Derkum

Derkum community Weilerswist Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 42 "  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 53"  E
Height :	140 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	53919
Area code :	02251

Derkum is a district in the south of the community of Weilerswist in the district of Euskirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia and together with Hausweiler , Ottenheim and Schneppenheim forms the statistical locality of Hausweiler-Derkum with 1,703 inhabitants. The Erft flows west of the town .

history

Derkum, whose name is derived from Dedichheim , emerged as a Franconian settlement in the 6th or 7th century at the latest .

When a new administration was created under French rule in 1798/1800, Derkum belonged to the Mairie Lommersum in the canton of Lechenich .

On July 1, 1969 Derkum came to the newly created community of Weilerswist.

traffic

Weilerswist-Derkum stop

Derkum is located between Weilerswist and Euskirchen on the L 194, a district or provincial road built between 1824 and 1830 from Cologne via Brühl and Euskirchen to Trier , which was part of the B 51 until the 1990s . In the south, the L 181 leads west via Lommersum to Erftstadt-Niederberg and the L 210 east to Swisttal - Straßfeld .

Derkum has the Weilerswist-Derkum stop in the Ottenheim district on the Eifel route from Cologne via Euskirchen to Trier. When the railway line opened in 1871, there was no town in Ottenheim, only an estate of the same name . The station was planned by Hermann Schmalenbach . Derkum station is only served by the RB24 (Eifel-Bahn) every hour. The bus route 985 of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg from Brühl to Euskirchen runs through the town.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistical data of the community of Weilerswist ( memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), residents including secondary residences, as of 2006
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 88 .