Cond

Cond District town of Cochem Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 44 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 7 ″  E
Height :	86 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	1533  (June 30, 2017)
Incorporation :	October 1, 1932
Postal code :	56812
Area code :	02671
Location of Cond in Rhineland-Palatinate
Cond, district of Cochem, on the Moselle (2011)

Cond is the oldest of the four districts of the district town of Cochem in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Cochem-Zell .

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : The coat of arms of the Cond village community, divided in white and blue, outlined in black. It depicts the red-armored black wolf defeated by St. Remaclus, who carries the gray stones for the monastery in a golden basket. The golden crosier indicates the episcopal dignity of St. Remaclus. Officially, the coat of arms of the city of Cochem applies to Cond

history

Neolithic

The Cond district, located to the right of Cochem in the Cochemer Krampen, was populated by people early on. This is indicated by the discovery of a stone ax from the 3rd millennium BC. BC (late Neolithic / early Bronze Age ).

Celts and Romans

Around 50 BC, the Romans also came to the Moselle area when they conquered Gaul. The Iron Age population of the Celts ( Gauls ) from the Treveri tribe mixed with the Roman population, creating a mixed Gallo-Roman culture . The Latin language of the Romans, who also brought with them the viticulture that was characteristic of many Moselle towns such as Cond, was combined with the Celtic, and this is how the Moselle Romanic language developed . The Moselaner were called Galloromanen (Moselle Romanes) at that time . Condedunum , the old place name for Cond, was first mentioned in a document in 857. Celtic place names often ended with -dunum ("fortified place"). The Romans adopted the term from the Celts. The roof tiles found in the old village center as well as the discovery of a "Villa-Rustica" in the Conder Mark are proof of Roman settlement in Cond.

Francs

In the 5th century AD, the Romans had already withdrawn, the Franks ( Germanic tribes ) came to the Moselle on their successful campaigns of conquest. Their early presence in Cond was proven by two Franconian graves . They not only took over the viticulture of the local population, but also their Roman Christianity, and the two languages ​​finally combined to form Moselle Franconian, which is still spoken today . The knight Willefried and his nephew Leodin, who came from the Franconian nobility, are the first Conder known by name to give their church to the Stablo Abbey in 857 . It was not until June 24th, 1130 that Conder names were used again during the re-establishment of the Ebernach monastery . A Heinrich and an Engelbert are named as witnesses (Henricus et Ingelbertus de Kondena) .

For the first half of the 14th century one finds the words pueri de konde , which translates as boy, boy or servant, on a coat of arms of the Cochem castle men in the register of the Trier Elector . In 1331 a Gerhard armiger from Cond is still documented ; Translated from Latin it means "armed" or "armed man". It is not certain whether he also worked as a Burgmann.

Thirty and Eighty Years War

From 1563 onwards, at the instigation of the Kurtrierische administration for the district of Cochem, the first population censuses were carried out in Cond, determining the number of hearths and multiplying them by a factor of five. This led to the people living in Cond. In 1563 there were 350 people, 1623 280 people and at the last count in 1654 125 people were counted. The first decline is attributed to the Eighty Years War between Spain and the Netherlands (1568–1648), as the troops of these two countries had traveled through the Moselle valley and the Eifel, spreading fear and terror. Another sharp decline is attributed to the effects of the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), the poorer inhabitants were particularly affected.

War of Succession

In October 1688, French troops visited Cochem in the course of the War of the Palatinate Succession (1688–1697) in order to take the town and castle. In May 1689, the soldiers of Louis XIV blew up the castle, but were once again driven out of the city for a short time. On August 26, 1689, the French soldiers returned, looted the town, set fire to the houses of the residents and massacred men, women and children. The town clerk Johann Anton Schwang reported: “The whole town was finally looted and plundered and completely burned down like Sodom and Gomorrah ... and that on the feast of Mary's birth on September 8th the looters would have come to Condt for the rest of the property and the bell of the To take the settlement with them ... They took off with the Condter's boats in order to cause even greater damage ”. The consequences were a further decline in the population, which could only be compensated for years later by the arrival of new families to Cond. In 1720 there lived 165 in Cond, in 1778 230 and in 1808 there were again 257 inhabitants.

French period (1794-1814)

From 1789, as a result of the French Revolution , many aristocrats moved across the border into the neighboring German electorate of Trier . An estimated 5,000 of the noble emigrants moved to Koblenz alone . In 1792 the family of King Louis XVI was taken. caught on the run and brought her back to Paris . Austria and Prussia saw themselves forced to act, which angered the Parisian masses so much - heated up by the mood of the radicalized Jacobins - that France first declared war on Austria and a short time later on Prussia. In the same year, Prussian coalition troops (along the Moselle) and Austrians (via Dutch possessions) advanced into France, but had to retreat after the cannonade of Valmy . After the executions of Queen Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI. (both 1793) and Robespierres in 1794 formed the French. Revolutionary troops and finally marched into Trier on August 9, 1794. On October 17th they reached Cochem, on October 23rd Koblenz, the Moselle became French, and the French period from 1794 to 1814 , which lasted 20 years, began. After Austria was also defeated by French forces in Italy in 1797, it had to be in the Campo Formio peace treaty approve the annexation of the left bank of the Rhine by France.

At first France thought about the formation of a sister republic on the left bank of the Rhine , the Cisrhenan Republic (the republic on this side of the Rhine ) should serve as a buffer state between France and Prussia. However, in the course of the year the advocates of an annexation of the occupied area prevailed, and therefore in 1798 the areas on the left bank of the Rhine were divided into departments - as in France. The newly founded Department de Rhin-et-Moselle (German: Rhein-Mosel-Departement) now included the Eastern Eifel, the Lower Moselle, part of the Middle Rhine from Bingen to Bonn and the eastern Hunsrück. The capital and seat of the prefecture of the department was Koblenz.

The administrative units for Cond were divided as follows from 1804:

• Département de Rhin-et-Moselle (Rhine-Moselle Department)
• Arrondissement de Coblence (Arrondissement Koblenz)
• Mairie Cochem (Mayor of Cochem from 1803, until then Mairie Treis)
• Commune de Cond (Municipality of Cond)
• The residents of Cond were French citizens ( Citoyens ).
• Applicable French Law books:
  • Code civil (civil law)
  • Code de Commerce (commercial law)
  • Code Pénal (criminal law)

The citizens had to pay taxes, the men had to compulsory military service ( levée en masse , but you could send replacements if you found someone for money). Civil marriage was introduced, births and deaths were documented by means of baptism and death registers, and school supervision was entrusted to the state. Many of the Elector's former officials now found work in the French administration, but only after they had sworn an oath on the constitution of the republic. However, they were probably not trusted at all levels, both the auditor Lebon and the bailiff and municipality taker Despleix were sent to Cochem on instructions from France. The fact that Conder had also served “with the flag” is proven by the award that Johannes Hieronimi from Cond (1784–1861) received for his services (he was injured in the arm in 1809 fighting in Saragossa ) years later. More than 50 years later, Napoleon III awarded him . the Saint Helena medal for his services under Napoleon I.

After a consular resolution by Emperor Napoleon I, all church orders were dissolved during the secularization in 1802 , including the Archdiocese of Trier ; their assets were confiscated and auctioned off in the following years. However, it was the case that those who were already doing well financially did so again this time. France brought the idea of ​​freedom, but not the poorer population equal opportunities, capitalism and displacement instead of social advancement. From then on, the Cond parish belonged to the Diocese of Aachen , but only stayed that way for a short time, as it was to return to the Diocese of Trier as early as 1821.

