Metternich (Weilerswist)
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Metternich
community Weilerswist
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| Height : | 123 (120–155) m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 7.44 km² |
| Residents : | 2195 (2009) |
| Population density : | 295 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 |
| Postal code : | 53919 |
| Area code : | 02254 |
Metternich is a village in the municipality of Weilerswist in the Euskirchen district in the extreme south of North Rhine-Westphalia and is located on the southwest slope of the Ville .
location
Metternich is located in the east of the community of Weilerswist, roughly halfway between the neighboring villages of Weilerswist and Heimerzheim . The Swist, which gives the municipality its name, runs through the village . Metternich is connected to the road network via the federal motorway 61 , Landstrasse 163 and Kreisstrasse 33 .
history
Metternich was first mentioned in a document in 1303. In 1322, the Archbishop of Cologne, Heinrich von Virneburg, became sovereign of the place.
The settlement took place much earlier. At the intersection of Meckenheimer Strasse and Bergstrasse, the remains of a Roman street settlement were found at the end of the 19th century. Traces of Roman buildings have been discovered in twelve places within the Metternich district. In the vicinity of the Hovener Hof, for example, which lies outside the village on the Swist and is now home to a riding facility with attached horse therapy, the remains of a "Villa Rustica" came to light in 1853.
When a new administration was created between 1798 and 1800, under French rule, Metternich belonged to the Mairie Weilerswist in the canton of Lechenich .
In 1969 Metternich was incorporated into Weilerswist.
coat of arms
The cross indicates that the place belonged to the old Electorate of Cologne. The lower part reminds of the two noble families residing in Metternich, who bore the name Metternich, but were not related to each other. If those with the lion coat of arms are a branch line of the von Alfter family , those with the three mussels, whose most important descendant was the Austrian State Chancellor Klemens von Metternich , came from the von Hemberg-Hemmerich family.
Castles
There were two castles in Metternich. Both houses were originally inhabited by the Romans, but have only been documented since the Middle Ages. They are the headquarters of the von Metternich families . Between the two houses, whose courtyard areas are adjacent, the Swist runs in an east-west direction and the Roman road from Trier to the Rhine near Wesseling in a south-north direction .
Metternich moated castle
The moated castle Metternich (Schloss Merle) was built in the 13th century at the latest. In 1316 a family was first mentioned that bore the name Metternich and had the lion as its coat of arms.
The castle was fiefdom from the Archbishop of Cologne, was put on record in 1348 when an inheritance was divided between four brothers and remained in this family until 1692. The last baron von und zu Metternich resident there sold the castle and the rule to the electoral Cologne privy councilor and state secretary Franz Wilhelm von Schönheim in 1692. After the death of the last Schönheim von Metternich, Canon Johann Arnold von Schönheim , his cousins inherited the property, the art-loving Cologne auxiliary bishop and diocese administrator Clemens August von Merle and his brother Josef Clemens von Merle . The landscape park around the castle goes back to the latter in 1802 (court gardener Josef Clemens Wehye ). The later royal court gardener Lenné received his first training here, the landscape park is still preserved at the castle, but has mostly turned into forest on the Villehang. Via the important Rhenish-French lawyer Heinrich Gottfried Wilhelm Daniels , the translator of the Civil Code into German and later the first President of the Cologne Appellhof , who bought the estate from the Cologne noble family von und zum Pütz in 1811, the manor was sold after his death the major a. D. Karl Friedrich von Müller and his wife Helene born. Krupp from Essen, from whose son Franz Freiherr von Schorlemer- Overhagen bought it in 1879 , he rebuilt the attic and the manor. He sold Metternich in 1895 to the royal chamberlain Edmund Freiherr Spies von Büllesheim , whose family still lives in the castle to this day. While the manor house of Metternich Castle was thoroughly renovated after very severe war damage and the beginning of decay, nothing of the original bailey has been preserved. Today's four-wing manor was completely rebuilt around 1885, only the large sandstone gate was taken from the previous buildings. Nothing has been preserved from the furnishings and the collection of paintings of Bishop Merle, only a plan of the hanging. Most of the moats have been leveled, but the manor house is still surrounded by a large pond that keeps the post gratings under the foundations under water. In the west and south, the castle is still protected by three water hazards, including the Swist. At the beginning of the 19th century, the articles of association of the Friedrich Krupp company in Essen were signed at Metternich Castle .
