Chronicle of the city of Düren / 1851–1875
This list is a partial list of the chronicle of the city of Düren . It lists events dated from 1851 to 1875 in Düren .
1851
- Foundation of the "Rölsdorfer Archery Society"
- 1.3 .: Peter Josef Gohr buys an agriculturally used building (Bardenbeg) in Rölsdorf and converts it into a restaurant
- 15.3 .: Connection of the Cologne-Düren-Aachen telegraph line with the Belgian lines
- July 26th – August 3rd: 350th anniversary of Düren's Annafest
- September: The 'Anzeiger für den Kreis Düren' appears as the second Düren newspaper
1852
- Foundation of the flax spinning mill Schoeller, Bücklers & Co
- The construction of the premium roads Düren - Nideggen and Düren - Jülich begins (completed in 1855)
- Foundation of the 'Hospizium des Gesellenverein' by Adolph Kolping in Düren
- Arnold Sturm set up a stagecoach station (later: Ratskeller) in the corner house at Weierstrasse / Marktplatz opposite the town hall. It later became the Sturmsbrennerei , which then moved to the "Sturmsberg" (Frankenstrasse)
- 15.3 .: Dissolution of the 'Stadt Dürener Sparkasse' (the pawn shop existed until 1867)
- November 16: First two-horse personal mail Düren - Monschau
1853
- New building of the reformed rectory at the cattle market
- 23.4 .: The company Heinrich August Schoeller & Söhne establishes its own gas preparation plant between the Rur and the Krauthausener Felde
1854
- The Düren - Cologne bus line is set up
- 1.4 .: Establishment of a daily two-seater personal post Düren - Nideggen
- 1.7 .: The Gebrüder Schoeller carpet factory is founded
1855
- Establishment of a 'workers pension fund' in Düren
- There are three wool factories in Düren that produce the basic material for English cloth.
- Start of construction on the Marienkapelle on the corner of Monschauer Str. / Lendersdorfer Str. , Called "Cohnens Kapellchen", completed in 1860
- July 15: First three-horse, twelve-seater personal mail Düren - Cologne
- 1.12 .: Opening of the first orphanage in the Spülgasse, now Waisenhausstraße . It is looked after by three sisters of the Trier Borromean Sisters .
- 3.12 .: The census showed 8,500 inhabitants
1856
- May 26th: The 'Dürener Aktiengesellschaft für Gaslighting' is founded and receives the right to illuminate the streets and squares with coal gas for 25 years
- In the Philippstr. 19 a telegraph station is opened
- Opening of the Trienes delicatessen in Oberstr.
1857
- The Düren - Aldenhoven premium road is built
- 7.5 .: From the 'Düren Turnverein' a special 'Turnerbrandcorps' is formed on a voluntary basis (existed until the end of the 1860s)
- July 6th: The 'Düren Mining School', which was supposed to exist for 10 years, began provisionally with lessons in the Gasthof 'Pfälzer Hof' and later moved to the Düren Provincial Facility for the Blind
- 11.10 .: Inauguration of the Marian column on the market square
- The PJ Wolff & Sons machine factory is built next to the Peschschule
1858
- Agencies of the Royal Bank, later the Prussian Bank and the German Reichsbank, are set up in Düren
- 1.1 .: Düren has 8,713 inhabitants in 867 houses, there are 30 farms in the urban area
- 17.4 .: The operating permit for the paper mill 'Walzmühle' (Reflex) is granted
- 1.8 .: Since this day, a second daily mail has been going to Schleiden
- 1.9 .: The first public gas station opens with an 8 km pipe network
1859
- 1.7 .: The new premium roads Düren - Erp and Düren - Lechenich are opened to traffic
- July 12th: Special contract with some companies in Düren for the purchase of gas
1860
Düren receives the first three mailboxes
1861
21.8. – 4.9 .: Brigade and division maneuvers near Düren
1862
- The Elisabeth Hospital is closed
- January 16: The first municipal hospital is built on the site of the former Franciscan monastery 'Bethanien'
- 6.3 .: The Minister of Commerce decides on the construction of the Düren - Kall railway line
- July 13th and 20th: Association of the Bürgererschützenverein, founded in 1835, with the Ewaldus Guild
- 28.10 .: Dean Vaßen inaugurates the new monastery and the new church of the Cellitinnen in Pletzergasse . It was destroyed on November 16, 1944 and never rebuilt.
- December 5: The Elisabeth Institute for the Blind is taken over into the care of the province
1863
- May: Opening of the 'Schenkel-Schoellerchen Pensions Institution', today 'Schenkel-Schoeller-Stift'
- 23.8 .: Inauguration of the shooting range in Großtivoli, today the city park
1864
- Düren has 10,245 inhabitants in over 2,000 households
- June 21: Opening of the municipal Maria-Hilf-Hospital in the former Franciscan monastery with 40 beds (construction started in 1862)
- Opening of the Düren freight yard in the 'Wirtelfeld'
- Mohrenstr. (from December 6, 1888 Zehnthofstrasse ) becomes today's Schenkelstrasse in a northerly direction. carried out
- 1.10 .: Takeover of the gas works by the city
- October 6th: Opening of the Düren - Euskirchen railway line
1864-1865
The Ursulines build a monastery church and a monastery
1865
- 13.3 .: The later local poet Josef Schregel is born in Jülich , Herrenstr. 16, born. In 1873 he came to Düren.