While only Moselle Franconian was spoken in the past, the French language slowly seeped into the vocabulary of the “Moselaner”: most of them are still familiar with terms such as gendarme , sidewalk (sidewalk) or wallet ( wallet ). Examples of mixing French. Words with Moselle-Franconian dialect are terms like, Pont (from pont volant , literally: flying bridge (for carriage ferry)), from Lameng (from the wrist), the Poart ( la porte , the door), sich eschoffeere ( s'échauffer , get upset) or disbedeere ( disputer , discuss).

In 1812 Napoleon lost his Russian campaign, Prussians and Austrians joined the Russians and thus won during the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. The French were quickly pushed back across the Rhine, and so the Prussians were able to invade Cochem again in the spring of 1814. The successful victorious powers divided the Moselle, everything on the left came under Prussian civil administration, and everything to the right of the Moselle was controlled by Austrians and Bavaria. The term Estreijer (for the Conder Austrians) comes from this time and can probably be understood as local teasing. At that time, Cond was assigned to the Treis office. After the Congress of Vienna ended in 1815, the Rhineland was added to the Kingdom of Prussia .

German Confederation (1815–1866)

In order to give order to the new peace in Europe, the German Confederation was established at the Congress of Vienna . This confederation of states consisted of sovereign princes and free cities of Germany, including the Emperor of Austria , as well as the kings of Prussia , Denmark and the Netherlands . Most of the former Electorate of Trier now belonged to Prussia. In 1822 the Moselle, the Eifel and most of the Hunsrück were incorporated into the newly created Prussian Rhine Province , and Koblenz became the seat of the Upper President and the provincial government.

The church expropriation carried out by France was left as it was, as was the new legal system, civil and commercial law , and the civil code became the basis for the civil code . The old administrative levels disappeared, the district became the new administrative center, and the district administrator assumed its chairmanship as a representative of state authority. Cond was first assigned to the mayor's office in Treis, then in 1860 it became part of Cochem-Land, where it remained until it was incorporated into Cochem in 1932.

If the German economic area was still strongly fragmented at the beginning of the German Confederation, Prussia was not yet a contiguous national territory, and economic conditions were still inconsistent, the foundation of the German Customs Union was intended to create the basis for an economic internal market. Up until then there were 38 customs and toll lines in Germany as well as around 1,800 customs borders; the Customs Union Treaty came into force on Jan. 1, 1834 and lifted these economic barriers.

This fact, and the peace phase that lasted for several decades, brought about an economic upswing in the Moselle region. For the residents of Cond, who have traditionally always been farming and viticulture, this meant moderate prosperity. Agricultural yields were used for self-sufficiency or to pay taxes, while the profits from viticulture were used for the necessary equipment or to build up reserves. Bad harvests or poor quality of the wine sometimes caused great difficulties for the winemakers. Weather-related crop failures in the years 1846/1847 (preceded by the potato rot, which had been rampant since 1844 ) led to a dramatic deterioration in the nutritional situation of the population. The resulting anger of the people soon erupted in protest actions such as the Berlin Potato Uprising and thus paved the way for the German Revolution of 1848/1849 . In Cochem, Mayor Joseph Franz Keiffenheim had a public soup kitchen set up in 1846 to alleviate the greatest misery, and many emigrated to America. Among the first Conders to leave were the Peter Graefen (1844), Johann Peter Kölsch (1846), Agnes Bootz (1847) and Carl Joseph Friedrichs family who followed in 1850. It is known that not all of them stayed there; some were driven back to the Moselle by the connection to their homeland or homesickness for years.

Louis Alois Goebel (1831–1907), who was also born in Cond, stayed in America, went via New York to Marietta (Ohio) , where he became head of a chair manufacture. There he married Maria Schilling (1838-1894), a daughter of Prussian immigrants, and had 11 children with her. In 1865 Louis (I gave himself the name on arrival) left the first company and together with Martin Schmidt from Rennerod founded a furniture store called No.206, Front Street , which soon became the first address for “exquisite furniture”. In honor of the place where he used to live, the square is still called Goebel Place . Records by the mayor of Treis at the time show that between 1845 and 1854, a total of 48 residents of Conds received a permit to leave the country. With the 445 inhabitants in 1840, this corresponds to an emigration rate of almost 11%, compared to 4% on average for the rest of the Rhine province.

North German Confederation (1866–1871)

After Prussia and its allies had triumphed in the German war against Austria as the leading nation of the German Confederation in 1866 , it was dissolved as a result. The successor (in the non-legal sense) was the North German Confederation (1866–1871). Its territory included all the Prussian-controlled German states north of the Main Line, including the areas annexed by Prussia in the same year (Hanover, Kurhessen, Nassau and Frankfurt). The only Federal Chancellor of the North German Confederation was the Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck . In the campaigns in Austria in June / July 1866, the 6th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 68 of the Prussian army from Koblenz was involved.

In Cochem, the Berlin merchant and later secret councilor Louis Ravené bought the ruins of the Reichsburg Cochem for 300 gold marks on September 26, 1868 , in order to have them rebuilt. Also in 1868, the Cond municipal council started considering widening the footpath to Brauselay , which had existed since 1847, and expanding it as a Moselweg to Valwig , but the financing for this turned out to be more difficult than expected. In 1869, the existing path over the Conder Berg along the Schuweracker Hof to Valwig was carried out at a width of 14 feet by voluntary community members . On January 1, 1870, it was decided to set up a ferry service between Cochem and Cond. Among the dead from the Franco-German War (1870/71) are nine Cochemers, a Sehler and the soldier Joseph Zenz from Cond. The musketeer Peter Völker from Cond took part in the Battle of the Hallue (December 23–24, 1870) and was badly hit in the leg by a rifle shot. Philipp Völker, also from Cond, took part in the Battle of Gravelotte (August 18 1870) and was shot in the thigh by a rifle.

German Empire (1871-1918)

In Cochem, construction work began in July 1874 on the longest double-track tunnel of all Prussian state railways at 4205 m, the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel . Cond, however, remains isolated behind Cochem in terms of traffic connections. In order to alleviate this need, another decision was made in 1873 to build a Moselle path from Cond to Bruttig , which, however, failed again in its implementation, "because the existing footpath would be wide enough to pass it". In 1889 the idea was to build a continuous path from Valwig to Cond, if at the same time a path from Beilstein to Valwig would be built in order to achieve continuity on the right side of the Moselle to Cond. The path was completed in 1893 after the contract work had been transferred to the Cochem businessman Andreas Fellenz.

Waterworks in Cond built in 1911

In 1904 the district administrator recommended a water supply that would work for the whole of Cond, the decision was made in 1905 and the necessary work began. However, it was not until 1909 that suitable sources were found, which were also on private property. The required elevated tank was completed in Obercond in 1911. The use of the new water supply was voluntary, the purchase cost 25 Pfg / m³. The supply of electricity in Cond was already established in 1910 after the contract was awarded to the Baierische E-Werke in Trier.

In 1914 the First World War broke out, the German Empire was converted to a war economy, and Cond - like other communities - had to meet its “supply obligation” for the fighting troops. Even children were used on the home front in 1915 to cultivate the spring fields under exemption from school work. In June 1916 alone Cond had to deliver 200 quintals of potatoes, and from September of the same year children had to collect beechnuts for oil extraction by ministerial decision. With a population of 630 people, 129 men were drafted into service, 22 of them never came back alive. In January 1918, the already difficult situation was made worse by a flood of the Moselle, which flooded the gardens on the banks of the Moselle.

Weimar Republic (1918–1933)

After the end of the First World War, American troops were stationed in Cochem from December 1918 to September 1919, and the ratio of the population to them was described as good. Another flood of the Moselle occurred at Christmas 1919, which was exceeded in January 1920 with a water level of 10.12 meters (the third highest ever measured). A year of drought followed in 1921, shipping came to a standstill and harvests were very poor.

From 1924 onwards, the local council considered building a bridge over the Moselle, which, however, entailed long-term planning tasks.

Ferryman Matthias "Mattes" Bremm from Cochem-Sehl on the Conder ferry bank around 1935 with passengers.

