Brauweiler (Pulheim)

Brauweiler City of Pulheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 31 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	78 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	8267  (March 31, 2019)
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	50259
Area code :	02234
Location of Brauweiler in Pulheim

Brauweiler is a district of Pulheim in the Rhein-Erft district .

Brauweiler Abbey , in the background the tower of the former St. Nikolaus Abbey Church

location

Brauweiler borders on Cologne in the east, the town of Freimersdorf in the southeast , directly on the town of Dansweiler in the west and on Sinthern in the north . The place is located on the western edge of the Ville in the densely populated and highly industrialized Cologne Bay . Nevertheless, to this day, Brauweiler is largely surrounded by agriculture.

history

The area around today's town of Brauweiler was demonstrably owned by the Lorraine Count Palatine Hermann I (Pusillus) in the second half of the 10th century . Here he had a dilapidated older manor rebuilt together with a chapel consecrated to St. Medardus . Around 991 his son and later successor Ezzo married the third daughter of Emperor Otto II , Mathilde , and gave her the property as a morning gift . Both founded the Benedictine abbey of Brauweiler in 1024 . The title of the history of the Ezzone family refers to the founding of the abbey: fundatio monasterii Brunwilarensis .

Various forms of the name Brauweiler were found in the Middle Ages : Brunivilare (1052), Brunwillre (1050–12th century), Bruwillarium (1052), Brunwillere (around 1095). The word -weiler can be derived from the Latin word villare derived .

Since the Middle Ages , Brauweiler has belonged to the Electoral Cologne Office of Königsdorf. In 1670 the place consisted of 27 smaller farms and a large farm owned by the Brauweiler Abbey. In the 18th century Brauweiler had 246 inhabitants. In 1794 the place was occupied by French troops. The Mairie Freimersdorf was created in the canton of Weiden , to which Brauweiler also belonged. Since 1816 Brauweiler belonged to the Prussian district of Cologne . Brauweiler became its own community in the mayor's office in Freimersdorf. Since 1855, the office was in Brauweiler.

From 1920 to the 1950s, the buildings of the Brauweiler Abbey served as a prison, in which Konrad Adenauer and his wife, among others , were imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1944 .

Old town hall of Brauweiler

In 1927 the mayor's office in Freimersdorf was renamed to Amt Freimersdorf. Shortly before, the new town hall of the office was completed on today's Konrad-Adenauer-Platz, which is now used as a branch of the Pulheim city administration and associations. Until then, the administrative office was housed together with the head of the office in a brick building on Mathildenstrasse, which still exists today. In 1928 the Freimersdorf office was renamed to Brauweiler . In the same year, the Brauweiler substation of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk ( RWE ) for the north-south line was built east of the town .

On October 1, 1934, the offices of Brauweiler and Lövenich were merged, and the new administrative unit was now called Amt Weiden . In 1951 Brauweiler resigned from the Weiden office and formed an office- free municipality.

After the Second World War, construction activity began, which was initially hesitant and increased since 1961, so that Brauweiler and Dansweiler formed a spatial unit. Since the reorganization by the Cologne Act , which came into force on January 1, 1975, Brauweiler has been a district of the city of Pulheim (24.23 km ² with 11,704 inhabitants at the time). A smaller part (5.62 km ² with 3682 inhabitants at the time) was reclassified to Cologne.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver (white) a golden (yellow) armored and red-tongued black eagle , which with the right muzzle holds a golden (yellow) abbot behind the fuselage in front of the right wing."

The coat of arms was awarded in 1927 by the Prussian State Ministry . It is identical to the coat of arms of the Brauweiler Abbey , which Emperor Charles V gave it in 1547. It is about the imperial eagle , which rarely uses an abbot's staff as a distinctive sign .

Churches

St. Nikolaus Brauweiler

In Brauweiler there is the historic and local Abbey Church of St. Nicholas ( Catholic ) and the Gnadenkirche ( Protestant ).

Economy and Infrastructure

Industry

In Brauweiler there has been a large 220 kV substation since 1928 , which is also the starting point for the north-south line . On the grounds of this substation Brauweiler also located "system management networks" of Amprion (formerly main control center of the RWE ), almost the entire Amprion- from which high-voltage network is monitored and controlled remotely. The RWE network center in Brauweiler also plays an important role in controlling the European high-voltage network .

education

schools

In a school center on the eastern edge of the village, the city of Pulheim maintains the Abtei-Gymnasium Brauweiler (AGB) and the Arthur Koepchen Realschule. A secondary school that was also integrated was closed in the late 1990s due to a lack of students. The students were admitted to the secondary school in Pulheim-Stadt. Most of the space that became available was taken over by the abbey high school , which was suffering from lack of space . Furthermore, the Richeza elementary school (GGS), the LVR-Donatus school for the physically and motor-impaired, and the school for the learning disabled on Jahnstraße are located in Brauweiler.

