Berzbuir

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Berzbuir
District town Düren
Coat of arms of Berzbuir
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 39 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 39 ″  E
Height : 167 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.44 km² (with Kufferath)
Residents : 461  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 85 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 52355
Area code : 02421
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Location of Berzbuir in Düren

Berzbuir is a rural district of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia . The “ui” in the second syllable is pronounced like a long “ü”.

geography

location

The place with about 500 inhabitants is located southwest of Düren on the eastern slopes of the Eifel . There is no through traffic through the town. The distance to the city center is 7 km.

The small place lies on a geological cone. This means that you can see far into the Rhenish Plain from Berzbuir, with a clear view as far as Cologne .

Main thoroughfare

The highest point of the place is at the Berzbuirer Knipp at 215 m above sea ​​level .

history

Many underground water veins allow the conclusion that this (well) was one of the criteria for the choice to build a place here on the ridge. Stone Age finds suggest a very early settlement. Roman settlements have also been excavated here.

The name Berzbuir appears for the first time in baptismal registers after 1770. Before that, the place was called "Benzberg", "Bertzbur", "Bertzbeur", "Bertzberg" and "Berzberg". The place name could be interpreted as a rural settlement of the family "Berath" = Berz .

chapel

Since the beginning of the 19th century, the municipality of Berzbuir-Kufferath belonged administratively to the Birgel office . In the course of the local reorganization, the municipality of Berzbuir-Kufferath was incorporated into Lendersdorf on July 1, 1969. With the dissolution of the Birgel office and the municipality of Lendersdorf on December 31, 1971, Berzbuir-Kufferath and Lendersdorf came to the city of Düren on January 1, 1972.

Sights and monuments

Infrastructure

school

  • From 1868 to 1968, exactly 100 years, there was a school in Berzbuir.
  • Today there is a kindergarten in the expanded, former school building

Others

  • The place is approached by the buses of the lines 202 and 222 of the Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB).
  • The B 399 runs about one km from the village .
  • In 2008, Berzbuir won 3rd place in the competition Our Village Has Future and a special price for the structured involvement of the village community and a silver place for participation in 2011. In 2014 the village won a gold place. When taking part in the following state competition in 2015, Berzbuir was awarded a silver placement and a special prize for the good integration of agriculture in the village.

societies

In Berzbuir there are:

  • a football club - FC Bergwacht Berzbuir
  • a fire fighting group from the Düren volunteer fire department
  • the Schützenbruderschaft - St. Anna Schützenbruderschaft Berzbuir 1893 eV
  • the working group “Our village has a future” in the St. Anna Schützenbruderschaft
  • History Association Berzbuir eV
  • the interest group of the local associations - IG Berzberger Haus eV
  • the jackdaws (dance club)
  • the May youth Berzbuir

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.dueren.de/kultur-tourismus/stadtportraet/zahlen__fotos?sr=7584
  2. ↑ Dieter Mätschke: Heimatbuch Birgel . Düren 1981, p. 121 .
  3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory 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 .