Chronicle of the city of Düren / 1801–1825
This list is a partial list of the chronicle of the city of Düren . It lists dated events in Düren in the first quarter of the 19th century .
1801
Introduction of the French weights and measures
1802
Dissolution of the Düren monasteries of the Franciscans, Capuchins and Annunties by the French
1805
Düren has 4,562 inhabitants
1807
Foundation of the first cloth factory (Schoeller and Sons) on the market
1808
JULY 6: The Clemens relics are from the former electoral chapel at Bonn in the Anna church brought
1809
March 14: First employment of a police commissioner in Düren
1810
- The Schoeller & Söhne cloth factory moves to the current Kaufhof area
- French is introduced as a subject in elementary education
- Establishment of a cadastre
1811
- Thomas Josef Heimbach founds a felt cloth factory
- The existing fire brigade will be rearranged according to the French model
1812
- There were 17 paper, 11 cloth and blanket factories, 1 iron hammer mill, 2 rolling mills and 2 iron foundries in the Düren area
- The granary becomes a French military hospital
1814
- The industrialist Rudolf Schenkel from Düren purchases the Jesuit college
- January 13th: Last French administrative measure in Düren
- 14.-15. January: Cossacks in Düren
- January 20: Prussians move into Düren under Major von Lützow
1815
- 11 January: Eight citizens of Düren save the Anna church tower, which was ignited by lightning (6th fire)
- April 20th: Mayor wing announces on April 5th the Complete incorporation of the Rhineland into the Prussian state
1816
May 1st: The first district administrator in Düren , Gerhard Freiherr von Lommessem (1780–1824), takes office.
1817
The old Kölntor in Kölnstrasse is being torn down. In the same year a new Kölntor with an apartment is built
1818
- July 22nd: Freiherr von Lommessem sets the duration of the Annakirmes to eight days
- The population of the city is 4,978
- August 1: Franz Knoll in Düren publishes the first Düren newspaper as a 'Landrathliches Korrespondenzblatt', initially irregularly
1819
- First public street lighting with 'oil lamps in lanterns' (Rüböllampen)
- March 27th: The 'Landräthliche Korrespondenzblatt' appears regularly as a weekly paper
- The introduction of the Prussian weights and measures provided for in the law of May 16, 1816 is enforced
1820
- The first houses are built in front of the ramparts
- NOVEMBER 27: The city of Düren acquires the Capuchin monastery and build it from 1824 to 1826 for the school to
1821
The city's own street lighting, which was built in 1819, is being canceled because of the high costs
1822
- The wooden and upper gates are demolished
- The driver Weyermann shall at its own cost, the old mother of God shed restores
- March 4th: Foundation of a stock corporation to build a road from Düren to Eschweiler
1823
- In Düren there are 7 cloth, 7 paper, 1 thimble, 2 blanket and 1 flannel factory as well as 2 iron works and 2 soap factories
- Construction of a windmill (hence the street 'An der Windmühle'), burnt down in 1844 and not rebuilt
- 1,800 workers are employed in the cloth and iron works in Düren.
1824
- The Philipptor is broken off
- In the granary a cloth factory is put into operation
- Start of the conversion of the former Capuchin monastery into a grammar school, completion in 1826
1825
- The street lighting, which was built in 1819 and decommissioned in 1821, is operated again in the winter months due to public safety. The care is transferred to the tenants.
- Opening of the Protestant cemetery in Kölnstr. (area donated by Rudolf Schenkel) and closure of the cemetery in Paradiesstr.
- July 21: District Administrator August Freiherr von Ripperda takes office
- First steam engine in the area
literature
- Yearbook of the Düren district
- Düren history sheets, published by the Düren history association
- Documents from the Düren City and District Archives (PDF; 191 kB)
- Rölsdorfer history (s), published by the Schützenbruderschaft Constantia 1877 e. V., 2002, ISBN 3927312509