The “non-profit building association e. V. ”was founded in 1926, in Obercond houses were built on Kapellenstrasse, the“ settlement ”, also sometimes called the“ railway settlement ”(many Reichsbahn employees lived there), was built. On January 23, 1927, the new Moselle bridge was inaugurated, which connects Cochem and Cond in terms of traffic. The last ferry, called the "old Pont", had already ceased its service the week before. But since not everyone wanted to part with the ferry, the Sehler ferryman "Mattes" Matthias Bremm was allowed to lease a ferry boat during the summer, which he maintained until 1937. He saved a total of 15 people from drowning, for which he was awarded a Medal of Merit. Due to the new connection to Cond, the construction of the viticulture school on Bergstrasse began in 1928. In 1929 the new tax office was built on Uferstrasse.

By ministerial resolution of July 13, 1932, the incorporation of the communities of Cond and Sehl into the city of Cochem was ordered on October 1, 1932.

German Empire (1933–1945)

On January 30, 1933, the National Socialists came to power with their National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). By means of conformity measures (laws) , ministers, members of parliament and state officials were eliminated, regional and district assemblies as well as local councils were dissolved, the federal structures were abolished, and the Weimar Republic became a dictatorship. The positions that have now become vacant were filled by new NSDAP members at all administrative levels. A few weeks later, the High President of the Prussian Rhine Province, Johannes Fuchs, was also affected by these measures . He spent his involuntary retirement together with his wife Hedwig in Cond at Valwigerstrasse 39.

In preparation for the new ideology of the National Socialists, people in Cond tried early on to introduce schoolchildren to the new way of thinking. During political events, people listened to the radio together, sports festivals were held during the solstice celebrations, and the Führer’s birthday was commemorated during a day's hiking. During this time, all teachers in the Kochem district were sworn in to the Führer and the crosses in the schools had to be taken down.

From September 1935, church flags were no longer allowed to be hung at church events such as the Corpus Christi procession according to the Reich Flag Act, but not everyone adhered to this. The branch of the SS security service in Cochem assumed that the participants in such processions had a positive attitude towards faith, but a negative attitude towards the state and the party, which is why participation was undesirable. In 1937 the construction of the "Moselle Stadium" began on the old Conder Markweg (today Stationstrasse). From 1938 church associations such as the “Childhood Jesu Association”, the “Marienverein” or the Mothers Association were banned.

When the old pastor Bishop died in 1938, Pastor Ziegler, a churchman who was not acceptable to the National Socialists , came to the parish in the same year. If he had previously been expelled from the parish of Langsur - he probably found words against National Socialism that were too clear - he had to report twice to the Secret State Police (GeStaPo) in Koblenz in 1939 . In 1941 he was arrested and taken to the Dachau concentration camp , where he died in 1944 as a result of imprisonment in the camp.

On September 1, 1939, on the day of the Conder Kirmes, the Second World War broke out. Hans Michel's first dead soldier was mourned in May 1940. By the end of the war, another 48 parishioners fell and almost every family had at least one death to mourn. Usually the local group leader came to convey the news of death. Between May 1940 and March 1945 a total of 17 bomb attacks on Cochem and the Sehl district killed 107 civilians. Cond was largely spared, the main goal of the Allies was the Kaiser Wilhelm tunnel on the Cochem side, which is important for the supply connection.

In March 1944, the "Subcamp Cochem" ( Gross-Treis concentration camp ) was opened to operate an armaments factory under the code name "Zeisig" in the nearby "Treiser Tunnel" (an unused Reichsbahntunnel). For the production of spark plugs and other aviation accessories “prisoners” were requested. The prisoners (2000 in total) came initially from the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp , and later also from other concentration camps. From the Cochem train station they had to set out on foot, it went over the Moselle bridge, through Cond and on to Bruttig. An eyewitness reported that there were “endless columns” that set out on foot through the city with the careful sympathy of the population. The inmates were forbidden to accept gifts such as bread or fruit as a punishment; Anyone who stooped down was punished with cane blows.

The new Moselle bridge was destroyed in one of the many air raids on December 24, 1944. In Obercond, an air mine exploded on January 5, 1945, destroying a water pipe as well as the fourteen helpers chapel. On March 10, 1945 at 2:00 p.m. the Americans marched into Cochem via Endertstrasse without resistance, but between March 11 and 15 they still had to deal with resistance fighters of the Wehrmacht on the Conds side. The civilian population suffered greatly from the many skirmishes; by covering the streets visible from Cochem with bedsheets and stacking wine barrels, attempts were made to protect themselves from American fire. Contemporary witnesses such as the Conder Winfried Sebastiany reported that German soldiers from Cond shot at a Red Cross vehicle in Cochem and that as a result five residential buildings in Cond were destroyed by fire and fire. The American statement has also been handed down, "that if the Wehrmacht did not withdraw from Cond, the whole of Cond would be reduced to rubble and ashes ". The last Germans under the leadership of Lieutenant Christian Amende were meanwhile also requested by the citizens of Conder to get away, whereupon they withdrew in the evening in the dark and the Americans were able to take Cond on March 17, 1945. Victims among the civilians were the chief inspector August Schmidt (was shot in Wingertsweg on the way to his daughter), the sexton Karl Heimes (he was met in Hieronimistraße) and Maria Daum in Fährgasse, who were struck by a shrapnel behind a cellar door, seeking protection has been.

French occupation (1945–1949)

After the end of the Second World War, the four victorious powers took over governance over the whole of Germany on June 5, 1945 . The territory of the Prussian Rhine Province was divided into a northern part, the British , and a southern part, the French zone of occupation . The former administrative districts of Koblenz, Trier and Montabaur were provisionally added to the Upper Presidium of Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau.

By regulation No. 57 of the French Military government, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was founded on August 30, 1946. A few days later, Claude Hettier de Boislambert became the first state governor and state commissioner of Rhineland-Palatinate because of his good knowledge of German; Wilhelm Boden became the first Prime Minister of the newly created country . In Cochem, the plans for the new construction of the destroyed Moselle bridge were approached quickly, as the civilian population could only cross with the help of a temporary pontoon ferry. Its most ardent supporter was the French district delegate Cambournac. In June 1945, the teacher Goedert, who had returned from American captivity, was given the job of headmaster in Cochem. In 1947, Vice-Principal Biesel also returned to the school in Cond to teach the two upper classes. In 1950, Otto Przyklenk, a well-loved educator, came to Cond, who died four years later in a traffic accident.

Federal Republic of Germany (since 1949)

On September 28, 1949, the new "Friedensbrücke" in Cochem was inaugurated with lively public participation. One of the key speakers was the incumbent Mayor of Cochem, Jacob Rudolf Pauly. Dechant Johannes Nicknig gave the blessing with the words: "May the grace of God be bestowed on all who have contributed to the building of the Friedensbrücke and who use it!"

Fourteen Helper Chapel in Cochem-Cond

At the beginning of the 1950s, Pastor Schmauch and the city administration planned to rebuild the Fourteen Helpers Chapel, which was destroyed in the war. District architect Beier provided the plans, the town of quarry stones, wood and sand, and the new chapel was completed with the support of the neighborhood. The inauguration ceremony took place during the Conder Kirmes in 1952. From 1951 housing construction measures began in Obercond, as the war had prevented construction work; This was promoted u. a. from the Catholic Family Work. In March 1955, Pastor Adalbert Heil took over the new pastorate St. Remaclus in Cond and the parish administration of St. Martin in Valwig. In the same year, Auxiliary Bishop Bernhard Stein commissioned him with the planning tasks for the construction of a new church in Cond, since the old church in Zehnthausstraße was no longer able to meet the growing needs of the parish.