House Velbrück
In the center of the village there are still remains of the Velbrück castle complex . The family resident there, who also called themselves von Metternich and showed three shells in their coat of arms, owned the water-fenced courtyard east of the intersection of the Roman road (Bergstraße) of today's Meckenheimer Straße around 1325. It was called Ottohof after the first name of his future masters in three generations , then, after the expansion to a two-part moated castle and the marriage (1545) of the heir's daughter to Gerhard von Velbrüggen, Haus Velbrück . It was the ancestral seat of the noble family that was to make the name Metternich known throughout Europe. After the Velbrücks, whose family also included the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Charles de Velbrück, the property came through inheritance or sale to the von Wolff-Metternich, von Francken-Sierstorpff, Velten and Mitweg families to the Halbach family, who for Family association that belongs to "Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach". Today the von Barton family, called von Stedman, an old Scottish noble family, resides here. A well-known representative of the family is Andreas von Stedman , who founded the mail order bookstore “Velbrück Bücher und Medien” in 1994 and 1999 and the renowned Velbrück Wissenschaft publishing house , which is located in the courtyard.
Metternich parish church
The church in Metternich is consecrated as parish patrons to John the Baptist and Maternus , the first bishop of Cologne . It is still the seat of the parish within the Archdiocese of Cologne today .
Even in the Roman period a predecessor seems to have been at the same location, possibly a place of worship of the Gallo-Roman -germanischen mother goddesses Matronae ( matrons ). Matron consecration stones and Roman bricks were used in the church tower , as it turned out during the extension in 1953. The cult stones found at that time and the gold treasure are in the Roman-Germanic Museum of the city of Cologne . The place of worship may have been Christianized in the 4th century ; today's church stands on its place. The name of the Swist flowing through the village , which could have come from Schwesternbach , probably also points to the matron cult . The three holy sisters (Matronae) were adopted early by the Christian Church as Fides, Spes and Caritas .
The first written mention of the church can be found in 1303 in the Liber valoris , a list of properties of the Archbishops of Cologne. In 1630 the church was burned down during the Thirty Years War . It was not until 1653 that the community, impoverished by the war, was able to begin its reconstruction; the current form of the church goes back to it. The wars of the 19th and 20th centuries had less of an impact on the church than the lowering of the groundwater level due to lignite mining . Numerous cracks in the masonry and the threat of collapse made the listed church urgently in need of renovation.
From 2007 to 2009 the annexes from the 20th century were dismantled and the old building was completely renovated. During excavations in 2007, three Merovingian nobles from the 7th to 9th centuries were found in the nave , including their weapons. Inside the church, a Gothic monstrance from the 15th century, an image of the Descent from the Cross ( ascribed to the school of Peter Paul Rubens ) and four portraits of the evangelists from the 17th century are worth mentioning . The not insignificant Maternus - reliquary seems to have been around 1970 lost.
An altar plate from the 14th century and the baptismal font were found during excavations during the extension in 1953. Vault keystones show the coat of arms of the lords of Metternich Alfter, franc Siersdorpff and the Archbishop of Cologne. In the church tower there are three bells that are used to “celebrate” on high feast days, especially on the St. John's Festival on June 24th. The middle of the bells is consecrated to St. Martin with the following inscription : "My name is Marti-nus, I call to worship, I will drive away all storms, 1528".
After the two-year renovation was completed, the church was opened during the first mass on Saturday, December 19, 2009 by the then Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne, Dr. Heiner Koch , today's Archbishop of Berlin, consecrated again.
regional customs
Auction of the "village beauties" Since 1921, the annual general meeting of the bachelor club has been held on Easter Sunday, followed by auctioning of the village beauties in the club's premises. After the annual and cash reports have been read out and the old board of the association has been relieved, the new board is elected. This is followed by the auction of the village beauties. All marriageable girls in the town are identified in advance of the meeting and are deemed to be auctioned off. This custom is by no means to be understood as masculine behavior or even as important. May Queen becomes the girl who brings the highest price. The announcement is made by serenading in front of the Holden house.
May Night Night May 1 was reserved for bachelors in previous periods, with music and the thick Trumm it went into the forest to cut down around the maypole. Nowadays, the felling and loading of the trees sometimes takes a certain amount of time, because not only the high weight of the trees and the necessary breaks for strengthening drag the whole thing on, but also the search for the right path. The task of the bachelors is to set up a village maypole, they are anxious to assert their “territory” and their “claim to the chosen one” against others. To avoid confrontations, a “road toll” is required or paid. At dawn the two trees of the May Queen are set up, where one is usually expected with coffee and sandwiches. This is followed by the traditional football game on the sports field, which is first mentioned in 1972 in the chronicle.
