Chronicle of the city of Düren / 1401–1500

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This list is a partial list of the chronicle of the city of Düren . It lists dated events of the 15th century in Düren .

1402

August 3: Duke Rainald von Jülich changes the city constitution

1423

June: The Duchy of Jülich falls by inheritance to Duke Adolf von Berg

1436

September 3: The courtyard of the Kreuzbrüder in Schellengasse, a cul-de-sac (part of today's Wilhelmstrasse between Schenkelstrasse and Kaiserplatz ) is mentioned for the first time as the Kreuzbrüderhof or Schwarzenbroicher house

1438

'State rafting privilege': The city is allowed to use the Rur for rafting wood

1457

April 25th: A new Düren town order (association letter) is established

1459

The Franciscans settled in Düren and built the “ Bethanien Monastery ” (still today street “ In Bethanien ” near Marienkirche).

1470

June 29th: Franciscan church "Bethanien" completed, later Marienkirche

1471

Last known coinage from Düren

1473

June 5: Duke Gerhard von Jülich pledges the knight Godart von dem Bongart for 4,200 Upper  Rhenish Gulden City and Office of Düren (redeemed on July 5, 1487)

1474

Burgau Castle , previously owned by the von Aue family, is inherited by the von Elmt family, who will keep the castle until 1890

1481

The chapter house of the Franciscan Church is inaugurated

1484

The Franciscan hospital is inaugurated

1490

Significant expansion of the city fortifications of Düren

1491

The chapel of the Franciscan hospital is inaugurated

1493

The three-storey powder tower will be erected where the Leopold Hoesch Museum is today (demolished in 1900)

FEBRUARY 18:. Duke Wilhelm IV of Jülich celebrates with Rhenish knights Rose Monday in Düren

1495

First documentary mention of the Marienkapelle ( Old Mother God’s House ) in Zülpicher Str. (Formerly the gallows site of the city of Düren)

1496

A saint's house is being built on the site of the old Mother of God House

1498

Butcher's order

1500

Construction of the Gewandhaus on the corner of Altenteich / Bongard

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