On July 8, 1962, the opening of the new youth hostel on Klottener Strasse in Cond was celebrated, at the point where the old tent youth hostel was previously. The parents of the hostel were Hans-Josef and Rosemarie Monz for over 30 years.

Youth hostel in Cochem-Cond

On August 14, 1963, Mayor Willy Massoth opened the new outdoor swimming pool in Cond. After finding a suitable area for the new church in 1964, the design of the church builder Emil Steffann began in the same year . The architects Heinz Bienefeld and Carl Müller were entrusted with the planning and execution of the new building . The consecration of the Church of St. Remaclus took over on May 12, 1968 - the anniversary of Jakob Anton Ziegler's death - Bishop Bernhard Stein.

Indoor wave pool in Cochem-Cond

In order to better meet the tourist demands, it was decided in March 1971 to build a new indoor wave pool, construction began on November 15, 1972. In order to help the city with the financial planning of the property, Hans-Joachim Hegerl had a special support association founded. After the completion of a culvert , which connected the Cochem sewage system with Cond, the new mechanical-biological sewage treatment plant in the Conder Mark was put into operation on November 21, 1974 . (In 2003 the Cochem sewage system was connected to the waste water treatment plant in Treis ).

The inauguration of the Cochem indoor wave pool took place on February 19, 1975. The inauguration ceremony was carried out by the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Helmut Kohl , the blessing was carried out by Adalbert Heil on the Catholic side and Pastor Gerd Graf on the Protestant side. The architects of the indoor pool were Lutz Limmer and Klaus Wronka, the artistic design was done by the Cochem artist Carlfritz Nicolay . After the big fire in the indoor swimming pool in Cochem on March 15, 1983, the city council unanimously decided to rebuild it that same month. The reopening took place on May 13, 1985. As the number of grocery stores ( mom and pop shops ) in Cond and in the city area had steadily decreased over the years, the groundbreaking ceremony for a new REWE shopping center in the “Conder Trademarks” district took place on August 30, 1999 . It was completed in 2000, but there were many discussions on this topic. If there were mostly supporters among the population, the remaining grocery stores in Cochem were closed against the project. In 2007 the Cochem city council voted against further development in the area classified as "Special Area II". The further settlement of food discounters or other retail stores was prevented. However, it did not stop at this decision, as discounters such as Aldi and KiK had now settled. Due to the high demand in the population, the groundbreaking ceremony for the drugstore dm took place in June 2017 .

Buildings

North bridge

Cochem North Bridge

Cochem Peace and North Bridge

The construction of another Moselle bridge between Cochem and Cond was requested in 1972 in the regional spatial planning plan for the Middle Rhine. In 1973 the district council of Cochem-Zell decided to take over the building responsibility as Kreisstraße K 60 (COC); the necessary planning approval procedure was initiated in 1982. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new bridge took place on May 22, 1990 by District Administrator Klaus-Peter Balthasar. The planned course of the bridge was on the Cochem side at the level of the old slaughterhouse (today the Cochem police station) and on the Conds side between the youth hostel and the water and shipping office. The company Schnorpfeil was commissioned to build the bridge; the total length should be 245 meters. The only bridge or river pillar was built on the Conder side to take into account the safety-relevant aspects of shipping on the Moselle. While 13.7 million DM were estimated at the planning stage, the costs rose so sharply during the entire construction process that in the end, including all associated connections, they cost 21 million DM. The official handover to traffic took place on September 3, 1993. Since over the years there had been subsidence on the backfill of the Cochem bridge ramp and thus unevenness when driving on, these had to be professionally repaired in 2017.

New Marienkrankenhaus and its history

Marien Hospital Cochem

The first Cochem hospital existed since the plague year 1422, it was located in the Burgfrieden (the later salt store) and was called "Spitälchen" by the population; it burned down in 1882. As early as 1834 a building was built on the Klosterberg in Cochem to be used as a hospital. Georg Koch initially used the building as an inn for many years. In 1896 a symmetrical extension was built, the center of which was a chapel wing. The completed hospital was taken over by the Franciscan Sisters of Waldbreitbach , who had been involved in nursing in Cochem since 1867. This Franziskus Hospital was destroyed on January 1, 1945 in the explosion of an air mine, so that one temporarily moved to the neighboring Ebernach monastery to care for the injured and sick. Since there was a shortage of sisters among the Franciscan Sisters, they approached the Sisters of Mary with a request for support. But it took a few more years - also under the influence of the Cochem dean Johannes Nicknig - until they agreed in 1950 to take over the destroyed hospital. In 1951 the "Marienkrankenhaus-Verein Cochem eV" was founded with the assistance of the Provincial Superior M. Rita (Sister Rita). The new construction of the hospital was quickly decided and on February 22, 1953 Auxiliary Bishop Stein carried out the official inauguration. Over the years it was found that this hospital and the poor traffic connection through the old town of Cochem no longer met modern requirements. In December 1970, the district council basically made the decision to build a new building elsewhere, which was decided in 1971 by the state government. In 1973 the area required for this was found in the Obercond development area; A few more years passed before all obstacles to the new building were overcome. The foundation stone was laid on May 12, 1989, the inauguration took place on September 14, 1993, and operations began on October 1. The total costs amounted to a total of 67.3 million DM.

The Bundesbank bunker in Cond

Bundesbank bunker 3 Cochem 2010

The area for the construction of the former Bundesbank bunker in Cond was opened at the beginning of the 1960s, in addition to other properties on today's Straße am Wald, by Dr. Dreesen for sale. A total of 9,000 square meters of floor space and over 2.3 million DM were available. Construction of the two-year construction phase began on May 14, 1962. Access to the 300-meter-long tunnel was via a former residential building on Brauselaystrasse. Between 1964 and 1988, an emergency currency worth 15 billion DM was stored in this bunker . In 1994 the Cochemer Volksbank took over the bunker for a few years in order to set up lockers for their customers. After the property had been vacant for many years, both the bunker and the adjoining tarn houses were purchased by Petra and Manfred Reuter. Today the listed bunker, which has since been converted into a museum , can be visited by the public.

Geographical

Streams

Map of the Conder Berg with its streams

• Mathieligerbach (its lower course belongs to Klotten , the upper course forms the natural boundary to Valwig)
• Maierbach (its middle and lower reaches are in the Klotten district)
• Lindchesbach (runs at the Klottener shooting range)
• Fußkaulbach (forms the border between Cond and Klotten)
• Fetscherbach (runs underground in the area of ​​the Moselle stadium)
• Dombach (also underground in the lower part)
• Hullebach (canalised below the valley road)
• Grofbach (runs near the Brauselay rock and seeps away in the lower area)
• Wackenkaulsbach (is already in the Valwig district)

List of layers in Cond

Overview of the major layers in Cond

• (On the) Lay (above the Erkelay, between Conder Markweg and Bergstraße)
• Arzlay (between Valwigerstraße, a Wingertsweg to the north of the Hullebach)
• Erkelay (in the youth hostel area, north bridge)
• Falkenlay (between the district Valwig and the Brauselay)
• Hindenburglay (in honor of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg )
• Hohllay (between Falken- and Hindenburglay)
• Nikolauslay (Nikolausberg) , (above the wayside shrine of St. Nicholas ( Nikoläsje ), patron saint of boatmen)
• Palmlay (between Hohllay and Hindenburglay)

geology

The headwaters of the Moselle, the Vosges , arose around 50 million years ago. In the Miocene and Pliocene , the ancient Moselle became a tributary of the Rhine. While the Rhenish Slate Mountains slowly rose in the Quaternary , the first meanders of the Moselle formed. The kinetic energy absorbed by the water led to erosion when it ran off , both in the river bed (deep erosion) and in the sides of the valley (side erosion). Removed material was either transported on by the river or it was deposited on the impact bank ( impact slope ) opposite the slip bank ( slip slope ) . A typical example is the “Conder Mark” located opposite the steep cliffs of the Klottener Bogen. The fertile soils created there by sedimentation favored agricultural use on the one hand, and a flatter mountain slope made the ascent easier on the other, in order to open up trade routes.

