Bruggen (Kerpen)

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Bruggen
City of Kerpen
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 49 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 95 m above sea level NHN
Area : 17.5 km² (with Türnich)
Residents : 4878  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 279 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 50169
Area code : 02237
Brüggen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Bruggen

Location of Brüggen in North Rhine-Westphalia

Brüggen is a district of the city of Kerpen in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia .

St. Joseph

location

Brüggen an der Erft is located in the Zülpicher Börde and in the Rhineland Nature Park . Landstrasse 163, a former Roman military road from Bonn to Neuss , runs through the village . The A 61 runs west of the village and the A 1 runs east .

history

Brüggen on the Tranchot map from 1807

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1293. Brueggen belonged to the French period for Electorate of Cologne . The place formed together with Kierdorf an honor in the Lechenich office . When the administration was reorganized according to the French model under Napoleon in 1800, the Honschaft was dissolved and the town of Brüggen was spun off. Brüggen came to Mairie Türnich in the canton of Kerpen. The place later remained with the mayor's office, since 1927 Amt Türnich, and later until the reorganization by the Cologne law , which came into force on January 1, 1975, to the municipality of Türnich.

Brüggen Castle

A noble family from Brüggen has been mentioned since the beginning of the 13th century, whose members in the 14th century exercised bailiwick rights for the former Benedictine monastery and later Dietkirchen monastery in the north of Bonn at its Liblar court .

At the end of the 14th century, Brüggen Castle (Bruggesteyn or Bruckesteyn) was a fortified structure, the fortification of which was carried out without the permission of Archbishop Friedrich von Saar Werden and was therefore demolished in 1398 on the orders of the Archbishop. The unfortified castle remained in the possession of the noble family von Turre called von der Zieselsmaar. As an inheritance it fell to the Lords of Zweiffel in 1486 . In 1784 the castle came to the Lords of Gymnich zu Gymnich and from them to Count Wolff-Metternich zu Gymnich. The gentlemen from Gymnich had the castle buildings demolished, with the exception of the gate construction, and built a farmyard on the site. When this was demolished in 1902, the late Gothic gate was preserved.

economy

For a long time Brüggen was characterized by the nearby opencast mines, briquette factories and brickworks in the Rhenish lignite mining area. Carl Brendgen (1841–1916) and Victor Rolff were pioneers for Brüggen .

religion

For centuries Brüggen belonged to the parish of St. Martinus in Kierdorf. In 1911 the place received its own Catholic parish church, which is dedicated to St. Joseph . The neo-Gothic church was built in 1910/1911 according to plans by the architect Theodor Ross. The church tower was only built in 1957. Since 1937 Brüggen has also had a small Protestant church called Lukaskirche . A Jewish cemetery from the mid-19th century to the beginning of the 20th century is located on Friedhofsweg. It still has 16 tombstones.

  • late Gothic castle gate

  • typical ensemble

  • Brüggener mill

  • Crossroads in front of a simple house

  • Lukas Church

  • Jewish Cemetery

Others

The sights of the place include the Erftauen on the outskirts, which is an important breeding site for various migratory birds and thus attracts ornithologists from the entire city area. In addition to the natural monuments, the castle gate is a neo-Gothic masterpiece in the Rhineland. The parish church dominates the historic town center. There are a number of farmsteads that are well worth seeing and which are reminiscent of old Brüggen. As the interface of important trade routes, Brüggen quickly developed into a traffic junction whose supraregional importance can still be felt today on the pulsating Heerstraße.

As an example of modern architecture, Brüggen gained nationwide attention in the 1970s. Nowadays, this quarter is characterized by attractive green spaces and also ties in with the long tradition of Brüggen as the “cultural melting pot” of the southern Rhein-Erft district. Although Brüggen suffered for a long time from the strengthening of the nearby Cologne, this tendency is now gradually reversing and leading to increased influx again, so that there is an effectively positive growth trend. As a result, the population rose to eleven times the historical heyday in the late 19th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Distribution to the districts in 2018. In: Website of the city of Kerpen. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ Historical Archive of the City of Cologne Stock Foreign Issues 170b, published in: Karl and Hanna Stommel: Sources for the history of the city of Erftstadt. Vol. I. No. 178.
  3. ^ Archives Schloss Gracht files 59 with honors accounts, published in Stommel: Sources. Vol. V. No. 2788.
  4. ↑ Max Bär: The administrative constitution of the Rhine Province since 1815. Bonn 1919, p. 42 ff.
  5. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X .
  6. ^ Stommel: Sources on the history of the city of Erftstadt. Volume I. No. 196.
  7. ^ Stommel: Sources on the history of the city of Erftstadt. Volume I. No. 749.
  8. ^ Stommel: Sources on the history of the city of Erftstadt. Bd. II. No. 1313, will of Wilhelm von der Zieselsmaar.
  9. ^ Henriette Meynen: moated castles, palaces and country houses in the Erftkreis. 4th edition. P. 148.
  10. ^ Frank Kretschmar: Churches and places of worship in the Rhein-Erft district. Pp. 134-135.

literature

  • Türnich municipality: Türnich through the ages . Türnich 1974, pp. 182-185.
  • Henriette Meynen: moated castles, palaces and country houses in the Erftkreis . 4th edition. Cologne. 1992. ISBN 3-7927-1294-6
  • Frank Kretschmar: Churches and places of worship in the Rhein-Erft district . Cologne. 2005. ISBN 3-7616-1944-8

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