Drove

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Drove
community Kreuzau
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 30 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 176 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.81 km²
Residents : 2275  (Jul 31, 2018)
Population density : 473 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 52372
Area code : 02422
Half-timbered house on Drovestraße
Half-timbered house on Drovestraße

Drove is a district of the municipality of Kreuzau in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

Drove is located between the Zülpicher Börde and the northern edge of the Eifel in the Rureifel in the North Eifel Nature Park . Neighboring towns are Boich , Thum , Kreuzau and Soller . The Drover Heide nature reserve borders directly on Drove , which was placed under protection in 2004 after the military training area there was closed.

history

Drove is an ancient settlement area. Archaeological finds suggest a Celto-Roman settlement.

Between 1450 and 1700 there was lively lead , copper and iron mining on the Drover Berg on the northern slope of the Mausauel . Mining was carried out here in Roman times .

Drove used to be a separate rule in the Duchy of Jülich . The remains of a moth , an early fortification , can still be seen near the church . Between 1728 and 1741 the current castle complex was rebuilt in the immediate vicinity by the Lords of Drove . In the gable field of the Torburg is not only the year 1741 but also the coat of arms of the builders, those of Rohe and von Blanckart.

The rule was in the French period then the Mairie (in Canton Froitzheim and Arrondissement d'Aix-la-Chapelle ) and Prussia mayor / office.

After the Drove office was dissolved in 1932, the town became an independent municipality under the Kreuzau office. On July 1, 1969, the municipality of Drove was incorporated into the municipality of Kreuzau with six other places.

Tunnel aqueduct

A Roman tunnel runs between Drove and Soller . It is one of the most important archaeological monuments in the country. The only known ancient tunnel in North Rhine-Westphalia is 1,660 meters long and leads through the Drover Berg. It was used to supply water to a Roman villa rustica near Soller with water from the Holy Pütz (Helje = hill), a Roman spring socket. As was customary in antiquity, the tunnel was not only built from the two mouth holes, but also around a hundred construction shafts were created, with the help of which a very high accuracy of the course could be achieved. These construction shafts are still partially visible today as earth funnels. The Drover-Berg-Tunnel-Wanderweg was built with a grant from the Konejung Foundation: Culture and officially opened on September 13, 2009. The Roman tunnel structure is unique in North Rhine-Westphalia.

See also Drover Berg Tunnel

church

Church in Drove

The neo - Gothic three - aisled hall church is dedicated to St. Martin consecrated. It was rebuilt in 1929. The northern side choir is still preserved from the late Gothic previous building from the 16th century. In the southern choir there is a cafeteria , an altar table from the 12th century. The patronage of St. Martin suggests even older predecessor institutions.

Former Jewish community

Before World War II , Drove had a large Jewish community. During the time of National Socialism , the Jews were taken to a collection camp in Lendersdorf as early as 1938 and, after the outbreak of World War II, were deported from there (1942) to conquered Poland and killed there. There is a Jewish cemetery between Drove and Thum . The synagogue , which burned down in the pogrom night around November 9, 1938 , was not rebuilt after the war. A memorial stone on the square of the old synagogue reminds of these things.

Heinrich Böll , who lived for a while in Langenbroich, four kilometers away , wrote an essay about these events.

traffic

The L249 runs along the village from Kreuzau to Nideggen. The federal highway 56 runs parallel across the heath and connects with Düren or Euskirchen and the autobahn entrances of the A 4 and A 1 . The place is accessed by buses from the Düren district railway .

School, kindergarten

There is a community elementary school in Drove . The local kindergarten is looked after by the parish (Kirchengemeindeverband Kreuzau / Hürtgenwald) and offers space for two groups, i.e. 50 children.

Personalities

literature

  • Klaus Grewe , Historic Tunnels in the Rhineland. Materials for the preservation of monuments in the Rhineland 14 (Cologne 2002).
  • Klaus Grewe, The aqueduct tunnel through the Drover Berg near Vettweiß-Soller, Düren district. Exp. Rhineland '81 / 82, 1983, 159-163.

Web links

Commons : Drove  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kreuzau.de/ug/zadafa/index5.php
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .
  3. ↑ Peter Squentz: Tippeltour 269 break on Christmas Pütz in Cologne Stadt Anzeiger 22-23. December 2007
  4. ↑ With-dem-Handy-in-die-Roemerzeit
  5. ↑ Squentz
  6. ^ Heinrich Böll: Die Juden von Drove , in vol. 22 of the complete work, Cologne 1984