Settlement

The reason for the early settlement of Cond can be traced back to many favorable factors. On the one hand, fertile soils, such as those found in the Conder Mark, enabled early agriculture and, on the other hand, the natural watercourses in Cond made it easier for people to access fresh water. The location of the first dwellings for permanent settlement was chosen so that they offered protection from the floods of the Moselle. Other favorable circumstances are the sun's rays falling through the Cochemer Krampen throughout the day and the usability of the Moselle as a transport and trade route. The early cultivation of grapevines in steeper locations such as today's "Rosenhang" was favored on the one hand by the naturally occurring slate soil and on the other hand by the Mediterranean climate that prevails in the summer months . The availability of wood in the forests in the vicinity for the construction of residential housing has certainly played an equally important role in the choice of settling down.

Archaeological finds

Find a stone ax

Neolithic stone ax from Cond

In October 1993, Conder Horst Ostermann found an elongated, rounded stone on his property in Talstrasse while working in a trench filled with debris in the “Im Kattert” corridor (south of the Hohl). A stone drew attention to itself when it began to roll away, he took the stone back to his house and quickly noticed intense traces of work on the object he found. A closer examination of the cylindrical stone made of quartzite with red speckles revealed that it was a roller ax (core ax) from the period of the late Neolithic (3500 to 2800 BC) to the late Copper Age (2500 to 2200 BC) . The trapezoidal stone has a round oval cross-section and is 10.5 cm long and a max. Width of 6.5 cm at the cutting edge with 0.519 kg quite heavy for its size. It is assumed that this roller ax was originally machined from a rubble stone using a hammer and the pick technique and thus brought into the desired shape. To smooth the surface, the ax blade was smoothed on a whetstone (or in a whetstone) made of sandstone , basalt or granite with the addition of water. In the present find, only the front edge area of ​​the ax was sharpened, in contrast to many other finds in which the entire ax body was sharpened for aesthetic reasons. After the desired shape and surface had been created, the stone ax was fitted into a wooden frame, an approx. 0.6 to 0.8 meter long wooden spar without intermediate lining. B. can be used as a felling ax, or in the short form (<0.5 meters), as a cleavage or beheading ax. Since the stone ax was found in the immediate vicinity of today's Hullebach in Cond, it is most likely that the stone ax is classified as a litter find.

Copper double ax

The British pastor William Greenwell, who was also an amateur archaeologist and collector of antiquities, acquired a double ax made of a copper alloy , the location of which was given as Cochem on the Moselle , in a no longer comprehensible way . The precise location of the find (find situation), river or body of water find is questionable and can only be regarded as being closer to Cond or Cochem on a purely speculative basis. The scientific name of this type of ax is "Zabitz double ax, variant Cochem". The ax is 39.5 cm long and weighs 2.535 kg, its characteristic feature is the shaft hole of only 1.7 × 0.6 cm, which is much too small for a shaft, and it has no herringbone pattern on the surface that is comparable to similar finds is instead regularly designed flat. The fact that this individual find is a possibly lost item is usually ruled out; it is generally assumed that such objects have been deliberately deposited and are then referred to as a "single item depot". Since this double ax is a very valuable item, the purity is less than 0.1% tin and max. 1.5% arsenic , one can speak of a cult symbol ( cult object ) that was sacrificed on certain occasions, e.g. B. to honor a deity . The Zabitz double ax is assigned to the end of the Neolithic (New Stone Age); viewed chronologically, this results in a value of approx. 2200 years BC. The ax was handed over to the British Museum in 1909 , whether it was bought, donated or inherited is unknown.

Bronze sword from the Moselle

Bronze full-hilted sword of the Auvernier type in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn

When excavation work was being carried out in the bed of the Moselle towards the end of the 19th century, a bronze full-hilted sword was found in it, the location of which has only been documented as being from the Moselle before Cochem. In this case, too, as with the copper double ax, it is possible to clearly identify the location, neither to Cochem nor to Cond. The sword was assigned to the Auvernier type thanks to the characteristic elongated and oval recesses on both sides of the handle. Such recesses were used to hold jewelry plates made of iron or non-ferrous metal , so that the sword could be decorated. Most of the decorations were riveted with three rivets, as can still be seen in the illustration. The hilt of the sword has small so-called “parrying wings” on both sides at its lower end. The blade itself is heavily profiled, the upper part between the beveled blade and the parrying wings, called “ricasso”, was used to repel attacks by the enemy. The sword has a length of 55.4 cm and was assigned to the late Urnfield period, Hallstatt level Ha B3, which chronologically corresponds to an age of approx. 2800 to 2900 years. The extremely well-preserved bronze sword is exhibited today in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn .

Villa Rustica in the Conder Mark

Already in July 1968 the local historian Alfons Friderichs, who was born in Klotten , informed the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (LAD) in Koblenz that both his father-in-law Jakob Kollmann and the winemaker Robert Ackermann (both from Klotten) were trying to grow new trees in their orchards in Planting the “Kaarst” area in Cond, found both pottery shards and fragments of a mosaic floor. Friderichs forwarded the found objects to the State Office for Prehistory and Protohistory, which in the same month confirmed to him in writing that Roman wall heating tiles and fragments of estate vessels had been found. From these finds, including bronze parts and fishnet anchors made of lead , one inferred the remains of a Roman manor complex from the 3rd or 4th century AD, which is known in modern parlance as villa rustica . Essentially, such a system consisted of several auxiliary buildings, of which the main building was mostly built as a stone structure.

During an inspection in December 1999, more shards were found that came from storage vessels as well as from more elegant tableware (terra sigillata); a dating was made to the 2nd century AD. The report of the State Monuments Office noted the following about the structural remains of the entire complex in parcel 14 "Auf dem Grün" in the "Conder trademarks":

Surrounding wall of the Villa Rustica in the Conder Mark

• What has been preserved is a stone wall made of quarry stone at least 50 meters long and 10 meters wide with a north-south orientation, the east side of which is up to two meters high in parts and the remains of a quarry stone masonry - built using dry construction - have been preserved on the eastern edge. Signs of plastering were not found, but traces of fire were found, which indicate destruction by fire.
• In addition, parts of a hypocaust pillar were found for underfloor heating ( hypocaust ) with round pillar slabs , mortar, bricks and remains of tubules (hollow bricks) for wall heating, as well as a wall on the southern wall, running at right angles, in an easterly direction of 30 meters in length.
• At the same time, there was another dry stone wall with a length of 100 meters running at a distance of 30 meters in an east-west direction, as well as a stone wall facing north, which together roughly formed the rectangular wall surrounding the estate.
• Further finds from the wall indicated a possible further building that could have been used as an auxiliary building.
• Small finds, so-called "reading finds", such as pieces of bricks, slabs of slate, unrelated sandstone tiles, as well as fragments of amphorae and the remains of the wall, indicated the presence of a former Roman villa, which was due to the location and location in relation to the nearby Moselle was also considered flood protection.

Further advantages of the location are the long daily sunshine in relation to the surroundings, as well as the nearby Fußkaulbach as a fresh water source, which, however, had to be supported by wells when it ran dry in hot summers. Since there were many such villas along the entire Moselle, it was also of great interest as a trade route for its residents, and the river could also be used as an additional source of food for fishing. In more recent times, the city of Cochem had the area designated as an excavation protection area in order to protect it from further deterioration, as there was no prospect of further exploration of the area.

Frankish graves found in Cond

In 1931 a grave of Franconian origin was discovered while working on the grave site of the Hieronimi family in Cond. Altogether there was an urn , a battle ax , a coin with the image of the Roman emperor Gallienus from the period 260 to 268 BC. BC, another unclassifiable coin, a sword and a defensive hanger . Hubert Hieronimi, a family member, donated this collective find to the District Home Museum in Cochem; after its dissolution in 1960, the objects were handed over to the St. Castor Abbey Museum in Karden.

