in 1930 . Berkum has been part of the newly founded municipality of Wachtberg since August 1, 1969. The basis for this was the law on the local reorganization of the Bonn area ( Bonn law ).

The first town hall was built in Berkum in 1873 for the administration of the Villip mayor's office . After the Wachtberg community was founded, it was replaced by a new building in 1975 and demolished in 1978.

The quarries in Berkum gave many people work for centuries. The cathedral quarry on Hohenberg is particularly well known . The Romans used the trachyte as well as the castle builders from the 13th century. In the course of the resumption of construction work on Cologne Cathedral , the Cologne cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner acquired the so-called Hauberg for the cathedral builder in 1837 . By 1853, 5,000 m³ of stone had been broken. The dismantling came to a complete standstill by 1907. The Berkumer Trachyte weathers relatively easily, so that the stones built into Cologne Cathedral were popularly called the tears of Cologne Cathedral .

Attractions

Jesuit Court

The highest moated castle in North Rhine-Westphalia is located in Berkum, Odenhausen Castle . The origins of the castle go back to the 11th century.

At the end of the village in the direction of Oberbachem, the so-called Jesuitenhof is located . It was built at the beginning of the 20th century in place of the former Jesuit courtyard. The original court belonged to the Bonn Jesuit Order as an economy until it was dissolved in 1773 and parts of it went to Bonn University. Today it is privately owned.

The old church of St. Gereon was built in 1770/1783. It was a Catholic parish church until 1971. It has been the parish church of the Evangelical Heiland parish in Bad Godesberg since 1981 and of the newly founded Evangelical parish of Wachtberg since 1996.

Cenotaph on the Wachtberg

In 1921 the mayor's office at Villip am Wachtberg erected the memorial in memory of those who fell in the First World War . The war memorial was inaugurated on September 18, 1921. The architect was Franz Brantzky (1871–1945). In 1959, memorial plaques for those who died in World War II , created by the sculptor Hans Schweizer (1925–2005), were added. Finally, in 1979 more plaques of honor for the fallen from the localities of Adendorf were blessed with Klein-Villip, Arzdorf and Fritzdorf . They come from the sculptor Titus Reinarz . The memorial has been the destination of the star procession from the Wachtberg villages every year on Ascension Day since 1946 . Traditionally, the horses are blessed in the closing service.

In 1971 the new Catholic Church of St. Maria Rosary Queen was consecrated. The architects were Nikolaus Rosiny (1926–2011) and HJ Kiesgen. The church was the Catholic parish church of the parish of St. Gereon until December 31, 2009 . Werthhoven and Züllighoven also belonged to the parish. Since 2010 it has been the parish church of the parish of St. Marien Wachtberg for all Wachtberg villages.

Regional infrastructure facilities

In 1976 the school center in Berkum am Stumpeberg was inaugurated. It consists of the Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Drachenfelser Ländchen for towns Berkum, Ließem, Gimmersdorf, Oberbachem with Kürrigoven, Holzem , Werthhoven and Züllighoven and a secondary school, since 2016, the name of Hans-Dietrich Genscher school - Regional school site - Profiled Gemeinschaftshauptschule leads .

In 1977 the swimming and sports center was inaugurated right next to the school center. It has u. a. a swimming pool and a triple gymnasium.

In 2002 the council of the municipality of Wachtberg decided on the zoning plan for the 'Wachtberg shopping center' ( EKZ ). With the help of an investor and the settlement of various shops, an EKZ was created that is well-known beyond the community and has all the necessities that make it up. From 2014 to 2016, an extension around Bernareggio-Platz was built east of 'Am Wachtbergring'.

In September 2019, the municipality of Wachtberg erected a two-ton kite on the occasion of its 50th birthday. The sculpture was created by the students of the Hans-Dietrich-Genscher School, under the guidance of the Pech artist Willi Reiche, and erected as a landmark of Wachtberg in the traffic circle above Berkum.

Personalities

• Franz Karl Movers (1806–1856), theologian and orientalist, pastor in Berkum from 1833 to 1839
• Hermann Abs (1901–1994), born in Bonn , CEO of Deutsche Bank AG, lived in Berkum
• Günter Kuhfuß (1926–2001), born in Dortmund , local politician, Lord Mayor of the city of Worms, lived in Berkum
• Till Brönner (* 1971 in Viersen ), singer, jazz musician, lived in Berkum

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Döring: Wachtberg. Old pictures of a young church . Wachtberg 1982, ISBN 3-88913-059-3
• Wilhelm Fabricius: Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898.
• Barbara Hausmanns: Wachtberg - Thirteen villages become one community . Wachtberg community (ed.). Wachtberg 2011.
• Franz Müller: Life around the Wachtberg. A journey through time through 30,000 years of history in a Rhenish landscape. Wachtberg 1993, ISBN 3-925551-60-3 .

Web links

Commons : Berkum  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures in the Wachtberg community
2. ↑ Location: municipality according to § 39 GO NRW.
3. ^ ^{A b} Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 61.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Barbara Hausmanns: Wachtberg - Thirteen villages become one community . Ed .: Municipality of Wachtberg. 2011, p. 20-21,33,41,43,134 .
5. ↑ Ulrike Müssemeier: The Merovingian finds from the city of Bonn and its surrounding area (7 MB) . Bonn 2004, p. 89 .
6. ^ ^{A b} Franz Müller: Life around the Wachtberg. A journey through time through 30,000 years of history in a Rhenish landscape . Wachtberg 1993, ISBN 3-925551-60-3 , pp. 98-106, 114-119, 187-190, 356-363 .
7. ↑ Handbook for the Country People from the Rhine-Mosel Department , 1808, p. 126 ( www.dilibri.de )
8. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 83 .
9. ^ ^{A b} Hans-Jürgen Döring: Wachtberg. Old pictures of a young church . Wachtberg 1982, ISBN 3-88913-059-3 , pp. 80-102,211 .
10. ^ Evangelical parish Wachtberg: Churches and parish houses - their history and meaning
11. ↑ Ecumenical Working Group Wachtberg (ed.): Churches and chapels in Wachtberg . 2009, p. 11 .
12. ^ Official Journal of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Item 1, January 1, 2010, No. 37
13. ^ Community elementary school in Drachenfelser Ländchen
14. ↑ Secondary School Wachtberg Hans-Dietrich-Genscher-Schule ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Hallenbad Wachtberg ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.