Buir (Kerpen)

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Buir
City of Kerpen
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Buir
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 33 "  N , 6 ° 34 ′ 58"  E
Height : 109 m above sea level NHN
Area : 14.8 km²
Residents : 3934  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 266 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 50170
Area code : 02275
Buir (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Buir

Location of Buir in North Rhine-Westphalia
Church of St. Michael in Buir
Church and building of the Protestant community
Station building

The town of Buir [ byːɐ̯ ] is the westernmost district of Kerpen in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

Buir is located in the very west of the city of Kerpen and directly on the Cologne-Aachen railway line and the federal motorway 4 , both of which pass directly to the north. The state roads 276 and 327 run through the village. The rest of the Bürgewald , which for the most part has already given way to the Hambach mine, extends north of the village . Neighboring towns of Buir are Golzheim in the south, Blatzheim in the east, Manheim in the northeast and Morschenich in the northwest.

history

The place was first mentioned on April 1, 1003 under the name "Puire". This goes back to Archbishop Heribert of Cologne , who gave the Deutz Abbey a courtyard in "Puire". In the 13th century lived the probably oldest Buirer noble family, the family "von Bure", to which the Buirer coat of arms goes back. A street was named after the family who lived in what was then Voigtburg.

In 1308 the church and parish of Buir were mentioned for the first time in the Liber valoris .

With a document dated March 18, 1360, Duke Wilhelm I of Jülich confirmed the wax interest that 26 villages on the Bürgewald had to pay to the parish church of Arnoldsweiler every year on Whit Tuesday . Buir was one of these villages. Thus the Buirer population had to donate a candle of 4 pounds of wax every year. Buir was only exempted from wax interest in 1839 through a one-off payment to the parish of Arnoldsweiler. The villages around the Bürgewald had to deliver this candle offering as thanks for the preservation of the forest. According to legend, this is due to St. Arnoldus , who is said to have donated the forest to the surrounding communities in the 8th century. Previously, this was under the imperial wild ban , entry was forbidden for the common population. In 1775 the forest was divided among the authorized communities, previously the forest was shared by the neighboring communities. Buir received the so-called Buirer Bürge west of the L 276 between Buir and Etzweiler .

In 1929 one of the worst rail accidents of the 1920s occurred 300 meters from the Buirer Bahnhof, killing 13 people.

Towards the end of the Second World War , Operation Grenade of the 9th US Army started on February 23, 1945 : General Simpson's army crossed the Rur . In the evening Simpson had 16 battalions on the east bank. The US troops then advanced rapidly towards Erft . One regiment moved through the Bürgewald, one from Düren via Merzenich and Buir in the direction of Sindorf.

Buir was an independent municipality until 1974 , before the place was assigned to the new city of Kerpen by the Cologne Act on January 1, 1975 .

Buir has grown significantly in recent years, and two large new housing developments have emerged. In a few years, the Hambach opencast mine will reach the local limits of Buir, which, among other things, resulted in the relocation of the A 4 .

education

The place has a primary school and two kindergartens.

religion

There are two Christian communities in Buir: the Catholic St. Michael community (with a neo-Gothic church from 1889, in which the relief-like Stations of the Cross deserves special mention) and a Protestant community.

Attractions

Sights are the old town hall, the old elementary school with its gable roof, the Fließstraße chapel, the Schöffenhof and the historical storage buildings around the new station and the old station building. Buir also has many middle-class and Wilhelminian-style houses . Buir owned a malt factory. The town center of Buir with a few shops is located in the area of ​​the crossings Talstraße / Steinweg and Bahnstraße / Eichemstraße and the Kirchenstraße running in between.

→ See list of architectural monuments in Buir (Kerpen)

traffic

S-Bahn stop

Buir has, since 2002, a train - stop on the railway line between Cologne and Aachen .

In rail transport the breakpoint Buir of the following lines will train Cologne operated (as of December 13, 2015):

line course Tact
S 13 Düren  - Merzenich  - Buir  - Sindorf  - Horrem  - Frechen-Königsdorf  - Köln-Weiden West  - Köln-Lövenich  - Köln-Müngersdorf Technologiepark - Köln-Ehrenfeld  - Köln Hansaring  - Köln Hbf  - Köln Messe / Deutz  - Köln Trimbornstraße - Köln Frankfurter Straße  - Cologne Bonn / Airport  - Porz-Wahn  - Spich  - Troisdorf
1 × daily from / to Aachen Hbf 		20/40 min
S 19 Düren  - Merzenich  - Buir  - Sindorf  - Horrem  - Frechen-Königdorf  - Köln-Weiden West  - Köln-Lövenich  - Köln-Müngersdorf Technologiepark - Köln-Ehrenfeld  - Köln Hansaring  - Köln Hbf  - Köln Messe / Deutz  - Köln Trimbornstraße - Köln Frankfurter Straße  - Cologne Bonn / Airport  - Porz-Wahn  - Spich  - Troisdorf  - Siegburg / Bonn  - Hennef (victory)  - Hennef Im Siegbogen - Blankenberg (victory) * - Merten (victory) - Eitorf  - Herchen - Dattenfeld (victory) - Schladern (victory) - Rosbach (Sieg) - Au (Sieg)
* Blankenberg only single trips 		60 min

Up until the A 4 was relocated because of the Hambach opencast mine, Buir had a motorway connection. Since September 2014 the motorway has passed Buir in the immediate vicinity without a connection.

societies

  • Trumpet Choir Buir
  • Buirer singing community
  • Altar boy Buir
  • HolyTrumpets
  • Santo Acústico
  • St. Sebastianus Rifle Brotherhood
  • FC Borussia Buir
  • Gymnastics and Sports Club Buir
  • KG Löstige Buirer 1974 eV
  • May club “Fidele Junge” Buir
  • German Red Cross
  • Youth Red Cross
  • Kerpen volunteer fire brigade, Buir fire brigade
  • Youth fire brigade
  • Buir children's and youth choir
  • Spillmannszoch Buirer music clowns
  • Buirer Fründe
  • Club Friends of Old Technology Buir eV
  • Horticultural Association Buir "1923" eV
  • Wild League Buir
  • Initiative Buirer for Buir e. V. (citizens' initiative against opencast mining and relocation of the motorway)
  • Theater group "Buirer on the verge of madness"
  • Vocal ensemble TaktVoll (secular choir)

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Distribution to the districts in 2018. In: Website of the city of Kerpen. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the Bergheim district . In: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Volume 4, Ed. Paul Clemen, Düsseldorf 1899, p. 431 f.
  3. ^ Rudolf AH Wyrsch: The holy Arnold von Arnoldsweiler. Legend and history of the veneration of a Rhenish saint. In: Forum Jülich History Issue 9 , Jülich 1994, p. 18 f. and p. 73 f.
  4. ↑ see Wolfgang Trees: Battlefield between Maas and Rhine (editions 1976 and 1995 = 978-3922974055)
  5. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger February 22, 2005: The goal was the Erft
  6. ↑ 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 .
  7. ^ Website St. Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft
  8. ↑ website of KG Löstige Buirer 1974 eV
  9. ↑ "Löschzug Buir" on the Kerpen fire brigade website
  10. ↑ website of "Buirger fuir Buir"

Web links

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