Pump place in Cond

However, it was the case that all finds were re-cataloged there, which later made it almost impossible to identify finds from the grave from that time in order to re-examine them scientifically. Only one of the many objects found, a buckled wall pot , could be identified by an archaeologist during research in the early 1980s using an inventory number . The ceramic pot was undamaged, had a black smooth surface and a circular dot decoration impressed in the upper part with a roller wheel. Finds of Franconian ceramic pots with these characteristics are certainly ascribed to the Merovingian period from the 5th century onwards.

The second Franconian grave site in Cond was discovered during excavation work for the cellar of a house to be built by the Dohler family in Valwigerstrasse 41 in 1948/49. The graves had been covered with large slabs of slate and contained two human skulls , the remains of a clover-leaf jug (without a mouth) and a metal lance tip. The found objects were taken to the State Monuments Office, but the diamond-shaped lance tip has since been considered lost. Since graves from this era have already been found in the same place in the past or have been cut during excavations, the assumption that this is a row of burial grounds is certainly given. Most of the time, the Franks laid their graves above their settlements, at the beginning of steep slopes, so it is assumed that the center of the earliest Franconian settlement in the 6th or 7th century AD was in Cond, in the area of ​​today's pump place.

Origin of the place name Cond

The valley of the Hullebach in Cond

The most probable explanation for the place name Cond is the term Condatis , which was a Celtic god and can be traced back to its earliest Celtic inhabitants . The name is derived from the Celtic word condate and means "confluence" of two bodies of water, the Hullebach and the Moselle. The name Condato was often used for such places in Gaul. A later name of the place Condedunum - the Romans followed the Celts as colonists in Cond - contained the name -dunum as a second addition , which in turn was part of Latin names for Celtic settlements and is derived from the Celtic dun (Celtic * dūnon). It is to be equated with a "fortified place" and thus a term that the Romans had adopted from the Celts.

Chronological mentions of Cond

• The name Condindon for Cond is the first mention in an unspecified document from the year 840.
• On March 5, 857, the cousins ​​Willefried and Leodin gave the basilica in villa Condenduno inherited from their parents to the Stablo Abbey on condition that the parish be occupied by a priest from the monastery. He should hold the service there, preach and carry out baptisms. Witnesses of the document, which was only written as a copy from the 13th century in Latin , were Ramibert (Latin Ramibertus), Herimann (Herimannus), Wigbald (Wigbaldus), Randulf (Randulfus), Mother (Motherus), Ernulf (Ernulfus), Wanbert (Wanbertus), Adelard (Ardelardus) and Leobin (Leobinus). From the document carried out in Cond one can also see the note that the basilica mentioned was already in the possession of a noble family and that Holy Mass was already celebrated there beforehand. Until then, the church in Cond had been cared for by the parish of Klotten , but this was felt to be so unsatisfactory that, according to the document, they expressly wanted pastoral care " without delay in the future ".
• On April 12th 912 there was another donation by King Charles the Simple-Minded , when he entrusted his royal court in Cond (and also that of Merl ) with all its possessions, land and people along with income to a monk named Fulrad von Stablo with the obligation to watch out for " the regular celebration of Sunday " there. Both Count Reginar (lat. Reginaris) and Berengar (Berengarius) were named as witnesses to this donation.
• For the year 943, the name Condondano was mentioned in a document that is not further documented, in the systematic historiography Eiflia illustrata by Georg Bärsch .
• In 1075 the favorite monastery Siegburg of the Archbishop of Cologne Anno II received goods on the Moselle. Archbishop Albero von Trier later reported in a document that Anno II had given the monastery 27 manses , including Cond, Ellenz , Bruttig and Faid .
• For the second half of the 13th century, in a directory of Archbishop Heinrich II of Trier (1260–1286), a cathedral tax was added to the Keimta ( Kaimt ) landing canal for several Moselle locations , such as B. Clotene (Klotten), Pumere ( Pomerania ), Cogeme ( Cochem ) and Cunda (Cond) collected.
• In the 14th century, the Münstermaifeld Abbey in Cond owned: agrum inter agros communitatis situm in Cond , (German, "on fields between fields of the municipality of Cond"), 12 pecie vinearum (12 pieces of vineyard), 3 pecias vinee (3 pieces of Vineyards) and some fruit trees.
• In 1456 the property of the vd Leyen (noble family) in Cond was divided into half a farm with accessories and its vineyards and their vineyards.
• On August 24, 1467, Archbishop Johann II of Trier awarded his court to Cond in hereditary lease .
• On July 18, 1614, the Klotten notary Peter Pauli notarized the leasing of the property located in Kollig , the married couple Theiss Baltes and Anna zu Cond, to Jakob and Thomas Münigs (father and son).
• In 1765, instructions and an indulgence permit because of the Way of the Cross to Cond.

School system

In the 17th century, school operations were still largely under church supervision, with chaplains , vicarious clergymen such as early knives or community clerks, sometimes also craftsmen, teaching the children the elementary knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic, but this changed from 1770. The state gained an interest in school education, e.g. B. to be able to use it for political purposes, Kurtrier had primary schools set up as a kind of elementary schools, but the majority of the population turned out to be unwilling to reform. Since the teachers initially also lacked the ability to improve their educational qualities, the city of Koblenz set up a so-called “normal school” in 1784 in order to ensure a certain standard of school education for teachers.

After France and its revolutionary troops had conquered the Rhineland, this positive trend declined temporarily, until 1798, when considerations began that the school system should be fundamentally reformed on a solid basis under the control of the state. From then on, teachers were trained in Koblenz, later also in Trier, in training centers set up especially for them; French was also important because of the official language. However, as the teachers' salaries had to be borne by the parents and the community and there was no compulsory schooling, the poor pay of the teaching staff meant that the children could not get a particularly good school education in the long run. When Prussia took over the areas on the left bank of the Rhine again from 1814, less than half of all children went to school on average.

A corresponding law was passed in 1825, and from then on school attendance was compulsory for all children, which in 1829 meant that the school premises could only accept the 82 pupils to a limited extent. The first teacher of the new era was Johann Peter Bootz from 1813 to 1855. He was followed by Anton Fischer until 1862, Philipp Pinger until 1868, Johann Jacob Gilles until 1881, Johann Müller until 1884 and Nikolaus Schaefgen until 1920. A second teaching position took over at that time from 1876 to 1907 Anna Simon and Maria Bedorf from 1908 to 1920 and from then on until 1936 to exercise the teaching post again alone.

From 1933 the political rulers tried, as everywhere else, to bring National Socialist ideas to the young schoolchildren in order to be able to raise them better as future generations. In 1939, the elementary schools in Cochem, Cond and Sehl were merged into one school district due to the reduced number of pupils, so that all pupils in all parts of the city and in the city of Cochem could now be enrolled.

When the Second World War broke out, classes mostly continued as usual, but classes had to be increasingly suspended towards the end of the war due to the many bombing raids on Cond. From 1947 on, it was Vice-Rector Biesel, who also worked as an organist in Cond, who resumed school operations for the higher grades. In 1950 the Büchel- born teacher Otto Przyklenk came to Cond to teach there as a teacher, but the popular and capable teacher died in 1954 in a traffic accident. On July 14, 1954, the elementary school in Cond on Zehnthausstrasse was finally closed, and planning began on a new school on Bergstrasse, which was inaugurated in 1959. The new school was used for a total of 23 years, until the number of students decreased so much that it too had to be closed for good.

