Gürzenich (Düren)

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Gürzenich
City of Düren
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 26 "  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 29"  E
Height : 131 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.54 km²
Residents : 6196  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 726 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 52355
Area code : 02421
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Location of Gürzenich in Düren

Gürzenich ( Dürener Platt Jüzzenich ) is a district of the district town of Düren , 35 kilometers east of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia . The place was an independent municipality until the regional reform in 1972 . Gürzenich has a primary school and a lively club life.

cath. Church, St. Johannes Evangelist, Gürzenich, Schillingsstrasse
Street view of the Weiherhof

history

The Lords of Gürzenich were first mentioned in a document from 1143 as Curtiacum . They died out in the 13th century.

The castle Gürzenich is mentioned in 1232–1240 by Caesarius von Heisterbach . It stood where the Kreuder farm was in 1953.

The noble family of Counts Schellart is first mentioned in Gürzenich around 1350 or 1353. The counts determined village life in the Middle Ages, and their descendants still own large areas of buildings in the village and wooded areas on the southern outskirts.

The place used to be called Curtiniacum, which means "Curtinus Home". It originated in the time of the Celtic-Germanic merger, i.e. around 300 BC. Gürzenich is one of the oldest places in the district.

There is supposed to be a connection between the place name Gürzenich and the Gürzenich family in Cologne, but this has not been clearly established. The Cologne Gürzenich served the Lords von Gürzenich as a town house, in which they stopped when they visited the city of Cologne. Later the town house was abandoned and fell into disrepair. The city of Cologne made it a hall for celebrations. But the name Gürzenich was popular in the vernacular.

The ruins of the Kreuzherrenkloster Schwarzenbroich are located between Gürzenich and Schevenhütte . , which was founded in 1340 by Werner von Merode. It was on the old pilgrimage route that led from Düren via Gürzenich, Derichsweiler , Schevenhütte to the pilgrimage site of Kornelimünster . Numerous lands also belonged to the monastery in Gürzenich, including the Weiherhof , where the monastery built and operated fish ponds that are still in existence today.

Like other monasteries in the French-occupied Rhineland, the Kreuzherrenkloster was abolished in 1802 by a decree of the French government on secularization , and the remaining monks had to leave the monastery. Due to the destruction of the war and decay, only the foundation and wall remains of the monastery.

There was also a large Jewish community in Gürzenich before 1933. It comprised 50 people. Many Jewish citizens born in Gürzenich were murdered by the Nazis.

Since the beginning of the 19th century, the municipality of Gürzenich belonged administratively to the Birgel office . In the course of the local reorganization, the Birgel office and the Gürzenich community were dissolved. Gürzenich was incorporated into the district town of Düren on January 1, 1972.

See also

religion

General

The roots of some of the clubs go back to the Middle Ages, such as the shooting club and the crossbow shooting club . Younger clubs are the gymnastics club Gürzenich (with its handball team playing in the Bundesliga around 1960 ), the soccer club GFC Düren 09 in the regional league and the volunteer fire brigade (with its own fire station ). Furthermore, there has been the May Society in Gürzenich since 1910, whose May Festival traditionally takes place on the Whitsun weekend on Schützenplatz in the Gürzenich Forest.

Gürzenich was connected to Düren by a tram line until 1954. Lignite was mined north of Gürzenich from May 27, 1941 to February 28, 1956 (interrupted by the war). The Düren opencast mine left an open pit until the end of the 1960s, which was then filled with water and is now an extremely popular local recreation destination for the Düren population under the name of Düren bathing lake .

About a kilometer south of the village, belonging to Gürzenich yet, there is a of the German armed forces occupied depot where mainly weapons and material for about 15 kilometers away, Air Force airbase in Nörvenich were stored. The 150 hectare depot was closed in 2009. Among other things, there are 66 bunkers there, which can possibly be used for other purposes.

The chapel

Companies

See Mohaba

traffic

history

From October 6, 1908, Gürzenich was served by tram line 3 of the Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB). The route led through today's Valencienner Strasse and today's Schillingsstrasse and ended at the level of the church with a transfer track.

In addition, Gürzenich had a freight station near the Düren - Aachen railway line . The branch line to the freight station branched off from the tram line to Gürzenich at what is now the paper mill road (formerly Mühlenweg ). At Breuer's house there was a connecting track to the ring railway . The Gürzenich freight station had a loading and reloading track, and there was a connection to the Düren - Aachen railway line. From 1944 until the restoration of the Rur Bridge of the Ringbahn, all freight traffic in the direction of Rölsdorf and Lendersdorf was handled via this track connection. Tram cars stationed in Rölsdorf were also towed to and from the main workshop in Distelrath .

present

The place is approached every half hour by the line 213 of the DKB, as well as in the front part of the place by the line 296 of the AVV .

Architectural monuments

Famous Gürzenicher

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.dueren.de/kultur-tourismus/stadtportraet/zahlen__fotos?sr=7584
  2. ^ Paul Fabianek: Consequences of secularization for the monasteries in the Rhineland - Using the example of the monasteries Schwarzenbroich and Kornelimünster, 2012, Verlag BoD, ISBN 978-3-8482-1795-3 , page 15 and annex (regulation "Arrêté portant suppression des ordres monastiques et congrégations régulières dans les départemens de la Sarre, de la Roër, de Thin-et-Moselle et du Mont-Tonnerre ")
  3. ↑ Bernd Hahne in Synagogues in the Düren District , published in 2013 by the Working Group of History Associations in the Düren District, 2013, ISBN 978-3-930808-12-0
  4. ^ Regina Müller: To home and life brought , Düren 1989, ISBN 3-927312-02-9 , pp. 82-103
  5. ↑ Dieter Mätschke: Heimatbuch Birgel . Düren 1981, p. 121 .
  6. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 306 .
  7. ↑ Old ammunition depot: A playground for nature and urban planners. In: az-web.de. Retrieved August 30, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 4: North Rhine-Westphalia - southern part . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, p. 51 .