May and small fair
Until 1983, the Maifest (foundation festival) and the small fair (St. John the Baptist) were two independent festivals. The May Festival used to be limited to Sunday. It began with the waking of the drum body at six o'clock. After going to church together, panning in front of the church and laying the wreath at the memorial, the morning pint in the hall of the restaurant "Zum Treppchen" followed. The bachelors have always been the bearers of the canopy, the flags and, until recently, the accompanying music. This was followed by a morning pint, then a pageant and a ball. In 1984 it was decided to put the May festival and the small fair on one date. What is known today as the “bachelor party” begins on Fridays with a disco with different themes every year. The highlight of the bachelor party is the coronation ball on Saturdays at which the May couple is proclaimed. Sunday runs in the usual way: church attendance, St. John's procession, wreath-laying, morning pint, reception of the foreign associations, festive pick-up of the May couple, pageant through the village, friendship pans, awarding of prizes and dancing. On Sunday afternoons, the bachelors from the different villages dominate in a special way, in good cooperation.
Large fair
The fair in honor of the second parish priest “St. Maternus ”(September 11th) used to be more extensive than it is today. On Saturdays, two birches were first placed in front of the club's premises. In the evening the fair was "brought out" with a torchlight procession through the town. On Sundays there was going to church, panning, morning pint, pageant and dancing. On Mondays the begging train, also known as "Köttzoch", went through the town. The good heart of the villagers is appealed to by waving a bell. In the past, as now, the begging train is always fun; Not only the real pampering of the residents with drinks of all kinds, but also social gatherings and jokes with the "poor Paies" contribute to this. In the course of time, the large fair became smaller and smaller due to an oversupply of events. The last few years have only been celebrated on the village square under the name "Maternus Fair". But besides the tradition of the begging train, other traditions are maintained: B. the Hahneköppen and the burning of the "Paies" on the fair Wednesday. The fair ends with eating chicken, drinking boots and a few cozy hours.
Swiveling the hood
The bell is the visible symbol of the bachelor clubs and is guarded by them like an "apple of the eye". The origin of the panning of the Faehndel, as it is cultivated today in the Rhineland, can be traced back to the 14th and 15th centuries. It was initially a military custom and was used to transmit messages and as a tactical directional and collective sign. This custom was later adopted by the rifle brotherhoods and craft guilds. After the early bachelor clubs were founded, panning was also widespread among them. Today's panning tradition is divided into friendship or show panning and prize or championship panning.
traffic
- Public transport: VRS bus line 806 (Heimerzheim-Euskirchen Bf) and line 986 (Heimerzheim-Weilerswist Bf)
- The federal motorway 61 leads past the village with junctions in Swisttal-Heimerzheim and Weilerswist
A railway line, the so-called "Ruhr-Mosel route", also known as the "Strategic Railway" , was dismantled in the course of the Treaty of Versailles before its completion. It crossed the Cologne – Trier route in Weilerswist and was supposed to lead to and into the Ahr the local railway line join. A train station was planned in Weilerswist-Metternich, near “Am Blaue Stein”. The route in the municipality almost completely corresponds to today's federal motorway 61 .
Others
- There is a three-oak elementary school and the Kindergarten Villa Sonnenhügel in the village .
- The Waldkobolde Weilerswist eV has been running a forest kindergarten in Metternich since August 2013.
Club life
- SV Metternich 1945 eV with the departments soccer, old men, women's soccer, gymnastics group
- Mini-Husaren Metternich, guard dance for children, juniors and dance group over 30s, founded in 1988
- Horticultural and Beautification Association Metternich eV founded in 1902
- Weilerswist volunteer fire brigade, Metternich extinguishing group founded in 1906
- Bachelor club "Eintracht" Metternich eV founded in 1880
- Carnival society Blau-Weiß Metternich 1956
- Men's choir "Eintracht" Metternich 1949 eV
- Riding and Driving Club Metternich eV founded in 1981
- Fanfaren Corps Blau-Weiß Metternich eV founded in 1962, has since been dissolved
- Church choir St. Cäcilia Metternich founded in 1995
- Angelsportverein (ASV) Weilerswist-Metternich eV founded in 1964
literature
- Hans W. Rhiem (Ed.): 1303–2003: 700 years of Metternich; From the beginnings till now. Weilerswist 2003, ISBN 3-935221-25-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 88 .
- ↑ Metternich at Dunker Collection (with picture) ( 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. (PDF; 221 kB)
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