Club life

Catholic Bachelor Association Cond

In 1902 the "Catholic Bachelors Association Cond" was founded , whose meaning and content u. a. the promotion of brotherly love, orderliness and morality was. Social gatherings with noble pleasures should be held if necessary and adapted to the circumstances. Only at least 18-year-olds who were catholic, innocent and sociable were accepted. Entry into the association was granted for an admission fee of 3 marks, the monthly fee for the members was 25 pfennigs. The most recently added member had to take over the function of a messenger, and when the marriage bond was made, membership automatically expired. Communion was arranged with the pastor on certain holidays, and songs were performed by the members of the association for Holy Mass. In 1912 the association celebrated its ten-year foundation festival; In 1923 Pastor Josef Reuter was appointed honorary president. It is not known whether the association existed beyond 1937 because of the National Socialist harmonization measures, during which all church associations were banned.

Marian Virgins Congregation

The association only accepted virgins from Cond, attention was paid to a moral way of life, and Marian worship was cultivated, which is why the association was also called "Marienverein" . Most of the time, the young women joined the association at the end of their school education, while membership ended when they joined the marital union. Beyond 1937, as with all other church associations of that time, there was no possibility of existence, as the National Socialists forbade all associations under church management.

Conder choral societies

• The founding year of the "Men's Choir Cond" has not been passed down. In 1906 they performed under the direction of the president and conductor Nikolaus Schäfgen with 15 singers at a festival in Cochem. The association existed until at least 1911, its dissolution during the First World War is very likely.
• In 1921 the "Men's Singing Association 'Eintracht' Cond" was founded. The back of an old club flag adorns the club's motto with the words "Pure in singing, faithful in word, steadfast in harmony". The official inauguration of the flag took place in 1927, after the Second World War the association appeared under the new name "Men singing association 'Mosel greeting" ".
• In the 1960s, when the singers in Cond had remained without a guide, Fritz Jakobs temporarily took over the conductorship of the choral society of the Conder pint singers , which had been newly formed. The Conder Church Choir Cäcilia , which later became part of the Cond Singing Community , existed before the Second World War; here, too, it was again Fritz Jakobs from Cochem who took over the direction of the choir.

Conder savings and loan association

The association's task was to enable its members to invest money or take out loans. In terms of form, it was a registered cooperative that had its own check forms. Checks could be settled at all other cash registers affiliated with the Deutscher Genossenschaftsring. The association, which later became part of the Conder Raiffeisenkasse, has evidently existed since at least 1911 and until 1961 at the latest. After the Second World War, the branch of the cooperative in Cond was looked after by Jakob Goebel as its manager.

Conder winegrowers' association

This association, which was a winegrowers' cooperative, was founded in order to be able to supply smaller wineries in Cond that did not have their own wine press capacities. First a cellar was rented in the Hotel Rebstock, but later the club building was moved to Remaclusstraße. Another advantage of the cooperative was that it had larger barrels and, early on, an electrically operated wine press. In the 1960s, the association became part of the newly founded regional winegrowers' cooperative in the neighboring Moselle town of Ernst .

Play and sports club "Brauselay" Cond 1912

The first soccer game in Germany was introduced in 1874 by Konrad Koch , who taught at a high school. English merchants and industrialists who lived and worked in Germany made the game increasingly popular in the western Rhineland. The German Football Association (DFB) was founded in 1900 , and Cond soon followed this new form of team sport and founded his first football club in 1912. In order to express a special bond with the community, the “Brauselay” was chosen as a supplement to the club name. The club emblem of their jerseys adorned the abbreviation “Sp. u. Sp. V. Brauselay Cond 1912 ”, the club flag with the same emblem, was in blue- or red-white. In 1930 the gymnastics club "Frischauf" Cond and the sports club "Brauselay" Cond were merged after a membership vote and the new name "Gymnastics and Sports Club 1912 Cond" was chosen, Anton Michels became the first chairman, and Franz Raab was elected as game manager.

Volunteer firefighter

The establishment of the volunteer fire brigade dates back to 1911 when, at the invitation of Conder Johannes Hieronimi, they met with the local council, the founder of the Cochem fire brigade, Pedro Friedrichs, and 30 residents of Cond to discuss this project. It was quickly agreed that the volunteer fire brigade was declared established with the motto God honor, the next to the defense and the vintner Peter Laux was appointed first fire chief. The newly founded fire brigade was first deployed on August 7, 1911 in the neighboring town of Valwig, and the second deployment followed on November 4, 1911 on the Cochem side. After the incorporation of Conds with the city of Cochem in 1932, the Conder fire brigade was integrated into the Cochem fire brigade as extinguishing train III. It was the same fire brigade that founded the first youth fire brigade in the city of Cochem on November 1st, 1980. The young group was initially trained by Eberhard Krammes, later Ulrich Franzen.

Personalities

• Carl Joseph Friedrichs (1831–1916), printer, author and gold digger
• Jakob Anton Ziegler (1893–1944 in Dachau concentration camp), German Catholic theologian and pastor
• Eucharius Balthasar (* around 1630; † after 1677), Benedictine and abbot representative in Villmar.
• Adalbert Heil (1907–1999), Catholic clergyman
• Werner Franzen (1928–2014), artist and sculptor
• Ernst Heimes (* 1956), writer and cabaret artist
• Heinrich Jaeger (1816–1888), Prussian administrative officer and district administrator
• Johannes Fuchs (1874–1956), High President of the Prussian Rhine Province

Accidents

Memorial stone for Erich Zenz (Brauselayfelsen Cond)

• On July 25, 1903, little Erich Zenz from Cond fell in the Conder Brauselay while trying to save his little sister, who was about to slip, and died in the process. A memorial stone - from the dissolved family grave of the Zenz family - was moved in the 1990s near the lookout point on the Brauselay rock. It bears the inscription: “My little sister falls on the shower relay. I climbed to his aid to his cry. I loved my little sister so much, a stone failed and I stayed dead ”.
• On March 15, 1983, there was a major fire in the indoor wave pool, which was triggered by a defective heater in the sauna area. There were no injuries at the time, as the sauna was not open at the time.
• On Saturday, March 21, 1981, another human tragedy occurred in the Hindenburglay when Hans Günter Sebastiany set out to look for Layensalat (a type of dandelion) in the rocks of the Lay. The police and the fire brigade of III. The fire fighters from Cond could no longer find the missing man because of the onset of darkness. When he was found the next day, any help came too late. Today a small iron cross with a plaque commemorates the victim, erected by the Conder fire brigade comrades in 1984.

Conder family stories

Brixiadenstube

Brixiadenstube Meeting point for the poet Joseph von Lauff

In 1902, the writer and poet Joseph von Lauff , who lives in the Sehl district , witnessed an accident. From his Villa Krain he saw a little boy tumbling down the Brauselay rock on the opposite side of the Moselle. Moved by this misfortune, he visited little Erich's father, who lived in Cond, the district judge Peter Zenz, to express his condolences. Later, when the two became friends, Zenz introduced the poet to the regulars' table of the “Brixians” at the “Zur Traube” inn in Cond. The hotel known today as “Brixiade” was opened by Johann Brixius on September 3, 1875 during the Conder Kirmes. Because of his good knowledge of the Latin language, this was called "Latin winemaker". The blissful meetings in the "Brixiadenstube" prompted Joseph von Lauff, who had received his title of nobility from Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1913 , to write his "Brixiaden Trilogy". The books with the titles Brixiade , Martinsgans and Sauhatz are literary echoes of these joint meetings, he shares his thoughts as follows: Bibite hoc excellens vinum de vitibus Brixiiatque valete! It was good to be here, here I found what I needed to put down the planned trilogy, the most delicious wines and fellow players. Greetings from God gentlemen!

