Dünnwald (Cologne)

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Coat of arms of Cologne
Thin forest
district 907 of Cologne
Location of the Dünnwald district in the Cologne-Mülheim district
Coordinates 51 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 19 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 19 ″  E
surface 10.84 km²
Residents 11,758 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density 1085 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Apr 1, 1914
Post Code 51069
prefix 0221
Borough Mulheim (9)
Transport links
Federal road B51
Light rail line 4th
Bus routes 154 155 157 260 434
Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information

Dünnwald is a district of Cologne in the Mülheim district .

location

Thin forest borders in the east on Bergisch Gladbach , in the south on Dellbrück and Höhenhaus , in the west on Flittard and in the north on Leverkusen . Cologne-Dünnwald lies on the Troisdorf – Mülheim-Speldorf railway line, which is used by freight trains . The Cologne-Dünnwald museum signal box is located there .

history

Thin forest is named either after the river Dhünn or after a ( Rhine ) dune. The St. Nikolaus Monastery, built in 1117, received parish rights from the Archbishop of Cologne in 1122 ; this is considered the year of the establishment of the town. In 1143 the monastery was settled by the Premonstratensian women from Steinfeld Monastery in the Eifel.

The first documentary mention from 1230 refers to the manor Haus Haan .

Politically, Dünnwald belonged to the Porz office in the Duchy of Berg since the Middle Ages .

On August 13, 1583, Dünnwald was looted and burned down in the Truchsessian War . The Thirty Years' War also brought destruction to Dünnwald. In 1628 Haus Haan was burned down and in 1635 Dünnwald was plundered by Hessian troops. From 1795 to 1801, Dünnwald suffered from the occupation by French troops.

Since 1808, Dünnwald belonged to the Rhine department and in 1815 came to the Kingdom of Prussia . As a municipality within the Merheim mayor , it was part of the Mülheim am Rhein district .

In the course of industrialization , the Kaiser & Edelmann explosives factory was built in Manfort north of Dünnwald in 1869 , where fifteen workers died in an explosion in 1870. Two years later, Alfred Nobel u. Co. (from 1876 Dynamit AG (DAG)) the factory and expanded it. Because of the neighboring railway station it was called the Schlebusch plant . In 1878 a factory was built that produced Berliner Blau , Salmiak and Soda .

On April 1, 1914, Dünnwald and its part of the municipality Höhenhaus was incorporated into Cologne as part of the Merheim mayor's office.

Dunnwald Pentecost singing

Around 1900 children and young people began a tradition of the Whitsun singing as the Dünnwald Pengsjonge . The group goes from house to house on Pentecost Saturday and sings songs, which is thanked with food or small amounts of money. From 1931 the minstrel train of the Dünnwald volunteer fire brigade continued the tradition. After a 20-year hiatus, some members of the male choir of the Parish Cäcilien Association revived the tradition in 1985.

Demographic statistics

Structure of the population of Cologne-Dünnwald:

  • Share of under 18s: 19.9% ​​(2015)
  • Proportion of over 64 year olds: 18.5% (2015)
  • Proportion of foreigners: 14.5% (2015)
  • Unemployment rate: 12.2% (2014)

Worth seeing

former Premonstratensian Church of St. Nicholas
Ev. Tersteegen Church. Built 1937–38, named after the mystic and song writer Gerhard Tersteegen
Catholic parish church St. Hermann-Josef, built in 1958

Personalities

literature

  • Johann Bendel : Homeland book of the district of Mülheim am Rhein. History and description, sagas and tales . Cologne-Mülheim 1925.
  • Marc Jan Eumann : “This is how we decide for ourselves”. 150 years of social democracy in Dünnwald, 1864–2014 . Forward, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-86602-014-6 .
  • Burkhard Gehle: The Premonstratensians in Cologne and Dünnwald , Grüner, Amsterdam 1978.
  • Hans-J. Hardt: What is thin forest? Published by the Dünnwald Citizens' Association. Druckhaus Deutz, Cologne 1965.
  • Heinz-Jürgen Pfeifer, Peter Hallerbach: Fidele Jonge. 70 years of Große Dünnwalder KG 1927 eV Cologne 1996.

Web links

Commons : Köln-Dünnwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  2. ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  3. ↑ Inhabitants by type of migration background - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  4. ↑ Employed and unemployed part of the city - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de