Culture and leisure

buildings

• Former Benedictine abbey
• Parish Church of St. Nicholas (former abbey church)
• Hagelkreuz in the cemetery, erected around 1500
• Lion figure from the 12th century

societies

Brauweiler is home to a large number of clubs. The Turn-und-Sportverein (TUS) Schwarz-Weiß Brauweiler should be mentioned here, offering an extensive range of sports from gymnastics to trampolines, athletics, basketball, handball, recreational football, health sports and cardiac sports. Furthermore, there is the TTC Brauweiler, where you can practice racket sports. There is also a cycling tourism club, the Raging Abbots baseball club and Grün-Weiß Brauweiler as a football club. Not to be forgotten among the sports clubs is the FFC Brauweiler Pulheim 2000 , which has already achieved numerous successes as a club in the women's Bundesliga and has produced various national players.

In addition to the sports clubs, there is the Association for History and the Brauweiler Carnival Friends (BKF). There is also a well-known traditional shooting club in Brauweiler, which was newly founded in 1914. The brotherhood was founded by the then abbot St. Johannes de Weda (Johann von Wied) at the latest at the end of the 15th century. On June 28, 1661, the forgotten brotherhood was founded for the second time by the mayor and the aldermen of Brauweiler. In June 1930 the shooting club was entered in the register of associations in Cologne under the number 1209, which still exists today. Due to the Second World War, club life was idle from 1939 to 1949. In November 1946 the victorious powers forbade the rifle clubs to continue operating and all sporting weapons had to be surrendered. On June 16, 1949 it was decided to re-establish it as a brotherhood, since church shooting clubs were allowed to exist again.

The altar boys St. Nikolaus Brauweiler / Dansweiler make up one of the largest groups in town with around 180 children and young people. In addition to serving at the altar, youth work plays an important role among altar servers. There are weekly group lessons, as well as a one to two week vacation time and various other activities once a year. There is also the Catholic Scouting Society St. Georg (DPSG), Bernhard von Clairvaux tribe.

Many specialist shops and Brauweiler companies are united in the BIG - Brauweiler Entrepreneurial Interest Group. The BIG is the organizer of the Brauweiler weekend and the traditional St. Nicholas market around the abbey.

Many of the clubs in Brauweiler have joined the IG Brauweiler Vereine eV. This community of interests serves, among other things, to maintain and expand the common club life in Brauweiler.

Personalities

• Jürgen Rüttgers started his political career here.
• The gymnast Helmut Bantz won the gold medal in horse jumping at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne .
• Franz-Josef Spalthoff , mayor of Brauweiler from 1969 to 1974, mayor of Pulheim 1974–1979
• In 1978 Beate Habetz won the gold medal at the UCI Road World Championships in 1978 in Brauweiler
• Gabi Habetz , racing cyclist.
• Fabrice Ehret , footballer
• Heike Henkel , high jumper

literature

• Peter Bathe: The Romanesque chapter house in Brauweiler. A critical inventory of his architecture, building sculpture and painting. Cologne 2003. ISBN 3-89498-100-8 .
• Hermann Daners, Josef Wißkirchen: What happened in Brauweiler - The Nazi era and its consequences in the Rhenish Provincial Labor Institute. Documentation. Pulheim 2006. ISBN 3-927765-39-2 .
• Claudia Euskirchen: The baroque monastery buildings of the former Benedictine abbey Brauweiler. Cologne 1993. ISBN 3-7927-1383-7 .
• Peter Schreiner, Monika Tontsch: The abbey church St. Nikolaus and St. Medardus in Brauweiler. Building history and equipment. Pulheim 1994, 2nd edition 1999. ISBN 3-927765-12-0 .
• Handbook of the historical sites of Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia . Kröner-Verlag, Stuttgart 1970 (new edition in preparation)
• Pulheim contributions to history and local history: Municipality of Pulheim The places and their monuments; Pulheim 1979

Web links

Commons : Brauweiler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Peter Schwarz: Adenauer. The rise: 1876–1952. Stuttgart 1986, p. 418 ff.
2. ^ Association for History e. V. Pulheim ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 2012 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. 
3. ↑ Blum, Ernst: The town halls of the former municipality of Brauweiler. PBGH 3/1973.
4. ↑ 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 , p. 56 and 66 .
5. ^ 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. 301 .
6. ↑ Brauweiler coat of arms. Retrieved March 22, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 2012 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. 
8. ^ Association for History e. V. Pulheim ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 2012 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. 
9. ↑ http://www.messdiener-brauweiler.de/contao/index.php/allgemein  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from January 14, 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.