Cunner Melschdebbe

The Cunner Melschdebbe (milk can)

The Conder nickname and its origin can be explained as follows: Around 1900 there were around 100 dairy cows in the village. Butter and milk were easily bought by regular customers, mostly in Cochem or on the local market. The Cochem coppersmith Jean Pastor (1898–1976) was known for making the best jugs: made of tinplate, with a lid and in a conical shape with an extra wide base for a safe stand when crossing the barge. A brass plaque with an embossed name on it ensured that they were returned to their owners. The Cunner Melschdebbe became a synonym for the Conder, just like the Cochemer Schmandelecker for the Cochemers, who are said to have stuck a finger into the milk to check the thickness of the cream layer before buying milk, without asking for permission.

mayor

• Wilhelm Göbel (junior) (before 1832)
• Michel Göbel (before 1851)
• Rink (from June 29, 1851)
• Heucher (from August 28, 1857)
• Theodor Heimes (from June 4, 1862)
• Peter Boos (from January 30, 1872)
• Thiel (from March 26, 1888)
• Joseph Göbel (I) (from December 14, 1893
• Karl-Josef Thiel (from 1924)
• Peter Laux (from September 19, 1924)
• Robert Michels (from June 24, 1930)

-00(No data are available from 1912 to 1924; Cond has been a district of Cochem since 1932).

Monuments and memorial crosses in Cond

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  Grape Madonna in the Brauselay. Donated in 1934 by a young Conder who did not want to be named.

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  Nikläschen, St. Nikolaus wayside shrine at the foot of the Brauselay

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  Memorial cross for Hans-Günter Sebastinay on the Hindenburglay

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  Memorial plaque for Pastor Jakob Ziegler on the Romanesque church tower

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  Statue of Christ in the war memorial chapel in the Romanesque church tower, Carrara marble, Giuseppe Carnevale, Rome 1892

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  Fragment of a grave cross with the year 1653 on the corner of Uferstrasse and Talstrasse

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  Wayside cross from 1616 on Valwigerstrasse

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  St. Remaclus with the portal of the Abbey Church of Stablo, bronze statue by Werner Franzen (2000), in the old nave

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  History stone with the coat of arms of Stablo Abbey and the year 857, basalt lava, 2016, by Karl-Rudolf Müller, next to the old nave

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  The Conder Hut with the weather vane

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Cochem

literature

• Alfons Friderichs: sagas, legends and stories in the Cochem-Zell district. Cardamina Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-86424-363-9 .
• Dorfgemeinschaft Pumpenfest e. V. (Ed.): Life on the river - Cond on the Moselle in the past and present. M. Heinz Bremm Verlag, Cochem-Cond 2010, ISBN 978-3-927839-38-0 .
• Maurus Münch: Among 2579 priests in Dachau, Pastor Jakob Ziegler of Cochem-Cond. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1986, pp. 74-75.
• Hermann Beschens: The “Brixiade” hotel. Cochem-Cond as a literary setting. In: Yearbook Kreis Cochem-Zell 1986, pp. 180-184.
• Wolfgang Thiel: Clay pipe water pipe in Cochem-Cond. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1987, pp. 107-108.
• Hermann Zilles senior: The Madonna in the Conder Brauselay. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1987, p. 227.
• Joachim Barden: Vineyard cultivation between Bruttig-Fankel and Cochem-Cond (from the Ernster Chronik). in: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1988, pp. 107-108.
• Hermann Zilles sen .: The parish of St. Remaclus in Cond. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1988, pp. 117-119.
• Theresia Zimmer: court and community seal of the places in the district (1). In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1989, pp. 54-60.
• Hans-Peter Hock: Prehistoric find from Cochem (double ax). in: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1989, pp. 142-144.
• Hermann Zilles Sr.: The ungrateful skipper on the Conder Brauselay rock. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1989, p. 159.
• Winfried Hansel, Wilhelm Basten: Organs in the area of ​​Cochem. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1991, pp. 77-82.
• Hermann Zilles: Death in the Conder-Hindenburglay. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1993, p. 135.
• Heinz F. Friederichs: From the youth of Johann Carl Friedrichs (wrong spelling, Carl Joseph Friedrichs is correct) to Cochem Cond. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1994, pp. 254-255.
• Victor Brixius: The last days of the war in Cond. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1995, pp. 20-22.
• Gerd Ferdinand: Of heroes and victims - monuments in a circle as evidence of the zeitgeist. (Abridged technical work in the advanced course at Martin-von-Cochem-Gymnasium), pp. 231–238, Schlageterdenkmal , pp. 234–235. In: Yearbook Cochem-Zell District 1995 .
• Christel Krämer: The Cond court (city of Cochem). In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1996, p. 115.
• Alfons Friderichs: Monastery property of the Laach Abbey in the district. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1996, pp. 219-223.
• Werner Schumacher: The great forest Kirst and Thirn on the heights of the Cochemer Krampens. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1998, pp. 96-101.
• Joachim Barden: A bell was used to help the neighbors between Cond and Ernst. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1998, p. 138 ( ISSN  0939-6179 ).
• Reinhold Schommers : Visual artists in the Cochem-Zell district - Werner Franzen from Cond. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1999, p. 40.
• Alfons Friderichs: Monastery property of the Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne in the Cochem-Zell district. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1999, p. 50.
• Markus Friderichs: In memory of Dr. hc Hans Fuchs , Cochem-Cond, Reich Minister and Upper President of the Rhine Province. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1999, pp. 176–178.
• Josef Lauxen: Church life in Cochem-Cond before 1945. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 2000, pp. 169–170.
• Hans-Peter Hock: The Roman villa in the Conder Mark. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 2003, pp. 147–148.
• Viktor Brixius: Tanks fire directly at Cond. In: Jahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 2005, pp. 48–50.
• Alfons Friderichs: The oldest vineyard donations up to the year 1200 (part 2). In: Yearbook District Cochem-Zell 2015, p. 85.
• Alfons Friderichs: Certificates and registers, (Cochem) -Cond. Kliomedia, Trier 2010, ISBN 978-3-89890-125-3 , pp. 161-166.
• Ernst Wackenroder: Cochem-Cond. In: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Landkreis Cochem, Third Volume, Part 1. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1959, ISBN 3-422-00561-7 , pp. 224-230.

Web links

Commons : Cond  - collection of images

• The Cond district on the official website of the city of Cochem
• Official website of the Verbandsgemeinde Cochem
• Conder story
• St. Remaclus in: Straße der Moderne
• Parish Church of St. Remaclus in Cond
• Dorfgemeinschaft Pumpenfest e. V. Cond on the Moselle
• The Bundesbank's bunker in Cochem is a listed building. Alternative seat of the constitutional organs of the Federal Republic of Germany , September 4, 2011.
• Bundesbank bunker in Cochem1 - 5 billion D-Marks under thousands of tons of concrete. Deutschlandfunk , June 17, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Coat of arms of the city of Cochem at Wikimedia Commons
2. ^ Cochem-Cond Fallen Lists, First World War
3. ↑ Renaming of the Cochem district to the Kochem district
4. ↑ Cochem-Cond Fallen Lists Second World War
5. ^ Groundbreaking ceremony for the new drugstore in Cochem
6. ↑ New bridge: road partly bumpy
7. ↑ During the Cold War, 15 billion D-Marks were stored in a former secret bunker of the Deutsche Bundesbank in a previously unknown secret currency , accessed on December 9, 2018
8. ↑ The top secret billion dollar bunker
9. ↑ Archaeological Epochs
10. ↑ attachment
11. ↑ Stray finds
12. ↑ Double axes of the Zabitz type
13. ↑ Copper alloy double ended shaft-hole ax
14. ↑ Metal inlay technique of some Auverni swords
15. ↑ Stiftsmuseum Treis-Karden. Retrieved August 1, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Eiflia illustrata Volume 3.1 p. 337
17. ↑ Mention of Fulrad from the year 912 in a document in Latin
18. ↑ Eiflia illustrata Volume 3.1 p. 337
19. ↑ Players' Association 1912 Cochem