Borr / Scheuren

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St. Martinus Borr

Borr mit Scheuren is a district of Erftstadt in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia . The smallest district has 406 inhabitants (as of March 31, 2018).

location

Borr is located on the southwestern edge of the urban area. Scheuren is west of Borr. In the east Niederberg borders on Borr / Scheuren, in the north Friesheim and Erp , in the west and south the Zülpich districts of Weiler in der Ebene and Mülheim .

history

Numerous finds from Roman times prove that the region around Borr was settled. Several Roman clay pots and a bronze coin of Magnentius were found on the Roman road Trier – Cologne , today Agrippastraße Cologne – Trier , which runs around 1.5 kilometers north of the village . Other significant finds were a damaged matron stone of the Matronae Fahinehae, which had served as a grave cover, and a bronze statuette of the goddess Minerva . For the construction of the church, as was determined during the restoration in 1960, cast blocks from the nearby Roman Eifel aqueduct were used.

The place Borr is a Franconian foundation. Two Franconian stone sarcophagi, as well as the Martinus patronage and the place name, point to a Franconian settlement. The name "Burne" or "Burnheim" is interpreted as a name for a settlement at a spring . Other interpretations are based on a settlement of Brun.

In a document from Louis the Pious from 814, the tithing granted by its predecessors in Barna is confirmed to the Stablo - Malmedy monastery . The location that cannot be located could mean Borr.

Borr is first mentioned in a document in 1108. Properties in Borr were part of a gift from Count Adalbert von Saffenberg and his son Count Adolf von Saffenberg to the Klosterrath Abbey . In 1208 the church in Borr and its patronage rights are mentioned in a document. Another historical mention of the parish church in Borr occurs in the document of December 26, 1246, in which the noble nunnery Bürvenich near Zülpich and the monastery "Zum Gottesfrieden" in Cologne confirmed an exchange of goods, in which the monastery Bürvenich had a courtyard in " scure " in parochia de Burne propre Vrisheim ”.

The two places formed the parish Borr in the Electoral Cologne office of Lechenich . Since the 16th century there has been evidence of a lay jury, before changes to the property were notarized by inheritance or sale. In the held four times a year electoral Mr. Enge thing the assembled residents was the Weistum read. Small offenses were negotiated and broken .

During the Truchsessian-Dutch War , during the Thirty Years' War in the Hessian War , and in the wars of the French King Louis XIV , the residents suffered from arson , looting and contributions .

Marauding rabble set fire to the houses in the village in 1747.

Mostly small farmers lived in Borr. Large ecclesiastical farms, which were managed by Halfen , were mainly in Scheuren. As a result of secularization , they were sold and came into private hands.

Borr came under French rule administratively to the canton of Lechenich and Mairie Friesheim, which continued to exist as mayor's office after 1815 and as an office from 1927. After the establishment of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Borr remained a municipality in the Friesheim district until the municipal administrative reform . On July 1, 1969 Borr became part of the new town of Erftstadt.

Most of Borr's residents in the 19th century were small farmers and day laborers. Two large courtyards, the Drieschhof and the Bongartshof in Scheuren, were owned for a long time by Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht , whose alliance coat of arms (Wolff Metternich / Salm Salm) can still be seen today above the gate of the Bongartshof.

The school , built in 1826 , to whose district the towns of Borr, Scheuren and until 1859 Niederberg belonged, was replaced by a new school building in 1958 . In 1968 the school was closed.

today

Borr / Scheuren offers a quiet residential area. The place has grown little in the last few decades. Some old houses are listed .

  • Vonnestraße 27 former rectory built in 1854

  • Valderstrasse 21 Residential house in a square courtyard

  • Vonnestraße 29 residential building built in 1763

  • Vonnestrasse 3–5 residential buildings

The church consecrated to St. Martin of Tours , which partly dates from the 11th century, still stands in the middle of the village and characterizes the townscape.

A municipal day-care center is housed in the former rectory . The primary school students of the former Borr school district attend the Janusz-Korczak primary school in Erp, secondary schools are in Lechenich, Weilerswist and Zülpich.

The employment opportunities in the place are very limited. Most of Borr's residents work in large companies in the surrounding area. The place is through the bus line 807, the RVK of Lechenich according Euskirchen to the public transport connected. DSL access with a broadband connection of up to 8 Mbit / s is available.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.erftstadt.de/web/infos-zu-erftstadt/die-stadt-in-zahlen
  2. ↑ Simons / Oberdörffer, Borr - Pictures from old and new times according to historical sources, special print from the Euskirchener Volksblatt 1931, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Simons / Oberdörffer, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Polak and Dijkhof: Oorkondenboek van de Abdij Kloosterrade 1108-1381. The Hague 2004.
  5. ↑ HSTAD , now the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia, Duisburg site, holdings of Kurköln Certificate No. 8, published in: Stommel, Karl and Hanna: Sources for the history of the city of Erftstadt, Vol. I. No. 45.
  6. ↑ HSTAD Kloster Bürvenich Certificate No. 3. Simons / Oberdörffer, p. 54, dated 1245.
  7. ^ Archives Schloss Gracht, file 58 parish Borr.
  8. ^ Archive Schloss Gracht, file 58 parish Borr, Bl. 414–423, published in: Stommel, Karl and Hanna: Sources for the history of the city of Erftstadt, Vol. V No. 2907.
  9. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 86 .
  10. ↑ Simons / Oberdörffer, p. 87.

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '  N , 6 ° 45'  E