Bettendorf (Alsdorf)

Bettendorf City of Alsdorf
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 13 ″  N , 6 ° 12 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	136 m
Area :	1.88 km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	52477
Area code :	02404

St. Wendelinus (Bettendorf)

Bettendorf is a northeastern district of Alsdorf in the Aachen city region . A few hundred meters outside the village, on the L 109, is the "Alsdorf-Bettendorf" sewage treatment plant operated by the Eifel-Rur water association . The small town is at the crossroads of old and new roads towards Alsdorf-Schaufenberg, Baesweiler- Oidtweiler , Aldenhoven- Siersdorf , Alsdorf- Hoengen and the Duckweiler desert .

history

Bettendorf was first mentioned in 1130 and 1278 as "Betnedorf". The first part of the name is interpreted as a proper name Bado, later Batto or Betto, related to the Germanic tribe of the Badu. The tribal name Badu can come from Bad or from the Germanic word for battle: old English. beado, beadu , engl. battle , French bataille battle, French / German Battalion . So Bettendorf would be the village of (combative) Bado. Another interpretation is from Niederdt. Beden out. Naturals were to be handed in at a Fronhof .

On May 6, 1271 the brothers Winricus, Amilius and Richaldus von Kinzweiler reached a settlement with the Kommende Siersdorf because of disputed goods in Hoengen and Bettendorf, and to settle his debts, Winrich von Kinzweiler alias von Bettendorf sold 1321, 1333 and 1335 to the Aachener Marienstift goods and rents that interest people had to pay him in Bettendorf, as well as 60 acres of land around Bettendorf.

In 1438 the “glory” of Bettendorf was mentioned in the description of a border tour of the subordinate Schaufenberg, and in 1454 the residents of Bettendorf were named as part of the rights to the Propsteier forest , which at that time extended to Kinzweiler . In 1533, after the death of Johann von Paland, his son Johann inherited the rulership of Bettendorf, among other things. In 1676 the Bettendorfer lands belong to the long-term leases of Nothberg . A few years later, the Hoengen Book of the Dead reported two spectacular deaths: In 1687 Heinrich Drießen from Bettendorf fell fatally into a coal mine near Bardenberg , and in 1688 Matthias Dohmen from Bettendorf was slain by "two high people" near Laurenzberg .

Today's building fabric mainly dates from the 18th century , as does the former Schöffenhof, of which the house still stands. Bettendorf was the place of the court: A certificate from August 12, 1569 issued in Bettendorf shows the jury's seal with the Palant coat of arms and the inscription "sigillum scabinorum in Bettendorf".

May 1767 a census in the Duchy of Jülich indicated 258 inhabitants for Bettendorf, Schaufenberg and Kellersberg.

On 1 January 1972, the municipality of Bettendorf, which until then to the office came Aldenhoven in county Jülich had heard about Alsdorf near Aachen.

religion

In 1704 the Wendelinus Chapel was built on the village square at the corner of Wendelinusstraße / An der Kirche . It received a bell in 1723, was rebuilt in 1804 and in 1806 came from the Hoengen parish of St. Cornelius to the Oidtweiler parish of St. Martin. The chapel was destroyed in the Second World War in autumn 1944. The new Wendelinus Church is consecrated in October 1964. The St. Wendelinus chapel community has been part of the parish of St. Marien Baesweiler since 2013.

→ Jewish cemetery (Bettendorf)

Coat of arms of the former community of Bettendorf

coat of arms

The community of Bettendorf was given a coat of arms by the North Rhine-Westphalian interior minister in 1963.

Blazon : "Divided five times by black and gold (yellow), topped with a growing red shepherd's staff tapered to the left with a silver (white) curve."

The municipal coat of arms shows the coat of arms of the local, influential Pallandt noble family with the shepherd's crook of St. Wendelinus , the patron saint of the Bettendorf Church.

traffic

The next junction is "Alsdorf" on the A 44 . The nearest DB train stations are “ Übach-Palenberg ” and “ Herzogenrath ” on the Aachen - Geilenkirchen - Mönchengladbach route and “Alsdorf-Annapark” on the Euregiobahn . The two AVV stops "Baesweilerstraße" and "Bettendorf" are served by bus routes in the direction of Schaufenberg, Alsdorf-Mitte, Oidtweiler , Baesweiler, Setterich , Siersdorf , Dürboslar, Aldenhoven, Hoengen and Aachen.

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 305 .