- October 17: The Ursulines start teaching in the new house in Kölnstr. (later the area of St. Peter Julian ). They also move into their new monastery. It costs 360,000 marks.
- 13.10 .: Establishment of a loan office for the Düren district
- 23.11 .: The Ursuline monastery church in Kölnstr. will the St. Consecrated to Joseph
1866
- 20.3 .: The 'Düren Mining School' is closed due to the suspension of the donations
- October 19: The city council decides to lift the pawn shop
- October 31: St. Nikolaus in Rölsdorf is elevated to a parish ; previously Rölsdorf belonged as a chapel community to the parish of St. Michael , Lendersdorf
1867
October 4: Up to this day 72 people in Düren had developed cholera , 45 of whom died
1868
- The first gasometer is built
- Demolition of the Ursuline Church
- Completion of a new slaughterhouse
- The hotel ' Jägerhof ' in Rölsdorf is built
- The Kornhaus housed the Catholic secondary school until 1888
- April 19: The composer, conductor and general manager Max von Schillings is born in Gut Weyerhof in Gürzenich (brother of the Africa researcher Carl Georg Schillings ). He died on July 24, 1933 in Berlin .
- July 22nd: The city council decides to put up street naming signs
- 11/17: Small earthquake
1869
- The previous slaughterhouse on Holzstr. is a gymnasium used
- A beautification association is founded in Düren
- The stairs street is in Schenkelstr. renamed
- The previous wooden superstructure of the Rur Bridge will be replaced by a vaulted structure
- The number of gas lanterns is increased from 90 to 150
- 23.6 .: Foundation of the sugar factory 'Schoeller, Peill & Brockhoff'
- 1.9 .: Opening of the Düren – Neuss railway line
- November 15: Founding of the cooperative bank 'Dürener Volksbank'
1870
- The town hall receives a flight of stairs
- The first four stoves with gas heating will be installed in private households
- Düren has 11,700 inhabitants
- Renumbering of the houses and first installation of street naming signs (decided by the city council in 1868) by 1871
- Start of construction of the first parish church St. Nikolaus in Rölsdorf in Monschauer Str. (Formerly Oberstr.). Previously the location of the Nikolauskapelle, now the location of the youth home, inaugurated in 1871
- 3.1 .: The 'Dürener Volksbank' starts its work in a house on the Altenteich
- November 5 - November 11: Around 80,000 French prisoners of war drive through Düren
1871
- Rölsdorf has 98 residential buildings with 719 residents
- January 18: Foundation of the " German Empire "
- 1.2 .: Founding of the city library (city library) at the suggestion of Mayor Hubert Jakob Werners
- 278 people are affected by a smallpox epidemic , 55 people die
- 1.9 .: Hoesch moves to Dortmund and builds the world plant ' Hoesch AG ' there
- October: A people's kitchen is set up in the municipal hospital
- November 16: The cloth factory Johann Peter Schoeller on the cattle market (today Kaiserplatz ) is completely destroyed in a fire
- 1.12 .: In the census, 1,195 houses with 12,862 inhabitants are determined
- December 6th: Inauguration of the first St. Nikolaus parish church in Rölsdorf, now Monschauer Str. 175 (demolished March 2nd, 1958)
1872
- The 'Dürener Bank' moves from the Altenteich to the corner of Zehnthofstr./Schenkelstr. around
- Foundation of the 'Düren non-profit building company'
- May 24th: Founding meeting of the 1st fire brigade in Düren; the existing urban Fire Corps is to volunteer firefighters reshuffled
- May 24th: Inauguration of the synagogue in Schützenstrasse. 20th
- 1.7 .: Founding of the war club
- 1.10 .: First edition ' Dürener Zeitung '
1873
- The post office moves into its new office building in the Eisenbahnstr. 36, later Kolpinghaus , today 'Dürens Post Hotel'
- After 223 years, the Elisabeth monastery is closed.
- The Holy Spirit House is being demolished.
- In the Philippstr. an old people's home is built, which the Elizabethan women take over
- July 21: Aachen Elisabeth's women take over the Maria-Hilf-Hospital from the city
- 1.10 .: Inauguration of the Düren - Jülich - Odenkirchen railway line
- October 27th: The new nave of the Distelrath Chapel is inaugurated
- November: The carpet factory Gebrüder Schoeller & Co. is commercially separated from the cloth factory and entered in the Düren commercial register. The anchor became the trademark.
1874
- February: The Düren industrialists donate a steam syringe for the fire brigade to the city
- Construction of a reformed parsonage west of the Resurrection Church in Schenkelstrasse. No. 3, demolished in 1979 due to road widening
- 470 people contract smallpox, 145 of whom die
- Inauguration of the Düren main station ; the stop was previously in the facilities of the current Langemarckstrasse.
- 1.11 .: The cemetery in Monschauer Str. (Now the old cemetery) is consecrated. Before that, the cemetery was next to the old Nikolauskapelle
1875
- The District Court Düren attracts in the former Jesuit College Jesuitengasse a
- Extension of the municipal cemetery in Kölnstr.
- A new factory for coal gas is built in Eisenbahnstrasse, now Josef-Schregel-Str. , inaugurated
- The first practice and climbing house for the fire brigade is being built at Großtivoli, now the city park
- 1.1 .: The first edition of the 'Roer-Zeitung' appears
- July 22nd: Commissioning of the new gas factory at Eisenbahnstr.
- 1.12 .: In the census, 14,488 people with 1,424 houses are determined
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